skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>You're saying that having an aversion to killing stops people killing, which is a tautology. And then you say it's not about consequences. What's your explanation then?

It's a fairly straightforward understanding. If I said I have an aversion to the taste of steak, would you require additional information to why I don't eat steak? Or, to put it in your terms, eating steak causes a negative internal state for me and doesn't require any external consequence to make me avoid it.

>It seems intuitive to me that the awareness of consequences plays a central role in preventing anger from turning into violence

There's a problem with relying on "intuitive" understandings in some cases, especially when there is contradictory evidence. I think the term for your stance is "deterrence theory/effect." In this case, I believe there are plenty of studies that show harsher consequences do not reduce crimes rates (or at least have marginal effects). People are not rational actors, especially in highly agitated emotional states.
And perhaps worse than doing nothing - because they do have to occassionally have to justify their role - they need to initiate/be involved in big transformational projects every so often.

At best these just cost money, at worse they get in the way of the real work.

Obviously sometimes you really need these sort of projects - led by people who are truely trying to transform things - the problem is when it's led by people whose sole aim is to look busy by creating busy work for others.
> I'm almost certain nearly all of the people celebrating the murder believe that they're good people and believe in justice too.

It's because they believe in justice that they are celebrating the murder.
you would need a functional judicial system for that.
In this context, I should have probably said "same effect."

I'd be curious whether Apple is actually collecting data of nearly the same type or degree as Google or Roku. My guess is they're not.

The bigger issue is that it hardly matters, since every app you launch through your TV streamer device is probably tracking your use to a microscopic degree to feed into their analytics and advertising.
That's not the dumbest bike lane law.

We recently got a bike lane near me. It is about a half mile long. There is little housing or shopping along it.

It doesn't radically impact traffic, because it was carved out of a turn lane, used for the few shops that are there. It's mostly business-to-business stuff, so it's not very busy. It does, however, mean that the bike lane requires a lot of marking, because it's right next to the travel lanes, and there are accesses through the bike lane to those shops. I have never seen a bicycle on it.

I am a big fan of bike lanes. This looks like a pilot project designed to discredit them. "Hey, we installed a bike lane and it turns out nobody uses it."

Whatever authorized that, that is the dumbest law.
Ahaha, yeah, right? It's just ridiculous. What a laughable debate, this whole insurance thing is. It's just the free market working to optimize outcomes.

By the way, can you help me understand what a 'pre-existing condition' is?
Literally nobody outside of America has experience with this term.
Appreciate the kind words and feedback.
This is all inevitable. At worst it's pulling the issues forward by a few months or years, and I don't think anyone will meaningfully address the problem until it's staring us in the face.

I believe the internet needs a distributed trust and reputation layer. I haven't fully thought through all the details, but:

- Some way to subscribe to fact checking providers of your choice.

- Some way to tie individuals' reputation to the things they post.

- Overlay those trust and reputation layers.

I want to see a score for every webpage, and be able to drill into what factored into that score, and any additional context people have provided (e.x. Community Notes).

There's a huge bootstrapping and incentive problem though. I think all the big players would need to work together to build this. Social media, legacy media companies, browsers, etc.

This also presupposes people actually care about the truth, which unfortunately doesn't always seem like the case.
You're using the word "deliberately" wrong when talking about things like air pollution. Pointing a gun and shooting at someone is quiet a different thing than is causing air pollution.

Are people who smoked next to other people deliberately killing them? After all, second hand smoke was quite dangerous.
I saw the video. It was a very small car, the kind you would see in a small apartment building - something like 4 feet square or 1.25m square, if even. Basically a closet. Edit: to add it wasn't the whole bike but the battery pack itself. It was in his hand.
I pay national insurance every month, its automatically taken from my salary. Most of the time it pays for other people's care - and that's absolutely fine with me. And if at some point I need care, I know it will be there for me and how much money I have won't come into it, the costs of my care won't be weighed against the value of my life, i'll just get the care I need. It doesn't need to be so expensive, the US has just built such an incredibly inefficient system ( or efficient if you accept it is designed to generate outrageous profit from the suffering of humans).
I‘m talking about justice and what is legal and what is just are two different things.

Is it just a child rapist, who there is video evidence commuting the crime, gets to walk free because they can’t find the victim to testify in court? And yes, that is the law in some countries. The uk had to wait for someone to come back to the uk because they could convict without the victims but the country he committed the crime couldn’t.

And it’s only not obvious that he‘s responsible for a lot of pain and suffering when you ignore the facts. The accused doesn’t need to give their side of the story for people to know what happened.
I agree fully. One additional comment I have is that, while the CEO chooses to work in that role, the general public is not always privy as to what their influences are.

It's possible this CEO was fighting to reduce claim denial rates but was squeezed or cutoff from his legal team in every attempt. It's also possible he pushed to deny as often as possible. But until we have evidence, it seems a bit wild to attribute "willingness to work in an influential role at a company massively disliked" with complicity in crimes against humanity. And as you point out, it is never acceptable to use violence offensively against such a person, even if he was foaming at the mouth to hit the deny button daily.
I love the modern term of "greige" for the grey home decor we see in a lot of homes for sale of late.
Isn't spectralism a thing in the modern classical world since the 20th century?
Here is a visualization I made of the tree calculus rules as a pattern matching on binary trees https://github.com/unrealwill/tree-calculus-visualizer
Or, it's good he didn't get a proper liberal arts degree, so he wasn't saddled with mealy-mouth excuses for why things are the way they are.
Some followup/developments (Dec 9th):

Itch.io: "This is not a joke, Funko just called my mom"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42371481
Elon Musk Was Underpaid by Tesla
Everybody is born, everybody gets sick, everybody eventually dies.

It is sensible to have a universal health care system: everyone pays for it and everybody will use it.
> Refusing to pay for medical care is hardly murder. It’s a standard monetary dispute, and we have a due process for these.

> Maybe the courts are too inefficient to handle these disputes, but that’s an argument for reforming the courts, not for shooting executives.

You do realize that these companies lobby to make sure that it stays inefficient, right?

In the cases where they don't use the court system, they use arbitration, which is usually tilted in the favor of insurance companies.

If you want a fair shake at getting the benefits you paid for, you have to go through the courts. Given the nature of the subject of the lawsuit, there's a real chance that you'll be dead or bankrupt before you get your day in court. That's not a system that works. And when there are systems that don't work, there are on occasion people who will go outside the system to make their own. There is no scenario in which vigilantism is completely eliminated when you have people making massive sums of money off of refusing to do business in good faith.

More people need to read the cautionary tale of Ken Rex McElroy and the town of Skidmore, MO.
I guessed correctly on the last 6 elections personally.

I was at a party over the weekend. I asked a room of 30 people what they thought of the assassin and the overwhelming consensus was hero, they wouldn't say anything if they saw him, and if they were on the jury they would acquit. I wouldn't be surprised if we saw a replay of OJ Simpson where one of the jurors gave OJ a power fist as he walked out for the verdict. It only takes 1 person to get onto the jury and acquit. Americans love a robin hood.
> charging $25-$40 for ACH Transfer fees (per account)

Do you mean ACAT fees? I haven't seen many accounts charging for ACH fees as those are basically free. Only Wise (Transferwise) charges for it from my experience.

If it's ACAT fees, a lot of brokerages (not Vanguard) will reimburse you the fees if the account balance you are bringing in is big enough, I've noticed.
UHC has a profit margin of 6%.

If the company was PERFECTLY run, you're still going to have tons of people getting denied claims. That's what happens with the law of big numbers.

And guess what. You're never going to have a perfectly run company.

If you take the CEOs salary and distribute it to healthcare patients, $50M worth of healthcare is not going to even minutely move the needle.

UHC revenue is $100B PER QUARTER. The CEO's pay is not even a rounding error on a rounding error.

Was the CEO a perfect, honorable guy? No.

Is taking his salary and spending it on patients going to do anything? In the large picture, also, no.
> In a modern, closed-source development environment, you can throw out 90% of Git’s complexity. At the end of the day, what does a beginner really need?

> That’s basically it. The rest—merge commits, complicated branches, rebasing, staging areas, and intricate commit histories—just aren’t necessary for most everyday workflows.

yes, agree.

but the takeaway should not be that you need another tool - you can accomplish what is required with a single sheet of paper (or webpage). a table of simple tasks and the commands to accomplish them, tuned to new developers, students, etc. there's literally no reason to make a wrapper just for that.

there's 10,000 things more complicated and fiddly than git that devs need to learn and become expert at.
The EU Is Beset by Pesky Notions of Free Speech
For some definition of justice. Maybe not the same definition the rest of us are using, though.
It's reasonable speculation.
> the low fee trend pioneered by Robinhood

John Bogle would like a word
Responsibility for the actions of a company should be somewhat proportional to the amount of profit derived from said activities.
While they make it a pain and constantly reset it, it is still possible to set the filter for Walmart only on their website. I'm not sure shopping for known good brands works since counterfeits are so prevalent and many third party sellers on walmart seem to just be running an Amazon reshipping service.
It's cool, but I'm wondering what the breakeven cost would have to be if you weren't planning on making money from PFOF?

Can easily see this being $5-10 a month without a problem or even $500 lifetime pass for early supporters. Also if you add Lightning Network deposits to a portfolio I would be more likely to use it, you can make money off the spread too as long as it is under 1%
How rulers like Putin survive so long though?
Really? My son hurt his knee on the job, workman's comp paid for him to get an MRI and a pretty detailed workup from the orthopedist, a brace that the orthopedist told him not to wear, etc. The advice in the end was "rest" and "return to activities gradually".

My insurance pays for a colonoscopy every 5-10 years, telehealth therapy appointments with no copay, free vaccinations, really a lot of stuff.
I don't even get the sense the questions/answers have been written by a human? I have no idea how you could land on the three available options for the cultural environment question.
Chair Cardin Introduces Bill to Center US Policy Toward Hong Kong on Its People
Press release from O'Leary Ventures: https://storage.googleapis.com/msgsndr/VGN8W7OTBrya9r1GrjKj/...
My understanding is for the geometry of our observable universe to make sense, our actual entire universe must be substantially larger to account for the mass needed to make it so.
> preferring everything to be muted, gray or colored in black, off-white and earth tones

My nephew's plastic toys disagree, as do my sister-in-laws clothes. Also, Barbie.

[Edit] This was a bit tongue-in-cheek but I think the point stands. There is massive diversity about what colours and colour combinations are acceptable in different contexts and to different groups of people. I would agree that is currently a trend for grey furnishings in domestic contexts but society as a whole has never had a wider range of colours on show, I suspect, certainly if you consider all the new possibilities delivered by screens.
> that’s a whole lot of work to engrave bullets

They weren't engraved. It was just Sharpie. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/united-healthcare-ceo-brian-tho... "A source briefed on the investigation said each word was meticulously written, not etched, onto the casings in Sharpie."

> 100% sure the guy is going to be there.

One can be 100% sure the guy is gonna at least be at the conference, and humans tend to be predictable. He was also fairly likely to be at the venue the day before getting prepared.
Just as simple: it's easy to have positive voltage, negative voltage or no voltage ;)

Thanks for the help, maybe we need someone to write the basic software right now!
I don't know if it was intentional but he certainly drummed up the hype over the murder by staying free as long as he did.
Looking through the OP's submissions they're probably a bot and can be safely ignored.
> the overwhelming consensus was hero

I'm guessing that makes it pretty clear that it wasn't really a mixed of "real Americans" as almost nothing is so black & white, especially if you compare people who live very different lives.

But, I could be wrong, it has happened before and it's bound to happen again at some point :)
News Explorer 2.0 is finally available!
> zero water
> ultra-low Water Usage Effectiveness
Those seem like contradictory statements. Ultra low is not zero.
I do think this is a great model for someone who wants to hold the S&P 500 (which many people do).

However, educated index investors typically hold a total market index fund. Double’s US small cap offering is severely under diversified and there is no international offering. 10 bps is absolutely worth it to get broader diversification and international exposure.
Onion style humor is called satire. I don't believe Honeywell was aiming for satire, rather just a joke at the wife's expense.
Most Americans get their health insurance through their employers. You are technically free to not sign up for this and purchase your own health insurance, but when you consider that you then give up the employer subsidy to your monthly premium, and that said subsidy often amounts to thousands of dollars each year, it does not make financial sense to participate in the market.
Makes me think of bullshit.js bookmarklet

https://github.com/mourner/bullshit.js/
This very is useful, thank you. Algolia API is also pretty generous, it made my work a lot easier. It returns even 1k comments in a single response. I started with low level Axios parser but I soon discovered that HackerNews webserver has very strict rate limiting. Good to know that there are already available data sources so you can focus on querying logic and data presentation.
Robinhood doesn't want the sharks because that would cut into their monetization strategy. So they specifically don't build features that sharks would need, some just convenient (eg. trading interfaces), some very important (eg. tax statements).
Countries with universal health care still have to make these decisions.

They budget differently, but they won't use unlimited resources on every situation.
I imagine the hard walls of plant cells helps keep bacteria and virii at bay, but there's plenty of fungi that infest trees. Oak wilt is a rather pernicious local threat.

The programming language Rust is named after a type of fungus that attacks plants.

It's out there, but trees don't run around screaming, so it's not something that people tend to notice.
Show HN: cStructure – Collaborative platform for causal models
Hi everyone,

I'm Erick, founder of cStructure. After 18 months of building in stealth, we're opening our causal inference platform for public beta. Last week we launched in the US, this week we are expanding to Canada.

Our story started when I was leading data science teams and kept hitting the same wall: causal analyses would fall apart in stakeholder meetings. Subject matter experts would ask why their favorite variable wasn't in the analysis. Data scientists would latch on to their favorite correlation-based approach (e.g. XGBoost + SHAP, even though SHAP's docs describe why it's the wrong tool for causal inference*). Leaders would question assumptions. What should have been knowledge-driven decisions turned into gridlock.

Everything changed when we started using causal diagrams. These simple visual maps of cause-and-effect became a shared language between experts, analysts, and decision-makers. Domain knowledge could be captured precisely. Assumptions became explicit. Teams could focus on the right questions and controls.

But building and validating these models was painful - scattered across whiteboards, papers, and custom code. We built cStructure to make rigorous causal inference collaborative and accessible.

Try it: https://cstructure.dev (free during public beta + simple demo canvas + guided tutorials by the first Sign Up button)
Features: https://cstructure.dev/#features

Our team comes from life sciences, energy, and tech, where we've seen these methods scale from startups to major healthcare systems. The platform lets teams:
- Kickstart and revise a causal diagram with AI assistance
- Collaboratively build and validate causal models
- Detect potential biases and validate assumptions
- Connect models directly to data with automated checks
- Run analyses in-browser using JupyterLite (no server needed) or export to your private environment

Technical details:
- Built with React + Yjs + WASM

Our roadmap includes federated privacy-preserving learning, FAIR causal models, extensible analysis modules, and integration with knowledge graphs and scientific evidence.

Yes, there are still rough edges. But we're sharing now because we want to build this with feedback from the community. We want to understand what teams actually need to move beyond correlation-machines to doing real science.

Would love feedback from researchers, data scientists, and anyone interested in bridging the gap between domain expertise and statistical rigor. What would help your team adopt causal inference?

- Erick (at cstructure.io)

* https://shap.readthedocs.io/en/latest/example_notebooks/over...
As always, there is a cost benefit analysis one must perform when doing anything, including administering healthcare treatment. Is it worth $40M in costs to save a 94 year old from death today when the expected payoff is 2 more months of life?

I'm all for changing the system, but this action likely won't do that.
This is a rather depressing graph, what happened in 2022-2024?
I don't know which Gameboy you played, but the original was blurry as hell as soon as anything moves.
Probably some amount of customer service. Banks are at their distrection then on whether they want to tell you or not -- just like for any other reason for dropping you as a customer.

I guess more important than empirically whether banks tell you, it's that it should be their right to tell you if they want.
2024 Doom Cacowards
> but thinks part of the solution involves banning conveyer belt sushi bars because they enforce social isolation by having machines instead of workers (incorrect)

Why are you thinking he's incorrect? I mean, a debate can be had if bans are the correct tool, but there is a massive trend in hospitality in general (both restaurants and lodging) to de-personalize the entire experience, to take the human service out of the loop and make it invisible where it still needs to take place:

- hotel booking? no travel agents, no phone calls, anyone can just do that themselves with bookingdotcom and other aggregator service.

- hotel on-site service? no check-in at the reception, you go to a terminal, enter your booking id, get a keycard and that's it. when you check out, you close the door, dispose of the key card, and you haven't seen or interacted with any human during the entirety of your stay.

- food ordering? you sit alone at home, scroll through a list of restaurants that might not even exist ("ghost kitchens"), a computer orders a human to make the food, said anonymous person (and maybe some colleagues) makes your food, another anonymous person gets ordered by a computer to deliver it to your doorstep, and if you specify a non-contact delivery you didn't have to interact with a single human for anything. And I think it won't take long for the cooks to be replaced by machines as well, delivery robots are already a thing.

- on site food eating: you don't order at a server any more, you order at a terminal, a tablet or even your own phone, the computer dispatches cooks and servers, some even don't have human servers any more but only robots or running-sushi-style conveyor belts, and in the end you pay at a machine.

So yes, "running sushi" is definitely a good example how human to human interactions are outright eliminated from our lives.
The time complexity of a large matrix multiplication is still much higher than using fourier, for large matrices it has superior performance.
Raspberry Pi's new keyboard computer can power an optional $100 display
Given that the Beatles never sat in on any of their stereo mixes, I'm hesitant to take you at your word. I'm not calling you a liar. I just want more data before I change my opinion. Can you please provide sources on atmos mixes being approved by artists?
It's not only because they are union members, the VW strategy is set by them and even though the VW Group is poised to have some 15-18b€ profits this year the strategy executives set for the Volkswagen brand hasn't been great.

The workers are taking the fall from mismanagement while the executives are taking bonuses since the group as a whole is profitable, not really a great look and even if they weren't unionised I believe there would be quite a bit of unrest given the circumstances... Leadership needs to suffer consequences from their strategic failures somehow, it's very easy to play with other people's lives if yours won't change at all when your poor execution fails.
Obligatory "I do not condone murder."

The principle carries in so far as you hold up your contract for covered claims until bankrupt.

Or to use an analogy, which HN absolutely hates and will nitpick since an analogy is never the same thing: you do not get to trespass someone from your airplane while you are in flight. If the airplane catastrophically fails and someone is sucked out, then there is a pass.

It does not appear these denied claims are just people getting sucked out of a catastrophically failed aircraft.
There is a right for a personal bank account only.