skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The assertion that physicians are a primary driver of excess US healthcare costs requires evidence.

See here https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/issue-briefs/2...

Physician salaries are a driver, but the far bigger portion lies with insurance’s take, and the administrative costs required to respond to insurance shenanigans.
When I first tried nyxt I never saw anything about AI (I never ended up using it because it would frequently crash and it was annoying to customize)
Well, before that (and continuing), the largest customer of drugs in the United States is prohibited from negotiating price for most drugs.

The exorbitant costs arose with the provision of private medical insurance in the 1940s but only really took off when Medicare and Medicaid came in the 1969s with, essentially, a blank check for cost.

Things weren't improved in the 1980s when emergency rooms were required to provide care regardless on a patient's ability to pay, 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.

ACA is just another example of the US government doing stupid.
You scan the qrcode on the page which will launch your banking app that initiates the transfer and fills out the details leaving for you to enter the amount and the fingerprint confirmation to send it off.
Love the "first derivative" view! One can take a snapshot of a good day, but if russia really was producing more weapons than USA + NATO for a prolonged time, having also more people, Ukraine would fall a long time ago.

It didn't. As we say in Poland "paper will accept everything". And russia is known for shameless propaganda.
Yeah it’s effectively one of the final bastions of defense that’s not a civil war.
Bluesky is working on a subscription, but it won't give you a blue check
Handguns are used in more mass shootings than assault weapons as well.
better than restaurants, ~80% fail in 5 years.
>4000 ghost railway stations

lol wut. There are ~5000 rail way stations TOTAL, ~1000 HSR, of which ~30 are considered ghost, i.e. 3% wasted stations on size of PRC network is stupid efficient. The system is generating positive profit with increasing utilization, hence expansion.
(Potential non-commercial customer) Checked the help page - couldn’t see anything about static IP addresses, IPv6 etc?

Edit: Ah, “Our network. You acknowledge that We may change your Internet Protocol (IP) address from time to time without giving notice unless You have purchased a fixed IP address from us;”
> China has built 30,000 miles of high speed rails it doesn't need

That's a ridiculous statement. High-speed rail is extremely heavily used in China (3 billion trips in 2023).

This is like dismissing the US interstate highway system as a useless vanity project. HSR is a heavily used, central part of China's transportation infrastructure that has made getting between major Chinese cities way easier, faster and more comfortable than it used to be.
Keep in mind China puts their money in these things too! Except they're on the opposite side and maybe spend a bit less on the military
Someone was triggered by the Nyxt post getting so much attention... =D

I like Qutebrowser very much, though. Used it for a good spell and was very happy. I'd some bug I couldn't fix which was driving everything really bonkers, but I honestly did not investigate it that hard, I'd been using it for a while at that stage (over a year, I'd guess, anyway) and was ready to move on and try something different, so I solved that bug the old fashioned way.

Nyxt scratches the same itch now, but moreso, and it has Common Lisp behind it, which is much more interesting [to me personally!] than Python.
I have always wondered why the US doesn't use the trillion dollar deficit to fund healthcare for all.

Republicans always find money for more tax cuts but never social security...
It lets you to prove a program without having to execute it, and without needing to send the potentially private bytes over the wire.

Privacy and identity is one example; like having a proof of some record of your identity that you can submit to an app (ie: age, citizenship, # of followers on twitter), without the need to share your personal details.

Succinct proofs is another application. If you have a distributed compute environment (think folding@home), you may want receipts that proves a user in the network correctly executed a program. With ZK, the idea is that it can be cheaper to prove a program executed correctly, rather than re-execute it.
Its kind of cool that you can abstract the operating system with only a 200-line long header file.
wow, red scare capitalist propaganda from wsj.
I think the pro-murder caucus is quite a bit smaller than you're envisioning. Some juries wouldn't convict the shooter, sure, but willingness to convict if that's where the evidence points is something the prosecution will be considering in jury selection.
I've used the Vimium chromium extension for years and it has a keypress to activate the search links and you can also disable it per domain.
> they measure attributes that correlate with performance. If you interfere with these measurements (e.g. through fraud), you break those correlations

Not necessarily... You just get the people that are technically competent enough and are self-corruptable enough to pass the test. There is still a correlation with performance but it is a weaker signal and you are more likely to miss out on people with equal ability but higher morals.
Tasks – Mise-En-Place
> More information is better,

Not always, as cherry picked information is, in essence, a lie: it misrepresents reality by showing a narrow sliver of it that supports an argument that's not supported by the full set of observations.
what interviews get wrong is they typically assess a candidate's lower level thinking skills rather than their higher level thinking skills

cf. https://cft.vanderbilt.edu/guides-sub-pages/blooms-taxonomy/

Typical interview question (lower-level thinking, remember): List the primitives in JavaScript. (remember)

Better interview question (lower-level thinking, apply): When would you use an object instead of an array in JavaScript?

Really good interview question (higher-level thinking, evaluate): Here's some raw data that we'd like to put in a database, what data structures would you recommend and why?
> I wonder if OpenAI can break into enterprise. I don’t see much of a path for them, at least here in the EU.

Uhh they're already here. Under the name CoPilot which is really just ChatGPT under the hood.

Microsoft launders the missing trust in OpenAI :)

But why do you think copilot is worse? It's really just the same engine (gpt-4o right now) with some RAG grounding based on your SharePoint documents. Speaking about copilot for M365 here.

I don't think it's a great service yet, it's still very early and flawed. But so is ChatGPT.
Meh, publication bashing, IMO.
Hi, just wanted to say how much I appreciate your work.

I'm curious if you have considered implementing Microsoft's Guidance (https://github.com/guidance-ai/guidance)? Their approach offers significant speed improvements, which I understand can sometimes be shortcoming of GBNF (e.g https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/issues/4218).
Well, it's a very well paying field so...
Alternatively, I'll take a thick lens, flush in a thick case, which might then make space for a thicker battery
I'm well aware that it's a vile hate rag, but unfortunately many people in the UK use it as a real source of "news".

Most of the MSM in the UK has made false claims about NK soldiers in the Ukraine, but the Daily Mail was the most overt and easily debunked that I saw.
That's the short answer.

The longer answer is that if you're currently spending six figures per year, you're only a fraction of the way to financial independence, but "coast FIRE" (as the parent comment alludes to) or maybe "barista FIRE" is a possibility. So after going through the Bogleheads wiki pages for "managing a windfall" and "getting started," you end up on the forum debating the relative merits and risks of various lifestyle decisions, whether it's better to grind for another decade in your current high-paying and high-status job or plan on working a lower-paying and lower-status job for even longer, trying to figure out what you and your spouse really want out of life.

Source: I'm just a bit younger with a bit more money (from saving from my W-2 paycheck and boring index fund investing since my early 20s, rather than a lucky crypto coin purchase) and I've already been trying to answer these questions for myself and my family for the past few years.
This is a canonical example of an establishment media outlet steering (misdirecting?) the conversation into more "acceptable" directions.

"The killing of a human being is morally repugnant — full stop." Yup. But this industry's business model is predicated on withholding care, sometimes costing lives. So, by definition, it too is morally repugnant.

"But prices have continued to spiral upward, accelerated by the aging of the baby boomers and by important but costly advancements in medical science." Note how deftly this sidesteps profit taking as a driver. It's a big one, estimated to be nearly $2 Trillion in 2022 (as compared to other peer countries, who face the same aging population constraints and "costly" advances in medical science. https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/the-cost-of-corporate...).

"The passage of Obamacare over industry opposition..." I was around and paying close
attention when that happened. The industry practically wrote the ACA. Sure, they made some concessions, but anything they really opposed--like the Public Option--didn't stand a chance. And when the individual mandate went before SCOTUS it was of course upheld. The industry was happy to have people pay a penalty for not using its products!

This last is in fact the biggest sin of this piece: the obfuscation of the role that the industry's lobby plays in opposing change. Any attempt to get to a more rational system is met with full frontal opposition in the media and in our legislatures. People who advocate for systems like Medicare for All are labeled nuts, out of touch, and get the "Harry and Louise" treatment. There is no safety valve. So the pressure keeps rising and rising, until something really bad happens.
There are several open source projection mapper projects that run on a RaspPi, or other platforms, here are a few of them:

https://github.com/arisona/mpm

https://ofxpimapper.com/

https://mapmapteam.github.io/

There are media players and graphics generators that will run on a RaspPi also. Finding a bright enough projector and sheltering it for outdoor use might be the main challenge.

Another approach might be a galvo scanned laser with DMX software to control it, though there may be safety/liability issues with that.
I want extra performance on my phone because I want to run competitive local AI.
Intel XeSS 2 DLL files leaked days before launch
I watched the original video (big fan of Mark), and it was a perfectly ordinary repair video, albeit for a ridiculously overpriced piece of audiophile equipment. There was absolutely nothing in there I remember that could infringe copyright, unless simply opening up and taking a video of the inside of a piece of equipment can now infringe. He didn't even disparage the preamp. Unlike much audiophile nonsense, he noted it was genuinely properly designed electronics (albeit very very expensive).

Edit: I'm now seeding https://archive.org/details/the-gbp-25-000-pre-amp-that-went... Enjoy your Streisand Effect.
The tricky thing about “most” is that it means more than half, but people tend to treat it like almost all.

I would agree that git works more than half the time.

Merge resolution is a problem so hard that even otherwise capable developers fuck it up regularly. And on a large team made of people who intermittently fuck up, we start getting into and aggregate failure rate that feels like a lot.

The whole idea with CRDTs was to make something humans couldn’t fuck up, but that seems unlikely to
happen. There’s some undiscovered Gödel out there who needs to tell us why.
The point is, the schema is not inherently unreasonable as the article is implying. There's a reason to make the comparison and take both versions seriously, not just show off the normalized version.
I'll go you one further. Many Electrical Engineers who learn about the progression of transistors, logic gates, flip-flops, registers, arithmetic logic units, central processing units, instructions, and so on, have such a profound epiphany about how all complex systems are merely collections of less complex systems working in concert, that they can't help but to see the rest of the world through that same lens, at all times.
you can choose between paracetamol or health transplant, or hearth transplant which is too risky because of reasons and not covered by public system
It pays pretty well and you don't have to see any patients. And as they say, do you know what they call the one who graduates last in med school? "Doctor"

The problem with suing the doctor is that you need a fairly high standard of evidence to prove malpractice. If they have any way to say "this is not utterly unreasonable", they can claim it was your doctor's opinion versus theirs.

And the insurance company has many lawyers looking for ways to let them say that. It's why they have AI rather than just rejecting claims at random.

Though it appears they often do that as well. But the burden is still on you to prove it.
It's also the country that consistently blocks any sanctions against what the rest of the UN perceive as countless war crimes committed against Palestinian civilians by the IDF.
> then maybe we should just die out
Have you consider all aspects of social conditioning/pressure existed and exist to lead you to utter those words?
This is the content from the node docs reproduced without credit: https://nodejs.org/en/learn/asynchronous-work/dont-block-the...

Boo!
Nonsense, the claims are trivial to verify for yourself - the Daily Mail did post false claims about NK soldiers in the Ukraine and then dissappear the article once it had done its work.
You might also like the whole series of books in "The Nanotech Succession" by Linda Nagata.
You can train DL models on anything. If you get accurate results then that is maybe publish-worthy.

In this particular case, it is not.
I love this paper, but something I think is often missed when it comes up is that you CAN hear the shape of many drums if you restrict the shape space, for example with a prior of "what a drum should look like"
Zelditch proved spectral uniqueness for convex, fully connected, drums with some symmetry.
we die waiting for anything
SNES also had a similar service called StellaView that was only available in Japan. They had live farro and timed legend of Zelda 1 completions iirc.

I used to play some of the roms of these games. The one of Legend of Zelda was pretty slick, redone with A Link to the Past graphics.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellaview_games_from_The_L...
What about you infrared LEDs on my face?
I'll Take Crypto Seriously When Its Advocates Stop Saying "What You Expect?"
Wouldn't you say the US is somewhat of an outlier w.r.t. government ability to undertake significant infrastructural projects?
"Communication" isnt about "personalization" when i communicate with you, I'm not looking for you to tell med what i already know. Im looking for you to tell me what YOU know in the style YOU want.
Why Are Huge Tech Companies Getting into the Book Business?
I came here to say the same. Running our own front page through it gave a summary that I might use for some simplification and rewriting.
Counterargument based on retarded data. There's only ~1000 HSR stations with ~30 considered ghost, ~3%. It's not a good investment, it's a great investment. It's already profitable. Utilization is increasing YoY. All for ~1T over 20 years. Put it this way, US excessive health spending (~5% over OECD average works out to 2T/5T per year), PRC got entire HSR network for 6 months of excessive US health care spending that still delivers less life expectancy than PRC. This isn't even mentioning the 100s of billions PRC is saving not buying US/EU aviation or importing fuel. It's literally converting steel and concrete into forever import savings, and it's doing on the cheap while labour prices were (are) low - that blue collar cohort is only going to decrease with time. Better to build as much as possible now.

This is not to mention HSR is basically ONLY option for mass fast intercity travel within PRC... 1.3B people squeezed in populated area 1/3 size of CONUS = too much air cooridor congestion. There's literally no other option than HSR. Like air travel isn't going to make Chinese New Year happen.
> the largest customer of drugs in the United States is prohibited from negotiating price for most drugs

Note that this changed in 2022 for the most-bought drugs.
That's one of the leading theories. Obviously, there's not enough information to say for sure.

But the CEO's wife has said that there were threats, possibly related to lack of coverage: https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/05/us/unitedhealthcare-ceo-kille...

> In an interview with NBC, Thompson’s widow, Paulette told the network that “there had been some threats” against her husband.

> “Basically, I don’t know, a lack of coverage? I don’t know details,” she said. “I just know that he said there were some people that had been threatening him.”

And the shooter wrote the words "deny", "defend", and "depose" on shell casings that were found at the scene: https://apnews.com/article/unitedhealthcare-ceo-shooting-del...

These words are reminiscent of the terms "delay, deny, defend", the title of a book about how the insurance company tries to avoid paying out on claims: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delay,_Deny,_Defend

So, one of the leading theories is that the shooter was motivated by some kind of case involving a denied claim. Obviously, there's not enough evidence yet to be sure of that, but that same frustration over insurers' failure to pay for necessary, life-saving treatments is part of why there's so much sympathy for the shooter and so little sympathy for the CEO who was shot.

Of course, there are also other competing theories out there; it's possible that the whole bullet casings thing is just a ruse to distract people. But anger about how health insurance companies rack in record profits by denying life-saving healthcare to people has become a large part of this story.
And then what?

If you're the average person and have gigabits of email, what are you supposed to do then?
> It is too easy to get accused of something. And you have no evidence to defend yourself. If you keep video recording of your surroundings forever, you now have evidence.

This assumes that you have access to those recordings. If you're live-logging your life via something you're wearing all day every day, maybe - but if the government decides to prosecute you for something, what are the odds that you'll be able to pull exonerating evidence out of the very system that's trying to fuck you?

Even if a system doesn't care, it's still a hassle. Case in point: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/michigan-s...

> An African American man who was wrongly convicted of a fatal shooting in Michiganin 2011 is suing a car rental company for taking seven-years to turn over the receipt that proved his innocence, claiming that they treated him like “a poor black guy wasn’t worth their time”.

I found this article while looking for another story that's virtually identical; I believe in that one it was a gas station receipt that was the key in his case, and he ended up spending very minimal time in jail.

How many people are in jail now because they weren't able to pull this data?
You cannot choose much poison either in one side.
I still remember something someone from IBM told me during my prior analyst gig. Don't remember the specific but something to do with Linux and Power I think. Basically, he said that if it's not a billion dollar opportunity it's not worth all the costs and distractions up and down the line to pursue.

You're right that the million dollar opportunity is a lot more interesting for a startup. Of course, it's also going to be a lot harder for that startup to displace VMware (which the potential customer probably is using). I'm not sure going after those crumbs is a terrible idea but there are already other option like Xen too.
Google's current approach to copyright on YouTube was adopted following their settlement agreement with Viacom [1]. While the terms were never disclosed, that settlement probably constrains how Google can handle copyright policing on YouTube.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viacom_International_Inc._v._Y....
How many maimed kids do you need to have in hospitals to understand TikTok is malign too?
> With access to data

That's the key problem. Why do you assume you'll have access to this data?
Human readability does not mean end user readability. It's good if humans can read it so that programmers/admins can read it, and also end users if they happen to be exposed to it. But for display to end users, it should always be formatted in a localized, naturally readable manner with no concern for machine parsing (which is what the second quote is referring to).
HPE XP8 Storage Array Surpasses Ten-Year Zero Downtime Milestone
With USB-C, surely we are at the point where we can plug our phones into a hub with a couple of monitors attached and get a proper desktop environment?
Thanks, of course we're not alone, as we understand God's design, but we are definitely in the minority, as evidenced by, basically, all of human history.

Love is, itself, on our side, and our happiness is what really sets us apart, my friend.

And, remember, they think they're correct, I know I'm correct, and right, too. Peace be with you. We love you.
This is great. Also i wish someone made Adblock for these "tools" that get shoved in your face by every service today, like Amazon's "Rufus" or BofA's "Emma" take up like half the mobile screen, utterly useless.
I'm also a New Yorker and I think that most of us actually do not believe that assassinations are a net benefit to society, no matter how dissatisfied with the health care system we are.
I wish it was a GPL compat license, but a common lisp renderer agnostic system has me super curious!

edit: ok this is fast and I like it! eww take a backseat!
This isn’t the traditional thought process on this topic. Traditionally, it was thought that the ills of resource allocation under democracy were far outweighed by the automatic optimization of the free market. The Soviets did a lot to suggest that the free market was actually better than central planning.

China is showing that with 21st century needs, technologies, and planning that may no longer be the case.
Vimium does the same but it's just an extension so you can keep the goodies without switching the browser
How to Create an Insect Habitat in Your Garden
Every Color Imaginable
US College Closures Are Expected to Soar, Fed Research Says
For those wanting a glimpse inside this monstrosity.

https://hackaday.com/2024/11/14/repairing-the-questionable-2...