skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think I can speak to this a bit since I run a hobby business[0] selling restored Mac mini G4s (originally from 2005) with a hacked version of Mac OS 9 on them from Mac OS 9 Lives so that retro computer users (people still using production software for Mac OS 9) can have the fastest possible machine to run classic Mac OS. After selling more than 60 of them, my customers (from what I can tell) are largely in five categories:

- People doing this for their kids so the kids can use the software of their parent's youth (my own motivation that led me to fall into this [1])

- People doing this for work (still using old music production software for example)

- People doing this because they care about historical software (had a couple museum curators buy one)

- People who are tinkerers but want to tinker with software not hardware so they buy from me

- Retro gamers

In all of these cases I don't think it's really about feeling old or young. It's just about doing something that they perceive as better than they can achieve on a modern machine. And by "better" I mean better to them. Not objectively better. They just love those games from the 90s. Or they just think that the educational software back then was less addictive/better for their kids than the software today.

Sure, if we think about anything from our distant past it can make us feel old. But I think it's more that this hobby (or work) actually serves a purpose for these customers and they don't think along the old/young axis.

0: https://os9.shop
1: https://x.com/davekopec/status/1780032912768770448
Possibly, but I feel the welfare trap is more a coordination problem.

It’s easy enough mathematically to say for every dollar earned someone is entitled to keeps at least 40% of it or whatever arbitrary number is chosen. However when you have multiple means testing programs overlapping it’s easy for the combination to go so low as to become meaningless or worse negative. Especially with things like rent control or tuition.

Similarly, the welfare trap people makes lower annual pay jobs more appealing, which effectively subsidizes companies. I was looking at this as a means of patching over that issue, but yea fixing subsidies is a more direct solution.
3-7-77 is a symbol originally used by the Montana Vigilantes, a 19th century vigilance committee in Virginia City, Montana, United States. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3-7-77
Yeah, he's more of a pain in the death-for-profi... I mean... society's ass alive.

Even if a jury does convict, he's in a state with no death penalty and the notoriety and nature of his crime will likely gain him support on the inside. Plus, all the press coverage of the trial gives him a podium...

I'd be stunned if he makes it to court.
With Vimium, you can toggle the type to navigate mode so that it doesn't invoke unwarranted shortcut
If you're willing to compromise on your thicker battery, you can just get a case.

My pixel 9 is essentially flat, and the battery life is plenty for a couple of days.
Pricing up front is a start. Hospital overbilling is probably a bigger issue than doctor pay. They have billing departments equivalent to a corporation’s team of accountants, but instead of paying no tax, their mission is to maximize what you’ll pay. Procedure costs vary wildly, and hospitals will often bill for a doctor’s time when an NP or technician did the work.
Why not both? Git itself checks and sanitizes branch names, and GitHub should arguably match that behavior. I don't think anyone would object to safer workflows and related tooling instead of being told "here, have some bash inside YAML, now be careful!"
I can't remember what the project was called, but many years ago I remember seeing a concept for a Linux phone that also doubled as your desktop when plugged into a hub.
Snipe-IT v7 Retrospective – What Worked, What We Could Have Done Better
Both of the drugs listed in the article (Remicade and Entyvio) have generic/biosimilar equivalents, too, so in theory competition should drive down the price... but this is the American healthcare system so of course it doesn't.

Unclear from the article, but it's quite possible that UHC was _forcing_ him to use the more expensive name-brand drugs due to an agreement that they made with their pharmacy benefits manager (PBM). Some name-brand manufacturers will see generics on the horizon and throw in a clause that obliges the PBM to continue exclusively covering the name-brand drug for X amount of time. UHC specifically fucked me over this way by refusing to cover a widely available generic drug, insisting that they'd only pay for the name-brand stuff, but no pharmacy on earth seems to carry the name brand stuff and couldn't even source it to order it, so UHC effectively denied me the drug altogether.

I feel for the guy in the article because the drug that UHC fucked me over about (mesalamine/Lialda) was keeping my Crohn's in check, and after the ensuing flare I had to switch to Remicade, which isn't totally working for me—I'll be switching to something else soon.

Obligatory link about PBMs and how they suck: https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/inside-the-mafia-of-pharm...

And being on Remicade myself, albeit at a lower dose (and without Entyvio like he's also taking), I was curious enough to check the EOB for how much my current insurance pays for it. I have Anthem BCBS and here's the breakdown of my last infusion. For context, this is a drug where you have to go to an infusion clinic for administration because it's delivered intravenously.

Doctor/facility charges:
$21,420.70
Your discounts: -19,563.26
Due to your doctor/facility (max allowed): $1,857.44
Anthem paid: $1,857.44

So the "cost" was 20k for a single infusion, but Anthem negotiated that down to 2k. (I didn't pay anything since I'd met my out-of-pocket limit for the year.) Here's the itemized breakdown of that 20k cost:

Drugs
Provider charges: 21,020.70
Plan discounts: 19,226.20
Anthem paid: 1794,50

Infusion center
Provider charges: 400.00
Plan discounts: 337.06
Anthem paid: 62.94

So the drug cost $1.8k, and they only paid $60 to have someone stick it in me.

And for reference, that's name-brand Remicade too, because it's what Anthem's PBM requires. I'm on 7.5mg/kg every 8 weeks, and the highest approved dose is 10mg/kg every 4 weeks. So even if he was on, e.g., 20mg/kg every 4 weeks, that would be maybe $4k worth of drugs once a month, which is $48k a year. Unless Entyvio is way more expensive than I realized, I have no clue how that would add up to a million dollars a year in costs, unless they're sending him to an infusion center that charges crazy high prices (which, if it's part of UHC's Optum network rather than an independent clinic... maybe they do :P)
I wonder if there is a precise vs accurate wording shenanigans going on here…
> leading to another perversion that for a significant group of people the only way to get medical care was when it was too late and most expensive

Too bad the hospitals don’t figure out some way of providing preventive care to the uninsured to reduce these costs.
>I don't know why so many commenters are stubbornly refusing to understand a relatively simple point.

It is not that people are stubbornly refusing to see it a certain way, against the more obvious interpretation, which you seem to think to be the case, but that you wrote your comment in such a way that the more natural interpretation is the way that people are responding to. Given the number of people that responded to this interpretation, it seems apparent that your intended meaning was not as clearly laid out as you seem to believe.

>I didn't say anything about which of the two major political parties will win elections. In any election, both of the candidates are for sale.

It doesn't matter that you didn't mention this specifically. When people generally think of political elections being for sale, the idea that comes to mind is the more connected candidate winning against the less connected opposition. In this case, what you wrote suggested that the outcome was a result of politics being for sale, which clashed with the reality of how the candidate with more donations actually lost. What you wrote is most naturally interpreted as concerning the election result, not any actions taken afterward, given the context of the article being about contributions towards the election result. Given the article context, if you are actually suggesting that no matter which candidate won, the effectively binary election result would be due to politics being for sale, then it appears that you are really saying nothing by negation, which is why your comment was not interpreted this way.
Tekton had a similar war in the past and it greatly damaged their reputation in audiophile circles.

https://www.audioresurgence.com/2024/04/asrs-contentious-cla...

Streisand Effect was strong on this one.
Banish the PDF-hunting blues with these AI and digital tools
So if you aren't employed in Poland you don't have access to emergency services or able to schedule an appointment to check a skin growth? That's rather odd.
n/a for the departments that actually matter.
They buy it because they want to tell people it cost $25k.

If it's a fucking turd, which it is, does not form part of the equation.
But they did have tremendous data processing abilities for their time!
That is probably why China is doing weather modification:

https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/03/asia/china-weather-modificati...

However people in India may have something concerns:

https://www.downtoearth.org.in/science-technology/-weather-m...

Yeah we are like kids playing match sticks!!! Just because we can, we shouldn't just do it!
Rich people were pinching the ear of american politicians since there was such a thing as an american politician.
I didn't say it would reply with words.

And you should learn about the instinct of kinship theory, where worker ants and bees give up their ability to procreate and even live, for the benefit of the colony.

Only we can choose such selfless compassion, after contemplating and understanding what we are giving and the costs we will likely incur.
How secure is this "ZK" thing? Can I use it for DRM? Trusted hardware is a pain to use.
Their point is about battery life, and that a thicker phone is the compromise they're willing to make. They don't want a thicker phone just for the heck of it.
I recently switched to Mise for all of my JS, ruby, python, and java sdk management needs, and I’ve been delighted with it so far. Not having to install RVM, NVM, some toxic brew of python installers until I get a working python environment, and SDKMan has been such a breath of fresh air.
Paper: https://www.philadelphiafed.org/-/media/frbp/assets/working-...
If Mend It Mark actually earns revenue from his videos (the more, the better), he can sue under standard tort law, no contract involved, for the losses.
I’ve spent days reviewing comments on Reddit, Twitter, YouTube, news articles, et al and I’ve never seen such a uniformity of opinion on anything in my life.
Well and also the Microsoft billions. They had a lot to do with that as well. Once you're taking that kind of money you can't really go back.
> "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 proposed update to the policy was only designed to clarify the appropriateness of anesthesia consistent with well-established clinical guidelines."

Additionally, according to Vox,

> Critically, contrary to Sen. Murphy’s claims, this policy would not have saddled patients with surprise bills, if their operations went over time. The burden of this cost control would have fallen on participating anesthesiologists

https://www.vox.com/policy/390031/anthem-blue-cross-blue-shi...
The athom stuff is a bit annoying because they never bothered to upstream anything to support their fairly minor changes - they just forked instead. You can still install upstream WLED, but the remote control support is faffy.

The mottramlabs or QuinLED boards don't have this problem.
Ask HN: What are the best gifts you've given your toddler?
As this is a brainy crowd (and Christmas approaching), thought I’d ask. At first my head went to gifts that stimulate growth or build specific skills but anything that you’ve found merit in would be great to hear about.
And all it takes is one juror being inflexible.
Any chance it's the music he plays on his turntable, during the last 1 minute of the video?

Shazam says it's Khruangbin - People Everywhere (Still Alive)
a bit after 911 i figured the airport dystopia would eventually ooze out. after soaking deep within the nextgen.

rub my jeans sailor. no 3d xrays for me.
CA, Despite Passing over 20 AI Bills This Year, Might Not Push Back on Loosening
There are people here on HN that no doubt make a lot of money working for Google. The idea that they are treated equally to a homeless man is not something they would want.

It is no coincidence that universal healthcare was introduced during a time when the elite were recovering from WW2.
Do you have evidence for "most new treatment research is government funded (and by governments of other countries)"? My understanding is that the opposite is true: big pharmaceutical companies foot most of the bill for developing new drugs, then US-based insurers pay high costs, and most "other countries" enjoy much lower prices because US healthcare is effectively subsidizing their drug prices.
But your 1yo might in the future do so, and might even show much greater compassion in her future.

A fox or squirrel absolutely will not, nor will they break out that chalk.
FWIW I got some of the way through embedding a PDF viewer in Tridactyl [1] so that the keys would still work there, but I backed off because I was a bit scared by how frequently pdf.js gets updated. In Tridactyl it'd get updated about twice a year so we might end up with unresolved security issues.

Maybe there's a solution I've not thought of (CDN?).

[1] https://github.com/tridactyl/tridactyl/issues/541#issuecomme...
Justfile[0] was a more familiar makefiles replacement for me

[0]: https://github.com/casey/just
Pinephone used to be able to do that a few years ago when I tried.
There’s an incredibly strong argument this particular person likely killed tens of thousand of people by his decisions to deny and delay care.

This was not an employee carrying out orders from corporate, it’s the guy who is directly responsible for these deaths. This CEO is as much a mass murder as any other tyrant who commanded soldiers to commit atrocities.

That will be part of the defense argument presented to the jury. Intent matters tremendously in the legal system (mens rea). This isn’t random, this is very, very targeted.

Likewise, the lawyers this guy can afford after his GoFundMe legal defense fund raises millions will be top tier.
I think they put solar panels up and plant some bushes under the shade
The sad reality is that market forces don’t want this to happen, since it would cannibalize sales of those other devices. It’s much better for manufacturers to make sure a phone can only do “phone stuff” and a PC can only do “PC stuff”, because then you need to buy both devices.
> Intelligent life can hang around white dwarfs for a long time. Good candidate star type for Dyson spheres.

I would imagine that if intelligent life can build a Dyson sphere, it can probably travel to different stars as well.
Ask HN: Is NPM Having an Outage?
I can't install any module. They are all 404.

https://www.npmjs.com/package/react

Update: I know there is a maintenance, but it is not supposed to impact installations:

While some features will remain operational, like installations and search, minor inefficiencies may occur.

Update 2: It is back for me.
Worse, in many cases you're getting an existing 100% solution repackaged for $X * 1000.

Anything routine is so expensive in the US because regulation's gone completely out the window.

An area I'm familiar with for example: in Canada (where I am now) Salbutamol inhalers cost about $20-25. In California I was lucky to find it less than $100. And this is for a well-known decades old generic.

See also: insulin. It's making headlines[1] that companies are finally dropping prices down to roughly in line with the rest of the world (starting in 2026). And this is after other measures have already been taken -- it used to be much worse.[2]

Worth repeating: this price gouging is for generic and old medication.

[1] https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/novo-nordisk-to-cu...

[2] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-47491964
How many bidders bid on both sides? How big was their share from the pot?
Don't be so sure. It's interesting how quickly the places where this ghoulish view is proliferating (Reddit) have forgotten what they learned a month ago.

The Internet is not reality and online posts are not a representative sample of the population. Instead, every survey of Americans shows around 80% are satisfied with their health coverage.
Sandstorm days in BJ went from ~30s per year in 50s to single digits post 2000s. It's working, but sandstorm days also picking back up due to climate change (also increasing floods and other enviroment disasters), so more accurately to suggest it's mitigating.
One of the things that i find remarkable in my work is that they block ChatGPT because they're afraid of data leaking. But Google translate has been promoted for years and we don't really do business with Google. Were a Microsoft shop. Kinda double standards.
This was an Ubuntu phone concept back around 2011/2012. Steam Deck can do it, but you have to manually switch to desktop mode.
You could use ws28xx/skxx based addressible strips laid out in rows. Usually WLED would be recommended to drive it, but for playing a video, the teensy fastled library comes with a demo specifically doing what you discuss with a film.

https://quinled.info/2019/06/03/what-digital-5v-12v-rgbw-led... good intro to the subject.
There are different stages though. Just because revenge porn exists doesn't mean all sexual output is unethical. If a company proves that generating animated hentai is say worth $10b in revenue, I am sure others will follow suit in dialling down the restrictions slowly.

And AI just reduces the budget and time, it can't output anything other that what could be created by say Adobe suite.
Bitcoin miner purchases 112-megawatt North Texas wind farm
Managing: The Arsenal Way
Idiomatic speech and allusion being two important cases. Turning a line into a literary or pop culture reference require pretty close adherence to the exact phrasing. And two edits are unlikely to achieve that.
I was the same way before having my own children. Then a switch flipped.
I am born in the early nineties, so what I consider retro probably sounds surprisingly modern to some HNers. But I love replaying older games occasionally, emulating the Nintendo64 for example. Or using my actual N64.

I guess in some ways it makes me feel older when I talk about this with friends whom are younger and have missed the N64 generation, for example. But I don’t mind, I will embrace the “old man yells at clouds” when the time comes.
I’ve wondered whether the main customers for this type of equipment are audiophiles that use motivated reasoning and placebo effects to justify their purchase OR if this is being purchased by “installers” that build systems for the ultra wealthy who don’t know any better
The refusal privilege goes from a private company to the state.

I've had a broken bone that was visible in an xray and told to go home.

Then the state tried to hide it by playing all sorts of weird games to prevent me from getting the ER xray.
> effectively an information highway

> exchange of nutritional resources, defence signals and allelochemicals

Only one of these three things qualifies as "information" in my book (defence signals). How is this an "information highway"?
Hey now, he didn't just kill tens of thousands of people by denying/delaying care! He also got filthy stinking rich in the process.
Just curious: what do you use make for in python projects?
Show HN: Heatscroll VSCode extension to help you work in large files
>>pro-murder caucus

if there is a single issue that unites all Americans, this is it. Insurance is by design an incredibly evil extractive racket that only steals from people's pockets
Right, but I wasn't referring to old thought processes. I was referring to current.
I'm getting "The item is not available due to issues with the item's content." on the archive.org link
The reason the treatment costs so much is in large part because of insurers aggressively pricing treatments down, forcing hospitals to respond by jacking prices up. It's a never-ending cycle. See e. g. https://www.fairobserver.com/economics/why-are-us-hospitals-...

The fix here would be to remove the middlemen (insurance companies) and pay hospitals what Medicare/Medicaid pay them, which is typically a much lower negotiated amount.
I believe it’s 85% for group plans.

I firmly believe that was a poison pill put in the ACA intended to drive prices up enough where people got so upset we end up with single payer. The alternative is that the people that penned the ACA have absolutely no understanding of economics, and I’m not sure which is worse.

The sad thing is for medications all it would take would be a simple bill that says that medications in the US will cost the average of Canada, Japan, The UK, and Germany (or whatever).
No, "every survey" doesn't suggest 80% of Americans are satisfied with their health coverage. Can you site this data? Every person I've ever met IRL has hated the health industry with a burning passion. As you would expect given the exorbitant prices on insurance and care. Also, no one enjoys having their employer hold so much leverage in their life as for most people health insurance is tied to their job.
If they aren’t sick and haven’t had to use the system for life saving care, then the numbers from the same surveys you cite are VASTLY different.

Please don’t cherry pick misleading data.
There are already solar panels you can just plug into a normal electrical socket. I'm not sure they're an amazing idea, but there definitely already is consumer-grade tech: https://www.solarreviews.com/blog/dont-invest-in-plug-in-sol...
> wish other major powers would commit to similar projects

American engineering around the Mississippi River is massive. As is our hydroelectric engineering, and reclamation of urban and farm land. We don’t really have a lot of fucked territory that needs to be terraformed.
Ghoulish? Internet? Have you spoken to regular people not terminally online? They have no sympathy for the CEO. I had sympathy for him as a human and a worker, but his behavior was beyond the pale and unfortunately rule of law doesn’t exist in the US.
You look like you could have won 100.000 dollars
Or maybe you're just a part of the majority of Earth's poplulation, who have denied our loving potential and, instead, decided to remain in a destructively ignorant competition that is destroying the Earth and causing so much misery.

You think you are right, but I know that I am right, and I know that you have to choose to overcome your willful ignorance before you, too, can experience the depth of happiness and purpose that I experience in our poverty.

Good luck! I wish you all peace and happiness, but that begins with you, my friend. It is your choice to either seek the truth, or remain happy with where you are.

And it is inarguable, tho many try.
I think Google is well-positioned to do it. They have experience with ChromeOS already, and running Linux apps on Android should be at least somewhat plausibly deniable. Google doesn't sell laptops either, so they aren't especially worried about the cannibalization.
Could it be that you're running out of available context in the thread you're in?
I have a different viewpoint that when governance and the judicial systems fail time and time again to fix systemic problems, and the ultra wealthy and large corporations can literally do as they please, that violence is a very logical choice for those who seek retribution.