skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Obviously frustrating and shouldn’t be happening. If it was pre-authed, is it possibly a billing code mismatch? That may be correctable if you book an in-person appointment with the hospital’s financial office.
It's a closed circle, Tax money comes in, Insurance companies suck it up with a straw.

That same economic activity could still occur with that money, it would just be in other sectors, and ideally ones that produce real economic value.
Did you just see the word Trump and shut your brain off? Read the rest of their sentence: "expect things to get worse on every field"
is it unknown? sugar competes with aldehyde dehydrogenase.
We did not vote to send our tax dollars to other countries for these things. People are outraged that their hard earned tax dollars are being wasted on stuff like this. I think you know that, there’s a reason these items are being downplayed or glossed over by corporate media. They know that if average people understood this waste they would be outraged.

These are government employees.

Government employees having read-only access to government systems is completely legal.

You can keep throwing around the word “coup” as much as you want, the only thing it’s accomplishing is to make the word mean less. Just like calling everyone you disagree with “racist”. It’s not effective anymore, nobody cares.
> I would argue that if something may not fail you can only pretend to privatize. You only privatize the profit during the good times.

You can straightforwardly privatize things that can't be allowed to fail. Power generation is a decent example: If you have a hundred independent generating companies that all sell into a live auction market, they have to compete with each other which keeps prices down and the market as a whole remains reliable because there are many independent suppliers using different generation methods and if any one of them experiences a failure you can immediately switch to the others. The market has the incentive to be able to supply even during grid stress because the price will go up then, so suppliers with reserve capacity make back their costs for keeping it in reserve.

The problem comes when there is corruption. Instead of having a competitive market, the contract is assigned to cronies, or a lack of antitrust enforcement allows the market to consolidate until the suppliers are a cartel. Then, since competition is thing that gives privatization its advantage, the lack of competition causes the public to get screwed.
I live an conventional life now but I keep thinking about the vagrant life. I slept in my car for 6 months to see how it would be like and in a tent in my friend's backyard for a week. I also lived in hostels for two months, and in college I thought I wanted to be Thai Forest monk.

I'm married now and living the apartment life but I still keep consuming content about tents and vans and houseboats.
Insurance contracts are not allowed to be cancelled in lieu of the fulfillment of the liabilities created by the insurance contracts. That's literally fraud and laws were made in the late 1800's and early 1900's to deal with insurance companies that ran this scam for life and fire insurance.

The answer is to eliminate health insurance entirely.
Yeah, I’d be _amazed_ if that isn’t subsidised in some way, whether via direct subsidy or risk equalisation fees from bigger utilities.
The landing page looks great. What did you use for the animations?
yeah, it follows their documentation, it's just a bad idea.

A lot of the things they break are pretty minor cleanups and it seems they could easily not have broken things. Many other languages, even compiled languages where the explosions happen at compilation, are much more careful about these things. For a dynamic language like python it's an especially bad idea.
This is a good point. Without that incident the rate of fire deaths in cybertrucks would only be 13.6 times higher (11.6 per 100k) than the Pinto
We’re already pretty much there!

https://www.energy.gov/eere/buildings/articles/doe-efforts-s...

“Bosch, Carrier, Daikin, Johnson Controls, Lennox, Midea, Rheem, and Trane Technologies participated in the challenge. They successfully completed prototype testing at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and other facilities in 2022 and 2023, with some units operating at temperatures as low as –15°F (–26°C) while still meeting efficiency requirements. The companies then moved products into field testing in 23 residential sites located across 10 U.S. states and 2 Canadian provinces. In partnership with Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, each site gathered a full year of data. U.S. testing sites were in the Northeast, Midwest, and Mountain regions.

In the field, the residential CCHPs reliably provided heat with little assistance from auxiliary elements, even during the coldest winter periods.”
Can't speak for CUDA specifically, because I don't do anything with LLMs or ML locally, but I did have to rebuild ffmpeg with some some bits built with nvcc (and maybe an nvidia provided library- sorry it's been a while) to get GPU accelerated transcoding going.

But yes, the GPU passthrough layer in WSL2 (or however it's actually implemented) is present by default.
If for-profit health insurance is really almost 1/5th of US GDP, something is entirely wrong.

Then again, maybe it makes sense the country that perpetuates suffering all over the globe through being global police and lately just fucking up any sense of stability is the same one where almost 1/5th of our "output" is built on top of making money off of prolonging our own peoples pain and suffering.
Many companies can be incredibly bad while still having one of them be the worst

It’s not an either or
Elon isn't autistic, he is just an asshole who wanted an excuse to deflect blame for his actions.
Some sites can do that. E.g. Hacker News would easily be able to do targeted advertising without collecting any data because it's a self-selected audience. Even someone like The Verge could probably do a decent job (just advertise games and tech stuff). But what the hell would The New York Times advertise? They're back at TV-style cars and perfume advertising which isn't profitable enough to sustain most businesses.

I think Google's flock was the only serious attempt to solve this, but obviously it got heavily criticised by HN fundamentalists who think that the web should be entirely free and ad-free with zero tracking. To be fair it does have a rather big practical issue in that only Google has any incentive to actually implement it (I don't see why Microsoft or Mozilla or Apple would ever bother).

We're probably stuck with tracking unless the EU gets some sense and mandates a do-not-track style preference system, and actually enforces it with fines.
To the best of my knowledge, posting to the Jobs page is a benefit of being a YC funded company.

But you can use the contact link at the bottom to ask the moderators.
>it accounts for 17% of the US GDP, so although it's parasitic for everyone involved, it's basically indispensable to the economy

if people weren't forced to spend it on healthcare, they would spend it elsewhere. if healthcare was free tomorrow, the GDP would be fine, just redistributed.
>The big problem with health insurance is that it accounts for 17% of the US GDP

Healthcare overall, not insurance. Insurance is just how most of it gets paid. Conflating the two is like saying credit card companies account for 50% (or whatever) of the US GDP because that's how most people pay for their stuff.
You are probably correct, but I wouldn’t underestimate the demand for less government spending.

The Pentagon also doesn’t have a lot of recent headlines about wisely managing the incredible amount of resources given to it, so public opinion may be with the Donald on this one.
Would you mind Sharing your hammerspoon Config? Are you tiling your windows similar to i3 or sway?
This is absolutely true! I haven’t stared at a JVM GC graph is over 8 years.
I am a fan of this plan for the nominative determinism alone!
When people say things like this I feel sad that we seem to have no idea what insurance really is, or that people are free to organize help for others and that many many good people would freely choose to do so.
"Single payer" really just means "no choice, and no competition". I wouldn't really expect things to get better under such a system, and worse it would put a much larger percentage of our freedom on the chopping block.

Just look at the all the stuff they pulled over COVID. It would usher in a terrible era where everything you do is free for someone else to say no to, because "we all pay for that".

I give it 10 years under such a system until we have a similar supreme Court ruling to the one we got for interstate trade. Except this time blowing out their scope of power to anything and everything, with no more limits
Looking at the orange lines on the map here, the connections between Estonia and Latvia may have been missing before this project: https://www.entsoe.eu/news/2025/02/09/entso-e-confirms-succe...
That's not how the economy works though — the GDP is correlated, not causated, with economic strength. What drives the economy in the end is positive-sum value creation, not trade in itself (although without any market failures, trade tends to create value). The only reason we use GDP as a measure is because actual subjective value created is very hard to measure.

If I start an extortion business, and make you pay me money in order for me to not kidnap your family, this will increase the GDP but not economic strength. This is particularly obvious during wartime, when GDP is artificially inflated, but the actual economy tends to be doing very badly regardless.

In other words, a trade that harms one party more than it helps the other makes the economy worse — regardless of how it affects GDP.
Well then it’s good that SpaceX will be competing with China.
I could hardly disagree more.

The by far best system I've witnessed was the Swiss healthcare system, which is NOT a single-payer system.

Some features: (1) health insurance is obligatory for all residents (2) must be private, cannot be purchased/sponsored by company (3) minimum coverage is specified by law (4) health insurers are private companies, often (mostly? always?) non-profit (5) they cannot reject applicants, and can only discriminate (by price) on: (a) age, (b) residence (i.e. more expensive city/area => more expensive health insurance) (6) all procedures are paid - 10% copay is mandatory (up to a certain yearly amount) (7) health insurers make extra money on better health insurance ("private coverage") offering better service, more experienced doctors, private hospital rooms, extra coverage (e.g. for mental health, abroad etc.) etc. - those can discriminate on much more features, including existing health conditions sex (e.g. for young women it's more expensive, because of pregnancy)
There was a way to solve it in a much more economically effective fashion with the Dr. Ben Carson plan. It was (and still is) the only feasible way to fix things long term.
Sure, but why do it in a way that is patently illegal and ineffective. Usually these sorts of things are negotiated, you don't just arbitrarily slash and burn.

That this is the DoD will likely provoke a strong reaction.
So what you are saying is we could get a dividend by getting rid of these parasites of 8%, since Norway spends 9% of GDP on healthcare.

Sounds great to me!
>The whole company made 3.6% margin last year.

Well, time to make -50% margin because they are breaching 100% margins of humans.
Indeed. European rulers did do a bit of planning when the chance arose. For example, Lisbon was rebuilt in a grid after the 1755 earthquake:

> Keen to have a new and perfectly ordered city, the king commissioned the construction of big squares, rectilinear, large avenues and widened streets – the new mottos of Lisbon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1755_Lisbon_earthquake

Paris as we currently know it is the work of Haussmann.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haussmann%27s_renovation_of_Pa...
I had to look up what “single player payer system” means since I thought it meant something like “each individual pays for themselves”, the opposite of a social safety net.

I was completely wrong. Single payer means there is a single (gov) entity paying health care for everyone. 1000% this is what we need.

Everyone needs to care about their health. When we need healthcare it’s so often for things out of our control, like cancer. Putting the burden on the individual is cruel.

Capitalism as applied to human health is fundamentally inhumane (literally, profit valued over human life). I’d be interested to heard arguments otherwise.

Of course, a universal healthcare system should take notes from capitalist markets to be efficient, but have the primary goal of maximizing human well-being
“To me they look like bits of old lace” - Francis Bacon
They would also be healthier to contribute other economically productive labor and organization. When people get sick or die they stop working.
As someone who works in healthcare IT, I can ensure you that everyone is sick of United Healthcare, too. Such a PITA to deal with.
This is what’s frustrating with the current political situation. Since we are already wielding the sledgehammer, why not take it to this system, which would actually solve some real problems for every day people?
I'm of the opinion that either a real free market or single payer would be better than what we currently have.

The main thing everyone should agree on is that the employer healthcare mandate that ties health access to W-2 employment is responsible for this situation and should be revoked.

What comes next matters less; every system has its drawbacks but ours is the worst. It has all the drawbacks and none of the benefits of everyone else's systems
We picked the name Coze as a play on words on JOSE ("Cypher JOSE", when Jose is typically pronounced in Spanish, "ho-zay". The English word coze meaning a friendly chat was too perfect for the name of a messaging specification). I somewhat regret not using the three letter "coz".

Cose also picked its name while thinking of JOSE. Cose is binary oriented, and attempts to be as similar to JOSE as possible.

Coze is a first principles reimagining of signing JSON.

As an exercise, we've played around with creating a binary format, (which we're calling Booze, Binary Oriented cOZE) but since Coze is already much more space efficient, it's not as beneficial. It may become more relevant with post quantum, as currently post quantum systems are much larger than ECDSA. The only other advantage would be removing the JSON semantics, but that's at the cost of implementing a binary format. The human readability aspect is paramount for our application, and we feel it's generally better practice.
Musk Calls for Shutting Down Radio Free Europe, Voice of America
This was one of those things I’ve always just assumed to be true - bed earlier, wake earlier always seemed to be the better pathway to the mind of dynamic life I want, and that dynamic life seems to be a good pathway to better mental health.
Zicond's czero.eqz & czero.nez (& the `or` to merge those together for the 3-instr impl of the general `x?y:z`) still have to go through the execution pipeline, forwarding network, an ALU, etc just as much as an xor or and need to. It's just that there's a shorter dependency chain and maybe one less instr.

Indeed you may need to negate `x` if you have only the LSB set in it; hence "3-4 instrs ... depending on the format you have the condition in" in my original message.

I assume gcc & clang just haven't bothered considering the branchless baseline impl, rather than it being particularly bad.

Note that there's another way some RISC-V hardware supports doing branchless conditional stores - a jump over a move instr (or in some cases, even some arithmetic instructions), which they internally convert to a branchless update.
I'm sorry your friend went through that. I've gone through that as well (a sibling). However distraught we are it doesn't change our perceptions, actual and not, about driving and our agency in it. And it ignores that for most of us, driving is also more pleasant and more convenient. In Austin I took the train to work daily for three years. It was awesome. But it was slower and more expensive than driving, despite the train stops being a 5 minute walk from my home and office. It would be even less convenient for others. Also I had to go back home once because I sat in someone's pee. It was busy enough that I never felt unsafe, but when I take the train in Portland, I have at times been one of the only non homeless people on it. These experiences matter. The (perceived) safety is just another factor on top.
Statistically speaking, it's probably United Healthcare. The largest insurer and also has the highest denial rate
I was hoping the Inflation Reduction Act Home Electrification and Application Rebate (HEAR) for buying heat pumps would help, but the money, allocated to the States, seems to be gathering dust where I live.
Look at all these 'big
meddling government' nations doing so much worse than the US in healthcare statistics.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Life_expectancy_vs_heal...
base64 is often even larger than an escaped JSON string. and not human-readable at all.

I'll take stringified json-in-json 90% of the time, thanks. if you're using JSON you're already choosing an inefficient, human-oriented language anyway, a small bit more overhead doesn't hurt.

(obviously neither of these are good options, just defer your parsing so you retain the exact byte sequences while checking, and then parse the substring. you shouldn't be parsing before checking anyway. but when you can't trust people to do that...)
Yeah, going single payer alone could reduce that 17% to 13%, maybe more, just through eliminating all the barriers insurers put up to providers being paid and administrative overhead.
I mean we're going to keep doing it but we're tired of hearing about it.
I keep a personal website and blog and take pleasure knowing that my non-internet friends and family check in on it.
Ask HN: How simple can AI get before it's no longer AI?
Am considering a YC application for my hardware startup. I notice they're all-in on AI.

My startup centers on mitigating the predictably irrational nature of human beings (you're going to love it!) with some shit-simple intelligence.

The level of intelligence of most AI meets or exceeds that of a human or several humans, at least at certain tasks. Mine is more on the level of a dog, or perhaps even an ant. It's still intelligence, it's still artificial, but it has as much in common with what YC usually backs as humans do with ants.

My question is, should I spin this as an AI play if it's an artificial simple intelligence?
This has happened to me on eBay twice for items marked as "free returns" which claimed to have a hassle-free return process. My response was that they're obligated to return full price, or they can expect me to open a claim with eBay to get it, and that I am for sure giving negative feedback! Both times they caved and gave me 100% refund and told me to just keep the broken item. I still gave negative feedback. I'm not just losing money with these bastards, I'm wasting valuable time, and that is not something that can be refunded.
> unless using a totally separate toolchain w/ "CGo".

CGo is built into the primary Go toolchain... it's not a 'totally separate toolchain' at all, unless you're referring to the C compiler used by CGo for the C code... but that's true of every language that isn't C or C++ when it is asked to import and compile some C code. You could also write assembly functions without CGo, and that avoids invoking a C compiler.

> Means you can't optimize parts of a Golang app to dispense with GC altogether

This is also not true... by default, Go stack allocates everything. Things are only moved to the heap when the compiler is unable to prove that they won't escape the current stack context. You can write Go code that doesn't heap allocate at all, and therefore will create no garbage at all. You can pass a flag to the compiler, and it will emit its escape analysis. This is one way you can see whether the code in a function is heap allocating, and if it is, you can figure out why and solve that. 99.99% of the time, no one cares, and it just works. But if you need to "dispense with GC altogether", it is possible.

You can also disable the GC entirely if you want, or just pause it for a critical section. But again... why? When would you need to do this?

Go apps typically don't have much GC pressure in my experience because short-lived values are usually stack allocated by the compiler.
This seems to rely on Karabiner for keyboard hooking, so it wouldn't be that different ? (maintainer mainly uses windows and linux, so kinda makes sense)

On macos limitations, kernel extensions are officially deprecated so I don't think we'll see a mechanism that can hook deep enough into the keyboard manager system to allow for complex chords. That's what Karabiner did as kernel ext. before switching to Elements, and the timeout workaround was introduced at that time if I remember correctly.
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/02/will-trump-doge-sink...

I agree with this commentary
Sure, it's a watercooler, with Blockwarts that seek to prevent any discussion of the giant yellow bulldozer outside the window, but when you ask them if they don't have to work sometimes, they never make the case why other people can only talk about what they like. They just stare, and then interrupt again.

> Please don't post shallow dismissals

The person I replied to picked the part from a link I did NOT quote, ignored what I did I quote, everything else I wrote, and said "this one is easy". And then even that "one easy thing" was just a straw man. They used the phrase "owing receipts" to refer to something I said, misrepresenting or rather simply not caring about the contexts that did refer to, instead making up a straw man, what they preferred imagining it to be.

I obviously ignored the straw man, and re-used their word "receipts" instead of repeating my original phrasing, but it's the same thing. It means what it actually means, not what the straw man made it out to be.

Don't say random shit. That's implied in not posting shallow dismissals, random shit is a subset of shallow dismissal.

And if you can't rephrase what you said, or how it's applicable or relevant, because you haven't thought about it at all, because it's literally just a knee-jerk "no u" or some slogan, then no, of course you shouldn't say it. I mean, I don't care, I can easily refute it. But for me it just takes up space to refute something that would have been prevented by being parsed by the author first, instead of me parsing it first.
Related:

Trump orders Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to cease activity

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42989422

CFPB's new acting head, issues directives to halt portions of bureau activity

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42988483

Bessent Takes Helm of Consumer Finance Watchdog, Orders Halt to Work

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42920918
>Those numbers are drops in the bucket compared to the cuts they plan to give themselves.

I don’t know where you get this from, there is no evidence of this anywhere. They are talking constantly about paying down the national debt as one of the top priorities for this initiative. It has ballooned to 36T under the previous administration and it is at the point where it could become a real crisis for the country if it’s not addressed. Interest payments alone will outstrip all defense spending soon.

Trump just announced a tax plan targeting the middle class. Specifically removing the carried interest deduction which hurts rich people!

Have you noticed how many of the top leaders in the cabinet are former democrats? Most of these people are moderates who want to actually reduce waste and fraud.