skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
UHC is the largest single employer of doctors in the US.

https://www.statnews.com/2024/07/25/united-health-group-medi...

> It’s no secret that UnitedHealth is a colossus: It’s the country’s largest health insurer and the fourth-largest company of any type by revenue, just behind Apple. And thanks to a series of stealthy deals, almost 1 in 10 U.S. doctors — some 90,000 clinicians — now either work for UnitedHealth or are under its influence, more than any major clinic chain or hospital system.

They purchase physician groups... and then pay themselves higher rates.

https://www.statnews.com/2024/11/25/unitedhealth-higher-paym...

> UnitedHealth Group is paying many of its own physician practices significantly more than it pays other doctor groups in the same markets for similar services, undermining competition and driving up costs for consumers and businesses, a STAT investigation reveals.
> It is a political thing as much as anything. Some old people feel they learned it so it must be good and therefore kids today must learn it.

Some evidence to indicate it is useful:

* https://www.psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/the-athletes-way/202...
Discord is more of a small-group or individual communication platform. I don't think it's suited as well for the one-to-many or feed-based appeals of social media such as TikTok. (Large, public Discord servers absolutely exist, but they're often themed around something specific; and even if they weren't, you can't just have an algorithm determine which messages in a channel you do or don't see.)
their commenting behavior is strange. i'm not certain.
Okay its a tiny 260k model that is running in it. I had made the pdf part back in in Nov, I thought I'd share since stuff inside PDF is a trend. I'll upload the pure PDF larger and small models which work both on chrome and firefox pdf readers.

I am pretty angry at Adobe as their JS Engine is not JS 1.3 as claimed. It is something in between... So we invented LLM inside Documents. And Documents becoming LLM OS. So Adobe, if you are not going to fix JS in PDF, I'll fork my own reader with WASM and all the bells and whistles!

This is not the thermodynamic god, just pee/acc where we accelerate peedf :)
> I also pushed for breaking large changes into smaller commits, because it is impossible to do a thorough review otherwise.

I've found this to be key for both giving and receiving feedback. Even small breaking commits are better in a lot of cases because they invite feedback in a way that 1000+ lines don't.
Yeah, but knowing that doesn't make it much better; it's the wrong design choice.
At the point where the sales team has already hit all the targets that are bigger than you.
Incorrect - the fatality rate of covid pre vaccines was 1 to 3% worldwide, and about 15% in older more vulnerable people. Flu fatality rates are around 0.1%.
My point exactly. Airplanes are big too, and there are existing procedures to avoid collision with marked objects in the sky e.g. other planes.

By listening to the transponder messages which give altitude, GPS location, velocity and call sign you can 'see' the stage as it moves through the air like any other vehicle traffic.
+1 to Bunny
Abrogate the direct primary inputs. Weather sensors. Wildfire cameras. Police scanners. Court proceedings. Changes to ordinances. New LLC filings. Bankrupcies. Birth records. Death records. The whole corpus of society that is automatically logged and used as the primary data for people to then perform research or develop journalism upon.

That is what you siphon up. And in output you can mad lib out an article just like those johnny on the spot AP reporters do anyhow, filling in the skeleton article about a death or an attack or a banquet or award show with the relevant input concerning the event. LLM isn't even used for finding this input but to just adjust the boilerplate, perhaps to tailor news specifically to the reader's own inclinations based on engagement with other articles collected via fingerprinting.
Very interesting. I wonder if they tried this on classification as well. They mention but then don't talk about it in detail.
"Adult-level social skills" for children was historically normal, and it's only in the past century that children are assumed to be incapable of speaking plainly and intelligently to adults, or vice versa.

You might want to do some looking into the "invention of childhood"; what we understand as "children, teenagers, young adults, adults" is a fairly modern way to look at "stages of development". In the distant past, children participated far more comfortably and fluently in adult society than they do today, when they're sequestered away.

It is very difficult to see any representations of this in the US, where most children are in school, so I'll point to examples in fiction: fictional novels or movies where the protagonist is taken confidently through an unfamiliar city by a child who seems to know every location, has a sleeping place, weapons, a method of finding money, and a network of friends. In these works of fiction, the child is almost always a semi-homeless "urchin"; but this is mostly because modern writers can't conceive of a child that capable without also assuming that the child's parents must not be involved in their life, because modern people equate "parenting and raising children" with "making sure children only ever do child-appropriate things".

My question to you: what do you think it would look like if two loving, attentive parents tried to raise a kid with the confidence and skills of those fictional street children, but also actually fed them and gave them a place to live?

It is very likely that the answer to that question is far closer to the way that children used to behave and live than the way that children are today.

I also recommend looking at old tests and study material (pre-1900, ideally pre-1800) for young children. Children can read, figure, write, and remember at a level far superior than they're assumed to be able to today, and that goes for adult socialization as well.
Ford CEO thinks Chinese EVs are better.

https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a62694325/ford-ceo-jim-far...
Considering Elon is a free speech absolutist, it shouldn’t matter what’s written about him either way, correct ?

I’m not arguing whether it’s true, I’m saying sometimes things might be true and in a free society people should be able to write stories.
> So editorialization, including the algorithmic editorialization of social media platforms, is a form of speech separate from the speech of the authors on these platforms.

I certainly agree that editorial discretion is speech. I'm an adult and I think it is my prerogative to participate in as many broken ecosystems I want. Nor do I trust you or 300 million of my peers to accurately assess what is a broken ecosystem.
Banning all chemical that does exactly nothing except to absorb spectrum of light and make fake food look more like the real analog
It wasn’t debunked, it worked.

They changed the recipe after it received significant attention. Before then the company was happy to use food coloring on Apples to pretend it had strawberries while actually providing strawberries in another country.

The thing is you can’t bring attention to every single product, which is the point of regulations around deceptive packaging.
Thanks Maxime and team. YJIT is such a great contribution to the ruby community.

I think the constant improvements in ruby performance are one of the things driving the ruby renaissance.
Mate, that is labelling requirements. I guarantee most/all of those ""horrible"" ingredients are present in Italian McDonalds.
When math is racist, acronyms are White supremacy culture, and classics like Shakespeare are ditched due to "misogyny", it's no secret why homeschooling is becoming fashionable.
https://web.archive.org/web/20241223001630/https://iopscienc...
It is happening, albeit slowly, here in the USA as well. Trader Joe’s generally has no added artificial dyes, fruit by the foot now is naturally colored, Whole Foods of course, and Wegmans bakery products.

Its just that there still are so many products you don’t expect- marshmallows with blue dye to make them more “bright white”, candies/sprinkles, any children’s medicine in syrup form (although you can now get some in dye free form finally)
Did we cannibalize some of our nuclear warheads, in order to get the enriched uranium?

https://wyofile.com/fate-of-natrium-nuclear-plant-may-depend...
The Digital Distributist Manifesto
I really wish Ryan Hoover would take back the integrity of Product Hunt. It's such an amazing product with such currently painful execution, assumingly in the name of site traffic traded for ad dollars.

I truly think that the conversion rate for advertisers on PH would go UP if the quality of the site (moderated posts, comments, bot traffic) did the same.
Did they recently hire some Microsoft PMs?

"Our shiny new product isn't selling. How do we pump up the numbers?"

"Bundle it into another popular product, of course."
Water loss from evaporation and transpiration are inevitable, and run off is a large chunk of it. Nearly half of the water used in farming is lost, and some of that becomes run off that pollutes the environment and whatever bodies of water it reaches.
> "request" sounds demanding

I wonder if this is a kind of euphemism treadmill. When the feds demand the records on a user from a service, it's an "access request", as if you could politely say no, I would prefer not to. So connotations from "demand" leak onto "request" over time?
I'm not sure exactly what principle you're trying to cite here, but as I understand the words that's wrong. "Value creation" is the only point to paying anyone to do something in the first place. You pay people to do work from which you hope to get value.

There are other reasons that might inspire, elicit or compel one person's labor at someone else's direction; but if you accept the idea of "salary" as a concept, then it exists to create value, by definition.
Yep. The same applies to my comments.
destroying hamas was never a goal, Hamas has been Israel's ally in subverting movement for unified Palestinian statehood.

As long as Hamas exists with maximalist demands to erase Israel, Israel's fascist right (Kahanites) has excuse to live in the "fight of flight" mode, demand resources for military+settlements, and demand billions in support from EU/USA.

relationship btw Hamas and Israel is similar to that of between American Neocons and Al-Qaeda/Usama bin Laden/Mujahideen.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/10/world/middleeast/israel-q...
Not gonna happen.

"I can't wait for the PC hype train to die"

"I can't wait for the internet hype train to die"

"I can't wait for the smartphone hype train to die"

"I can't wait for the EV hype train to die"

I suggest you don't wait too long.
Fair, don't think I disagree with you on these points. I just believe we can do significantly better. In a similar vein, I believe:

* For profit motives get in the way of cheap, effective healthcare. Maximizing shareholder value leads to higher prices, overutilization of expensive proceedures and prioritization of profit generating services vs. preventive care or basic health care needs and improved outcomes.

* Incentives are currently heavily skewed to the point that providers and insurers are more likely to treat symptoms rather than address root causes or preventive measures leading to a cycle of chronic illness and higher long term costs.

* Access to healthcare should not be tied to socioeconomic status. Employer sponsored insurance and high out of pocket costs create significant barriers for lower income individuals and families, dragging the average down (i.e. the system is fine if you can afford it).

* Administrative complexity in the current system massively inflates cost. The fragmented nature of private insurers, billing systems and out of network shenanigans results in massive inefficiencies and expenses that contribute nothing to patient outcomes. I am confident this comes out to more in savings than the %age profit that is referenced in other places in this thread.
The current best practice is to keep the token in memory only and store a refresh token in an HTTP-only cookie.

In my experience though, if you’re only doing web-based auth and don’t _need_ to use JWTs for a specific reason, just use regular session cookies, it’s way less hassle. Coordinating auth and refresh state across page refreshes and tabs is a pain, and using a refresh token means you’re using cookies and saved session state anyway, so you lose pretty much all of the unique benefits of using JWTs and still have all the downsides.
Safe to assume this is Indian or muslim culture where it’s customary to set up a marriage between acquaintances, no dating as we know it.
Indeed. I guess I'm just foolishly nostalgic for a period 50 years ago when animal populations were double what they are now. https://www.wwf.org.uk/updates/living-planet-report-2018
I'm not fully awake initially but not fully asleep either. It's an in-between state.
Buggy af right now, 95% tasks failed and I get a ton of emails about it
Got you, but I am unsure if moving to the next question isn't a success as well. You understood a thing and move on, rinse and repeat.

Or: consider where science would be had it operated under your proposed maxime for the past 3 centuries.
To begin with you might start with a geometry which by design is already close to maximally compact, so that a geometry change would tend to go in one direction.

> For example, how do you prevent melted fuel from flowing into the cooling channels that go through the core?

Expect that to happen and use a geometry that doesn't cause the reaction to increase in speed if it does, e.g. because fuel flowing into the cooling channels would make the fuel less rather than more compact.
US state regulators fine Block Inc $80M for insufficient AML controls
Neither should be controversial.
> And how exactly is the U.S. throwing its own away?

There was an attempt:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_6_United_States_Capito...

Sadly the (alleged) instigator seems to not be held to account:

* https://www.justice.gov/storage/Report-of-Special-Counsel-Sm...

There have also been more subtle machinations:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/REDMAP
Great catch! I would be interested in how scammers keep coming up with these new methods?
How would they even validate their new attack vector? I would like to think that there’s scam A/B testing or something similar…
> Why is it bad when China (supposedly) creates propaganda on tiktok but it’s good when the US creates propaganda on facebook?

Because this imaginary world where the US somehow equally controls Facebook on the level that China directly influences TikTok isn’t one that exists?

This low resolution view of the world is grating. “Facebook is a US based social media company so it’s exactly the same as China and TikTok” is completely devoid of the context of reality.

Not only does Facebook actually have 1st amendment speech rights with a judicial system empowered to enforce them. But even the slightest appearance that the US government was attempting to influence speech on Facebook would be a career ending scandal.

Compared to TikTok where the CCP literally has a seat on ByteDance’s board by law and has for its entire existence had its algorithm nuke political topics that China does not want discussed.

It’s not the same thing.
This is Poe right
You get to launch Windows games through Steam Proton.
It's a no-hassle way to get up and running with gaming on Linux, although many are probably using Wine or Lutrix.
Healthcare here isn't 4x the price because of doctor costs, either.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/08/04/doctor-pa... / https://archive.is/ZBRMx

> Polyakova and her collaborators find doctor pay consumes only 8.6 percent of overall health spending. It grew a bit faster than inflation over the time period studied, but much slower than overall health-care costs.

> “People have a narrative that physician earnings is one of the main drivers of high health-care costs in the U.S.,” Polyakova told us. “It is kind of hard to support this narrative if ultimately physicians earn less than 10 percent of national health-care expenditures.”
Unfortunately, it is (very) hard to make non-native games from GOG work on Linux, as someone who just doesn't "grok" Wine. This is especially painful for me, because I have supported and want to support GOG, but my obscure point and click adventure games work out of the box with Proton on Steam, which is more than I can say about GOG games.

To this day, I have exactly one game that I have not managed to get working on my linux system: GRIS, bought from GOG. I tried everything suggested online, nothing worked. Since then (I still have not played GRIS), I tend to get stuff from Steam.
Sure? Who said you can’t comment ?
Jumps off the creativity shark at "will you marry me".

Should be "shall we convince the board of directors of your parent corporation to underwrite a merger deal whereby we unite your corporate assets with mine under a single shelter?

As a modern organization, you may continue to operate under the same branding, if you choose, and the value of your stock shall not be diluted.
Typically anonymous whistleblowers create new accounts to avoid being uncovered

This lacks hard evidence one would expect from a legitimate whistleblower
My biggest pet peeve is when people use "exponential" to describe an increase defined by two points (i.e. "Americans are anticipated to consume exponentially more cookies in 2025 than they did in 2024"). Fully meaningless.
Is this something that Flatpak could fix?
Well, at least that one I understand. That is, other countries have much stricter pricing controls on medications, while the US does not. So pharmaceutical companies argue that it's essentially the US that makes drug discovery worth it - they basically say that if the US had strict price controls too, then it means that drugs research wouldn't be viable to invest in in the first place. Not at all arguing that's true (I don't know), and even if it is true it just means the American customer for those medications is carrying the load for everyone else, which besides just being unfair doesn't seem sustainable in the long term.

But again, at least that one I theoretically understand. PBMs make no sense to me whatsoever.
??? He met his now wife when he was a sophomore in college and has an extremely normal family life as far as I can tell.
> This is a standard element of conservative/libertarian gaslighting

I think a lot of things are worse than they once were, but there's also no other point in human history I'd rather live in than the present.
> They still don't have a proper answer to Claude Projects

They added Projects in December:

https://help.openai.com/en/articles/10169521-using-projects-...
I did learn how to swear in several languages in US public school. I'd expect that's somewhat universal.
> I think some critiques of American health insurance are simplistic,

At it's core, details are not really needed to show how atrociously inequitable the system is.
Google Graveyard Being Sunset
Almost literally every noun in English can be verbed, and verbs can often be nouned.
Have you seen panda express job postings lately? It's like north of $20 an hour with full medical, dental, vacation, sick days, 401k. Higher than that for shift lead and managers I'm sure. Sure beats when I worked fast food for minimum wage and had to find my own sub when I got sick.
"Our Free plan gives Cloudflare access to unique threat intelligence"

https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflares-commitment-to-free/
> fired her as a patient

This is the most absurd set of words I've read in a while.
Right? I wish this data was provided by the registrars! I want to know when a domain has lapsed to protect users with existing accounts from that domain on my services. RDAP is new enough that I'm hoping registrars start using it to spec, but I'm not holding my breath right now.
Been using http://getrealnice.com which is pretty simple and clean
They are not just product ads, they are ads for NEW products.

So, the audience gets to stay on top of all the cutting edge products and services.
I used to work as a scientist in a large research org. I once had the director of HR address an email to us as "Colleagues".

Talk about cringe.

(Colleagues in my world connote someone who might be considered as a research collaborator. Definitely NOT HR bureaucrats.)
> Social networking platforms are among the most effective tools for mass influence, second only to religion.

Religion is distributed through churches, synagogues, mosques etc, the medieval equivalent of a digital social platform. A social media platform is kinda like the Vatican but x10000000.
This is how every big tech works. Leech onto high priority projects and call it "impact"
What percentage of books get a second print run on a printing press? And what's the process for that? Do they have to reset each word for the second run? I genuinely don't know how a physical process like typesetting can result in increased accuracy on each print.
It's not inevitable though.

Emails, torrents, Mastodon, VLC, Blender, Linux - They're all either solid, or even getting better over time.

Why? Because the capital class were explicitly denied, by design or by principle.

Like with healthcare, transport, post services, housing, and much else, there's simply areas where the public good is too important to give the profit motive too strong a foothold. I believe social media is one of those areas.
> And yet it was treated more like Ebola in terms of the government response.

Uh... when have you ever seen refrigerator trucks being used as morgues because there were too many people dying [1]? I have never seen that ever before outside of areas struck by devastating floods, earthquakes or similar natural disasters.

> That violation of free speech principles is the troubling tangent, not the people who were asking for more transparency and accountability for China.

Blame that on the 45th - for purportedly being "anti China", he didn't do shit against China when it came to Covid other than mocking it as "the China virus" to stoke xenophobia.

Besides, it's still a fringe theory. Warnings over human settlements encroaching on bat caves and setting off epidemics from bats (who are a perfect breeding ground) have been sound years before Covid [2]. It is completely and utterly unsurprising that it eventually happened. Hell, the first coronavirus of 2005 was already linked to bats [3].

[1] https://edition.cnn.com/2021/05/07/us/new-york-coronavirus-v...

[2] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7152049/

[3] https://journals.plos.org/plospathogens/article?id=10.1371/j...
The narrator absolutely makes or breaks a book. I find my self more often following narrators versus following authors, which is crazy to say.

If you want to give a narrator a shot, Ray Porter is super solid. Lots of cool sci-fi books out there that he narrates.
I regularly use Perplexity and Cursor which can search the internet and documentation to answer questions that aren't in their training data. It doesn't seem that hard for ChatGPT to search and summarize their own docs when people ask about it.
Yes, and other limitations of network access that Java applets did not have.
There is growing evidence that Red 40 causes IBD: https://www.uhhospitals.org/blog/articles/2023/02/can-red-fo...
Source: https://developers.cloudflare.com/dns/nameservers/custom-nam...
An open call for the next Google.org Accelerator: Generative AI
Yes, or "talent"