skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agree that it's not perfect, but I do feel that we could take 60-80% of the money we're currently spending and fix this and any other issues that come up and get in the way of improved outcomes like the rest of the world does.

I don't know why what you're describing happens, but my money would be on some triage that needs to happen due to limited funding since so much of our spending goes into private healthcare solutions.
Don't you drive using primarily visual input?

I don't know if machine learning can ever match the human brain for that. The brain does a lot of fairly advanced inferences that require a deep understanding of the world and the people and things in it.

Still, I'm not sure how much additional inputs would help the ML. If you had to drive by "touch" (LIDAR), you probably shouldn't be allowed to drive. It might be useful when the visual system has failed, to stop the vehicle before it hits something, but if the visual system fails that often then the system wouldn't be usable for any purpose.
Yeah, we need to be careful with using something like MSRP because of what that S means. I would rather we find a different baseline more fundamental to the cost of production than something that essentially amounts to "the price is the price". But I'm right there with you, and I think it's a good start.
> But the whole talk basically tries to publicly revert his earlier view from the old presentation.

Damn, you need to watch it again. He only updates the advice to say that one needs to be explicit about their intention to remain silent and await an attorney.
Literally every government has people who go on social media or provide press reports. Only when Israel is involved do you start talking about it like it’s a conspiracy. Please reflect on that for a while.

Meanwhile Iran and Russia have literally been caught manipulating Reddit and TikTok. And you’re literally replying to evidence of the pro-Palestinian crowd doing the same in violation of Wikipedia’s terms of use.
agreed. making the world worse.
This is too simplistic.

The ROC has not had any formal military alliance with the United States since 1979. TSMC was not founded until 1987, didn't start producing chips until 1993. It was not even publicly traded until 1994 (and that was only on the Taiwanese stock exchange; it was listed on the NYSE in 1997).

The reason the PRC hasn't done it is because it would make no sense politically or economically. They have a lot more to lose and a lot less to gain than Russia did in 2014 (Sevastopol was/is seen as integral to the Russian navy...there is no parallel with Taiwan as the PRC has plenty of excellent ports on the mainland).

And the continued existence of Taiwan gives the PRC a convenient excuse to sabre-rattle.
Balance bikes. The dude discovered balanced bikes.
Yes - I was coming here for that.
If I hadn’t known that I was communicating with Elon Musk, I would have thought I was debating someone who lacked any understanding of basic scientific and mathematical concepts, like exponential curves.

Its always the same thing. Yes we do understand exponential curves but no you’re still wrong even if you think you’re smarter than us by repeating what others told you about covid
Freenet / Hyphanet build 1500: hotfixes and polish
There's such obviously fucked up incentives in this industry.

- When employers select insurance, providers will 100% of the time tend toward ignoring the interests of those who are insured: the incentives to do so are just too strong.

- When an insurance company also owns a pharmacy, it will 100% of the time tend toward overcharging: again all the incentives encourage this.

Unfortunately it seems most folks have little or no experience analyzing incentive structures when looking for levers to pull to improve outcomes. It'd be great to see popular discourse focus more on the environmental factors that incentivise these kinds of corporate abuse.
Japan's gender polarization is low compared to the rest of the world.

According to these indices, gender inequality in Japan is lower than 85% of the world's other nations. It's not a direct measure of gender polarization, but presumably it's correlated:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_Inequality_Index
Earlier:

Google is making AI in Gmail and Docs free – but raising the price of Workspace

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42710978
I use to say "colleagues". That should be ok I hope.
I find it amazing that people complain about paying more than some other countries, while they cannot even solve this sort of insanity. Just maybe first making this one sensible, next step could be to have some competition and free market...
Just from your summary, your viewing habits put out vivid, clear signals that you like commercialized hobbies like gaming and mountain biking.

Not everybody telegraphs how to get into their wallet as well as you do!
Not having to worry about any of those details is the whole point of having a competitive market in the first place. Any company that isn't serious about avoiding overpayment (even to their own CEO) becomes obsolete. And yes, it's a very competitive market with thousands of players and Obamacare setting a ceiling on rates and a floor on coverage.

If the market is competitive, you can trust that you're getting what you pay for. If it's not, well then that's the problem.
Yeah, you're not going to make it. The tiny percentage of entrepreneurs
who do make it never worry about their personal development. They've
got bigger fish to fry, like getting to profitability.
People have wanted health care reform in the US for over a century and it is farther away from ever. This carrot you are waving does not exist, which is why CEO Brian Thompson has filed his last claim denial.
So going by your own example, if the government tells you "sell your house or we are going to seize it via eminent domain", are you not allowed to say "the government is using eminent domain to take my house from me"? Now replace "eminent domain" with "ban" and "house" with "TikTok".
This is mostly just confusing to me. It's almost Rust syntax, but not quite, and the divergences away from Rust syntax don't really make sense (like the newtype syntax). What are the benefits of this over RON?
This is exactly it. If China allowed fully uncensored American social media to operate in China I’d had zero issue letting them do the same in the US.

But the CCP wants to have their cake and eat it too. Fully repressive social media lock downs and censorship for their citizens but exploiting the west’s values of free speech and debate.
Ask HN: Most cost-effective AI setup for developers? (Currently spending $50/mo)
I'm currently spending about $50/month on AI tools that assist me while coding:

- Claude via web UI

- ChatGPT via web UI

- GitHub Copilot in my VS Code

Curious if others have found more cost-effective combinations while keeping good quality output like the one from Claude. What's your setup?
"common sleep medication": not as a percentage of overall usage.
Mine is performant. People sometimes use it as a synonym for high performance when really it just means working about as well as you would expect it to. It doesn't imply anything especially great.
Show HN: I Put Snake in my Resume [pdf]
I'm sure you've seen the post about putting Tetris in a PDF (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42645218) and putting DOOM in a PDF (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42678754). Someone suggested using this technique in a resume to potentially demonstrate your engineering skills, and being chronically unemployed, I had the chance to try that out. The vision is that some recruiter out there will take a break from work, enjoy a game of snake, before inevitably pressing reject. Take a look if you like. Like the others, it requires chromium based browsers.
Harris used to be an interesting person to listen to but the advent of Trump seems to have been too much for him. When someone claims (in a discussion on the suppression of the 'Hunter Biden Laptop' news during the previous election) "At that point Hunter Biden literally could have had the corpses of children in his basement, I would not have cared" [1] that person has signed out of civil society and joined a cult.

It is rather surprising that Harris who is known for promoting meditation has gone so deep down the 'anything but Trump' rabbit hole and keeps on digging deeper, it does not speak well for the efficacy of his meditation techniques.

[1] https://www.news.com.au/finance/business/media/author-sam-ha...
Big +1 for Bunny.net - I moved my current company to Bunny and it's been excellent. Super fast (for our PoPs at least), reasonable pricing, love the image optimizer & edge rules (especially for solving header issues when embedding documents), has a Terraform provider, and I was able to set most of it up in a day. Was a night and day difference from GCP's Cloud CDN
The thing with ISPs is the small guys are more likely to have to pay, and the smaller you are the more likely you are to pay more.

If you are a Tier 1 ISP, everyone is willing to pay you to carry their traffic and other Tier 1s just make peering agreements with you.

If you're johnscheapvps.com, you're likely to pay all your upstream ISPs for your traffic. If you're GCP or, say, digitalocean.com, everyone would love to be paying you to get faster access to all the sites hosted on your platform (and because paying you is probably going to be cheaper than their regular upstream)
This is cringe, and I refuse to engage with it further.
I’m not an expert but I’m wary of anyone who has a simplistic view of what seems to be a complex system. This, plus looking at the profit margin of UHC paints a more nuanced picture (net profit margin is not that high. the dollar amount is high because the scale of the company is big). (Not that I want to make money from denying people healthcare, no matter how much internal logic there is to it…)

But it does seem like there’s a serious prisoners dilemma type situation going on in American health care. It’s easy to point fingers at someone else.

The situation is also coupled with a toxic political environment where a Trump voter can simultaneously be against “Obamacare” and think that Trump is going to improve access to healthcare, and a Harris voter can be pro Obamacare and ignore regulatory capture by pharmaceutical companies- e.g., both sides so convinced they’re right and the other side is wrong they won’t be seen to agree on anything common sense.
How can this be surprising?

If you identify, contemplate, and sometimes activate an attack vector against rivals, how could you possibly be dumb enough to leave yourself exposed to the same attack?

Also, note that China has blocked this attack vector from the US.

So how colossally dumb would it be for the US to not reciprocally block this attack vector from China?

Hypocrisy is irrelevant. Attack vectors are real.
> If anything it’s the providers who are screwing over patients by gaming insurance and taking more than is necessary from the shared insurance pool of money.

If the 85% gets larger, so does the 15%. Both sides gain when the cost increases.
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42714907
Sue can access the federated app through SSO.

The password reset flow, if offered by the SP at all, is only a fallback alternative to the SSO in case it becomes broken, and should only be used by organization administrators.

The inability to complete the MFA is what prevents the federated user data from being accessed in the case of a domain takeover, which is what we're discussing here. So you really want that to be implemented by the SP.
You just answered my question:

Is it the case that UnitedHealth and Cigna each own (or control) one of the "big three" PBMs? If so, that is a just crazy - the control insurance premium pricing, benefit decisions, AND the pricing of covered medications?

yadaebo wrote below "Medical Loss Ratio (MLR) is capped at 85% in the US which means 85% of revenue must go to patients". Does controlling a big PBM allow an insurance company a loophole?
Unpoly by default changes the browser's history to the url of the modal. Thus when your refresh you'll get exactly that. You can modify that behavior with up-history, see here https://unpoly.com/history-in-overlays
please is such an appropriate name. Will rename my ChatGPT alias to please.
Academia's preference for theory over empiricism fuels scientific stagnation
RAG isn't re-training. You can have vector embeddings of all AP news in a vector DB, then when prompted, find related news via similarity search, and add the most similar (and thus related) ones to the context.

Here's some simple example code in Go, for RAG with 5000 arXiv paper abstracts: https://github.com/philippgille/chromem-go/tree/v0.7.0/examp... (full disclosure it's using a simple vector DB I wrote)
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42691913
Since fact checking is limited we should not bother. I, for one, embrace our new post-truth world where anything you say could be right, but nobody will check because reality is hard so we should all give up.
Industry refers to a particular way of doing things that involves portable use of power. Instead of relying on natural cycles (wind-, water-driven machinery), it involves the use of engines (steam, gasoline, electrical) to drive tractors, pumps, produce industrial-scale fertilizers, etc. These engines can be constructed where there are lack of natural resources, or made portable, thus decoupling them from locations of natural resources. That decoupling is what allows industrialized systems, including industrial agriculture, to scale.

Agriculture is largely practiced with industrial methods now, but it's been around a lot longer before proto-industrial methods (water and wind mills). For example, Egypt, as a civilization, benefited from the natural flooding and silt of the Nile. It's been the bread basket for empires for several thousand years. They were not using industrial methods two or three thousand years ago.

There are also other forms of agriculture that is not easily recognized by the narrow lens we have today -- such as perennial food forests, hidden in the ruins of Amazonian jungles, or the Pacific Northwest, or the forest that used to cover the lands between the Appalachia and the Mississippi river. Those were not organized with the concept of employment, and it is distinctively low-tech.
Nation states definitely can by using port targeting, traffic heuristics, and DPI. The US historically has not done this but several other states have. Even if protocols are preserved, I wouldn't want to be in a situation where I have to run a client on my local machine that consumes from the protocol. I want to be able to use a hosted client.

A user should be able to use another person's hosted Mastodon instance or Bluesky AppView/Relay.
here's a piece of life advice for you: if it don't make sense, theres a buck in it.
> The problem with that premise is that almost every substance has a remote chance of causing cancer in some way or another.

What is the scientific basis of this claim ?

It's pretty extraordinary that every single thing we eat is carcinogenic.
All software is broken [video]
i hope this is true
Many companies sit on some cloud/managed infrastructure that often provides internal logging, like AWS CloudWatch, which requires a bunch of tricks, configs, and smart logging strategies, but can be cheap even for hundreds of log streams and millions of log lines.
I heard about Datadog, and how good and expensive it could be.
I met many companies that use ELK or self-hosted Grafana.
it feels like google in panic mode, the only thing it can think of is to put a chatbot everywhere, just b/c it can. I don't see a value proposition at all.
I'm not sure I follow that argument - Canada shares a continent.
Which were also the historical precursor of bicycles:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_bicycle#19th_ce...
The funny thing is that unpoly was originally written for ror, but I also agree that its a great fit for Django and its philosophy.
A quick Google tells me Perplexity doesn't support my language, so no a voice query to Perplexity won't work.

"Perplexity is now available in Korean (한국어), Japanese (日本語), German (Deutsch), French (Français), and Spanish (Español)"

It's missing 3 of the top 5 languages spoken in the world today. It only has 3 of the top 10 most spoken languages in the world.

Also everyone in my country drives scooters and I don't see how voice commands are supposed to work with that kind of setup.
Why Does ChatGPT's Algorithm 'Think' in Chinese?
These kinds of sites really benefit from "reader"-type plugins, pushing off readability across different interfaces onto the visitor.
Which hospital chains are you referring to?
> I take issue with the claim that in order to say something is too expensive that you must be able to precisely propose an alternative price.

If you want to be quantitative of course you do. How hard is it? Margin of error is allowed. If you want to be qualitative, vague and wishy washy, that has its place too, but at some point someone is going to ask for a quantitative assertion, otherwise you get nowhere.
No, why would they pay a cellphone plan for it? For most of them it was their or their siblings' previous phone, or their first phone they paid for themselves when they got a job, for others it's a cheap 60$ used phone they bought when their parents took theirs away at some point. That's like money for going out for lunch three times.

There's no use for a cellphone plan, we would just use wifi or hotspot from their main phone.
> less controlled environments later in life when it's harder to change habits, like in uni or in the workplace.

You're right on pointing out the environments in which homeschoolers often perform poorly, but you used the wrong word. Homeschoolers are bad at more controlled environments, where you must work within the confines of bureaucratic systems run by people who didn't design them. Timesheets, changing place when the bell rings, studying only what's on the test and reproducing at the correct time, speaking differently to people based on how much authority they hold over you according to a system of record--that is difficult for people who are used to a lot of freedom in terms of how they spend their time, and how they interact with other people.
That makes sense. It seems this "problem" is unlikely to be "solved" by reintegrating projects into larger crates, for good technical and social reasons. Then the solution is to reframe the problem.

Distributed code review is a brute-force style solution. Republishing collections of crates under a single name/version is a dimensionality-reduction and responsibility-concentration style solution. I suspect pure-PR style solutions will be ineffective. What other kind of solutions are there?
I'm surprised I'd never asked that question before, since the AP and other syndicates began as teletype wire feeds. What do modern newsrooms use as the modern replacement of the AP "wire"?
I was kind of curious about that one too. It is encoding the SRT into the MP4/MOV subtitle format. I use it all the time when muxing subs into MP4s, but I haven't seen what happens with an MKV like that. It is very well supported in MP4s.
1. Unlike private insurance, this is publicly available.

2. If anything, it's a bit stingy. The negotiating power of government (and the predictability of it) helps keep reimbursements down here.

3. I mean, that's how they're set. They analyze how long and how much a particular procedure should take/cost.

4. Sure.
Again, not sure what you're trying to say but given how it's overwhelmingly against "killing was acceptable or somewhat acceptable", it's unlikely that polling error would significantly change the conclusion.
Maybe everyone else is thinking the same thing about your product.
Doctors don't make 4x more here than in Germany because of insurance costs.
This is a ridiculous standard. News headlines at the moment would have an error rate wildly above 1.3%. The articles about Apple having trouble with LLM headlines is that the on-device model is weak and it's trying to compress too much into too few characters. I'd guess the chance of Gemini incorrectly summarising an article to be almost 0%.
Yeah, though one really nice thing I've discovered is that JellyFin has support for what it calls "home videos" and that + Infuse means the family has access to all those recordings to take but never watch, like kid's recitals, etc.
This is nice!

One thing I was reading about was some folks cautioning about the scams and underhanded behavior that spring up around unfortunate events.

A tab/page dedicated documenting things to watch out for would be helpful.

Some items like what is described here: https://www.consumerfinance.gov/ask-cfpb/how-do-i-avoid-scam...
DnSpy was great. The author (d4d) did many great things for the world of .net reversing and binary analysis, including dnspy and dnlib. One day, i don't know why, they archived most of their repositories.

I'm glad electrokill stepped up and maintains dnspyex now. This also shows how resilient open source can be - as long as someone wants to work on the project, it can go on forever.
Wall Street's Pre-Eminent Short Seller Is Calling It Quits
The real answer is we don't know or otherwise some kind of anthropic argument, i.e. the weak force has the range it does becuase otherwise we wouldn't have this kind of universe with people in it pondering why the weak force is the way it is.

Seems generally unhelpful to say 'the weak force is short range because it's field is stiffer!' When you can then immediately say 'well why is the weak force's field stiffer?'
> we will see a return of very succint 1-2 lines employee feedback.

This would be a great outcome in a lot of areas!
Earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42709479
“We” do not want surveillance propaganda targeted towards children. The US government does not want Chinese surveillance propaganda targeted toward children. They’re perfectly happy when it’s done on US soil under US jurisdiction.
I really just have two things to say on this subthread:

* Medicare would not have 2% overhead if it served 30-year-olds.

* Medicare is in fact the primary constraint on the supply of doctors in the US system.
Hindenburg Research to Be Disbanded
I was shocked to hear from an anesthesiologist friend of mine in Germany that an American salary could be 10x higher.
A good first step is to imagine something fun you would like to create for yourself (or whatever idea you already have), and then try building that thing as a side project. Limit the experiment to no more than 3 months. Learn how to heavily reduce the scope and build almost every day. See what you learn about yourself and then regroup.

Why do I suggest this? Many reasons. Here are a few:

First, you'll learn that the biggest hurdles to success are your own mind and habits. To even have a chance, you need to learn how to motivate yourself and work without a lot of structure surrounding a project. This is really useful.

Also, regardless of what kind of product, and regardless of whether you want to start a VC backed or bootstrapped company, the first step is getting started and showing some sort of traction. Again, keep the time limited, or you'll waste a lot of time building something no one actually wants. This part is when you'll start to learn about the all important product-market fit.

Finally, you'll learn about what happens when you have something besides your normal work to care about. This is an interesting dynamic. It might change how you feel about work, or it might not.

As far as the concern about stagnation, I've found that rarely goes away if you still have ambition about employment. Once you have a family, this only intensifies. Your personal tolerance for risk might change this dynamic. If you do enough interesting tech stuff on your side project and/or startup, then you can satisfy some of that concern.