skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with the rebuttal that the site seems to conflate economical developments with changes to social norms without any reasonable connection.

E.g. apart from the end of Bretton Woods, the beginning of the 70s also had the ongoing civil rights movement and the protests against the Vietnam war, both events that caused large-scale change of social norms.

...but I also had to stop reading the rebuttal when he got to the wage growth chart: He argues that inequality was rising (no objection) which causes the average income, pulled up by a small number of extremely high earners, to be overestimated vs the median income (no objection), which means... we should ditch the median and rely only on the average (wtf). Because I guess then the wage stagnation doesn't look as striking as it does otherwise?

It also doesn't debunk the "what happened in 1971?" question: If he doesn't want to talk about wage growth, fine, let's talk about inequality. Why did that increase so much after 1971 then that it starts to affect other statistics?
>"Average health insurance profit margin in US is ~3%. That's not a greedy profit margin."

Could it be that good chunk of the profits is eaten by overinflated salaries of major execs?
Counterpoint: that page looks and reads better than the vast majority of web pages in the world. Admittedly a low bar: most web pages are horrible.
I seem to recall John Cleese or some other british person suggesting that the NHS was a given after so many had been through ww2. Wikipedia[1] on the NHS suggests the same, through quotes by politicians.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Health_Service#Histor...
Or encouraging healthier lifestyles by blending technology with behavioral health incentives.

Or both.
And for a while, for fun, they also varied pharmacy coverage by state. I live in WA, was traveling in CA for a holiday, and needed to visit urgent care in a town I didn't know well. All good, and then they asked what pharmacy. "Oh, CVS should work if there's one nearby", because that's what I used with my insurer in Washington.

Roll up to the CVS in the Target, and they tell me "Aetna doesn't cover CVS in California at this time"...
> Curiously, I hear this less about Hulu despite them being equivalently bad in my experience. Perhaps hulu has better content.

I feel like Hulu established early enough that they were partially (or fully) ad-supported. I watched a show for free on Hulu with ads many years before I ever would have considered paying for a streaming service at all. Prime, on the other hand, is something people already pay for (usually for reasons other than just streaming, but that also reinforces that they're paying), so the ads probably come off as worse because of that, even though it's kind of backwards in some ways.
My advisor used a reMarkable 2 and loved it. I think that there is a range of quality available.
I always make that connection too, with just that one word. Not sure why that one in particular, but it's consistent...
Because visitors to those sites include corporate and government users -- the majority of windows installations. Corporate and government computers don't have Steam installed.

Those website stats also include home users, people with Steam, etc. It's a way bigger sample across all sectors, including the sector that Steam measures.

However, Steam stats only measure windows installations of people who play Steam games (i.e. not corporate and certainly not government computers, and probably missing a large chunk of home installs). That is a much less representative sample of windows installations.
> The fact that I am in favor of banning all social media should tell you that it is not ideological,

I'm not accusing you of being ideologically motivated, I just think that your (otherwise understandable) support for banning social media is inadvertently helping a bad actor in stifling freedom of speech.

Could China be using TikTok to spread propaganda in the US? Sure, but I haven't seen any evidence supporting this and if there was concrete proof I'd support the ban. Meanwhile the US government is labeling truthful discussions about Israel's genocide "antisemitic propaganda" and using them as motivation for the TikTok ban.

On one side we have vague communist boogeymen, on the other there's expressed desire to take control of unpleasant narratives. That tells me that they're really just trying to take away people's ability to discuss their dissenting ideas.
All the Pacific Island countries.
Why didn't they just... keep the rights...?
That may be true. I can only assure you that the army of government bureaucrats who do that work in countries with universal healthcare tend to be less efficient.
That feeling you just expressed of higher trust to your local doctor than to a head of a large institution: it came from having a pretty good idea what your local doctor does, and no idea what a head of an institution does. The growing problem with cynicism in our society is not because there's evidence of corruption, it's because nobody knows how anything works, but everybody gets fed "look at these bad incentives" by pundits (especially alternative media ones) all day. Everything is complex. Just because it is doesn't make it nefarious.

An institution's whole point is to be a system where you don't have to trust individuals. It's a way to deal with complex nature of our reality. People should really learn what institutions are, how they function, what accountability mechanisms they contain, instead of blaming them based on conjecture. "Look, this bad thing happened. And this person has this bad incentive. Now we know the whole story." We don't.
You can check the list of recognized sponsors publicly available

https://ind.nl/en/public-register-recognised-sponsors/public...
Prisons would be a lot safer if the dangerous inmates got kicked out of prison and left behind the ones who didn't attack other inmates.

If you want to improve schools quickly, expelling problem kids is the easiest way to do it. But that would cause consequences to the expelled kids, as well as society.
In the article it's stated that TikTok will display a message to US users and the app will not work:

> Under TikTok's plan, people attempting to open the app will see a pop-up message directing them to a website with information about the ban
OpenAI revises policy doc to remove reference to 'politically unbiased' AI
TDS - the derangement that Trump is an ordinary or ordinarordinarily bad president and not a disaster of epic proportion
I just don't see the rationale in framing it as a morality and value test in the first place that is worth reading into.

I have a diet I try to follow in general. I break it all the time and it's not a big deal at all. Sometimes I'll eat a cheeseburger with my coworkers. What does that say about my character? Should it say anything?

How much can one hate a burger? It's not like he is a Hindu or the burger contained his first born child.
> $500 / month

What the actual f!?

That saving is double the total cost of my private health insurance in Australia!

This includes the “Medicare levy” tax I pay at the highest rate because I get an above average income.

Health insurance cost is something I just don’t think about.

My missus reminds me every few years to combine our plans because it might save us AUD 250 per… year. Maybe.
I'd say we have an unsustainable system, and innovation that makes it less sustainable is not particularly helpful.
I would think the big factor for running yt-dlp in a browser would be CORS, not the language used to implement the downloader?
Your argument would be more convincing (well, not really because it’s typical bad faith contrarianism) if insurers weren’t also some of the largest hospital and clinic owners in the U.S. and use this to rob people blind on both ends.
https://archive.ph/7vHah
>It's not actually clear from the report that the PBMs actually profited from overcharging.

Even if they did profit, it is clear from their 10-Q and 10-K that the managed care organizations (MCO) did not tremendously profit.

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/UNH/unitedhealth-g...

This kind of profit margin (<6%) would get executives in many other businesses fired. All the other MCOs actually have a sub 3% profit margin. UNH has a higher profit margin because it sells healthcare, not just managed care.

On the other hand, here are the profit margins for the companies that make medicine (20%+):

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/LLY/eli-lilly/prof...

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/NVO/novo-nordisk/p...

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/NVS/novartis-ag/pr...

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/PFE/pfizer/profit-...

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/MRK/merck/profit-m...

Finally, search for the difference in rankings in market cap between pharmaceutical companies versus managed care organizations. There are at least 7 pharmaceutical companies in the top 100, and only 1 managed care organization. The next biggest MCO is #189.

https://companiesmarketcap.com

Edit to respond to below: It does not matter if UNH or any other MCO moves money from their right pocket to their left pocket, the SEC filed 10-Q and 10-K will reflect all revenue and expenses. Their low profit margin is evidence that the money is flowing out of the organization and away from the shareholders. If this business was as profitable as people claim, then its stock returns would indicate it, but they don't.
The only reason healthcare is so expensive is because a dysfunctional insurance industry exists.
Yes, but if it's one of his goals, then bringing him in isn't going to reverse it.
> The ball is in China’s court now, if they can provide a space where this class consciousness can continue to grow they’ll easily get equal/better

We can hope the CCP's consciousness grows and they shutdown their concentration camps, stop organ harvesting, and start having elections.

The ball is in their court.

We can talk TikTok being allowed after that.
so by increasing the cost of patient care, they can take out more profits.
> in a safe environment with minimal consequences and some guard rails

The problem is that a public school, at least in the US, is /not/ a safe environment with minimal consequences, and it has effectively no guard rails. Your idea is a nice one, but it's not realistic, and reality is exactly why people are opting out of public schooling for their children.
How are you not doing the exact same thing?
German firms tested 4-day workweek (dw) (2024)
I don't disagree, my point is that it would introduce different risks.
Including Alcohol?
I weep a little inside every time I pass the unstaffed school library.
I feel like my page ranking on Google is lower after switching to Cloudflare. Like google is secretly punishing Cloudflare hosted pages or something.

I have zero evidence to prove anything. Just gut feeling. Anyone else notice this?
And let's be honest, a good book collection is a great addition to a room, aesthetically. People tend not to talk about that aspect, I think they worry about being seen as pretentious showing off their books. But I think a book collection can be a great decoration, just as flowers or a painting can be.

And if you have family or friends over and one of them sees something they like, you can lend it to them there and then (if you are so inclined). Some of my earliest reading-related memories are being in an uncle's or neighbour's house and being fascinated by a book on a shelf that they kindly let me take home to read.
FWIW they could piggyback on Valve's open source work and help there like Zoom Platform (DRM-free shop like GOG, unrelated to Zoom) did[0]. ZP is a much smaller company than GOG (pretty much everyone in it, including the CEO, hangs out on their official Discord) and they still got someone to handle that part. I don't use the utility myself but i've seen on Discord that they -try to- provide support for people using it.

[0] https://zoom-platform.sh/
Why is insurance charging anyone for drugs? Shouldn't the pharmacy/doctor/hospital charge the patient and the insurance company pay some percentage of the cost (maybe negotiating the price of the drugs downward)? It seems we've overcomplicated a system that should be much simpler.
> Anyone trying to argue that it doesn't happen that often or anything is missing the key problem. Sure it may be right most of the time, but all that does is build a false sense of security and eventually you stop double checking or clicking through to a source. Whether it is a search result, manipulating data, or whatever.

Same problem existed before AI summaries.

"Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray's case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect. I call these the "wet streets cause rain" stories. Paper's full of them.

In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know."

– Michael Crichton (1942-2008)
This will be a lot more useful when it's able to combine with more tools, such as in custom GPT actions, APIs, "computer use", the Python interpreter, etc.
> And billing us 4x more for it than Europeans

In part, because dealing with insurers is immensely costly in staff and time.

(Other parts include the immense cost of twelve years of secondary education here; a million bucks in student loans isn't uncommon.)

> a lot of that work is wasteful and unnecessary (see: spinal fusion surgeries, back imaging)

Which makes the "insurers are there to reduce waste!" argument especially tough to stomach.
> Videos about Tiananmen Square, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Tibet all get black holed by the algorithm.

None of those threaten US national security - that's what the supporters of this ban are claiming is at stake. US social media companies nuke topics that the US doesn't like, that's not news.

How do you feel about US media suppressing opposition of the genocide happening in Gaza? Where should US citizens express those views if every popular non-US owned/aligned platform is banned on the grounds of national security?
I first noticed a change with Elon publicly when he fired PR for Tesla and said in an investor meeting something about twitter being more effective and cheaper than a full PR team. This was around the time/soon after trumps first election, and I believe he studied trumps ability to dominate the news cycle and began emulating him. Ted Cruz started going this route around the same time, and both Cruz and Elon were quite bad at it at first. Cruz eventually gave up trying to be like Trump, but Elon leaned into how he was kind of bad at it and became like a clown. It's "no news is bad news" taken to the extreme - if he does something stupid and people talk about it, that's publicity!

I don't know how he's gotten as far as he has, both in access to power and down the rabbit hole, but it looks like he's drank the kool aid now. Maybe it's cynical opportunism, or maybe he surrounded himself with true believers who pushed him into it. But I have a feeling his story arc is far from over
Kaiser had an income of 4.1B in 2023 vs. UHG's 371.6B in an industry of 4.8T [1]. I'm not sure the point you're trying to make or why it's relevant unless you're asking me to read between the lines on the efficacy of Kaiser as a non-profit vs. their for-profit counterparts (which is what seems to be the case).

edit: I think I missed the last part of your comment in an edit, so to attempt to answer my own questions, it's not a fair comparison beyond just the almost 100x size difference to compare a different business model and scope, provider network, risk pool and geographic presence yet ignore every other developed country in the world and say that for profit is the way to go because if Kaiser can't do it then nobody can.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/....
These are awful, but the worst one for me is referring to "people" or "employees" as "resources". I feel a sharp surge of irritation every time someone does that.
Absolutely yeah, it's like the "ZIP code is destiny" is also some kind of self-fulfilling prophecy.
> But I’m so sorry, I have a three-thirty.

I assume that means that she doesn't accept the proposal (lit. she has a meeting at 3:30), but don't quite follow how that.

Can someone reach out and break that down for me.
Since reading the book of Walter Isaacson. I just wonder if he is slowly becoming his father, or at least to others what he is saying about his own father.
Your assertion is obviously not true. This is why they target militants and post the videos and explanations on the internet. You can find hundreds or thousands of such videos. It’s why they send texts hours before bombing. It’s why they do roof knocks. It’s why they provide safe passage and humanitarian zones. It’s why they drop leaflets. It’s why they still provide electricity, water, and food to Gaza. I read a report about how they asked a Palestinian to alert his neighbors via a phone call and waited for him to tell everyone to get out. These are steps no other nation takes, and it is easy to find experts confirming that. It’s why there are only 45k dead instead of 2 million.

If Israel wanted to maximize casualties, there would not be a Palestinian alive today. What would be their incentive to stop? The far left claims it’s a genocide as it is. What would actually killing them all be, then? Double genocide? You have used the worst term you can to describe something very far from the worst Israel could do.

And then of course, is the obvious contradiction that they just agreed to a ceasefire for their hostages. Just like they did in November 2023. And how they agreed to a ceasefire in Lebanon despite all the cries of them trying to seize the land. Israel wants to be left alone to live; the Palestinians (and the other neighboring Arab nations) want to kill all the Israelis and destroy Israel. The rest of the world wants these positions to meet in the middle, so there we are in the middle ground: perpetual war. Go look at the Hamas and Hezbollah founding charters, or the Houthi flag, or everything Iran says.
That's interesting. YouTube's gotten me fairly pinned algorithm-wise over the past few years (I used to never use recommendations at all before that). But my Shorts recommendations seem to just be the regular recommendations, but Shorts versions of them. Sometimes as far as the same channels, or the same people in clips even if it's on a different channel.
Hard yes, burden scales with number of authors and not number of lines.

That’s… the whole rationale about not liking lots of small packages.
The report is misleading.

What is being alleged here is that PBMs overpriced over the generics. So it's like if Coca-Cola set the price of their can at $50, and NoName at $0.50. So you be are being "overcharged" at the grocery store when you buy the Coke and not the NoName.

It's not actually clear from the report that the PBMs actually profited from overcharging. Furthermore, if the doctor prescribes a name brand drug, it's not always the prerogative of the PBM to switch the prescription on behalf of the customer.
Giving you the benefit of the doubt with this comment, I recommend googling their relationship with the alt right
A historical aside, the reason private health insurance was created in the US was World War 2.

I could be misremembering pieces, but the long and short of it was that salary compensation was capped/restricted during World War 2 and so companies began offering benefits outside of salary, private health insurance among them, to retain their employees.
Why are you straining so hard and spending so many words to defend general scumminess.

Invisible limits are an anti-pattern, simple as that.
I'm guessing Elon welched on his bet otherwise he wouldn't have needed to try to monetize this.
Perhaps that is just the most logical way to organize the material and not an accurate indicator of the role of testing in day to day practice.
I use Firefox and I see (on the player's settings) that it goes as high as 1080. The addon of my InternetDownloadManager also goes as high as 1080.
If you watch the talk they linked to you can see that the advice has been updated to be "you must explicitly tell the officers you want a lawyer" and it has nothing to do with retracting his previous advice. The original "Don't Talk to the Police" upload seems to still be there (uploaded 12 years ago). Do wait for your attorney to be present but also explicitly tell the officers that you will refrain from any more discussion until then.
The pronouns people use for me can be independent of what I call myself
To me its the opposite, the so called libertarians who got scared of the flu went fully anti liberty and their true faces were revealed.
> I'm much more excited about eventual emergence of underground homebrew models without any guardrails

Not if AI gatekeepers and interest groups have anything to say about it. AI without guardrails could be classified as a "weapon" and made illegal such that we are only allowed to use models produced by regulated entities and meet certain "safety standards" (like how medical software has to be approved by FDA).

Edit: oh, I guess "underground" could be interpreted in a way that these models are still produced and distributed (but secretly, illegally, etc)
> Water is only going to get scarcer in the west as climate change goes on.

Predictions are all over the place but the average prediction seems to say that at least half the US gets more water.
Almost - CTAN (T for "TeX") predated CPAN by about 1 year (but may not have ever had as much automated fetching involved).
The FAQ does clarify that opt-outs are available for the functionality itself, but not for the pricing change.

(Disclaimer: Although I have worked for Google in the past, that ended almost a decade ago and wasn't in any role related to pricing or product decisions about Google Workspace. I have no inside info on this announcement and am not speaking for Google here.)
Well Sam is ignoring the factual basics of COVID. It had a very low IFR, comparable to seasonal flus. And yet it was treated more like Ebola in terms of the government response. It would have been fine to let young and healthy people go about their lives, visit businesses, go to schools, and all that. Instead, we subjected everyone to authoritarian measures that were not grounded in reality, and even the slightest objection was given all kinds of labels - misinformation, conspiracy theory, anti science, etc.

And let’s not forget the glaring saga of the lab leak theory, which was attacked and suppressed in news media and social media. It showed the extent of societal control that was being practiced under the guise of COVID. That violation of free speech principles is the troubling tangent, not the people who were asking for more transparency and accountability for China. In the end the CCP got away with a WHO visit only a year late, and with the only US rep having a conflict of interest since he was involved in the coronavirus work at Wuhan Institute of Virology (Peter Daszak of EcoHealth).
Just to add that every single device is the same: airbag, central lock, engine, transmission and so on. They are all bought from suppliers and usually you get the same device in cars that are from competing car manufacturers. An expensive vehicle has up to 100 embedded devices, each with it's own function.