skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This could be straightforwardly fixed basically overnight by prohibiting providers from billing patients directly, when the patient has an in-network health management plan ("insurance"). Claims being denied is a contractual matter between the provider and the management organization, and it should be made to stay that way rather than being hostilely foisted onto patients.
Unfortunately true, and perhaps answers my question: meaningful improvement is hard, maybe even impossible. Meaningless harm is easy.

But that answer doesn't really solve the inherent problem that more rapid improvement is necessary, maybe even critically so. To paraphrase JFK, is the issue here that an institution that makes meaningful improvement impossible perhaps also makes meaningless harm inevitable?
> elected government

Also known as fascists.
This is where WFH could have changed the landscape in Canada but alas, even the federal government is getting on the back to office bandwagon. A whole bunch of your taxes are handled in Sudbury because they setup an office for the CRA there. When you call a company, if you're not talking to an agent in India/Philippines, you're probably talking to one in St John's. Unless you need to be physically present to do manual labour, there's a lot of work that can be done remotely outside of the 3 big cities. It could have been the solution to the death spiral many towns out east are facing.
I loathe the AI and suggested content. I only want to see the content posted by people I have explicitly followed, I do not want to see what some random group or person posted. The inability to turn this off is the reason I stopped using Facebook. If I want to seek out groups and people I will do so on my own, I do not want a fire hose flooding my personal feed.
Good luck going past 40 in tech.
See Der_Einzige's comment below.
Indeed, this should be local first software [0], not self-hosted but server required.

[0] localfirstweb.dev
So we’ve gone from the best semiconductor we can manage is -73 degrees C at huge pressures to we can do it past water boiling? This is a huge leap forward no?

> It suggests that, if the Aquadag paint instead of being fabricated from normal graphite particles is made from the sorted superconducting ones, we would obtain a superconducting paint whose
resistance might be possibly zero above room temperature allowing for the design of superconducting circuits at room temperature

There must be some nuance here that requires some expertise to understand since I would think Tc up to 500K is way above room temperature but they’re being very cautious about saying they could build such circuits. Is that because circuit manufacturing is an even higher temperature process or something else?

This seems like a revolutionary result that’s the first step in changing everything we do in electronics from computers to travel. What’s the reason to contain excitement?
I respect that you have been a HN member since 2016, making it unlikely that this is a troll account.

However, your views read like propaganda.

The "internal resistance" you refer to is simply people trying to follow the law, while being constantly whipsawed by changing political winds. We see similar stories here on HN about work in large corporations. What do you think it is like in an org with 2.2 MILLION employees, where their actions have the power of government behind them often including access to extremely sensitive information?

HN talked about leaking any Youtuber's contact information for 10K, with suggestions that Google should better protect people's data.

HN frequently talks about the dangers of non-accountability for police. Would you like that same non-accountabilty spread to all aspects of the Federal government? (if so, merry christmas because now you have it)

If you cannot find any steel-man arguments against DOGE, may I suggest that you read the remainder of this HN article?
It seems to be assigned to things that aren’t humans, groups of humans, or activities involving humans more often than communist though. So that anything that something touches becomes woke. For instance a chocolate chip cookie that had fair trade chocolate might be called a woke chocolate chip cookie, but a chocolate chip cookie probably wouldn’t be called communist. And with a particularly odd person like Ted Cruz it could be a Woke DEI Chocolate Chip Cookie.
It's heavier as noted, but yeah that's a pretty good description.
They have a high market value outside of academia. Inside academia though they are all underpaid and overworked, and the modern version of “tenure” might carry prestige but it doesn’t carry the privilege it once did.
> If it all falls apart, the worst for Trump is to lose an election and retire to Florida

Given his revocation of security clearances for Biden, depending on what happens, the stakes may be higher.
This is pretty clearly against EU principles. If anything this is more like a US alignment than a EU alignment.

It's pretty in line with their online protection act though, which is threatening jurisdiction over worldwide websites, no matter the size and with no clear guidance as to what a significant audience in the UK means.
I've met plenty of trans men and women that I wouldn't have known they were trans if they didn't tell me. What kind of effort are you thinking about in this case?

What about the women who are really butch? Or the effeminate men? Would you want them excluded too, or would a genital inspection be considered sufficient to qualify them?
I really like "if you have a notice period in your current booking system, you will have Plazn for free throughout that period, so you won't have to pay for two subscriptions."
> DirectWrite is text API par excellence.

One has to only look at the... storied (to say the least) history of Microsoft's first-party 2D graphics/text APIs to see it took a lot of iteration to get to this point; and it leaves me wondering when the next inflection on the learning curve will be released...

Meanwhile, GDI will somehow still live-on.
a handful of oligarchs get unfettered control to the US in exchange for a withdrawal from international agreements. simple overlap with some libertarian ideology.

heavily funded by Russia, and to a lesser extent China.

same playbook that pushed Brexit.
Interestingly Intel got it right, thus the rsqrt family of instructions.
See also the response from the Asahi team:

https://asahilinux.org/2025/02/passing-the-torch/
Is it? Qin did conquer the 7 states. After the French revolution, France resisted the combined might of the rest of Europe by being unafraid to murder it's generals when they underperformed. The Soviet union is said to have reached it's apogee under Stalin.

If anything, history shows that ruling government officials by means of fear is very good sign for the nation, but tends to be harmful to the rulers.
Maintaining the Linux kernel is all about gatekeeping. How else do you keep out bad code?
Tesla is suing drivers who complain about their cars after accidents and winning
"Theranos failed. But failure is not fraud"

"...she's continuing to write patents for new inventions and plans to resume her career in healthcare technology after her release."

The most charitable interpretation of her behavior is that she is still too uneducated to understand that what her company was built on could never work. There was a reason none of the traditional biotech VC's would listen to her.

And it wasn't like the fraud she perpetuated was harmless.

Then, while under indictment, she has two kids? The only ones who I feel sorry for are her children.

The sooner we stop hearing about this sociopath the better.
This app is not about biometric fitness tracking as in smart watches, it is about manually tracking workout information. In that case, there is no need for a server to start with.
You don’t think the daily mail would buy a story about how firstname.lastname@nypd.ny.gov posted a comment in support of the KKK?
I've been wondering for a while now why we aren't pushing for more technologists in office. I know most of us don't feel ourselves to be temperamentally suited, but it seems sorely needed.

Maybe some of the recent grads who find themselves in a losing tech job market can pivot.
Thank you for this advice but the tool is designed to help dev ... before to run on production.
"entering into a work contract is theft"

what's plaguing phd programs is the lack of value for attaining a phd. the labor is cheap because it isn't valuable. the hours are endless because the output is low. victim mentality infects everything
Well that's unfortunate.

It seems like there's a balancing act between the benefits of writing drivers in Rust (easier, more maintainable), and getting those drivers mainlined (apparently soul-destroying, morale killing), I wonder if the Asahi team is considering simply abandoning linux in favor of something more rust friendly (redox being an obvious candidate, but maybe one of the BSDs?). Given the narrow set of hardware they're aiming to support and that they're writing many of their own drivers _anyway_ (and so are not relying as much on the large # of existing linux drivers), that approach might be more viable. I'd be surprised if the Asahi GPU work wasn't the largest problem by far that their team faces, and as such it would make sense to choose a kernel that lowers the difficulty on that aspect to the greatest degree possible.
> I see an argument that "the world they live in" affects children's ability to wait, and that culture is an important aspect of the world that kids live in

Followup studies on the marshmallow test also showed that how well kids do depends on whether they trust adults. In less stable environments, kids learn that adults don’t (or cannot) keep their word. They simply do not believe the researcher who says there will be 2 marshmallows later.

Better take 1 marshmallow now than risk losing even that one. If your life experience thusfar shows this is a more likely outcome.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/new-marshmallow-test-suggests-t...
Or rather, fuck around and others will find out. I'm not denying some of USAID spending may have been "dumb shit", but some of it was also very important. But you don't have to take my word for it, how about the words of a former UK prime minister: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/feb/07/donald...

And, while the billions of dollars the US has spent per year on foreign aid until now sound impressive, if you compare the per capita amount with other rich countries, it's actually not that impressive (and these numbers include all foreign aid, not just USAID): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_foreign_aid#/med...
Leftist ideas favor the disadvantaged generally, but they have traditionally discussed economic disadvantage, since money is the primary way we denominate power and implement material change.

This recent "woke" trend originates from leftist impulses in a society where the fall or even moderation of neoliberal capitalism is 'harder to imagine than the end of the world'. A society where Reaganomics has been adopted wholesale by Third Way Democrats who still control the political discourse because that's what effectively fundraises from billionaires. Politicians who try to satiate their political base by promoting diversity initiatives that will make zero dent in the economy or institutions of state. "Social Justice" as explored on Tumblr by people still in university (isolated from economics) is largely orthogonal to that, and it wouldn't be possible for people exposed to more of the diversity of society and the exigencies of life to ruminate on the subject, absent economic concerns.

This is what leftists complain about with the pejorative "liberals", a distinction that half of the country appears to be completely unaware of because every pejorative means the same thing on Fox News.

This tendency to substitute diversity messaging for systemic material solutions appears to have zero appeal left to the American people. No, the American people do not want to send the gender noncomformists to the gas chamber, but if that's all you talk about, it does not add up to a political platform that people vote for. The "Black Lives Matter" protests demanded dramatically reshaping the way criminal justice works, not wearing kente cloth for an afternoon. The last Democratic presidential candidate scrupulously avoided social justice, but they didn't actually substitute any sort of populist left-wing economic ideas because the donors wouldn't allow that.
This whole situation is absolutely stunning to watch.

Sleazy government officials illegally order sleazy Facebook employees to censor people. Predictably, the government was caught because large groups of people conspiring to do something nefarious for extended periods of time ("conspiracies") are difficult to hide. When the government is caught illegally and unconstitutionally censoring its own people, the people get mad. And after all that, the sleazy media reports this as "poor, pitiful government workers just can't trust Facebook as a paragon of virtue anymore."
What does social media have to do with bad code, though?
And what was posted yesterday on HN as well.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43021677
Companies cannot really stand up to governments. Unless another government gets involved, Apple will have to follow UK law if they want to keep doing business in that country.

By the way, the US is not a stranger to that kind of overreach, either (e.g. CLOUD act).
The things they claim such as "this person getting a social security check is 150 years old!" is also embarrassing claims of fraud for anyone that's worked with a database before. The whole thing is culture war nonsense, slop to feed his followers on twitter to get the attention Musk's addicted to. Hopefully the courts end this charade before more damage is done.
i watched some of my favorite irc channels degrade due to lack of curation. theyre dead now. it isnt that nobody is online. the culture was just totally lost. they used to be cool places where people helped eachother code and would talk about math, now they are erotic role play and trans safespaces.

the code people left.
FAANG employees & Fed employees took a very different trade though.

FAANG - You can have sky high compensation with moderate job security and roll-your-own (401K+savings) retirement. Note you mention 40-50% taxes which would imply you are in the sky high compensation bucket. You can also job shop and switch to any of a dozen competitors doing similar stuff.

Fed - You can have moderate compensation with sky high job security and good retirement benefits. Some of these jobs cap out at what FANG pays new grads in cash comp. You can't go work for a competing government like China or Russia, legally.
God bless. Asahi introduced me to fedora/gnome, it feels rock solid on my m1 MacBook, and it's now my daily driver on a 2014 Intel Mac mini

Wishing I had donated before, I'll sign up for opencollective now. I can only imagine the anticlimactic nature of releasing the emulation stack for gaming [0] and not seeing any increase in interest financially. One wonders what funding might have made it more worthwhile than simply passing the hat.

[0] https://asahilinux.org/2024/10/aaa-gaming-on-asahi-linux/
Kind of ridiculous someone would go the distance to do THIS, but then again I'm not familiar with the platform and their relationship with the perpetrators.

However, I've been interested in the subject, and I can see how we'll need more moderation, especially, with AI content flooding everything, as well as, completely autonomous AI agents interacting with content and people.
Don’t forget about skin cancers. Screening for it is easily among the least invasive and least uncomfortable screening procedures for any kind of cancer, yet many people miss the opportunity for an early diagnosis
What encryption ? He is given the keys to confidential federal documents, systems and lists.
Embedding that image in a blog where it has to be resized down is silly since it makes the change impossible to see. At full size I can easily see the difference between the two though.
Plain transpiling won’t work because when you write a SQL query, you have to know what engine is running it because they all do worse at some things than others.

For example, the same result could be fetched using a correlated subquery, a common table expression, a temporary table, a view or very hackily using aggregation and it would depend on whether you were using SQL Server, Postgres, MySQL, or SQLite because they don’t do it all fast. …and you need to know the version.

This might be able to be solved if the language was a brand new higher level one though and the compiler knew the intricacies of each engines.
The contrast is that there are these things called “laws” and the “constitution” where Congress passed laws and budgets and the President is supposed to execute those laws. No one expected a President to behave in an unconstitutional manner nor did they expect an unelected official to get access to their accounts.

Also do you realize that only 1% of the federal budget is for government workers?

And there is no way that 50% of your income goes to the Federal government. Even if you did make over $609K, only the money you made over that would be taxed at the 37% rate and Social security would have stopped way before that at $165K (?).

Also, when I got my Amazoned, I was relatively sure that they could keep their promise of paying my 3.5 months severance + paid out PTO that gave me 4 months pay.

Musk can’t even promise the people who sign that they will get paid past March.
That's why they say that the road to hell is paved with good intentions.
Trump rescinds Biden-era equal pay guidance for male and female college athletes
The original title is:

> Equal pay for male and female college athletes? Trump rescinds Biden-era guidance
eh im not sensetive.
sounds interesting. lets hear it.

(to comment on the deaths im in my early thirties. big family members are going. step dad died of cancer when i was 17. had a near death experience once or twice.

at some point you just accept death is a part of life. you dont want people to die. youve been through the recovery twice before. you dont wish it on other people. but the artistic wallowing doesnt do anybody any good. because youre only getting out on your own. when i catch my friends doing it i slap them.

now theres a big difference in my case since I was a man and the author was a woman (and pregnant). her social circumstance probably treats her like she has intrinsic value. allegedly i dont.

anyways im here for tech news. my step dad would have showed me hacker news 15 years ago if he had known i cared. and if he had, id hope it has fucking tech news on it like it presumably would have had he bothered. (he was a programmer))
This is from October 2024 and appears to have made no splash whatsoever, which probably tells you what you need to know about it.
There is an argument to be made. Hckrnews readers skew left in general, IMO, and it is a forum for news that this technology minded group would find interesting. Those on the left in technology loathe Trump so in a way, it's catering to their wants.
I think I contend we must disagree with the assertion "change has to come slowly, over time." At some point, moving too slow must be more harmful than failing to address all stakeholders' interests. To wit, perhaps we would not have seen the political situation evolve as it has over the past decade if the administration that implemented the USDS had accomplished more with it sooner.
Why would you use a new VPS for each application? Just dockerize and put all your apps on one VPS, which is what most self-hosters do.
Which conspiracy?
Goodness I forgot how absolutely insane that was. The people who put that document together went wayyyy too hard on the drugs.
Agents are the way. Particularly with autonomous, unstructured workflows. It's all about tools. You give an agent a particular set of tools and a high level task, and that's it. No more complex logic to build, the LLM just figures it out.
The CIA has done a ton of bad shit - especially in other countries - over the past 50 years, but that’s a completely separate matter from a “deep state” controlling things and trying to prevent Trump’s election.
The idea that Federal workers should be accountable and their communications recorded and managed by their bosses is very old fashioned. Federal workers need to be able to engage with their interests no matter who the president is.
Excellent comment!

As a historical tidbit I'll add that Romans did develop two ways to write larger numbers.

1. Writing a line (vinculum) over a numeral to multiply its value by 1,000. This was in fact extended to writing a line to the left and above a numeral to multiply its value by 1,000,000, and could in principle be extended to lines below and to the right to multiply by 10^9 and 10^12, and even nested boxes for larger powers.

2. The use |), |)), |))), ... for 500, 5,000, 50,000, ... and (|), ((|)), (((|))), ... for 1,000, 10,000, 100,000, ... These can be continued indefinitely.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_numerals#Large_numbers

Both require an ever increasing number of marks just to write the increasing powers, as well as an ever increasing number of powers being summed, but both increase only logarithmically, so we end up using O((log n)²) marks to write n. This is quadratically worse than positional notation, but exponentially better than just writing M over and over.
TBH, right now that just feels like rewarding YouTube’s bad ad behavior. I’d rather just pay the creators via Patreon.
A lot of these reservation systems do lock restaurants into annual contracts, so it’s definitely one of the biggest blockers I run into. IMO Offering our platform for free during the notice period could help prospects feel more comfortable making the switch—nobody wants to double-pay for two platforms at once.
> But then also came the entitled users. This time, it wasn’t about stealing games, it was about features. “When is Thunderbolt coming?” “Asahi is useless to me until I can use monitors over USB-C” “The battery life sucks compared to macOS” (nobody ever complained when compared to x86 laptops…) “I can’t even check my CPU temperature” (yes, I seriously got that one).

This sounds so rough. I can't imagine pouring your heart out into this labor of love and continue to have to face something like this. Back in the early days of Quora, when it used to be good, there used to be a be nice be respectful policy (they might still have it), I wonder if something like that would be helpful for open source community engagement.

Regardless, major props to Marcan for doing the great work that he did, our community is lucky to have people like him!
I'm kind of OK waiting to make rules as a reaction to an actual problem instead of anticipating something that isn't a problem yet. Rules and governance can be added to or created very quickly when needed (COVID proved that), but tend to be sticky and hard to undo.
Yes, you can't use official labs (which of course would be the gold standard) but you can order and use kits from places like Meraculix (who have a US distribution point, so the tests travel via domestic mail within the US). Not risk-free since ordering a test kit for a scheduled substance at least implicitly implies you have a scheduled substance in your possession (or access to one). Sorry about your drug laws.
> most poor people don't have a car

Outside of maybe a couple urban areas like NYC, that's patently untrue in the United States. It would not surprise me if the poor frankly had more and older/rougher cars than their more wealthy counterparts.