skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Insurance is supposed to be for rare and expensive occurances. Fires (in most places), windstorms, car accidents, etc. It's essentially a bank account that a large number of people put money into and only a few people ever withdraw from. So yes, you are correct that it doesn't work to have fire insurance in fire prone areas, or to cover medical care for people that are chronically sick. It's not that insurance companies are evil, it just doesn't fit the insurance model. A different solution is needed. One that we could come up with if we had some freedom to experiment with.

Health insurance today is really a collective bargaining organization. You join the UHC club and UHC negotiatates rates with medical providers on club members behalf. Except it doesn't even work very well in that model because it's not run like a club with members having any input really. You also can't easily leave one club if you are unhappy and join another club, and your employer and the government are paying more of the money into the club than you are.
Oh wow, that’s lower than I would have expected. Totally makes sense in the north and Scotland.

How are most homes in England heated? Gas furnace + radiators?
Caner isn't out of your control, it's usually caused by being fat and eating bad food. It's sometimes caused by genetics but that's a minority of cancers.
The yellow kind of Omega-3 comes from salmon, and it has a side effects of making a stink and also concentrating mercury.

Instead, you should get your omega-3 from krill oil, which is low on the food chain does not concentrate Mercury is all around better
It does seem to be the miracle of public utilities over private ones though. I don't know if anyone involved in this was even claiming a socialist angle.

There seem to be some socialists who are taking up the charge to expand this program but the original victory is all just public ownership. Rock bottom energy generation prices being passed on directly to the consumer instead of being sold to the highest bidder, amazing.
>What if the same logic was applied to 5 star reviews?

I see plenty of 5 star reviews being edited to 2-3 star reviews afterwards though?
Over a decade, I've learnt to blog as if no one will ever read my blog posts. With social referral traffic now completely dead, the only traffic I get to my blog is when my posts appear on Hacker News (https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=minimaxir.com), and even that is going down year-over-year.

However, the process of writing a blog post forces me to invent new workflows and is in itself very educational, so it's not a waste of time or a mistake even if no one reads it.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42981756, which is currently on the front page.
Did you have a gas water heater and furnace?
How much is your electricity per kwh?
Fine, but it's not how any of us learned of it either - whether the Newtonian mechanics or the "4 theories of truth".

I mean, coherence is sure a an important aspect of truth, and just by paying attention whether it all "adds up" you can easily filter 90% of the bullshit you hear people (or LLMs for that matter) saying - but even there, I'm not a physicist, I don't do much experiments in a lab, so when I evaluate if some information is coherent with Newton's laws of motion, I'm actually evaluating some description of a situation against a description of Newton's laws. It's all done in "consensus space" and, if an answer is expected, the answer is also a "consensus space" one.

We're all so used to evaluating inputs and outputs through the lens of "is this something I expect others believe, and others expect me to believe", that we're almost always just mentally folding the indirection through "consensus reality" and feel like we're just checking "is this true". It works out okay, and it can't really be any other way - but we need to remember this is what we're doing.
Its safer for the people in charge of determining classification to overclassify and be wrong than underclassify and be wrong
If your employer or the government pays for your healthcare, you'll be unhealthy. If you pay, you'll be healthy.
Russians still think they are free.
call it whatever, it distracts discussions away from the subject to the way it’s being said
All systems with finite speed of information propagation will produce oscillatory phenomena emergently.

Nature is short-sighted <=> Nature is governed by differential equations/local behaviour
every person is required to get health insurance.

this kind of “communism” will never work in the US of A long-term :)
generalizations, generalizations
Starting with 3D model is a great idea, as you can easily rotate it and get all the different angles of the same object

Can pretty much create scene in Unity with a 3D model and do animations there as well.
I just use either emacs or neovim to edit the configuration. Kanata can run on top of your xkb layout. So I use that to select one of the 3 readily-available keyboard layouts. Kanata manages 2 layers on top of that. Both layers a very sparse and mostly just pass the keystrokes transparently to xkb. Layer 1 is almost entirely pass-through, except for one tap-dance key to switch layers. It behaves more or less like a native xkb keyboard. Layer 2 adds some useful features like home-row-mods.
> [...] It took another seven years of legal battles and two more referendums before Massena flipped the switch to a new, city-owned utility. When it finally happened, in May 1981, utility bills dropped by a quarter. The town hasn’t looked back since. [...]

> “That’s what makes Massena so unique — that we saw it through,” said Andrew McMahon, superintendent of the city-owned Massena Electric Department. Others have tried only to see the effort fall apart, he said. In Massena, “the town hung together.”

What's far more special about Massena is that they've kept their municipal electric utility going since then. Similar to start-ups, successfully doing this is 1% idea, 99% execution.

Flip-side - one of my uncles spent 50 years managing a small municipal electric utility. But after he retired, there were too few locals who understood that their cheap & reliable electricity didn't come from Santa. Politicians short-changed maintenance 'till something complex & expensive broke - and Big Electric Co. bought up the whole system for pennies. Because "keep shivering in the dark" was the only other bidder.
I meant compared to other Linux/Windows coexistence tools I've used in the past where GPU passthrough was a huge challenge
I thought maybe I was just missing something silly.. was hesitant to comment without additional coffee. And no problem, thanks for sharing this!
For Android there's at least https://github.com/keymapperorg/KeyMapper but regardless if it's popularity it didn't seem to work consistently on my device. I'd still suggest giving it a try!
You can easily look up examples of Politico Pro online and even try a free trial.

And yes it does look worthless. It provides things like a policy template and other boilerplate which an LLM model can now come up.

Pro also offers many articles from their "experts" that happen to be fresh out of college with liberal arts degrees. Quite the irony when the Politico proponents are up in arms about the age of the DOGE members.
I've had BCBS reject prescriptions they've already pre-approved multiple times. First time, they denied all knowledge of the REQUEST (when my doctor has their APPROVAL fax in hand). Second time they acknowledged they had approved it but had to contact their pharmacy group to put in an "override".
I've submitted a complaint with the state insurance regulator though I doubt it goes anywhere.

Anyone for a class action lawsuit on the grounds of bad faith breach of contract and medical malpractice for obstructing access to care they already admit is medically necessary (by denying something already pre-approved)? I don't even want money. I want a Consent Decree enforced by the court that strikes fear across their whole industry.

Audio record every interaction you have with insurance and tell 'em you're on a recorded line.
Dictators want you to loose all hope. Then it is easier for them to rule.
Similar tool (I'm not affiliated):

alphaXiv (www.alphaxiv.org)
How much is your electricity per kWh?
Is this subject purposely spelled Aidemos somewhere like the HN title says instead of AI Demos?
Writing is incredibly fun and rewarding for me. It also makes you think harder about things that you’re generally already interested in. And it gives you huge leverage: instead of trying to explain your thoughts to one or two people at a time, you do it once and potentially many thousands of people can read it. It’s also a useful resource years later to look back on, like an intellectual history of your own interests. And the more you do it, the better you get at it.
Seelen UI – Customizable Desktop Environment for Windows 10/11
Same way I botted runescape as a child, by simulating user inputs with any macro app.
Another problem in a densely populated country like the Netherlands is noise pollution by heat pumps. One of my friends has been in a conflict with his neighbour over just that which has cost a lot of time and money and probably can not really be solved entirely as the law is written, the distances between houses and the noise signatures of heat pumps and whatever sound-dampening enclosure they are stuffed in don't meet. This is not a problem where I live (Sweden) since we have way more space and build less densely than in the Netherlands.
Nice math. 9.7% more claims makes it a substantially worthwhile endeavor.
All: if you're going to comment here, please make sure you're up on the guidelines at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html, and don't post low-information / high-indignation comments that could just as easily appear in any related thread. Such generic comments make discussion less interesting and more activating. That's not what we're trying for here.

Rather, we want curious conversation. I know that's not so easy when a situation is intense, infuriating, frightening, distressing, and so on. But we need to protect this site for its specific mandate—which is fragile at the best of times—so please make the effort.

As some of you know, this article was posted a dozen times and immediately flagkilled by users. I turned the flags off on this one because there's interesting new information in the story. But now it's up to the commenters to prove that was a good decision by co-creating a discussion that is interesting, curious, and has to do with the specifics of the article.

If we end up with yet-another interchangeable flamewar about $BigTopic, that will only confirm that the flaggers were right, so those of you who want fewer of these threads to be flagged have a particular interest in sticking to the intended spirit of the site and proving that a substantively different discusson is possible.

Edit: if you want to reply to this, please uncollapse the child comment below and reply there. Your views are welcome! I just also want to conserve space at the top of the thread.
Faster processor .... for AppleAI

Larger.

The current SE is the last with touch-ID.

It also fits my expensive iPhone8 Otter case. Saved some money there.

It also doesn't support AppleAI. Fine with me.

> You need at least one of the iPhone 15 Pro models or newer in order to use Apple Intelligence.

https://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/apple-intelligence-supp...
Same. I keep a couple of blogs on different topics and try to write up any challenge I come across. Not only does it help to cement ideas in my head and expose areas I'm foggy about, but I've referred back to my previous experience this way countless times.
You can if it’s a new construction because mechanical ventilation and heat recuperation keeps humidity low enough to avoid condensation. We do it in our house but the panels are actually huge radiation surfaces installed in the ceiling with a low temperature differential to the temperature in the air. In winter we run the loop at around 25C and in summer at about 17-19C. We do need awnings to control direct sunlight into the house but it works pretty well. With the solar panels and batteries we have we generate about 50% of what we need.
Unfortunately I don't have specific studies at hand right now. However depression was classified as melancholic and atypical. Melancholic depression is marked by pronounced diurnal mood variation among other things. There was one study that measured negative and positive affect in MDD and healthy controls. It was shown that the mood variation is related to positive affect in MDD.

That pattern inspired a short term treatment for MDD where sleep is limited or completely omitted. That has a very pronounced antidepressant effect in many and can even trigger mania.

Also, I have seen lots of cases among friends and family that show that behaviour.

EDIT: To clarify: This is true in a subset of patients. It is not a necessary condition.
Now, now! Some shell company, not at all connected to Lieberman, for a tidy sum shortly after that. Increased the GDP of Panama, or maybe Malta;
> "If it’s finished, the applause, the thanks, the gratitude are something else. Something extra and not part of what you created. If you play a beautiful song for two people or a thousand, it’s the same song, and the amount of thanks you receive isn’t part of that song." (Seth Godin, The Icarus Deception: How High Will You Fly?)
What I've learned playing CTFs in a top 70 team in the world
You can draw the images directly in Adobe illustrator. You can import a photo and trace over it, to get that airplane emergency instructions look.
In theory having the government run it should have the same effect. In practice what happens is that voters don't separately elect the utility's board and then the mayor gets elected on the basis of some school or tax issues and allows the government-run utility to become wasteful or corrupt.

What could be interesting is to have the local government found a co-op, i.e. they issue a bond to do the build-out and then hand the network to a co-op in exchange for a contract to pay the debt, essentially giving the co-op the backing of the government's credit rating for the initial build-out. Then the co-op board gets separately elected by its customers so they're directly accountable to the customers for any shenanigans.
Did in fact have ‘[expletive deleted] grifts on pump and dump crypto scam’ on my 2025 bingo card. B-3!
This is caused by how a source is deprecated. You have source deprecated by RfC, following a discussion/controversy (half of the examples probably came from the Sandy Hook edit war).

Then you have sources, the vast majority, that are de facto deprecated, hence are not on any list. If as an example, Counterpunch and AlterNet are never cited except following the 'verifiability policy', they are de facto deprecated, and if it's the case, the author never bothered researching his subject or even reading Wikipedia rules. Which would explain why thecritic is also de facto deprecated.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Deprecated_sources
A career fed guy in his 50s being forced to beg for his job in a 15 minute teleconference to an arrogant zoomer in shorts and an unbuttoned suit is peak representation of democracy.
A big reason I blog is that I find writing something down is essential to clarifying my thoughts.

Once it's written down, I might as well put it online, and it has the added advantages that I can simply link to the material rather than having to explain it over and over again e.g. in emails.
WoW! Nim is on my radar too.
My feeling is that a lot of challenge could come from the tokenizer used by the model, similar to r in strawberry problem.
Or they have incorporated the cost of returns into their pricing and it is still profitable, like Amazon.
> You’re not just writing for today’s invisible audience. You’re writing for:

> Future you. Your posts become a time capsule of your evolving mind.

Fully agree with that one. My own blog has become a public diary of my hobby and it's great to see what I've been up to and how wrong I was about certain predictions and assumptions, especially about the ones that say that I'm done reworking my home server setup, multiple times.
Their next move - and the Rubicon none of us can uncross - will be defying the court orders that are inevitably issued to stop the flagrant criminality

Once they defy those, it’s done.

The enforcement of federal laws including court orders requires the Trump justice department to act. And his first moves (naturally) were to fire all oversight people, install extremist hardcore loyalists at the top, and fire anyone underneath who was not equally loyal. Anybody who thinks any other administration has done anything remotely comparable in the modern era is just uninformed

All of us should take a moment to acknowledge all the Peter Thiel-adjacent folks in this community who drove us directly to this moment
AFAIK https://github.com/houmain/keymapper should support this on MacOS even though it also makes use of the Karabiner virtual device lib (referring to a sibling comment). I suggest giving both a try!
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Over the years, my blog has become exactly that.
I'm with you. There is a world of difference between leadership and management. Plenty of engineers who are good leaders.
A bookshelf where all the books disappear unless you also give the person all your household purchase history.
Here's the list, have a browse and try to find any that are (US) conservative and green ("generally reliable").

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Per...

There's a few economically conservative sources (Economist, WSJ, etc) but I don't think there's any politically conservative ones.
You're assuming an idealization is a fictionalization, rather than a way of getting at an essential property (ie., a stable, real, causal feature) of a system.

Treating a cow as spherical is a means of selecting is real property of volume, as it is causally efficacious in say, a gravitational field -- whilst discarding is accidental-random variations in volume across all cows.

That we can treat cows as spherical, and obtain relevant dynamics should show that this early 20th C. instrumentalism is false. By idealization one selects the actual properties of objects for explanatory modelling -- one does not invent them or otherwise construct a merely instrumental fiction. Cows have volume, whose variation is accidental across cows, their volume expressed as a sphere selects better for their essential volume.

Very few, if any, theories of physics are predictive in almost any situation without this idealization -- because it is impossible to describe, eg., the volume of any actual cow. An actual cow has uneven density, shape, etc. and would require a significant amount of data to describe -- nearly all of which does not bare on the role its mass plays in a gravitational field.

What idealization does is create hypothetical scenarios which imagination all irrelevant causes are controlled, and all accidental properties are uniform (/ of a known distribution) -- so that the model can focus on Explaining the target Essential property in question.

These hypotheticals are not inventions, they are means of targeting what is being explained.

If you look at the predictive accuracy of scientific models, as applied in any actual scenario, they are fall apart -- almost nothing at all can be predicted, because all actual situations comprise innumerable accidental features which cannot be modelled.
Yeah, I just went through this process myself on steam deck and the fact it can't access opengl or vulkan natively makes anything that isn't terminal based a massive pain in the ass.

There is nixgl which you can wrap around any executable to make it work and it's got support in home-manager (https://nix-community.github.io/home-manager/options.xhtml#o...) but it's a huge annoyance having to wrap `config.lib.nixGL.wrap <package>` around everything you want to install.
> there is nothing that anyone but the judiciary system can do.

Sure there is. A general strike for example. But we’re talking about the USA, so fat chance.
If you want a function that's private to a function in Python you _could_ also do:

def foo(context):

def bar(x):
return x*2

baz = bar(context)

... This is particularly idiomatic for higher order functions, but I think it can be useful for other things if used with restraint.

But if you have functions that only need to be called from one calling function then I why not just inline the code and eschew having a function at all. Long function bodies for the win!
> So I doubt the cause is a lack of ability or capabilities that leads to magical social awareness but actual compounding effort over years and decades. If you talk to a NT person about a situation they say "it's obvious" but if they break it down you see there actually is a richer decision tree underneath where they are empathizing with the other person's perspective and triangulating on their overall objectives and both physical and verbal cues they are providing to guide you one way or the other.

I've been spending effort on this my whole life, and being in the position where it's still quite difficult for me but I manage to get by is the result of that effort, not because of a lack of it. If this was something I hadn't worked on with significant effort all these years, I wouldn't even be able to have the conversation that we're having right now without getting too frustrated or anxious to the point that I would just give up rather than try to engage at all in conversations online with strangers.

It's interesting to me that what I've described fits with feeling you've experienced, because I'm honestly having trouble feeling like much of what you describe having felt resembles what I've felt over the years. I don't think I ever assumed that other people didn't spend effort trying to understand how other people felt, and I spent _significant_ time and energy trying to understand what I could do to better relate to others; I just never was particularly successful at it.

It's worth mentioning is that I don't have any trouble empathizing with people generally; when people are sad or angry, or when I notice that they're experiencing something that I think is unfair, I feel those feelings quite strongly myself. My issue isn't that I can't relate to the feelings other people have, but that with the exception of people I'm close to and have spent a lot of time with, I have a lot of trouble figuring out exactly how other people feel if they don't express it to me. I've talked with plenty of neurotypical people about how they approach situations in the exact way you describe, but I haven't ever been able to do anything remotely similar to what they describe.

You mentioned that "it's just a matter of degree and flavor", but it seems like you assume that implies that the distribution of differences people have is relatively uniform. From my perspective, the issues you described having and the ways you learned to deal with them are so different from my experience that it's honestly feels like you're using them to handwave away the idea that anyone else might struggle with things far more than you did. I don't think that's your intention, but it really does come across like you fundamentally don't think that anyone struggles with these things much more or less than you have, and as someone who's tried my whole life to try to learn to communicate better with others, it seems pretty dismissive.
What was knowledge sharing is now called "making Zuck and Sammy richer."