skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> not wanting any socialized health care because they don't want to care for people not like them because they don't want to care for people not like them.

Categorically, older individuals tend to vote more conservative and more republican. This doesn't make sense to me at all.

What makes more sense is that they argue against the socialization of any industry that funds their campaigns.

Democrats seem to take a more middle ground. ie Obamacare socialized low cost solutions and pushed costs uphill toward people who need more expensive care.
Russia's economy is doing very badly and with time they'll lose as long as west continues to support Ukraine.
I pay $10/month just to have search results that aren't littered with SEO spam. The time savings alone make it totally worth it for me. Everything else is a giant bonus.
> and open source is all about getting as many developers as possible to contribute to the development

[citation needed]

It's what "open source" enables, but it may not necessarily be a desired goal of a FLOSS project.
This is really interesting. On one hand there's no going back to exactly what we had pre-covid, on the other hand there's a big power imbalance here. Something tells me in the end most of us will have to RTO.
> I keep saying this, and nobody believes me, but I'm just going to keep trying:

You’re the top comment currently and you are repeating the hegemonic American belief for the last half century+. Although focusing narrowly on the government has become less popular lately

> The worst thing a corporation is likely to do (other than giving your data to governments) is to sell you something. That's all they want. They collect data so they can make money off you. That's not so scary to me.

Coca Cola has allegedly murdered trade unionists.[1]

> That's not so scary to me. Governments want to put you in jail (or freeze your bank account, etc) if you get out of line.

Yes. And corporations want to fight against you if you unionize. It’s not like it can sell products in order to fight unionization.

[1] (progressive source apparently) https://prospect.org/features/coca-cola-killings/

[2] (does not blame any corporation) https://www.amnesty.org/ar/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/AMR230...
Poetic. I can't do anything else but say you could have passed this off as my experience as well. It changed my life so much for the better.
$10 felt a bit steep until I realized there is probably the economies of scale at play here.

1) There is a marginal payment overhead. I'd assume $0.50-0.75, leaving their amount down to $9-ish.

2) It's a fairly niche product with a still-small userbase. ~40k users at ~$9/mo = $360k/mo (I know there's $5/mo users and $25/mo users but I'd assume there are far more $5/mo and $10/mo users than $25/mo users)

3) They have to keep the service running 24/7/365, so you have to hire devs either across multiple time-zones or compensate them enough to be OK fighting fires at 2am.
This is fascinating to me, having been at a few companies with market caps north of $50B in the tech space. The senior exec's office space aren't fundamentally different from anyone else's. I wonder if it's an old-money vs. new-money industry thing.
So while Trump pushes NATO members to bump their spending to 5% of GDP[0], he also suggests that the 3.4%[1] that the U.S. spends now could be halved?

[0] https://www.politico.eu/article/donald-trump-tells-allies-sp...

[1] https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/MS.MIL.XPND.GD.ZS?most_...
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The unexpected path to machine intelligence
That's definitely going to impact the new Amkor facility out there
> You can just run test multiple times to eradicate this possibility

The measurements are not independent and the quality of the measurement is not improved by this.

> you can confirm it with another method.

Yes. And usually the other method is invasive and expensive and bears some risk.

And then you get results like the blood test saying "very likely cancer" and the biopsy saying "uh, probably not?" that you need to decide what to do with.
Not helpful to you now, of course, but this billing practice is now illegal:

https://www.cms.gov/nosurprises/ending-surprise-medical-bill...

(Signed by Trump during the 2020 lame duck!)
Imagine 400,000 repetitions of

ASC.Mail.MainThread - CreateTasks(need 10 tasks).

ASC.Mail.MainThread - No more mailboxes for processing.

ASC.Mail.MainThread - All mailboxes were processed. Go back to timer.

and not one entry about actually sending or receiving mail.
If you can pay $10/month for a better search experience, then Google's making way more than that much off your data.

Kagi saves me much more than $10 of time every month. I definitely don't regret the subscription cost. Their LLM thing (append "?" to your internet search query) is worth more than that on its own.
> Abandoning Rust is a possibility, abandoning Linux is not.

The Asahi developers have repeatedly and publicly asserted that were it not for Rust they would not have been able to achieve the level of quality required for the project, at the speed they did, with as small of a team as they have. From the article:

> Rust is the entire reason our GPU driver was able to succeed in the time it did.
> Some of us, for the first time in our lives, made substantial personal campaign contributions to the other side because the nationalist leader looked really dangerous for US economics and international relations.

It's too bad for those people that the other side they supported was so stupid they lost anyway.

I wrote that side some angry letters over the years. For a long time, there were strong signals they arrogantly thought that "nationalist leader [who] looked really dangerous" was actually an opportunity for them to win on an unpopular platform that appealed to their elites. They did some really stupid shit that undermined their credibility.
yeah, same. I would only use privacy pass for icognito searches COUGH P0RN COUGH mainly (let's be honest). Feel free to submit the idea on kagifeedback.org
We implemented Privacy Pass exactly so that you do not need to trust any claims we make but as a user have a (provable, cryptographically) mechanism that guarantees this, with one click, whenever you need it.
The "whole other group" also often has no idea how much their healthcare actually costs. I know folks who pay $0 or $50/month, because work picks the rest of it up. They think that's how much health insurance costs.

It can be challenging to get them to believe that it's $3,600/month on the open market in my area for a family of four.
To believe the existence of trans people has been "shoved down" people's throats, a person would have to be either remarkably thin-skinned & insecure, or deeply gullible and susceptible to the propaganda of people like Rufo.

Wouldn't be proud of either possibility.
Cost of a yearly checkup should be "taken care of", because Obamacare mandated free annual checkups, as long as you don't accidentally trigger any other billing codes while you're there. But, regardless of cost, there's a shortage of providers, so it's hard to schedule the checkup. And there's still a lot of uninsured people out there.
Excellent—thank you! I put it in the second-chance pool (https://news.ycombinator.com/pool, explained at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308), so it will get a random placement on HN's front page.
> In 2003, Phase 1 of the Human Genome Project (HGP) demonstrated that humans populating the earth today are on average 99.9% identical at the DNA level, there is no genetic basis for race, and there is more genetic variation within a race than between them.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8604262/
> I don't get it.

I think that might be the problem.

It's comments like these that causes people to wear out.
> any man who claims he's a woman can, with impunity, impose himself upon spaces that were only ever intended for women and girls

The military policy (that I assume you're defending) is to ban anyone with a "history of gender dysphoria". Your points would have a little more weight if the situation was like in 2018 when individuals could serve under the condition of being stable for 18 months in their identified or assigned gender. But not much more weight, since that is still a lot weaker than what you describe.
Their strategy is more nefarious. They deny knowing most people won't appeal and they know those that do appeal likely have a limited time to receive the treatment they need. They deny and defend until the patient runs out of time.

This has happened to me personally. My daughter was diagnosed with a fast growing tumor that was not removable. We thought we were in luck, the FDA recently approved a new medication that had much better success rates in treatment.

Insurance denied it. Their reason was because the FDA didn't approve it in children although there are many studies and cases where it has been used in children to great success. Not to mention, FDA approval for children takes many years.

We appealed and were denied again. We appealed a second time and were denied again. Then, out of no where I got a call from a third party pharmacy to schedule the delivery of the medication (apparently it was approved in some internal review).

All in all, the treatment was delayed four weeks and the tumor more than doubled in size. Ultimately, the medication didn't even work and we had to stop and proceed with chemo which seems to not be very effective either.
This is pop-sci journalists once again ruining the message by either not understanding the paper or by dumbing it down to the point it becomes lazy and counter-factual. I think it's mostly the former, because there definitely exists a way to "explain it like I'm five" without telling mistruths.

This pop-sci garbage has me hardcore Gell-Mann amnesia-ing [1] the rest of the journalism industry.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gell-Mann_amnesia_effect
What about cobra coverage?
Probably also doesn't care about:
-attrition
-smartest talent leaving
-salary to output ratio
-innovation

Mask is off, watch your best people go work for Chime.
I’ve been paying for Kagi for a long time through all their pricing model changes and updates. I have never once hit the search limit. I know they base their tiers on market research of search volume balanced against cost of serving a query. If you’re looking for reasons not to pay for search, you’ll find them. But the pricing model is hardly one. If you want an amazing and respectful search experience, and want to back a company that’s truly doing right by users and innovating at the same time, give Kagi a try!
Discussion (99 points, 4 days ago, 81 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42971806
I've had colonoscopies twice. Was just half a day of inconvenience if you schedule it for the morning.
I would agree. The irony is the much maligned HMO's now seem to beat PPOs, maybe because at least they have a more structured referral system and predictable rules, vs. PPOs always try and fight you.

Double irony is the govt healthcare programs seem to be paying/performing better than the privates (Medicare is like the perfect PPO and no wait, managed medicaid/medical used to be sloooooow but now seem to be improving as the in-network provider availability is improving)
Wups, you're right.

Flagging threshold is apparently > 30 karma, as is vouch:

<https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented?tab=re...>
the privacy pass extension is open source exactly because users can then verify the process. and yeah, to prevent reselling they've made it so you can't get infinite tokens.
Show HN: Problem solver that does not go on and on and on...
Indeed, California has 52 times the representation but about 80 times the people. That disconnect is why the cap on the size of the House needs to be lifted.
Only recently heard about Travels of Sam Wise having a substack and from his father, William Dalrymple, no less. Was listening to William's podcast (The Empire Pod) and he mentioned this substack.

Love the first article. I've known about Rampur all my life but never knew there was so much to explore there. Thank you, Sam!
I haven't used them yet but I know of pyro, pfjax, and pymc:

https://pyro.ai/examples/smcfilter.html

https://pfjax.readthedocs.io/

https://www.pymc.io/projects/examples/en/latest/samplers/SMC...
The perception of perfect pitch as this magical, unattainable thing always seemed odd to me. Not surprised this reinforces that it's mostly about memorization and practice.

Think of a song you know best, one you've listened to hundreds of times: can you sing it or hear it in your head pretty accurately (edit - not accurate intervals, but accurate pitch)? If so, congrats, you have the capacity for perfect pitch. Learn what note it starts on and you're 1/12 of the way there.
Wait time is a function of supply not insurance regime. And in OPs case, he was still referred. Where I live in the US, dermatologists are in high demand. It can take a year to get a routine appointment. My wife recently had a dermatologist cancel (dr was going on leave). The office provided a list of other dr’s to call for an opening (who may or may not be in our insurance provider network.).

Wait times are not exclusive to social insurance at all and insurance networks only further complicate matching supply and demand.
Most people don't compulsively downvote every post that they only mildly disagree with.
Which race? Black people? Nope, Indian and Arabian people get it too.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4822363/

The "asleep" lie is that "black" means anything genetically. Every trait you want to attribute to "black people" is also found in people who wouldn't qualify as "black" culturally.
Physicists decipher structure of antimony melt, explain structural anomalies
I believe the same problem is present in software. The same things that make "physical" tools good are what make computer tools good. If you don't have any experience using physical tools, you won't be easily able to appreciate what using a good tool feels like. I think a lot of the problems in software--buggy, inefficient, over complicated, user hostile crap that most of it is--can be traced back to a misunderstanding of the concept of "creativity" or "innovation" rooted in simply not knowing where the guard rails are.
FWIW I signed up about 4 months ago on the starter plan and I'm definitely going to run over. I could be smarter about my searches though. I've switched to kagi on ALL of my devices, including work devices. And I could have searched to using google for most gifts/maps stuff instead.

some anecdotal data:

11/2024: 183 searches

12/2024: 360

1/2025: 376

2/2025: already at 222

Will definitely (happily) have to upgrade to the $10 plan. It's been great.
> For example, there is no such thing as a natural monopoly, all monopolies are granted by the state in one way or another.

I don't see that. They could just not care. As I said it depends on what state you mean. Are you thinking a particular one? Because the state could be busy or care about other stuff than handling monopolies. Maybe there is a war going on, political in-fighting, military coup, etc. If a company buys every other competitor and is now the sole electric toaster maker some governments could just care less.

> This is why you can't talk about democracy without a strong culture focusing on the individual's rights, aka liberalism, otherwise all you have is a tyranny of the majority.

Of course. So it depends. Again, are you talking about a particular instance or in general. You can certainly talk about anything you want. The "culture of individual's rights" may not last long if a large majority of the citizens decided to either directly vote against or elect officials who are against it. Can the citizens effectively influence the government to change or can't?

> You're also deeply wrong. The fundamental difference between a state and corporations is that the state has a monopoly on violence and anything that a corporation is doing, and that harms individuals, can only happen with the complicity of the state.

I don't think you've shown the depth of wrongness here. It would take a bit more convincing.

> anything that a corporation is doing, and that harms individuals, can only happen with the complicity of the state

So, there is a way to the citizens to influence the state? And the state then has to influence or control the company, and then company would change its behavior, because it's forced to. Ok, then why the extra level of indirection, and not just influence the government to not harvest private citizens data and stop there?

> Actually, depriving Apple of the money you'd pay for an iPhone has more impact that your democratic vote.

So someone has to already be wealthy enough to buy iPhones to affect some change. Sure, that could work in some countries/corporations it might not work in others. In a healthier environment citizens should aim to influence their government instead. In the model you're proposing citizens try to influence a corporation by boycotting products, that in turn would indirectly influence the government, so it can then again influence the laws, which influence the corporations? That seems like a less healthy and more convoluted dysfunctional scenario. Certainly possible, one may argue that's what's happening in US or Western Europe, but one can image a better a different scenario than that.
When I visited, it seemed like there was a good government healthcare system in Hong Kong, and a network of very good public hospitals. Just the private docs are not in that system. I don't know the specifics but I am pretty sure Queen Mary and Pamela Youde Nethersole Hospitals and others were public hospitals.
on no, it's definitely award nomination level for the effort/effect, and we all know it's just an honor to be nominated. i'm not sure if it's a "you really like me" level or not though
The bureaucracy of dealing with a patchwork of health-insurances plans, their different payment structures, what care is/isn't covered, in-network or out-of-network etc, etc is a HUGE bureaucratic burdern. Doctors already do what you describe, or are at least pressured to do so. Doubly-so as places are being bought out by health insurance companies (like all those "Optum" clinics, which are owned by United Health Group).

A universal health care insurance plan, like "Medicare For All," would simplify bureaucracy. How many times can you honestly say that a government run program would simplify bureacracy?! Not often! But if we could just start over, a single health insurance plan that works the same for everybody in the country would be a huge burden lifted.
The hand waviest simplest answer i can think of is... basically quantum effects dominate and require that the background thermal noise be eliminated to be pervasive.

Its like trying to juggle on a top of a moving plane - the balls won't really do what you want with 300mph winds blowing. Go inside on steady ground and your tosses are the dominant forces on the balls.
I mean, sure, that's fair.

But... The amount of money I spent on medical care in Hong Kong, per year, was probably 1/10th of what I'd have to spend on medical insurance alone if I were in the US. Because patients and practitioners have more agency, and because pricing is transparent, there's actual competition in the market.

Sure, you need money, but it's less than you think, and there are fewer hoops to jump through, fewer roadblocks to treatment.

The optimal system is probably something like that. A public system for emergencies, child delivery, and absolutely necessary treatments -- and a transparent, open, private system for everything else.
Dimon does not care because he isn’t affected and because JP Morgan Chase is too big to fail. He’s rich enough that he can own multiple residences, commute on a helicopter, and all that. And to him, this job is his whole life and he probably does not care much about sacrificing other things. Employees don’t have the same situation.

But the real issue is that this company is immune to competition and consequences from a large number of employees fighting all this. All the large banks are propped up by our political, regulatory, and financial systems. You can’t start a new competitive and sustainable bank easily. Why would he listen when reduced competition and too big to fail protect him and the company from consequences?
The scope, right? Not the at-home test? The only thing about the scope that bugs me is the prep.
I was scolding ahmeneeroe-v2 for posting "You are an idiot" in response to your post at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43017356. If you don't see that comment, it's because you don't have 'showdead' turned on in your profile.

It's pretty worrisome if the chain of replies (i.e. who's replying to who) is that unclear, though! Do you not see a [dead] node in the tree just above my post?
You're free to disagree, but you don't need to do it with the snarky variant "I like that story too! It's fun." that's so easily misread on the internet.

You're right that I've not been involved in the grey market for awhile. And when I did, I was on the "advising sophisticated buyers" side of it, rather than trying to sell things.
This was an older company. It was one of those "IBM satellite companies" (that's what I called them before they used that term for something else). It did business with a lot of IBM customers providing services and hardware that IBM didn't choose to do so, but did so with their blessing and cooperation.

Very much an old company style.
Correct, and that (intentional) misunderstanding was part of the point. I had a 6th grade teacher who struggled with the idea that multiplying two negative numbers produces a positive number. I imagine someone like her asking a question based on their misunderstanding. They'll get a corrective answer that may not help them much. I'll show them how to improve their question and I hope the response will be enlightening and informative.

The response to my second question included a link to an article that suggests all numbers (including natural and whole numbers) are in fact human constructs and may be considered imaginary. That is an enlightening insight that would help us both stop thinking of the words "negative" and "imaginary" as perfectly well defined in our heads. Those words are just tools that can help us convey the most appropriate meaning for the context.

Without the link to the article, that hypothetical conversation probably would not have worked out as well.
Phind does one thing and it does it really well. I use it because it has a real, positive impact on my growth. I love the fact that it is not Jarvis, but just a really helpful library assistant. Please don't lose the focus! Stay awesome.