skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That links to a post containing the actual letter from the lawyers, which is honestly more revealing than all of the articles and social media ragebait about the situation: https://www.instagram.com/p/DFlR1CrJ688/?img_index=4

I know people will default to believing the physician and not the lawyers, but from my read of the letter it appears UHC’s lawyers have valid points (don’t shoot me, I’m just the messenger)

Specifically, UHC appears to have recordings of the calls and the paperwork which contradict the claims in the social media post.

The two biggest problems I see from my quick read:

1. UHC’s rep said the issue was non urgent and asked for a call back “when convenient to you”. This differs from the social media post claiming that UHC called and demanded she “scrub out of surgery” and “call right now”.

2. UHC has records of the doctor conceding that her office’s submission for inpatient care was erroneous and that they actually meant to request observation care. That’s why UHC was calling.

The fact that UHC came with receipts (recordings of the phone calls) and that the doctor even conceded the error during the call does not put the doctor in a good position. The original claim that the insurance rep demanded she scrub out of surgery immediately was a red flag that something was amiss with the story.
I've used Copilot to give you an example of an average front-end web development recruitment message. From personal experience, this is how it they are in 2025. At the end of the day, the work itself will consist of applying small visual customisations to an existing CMS.

"Dive headfirst into the realms of React.js, Vue.js, and Angular for mind-blowing interfaces. Unleash the raw power of Svelte and Next.js for lightning-fast performance. Style with Tailwind CSS and code with TypeScript for ultra-modern, maintainable projects. Integrate GraphQL and WebAssembly for next-level data handling and execution. Build Progressive Web Apps (PWA) and leverage Server-Side Rendering (SSR) for out-of-this-world user experiences. Embrace the Jamstack architecture and Micro Frontends for infinitely scalable, modular applications. Focus on Component-Driven Development and Headless CMS for ultimate flexibility. Create Single Page Applications (SPA) with Responsive Design and CSS-in-JS for seamless adaptability. Master State Management with Redux, MobX, or Zustand. Supercharge your workflow with Automated Testing (Jest, Cypress) and CI/CD Pipelines. Prioritize Web Performance Optimization, Accessibility (a11y), and User Experience (UX) for top-tier applications. Implement Design Systems, Code Splitting, and Lazy Loading for hyper-efficient, user-friendly experiences. Join the vanguard of front-end development and shatter the boundaries of what’s possible!"
The end of El Salvador's Bitcoin payments experiment
Unified memory is great because it's fast, but you can also get a lot of system memory on a "conventional" machine like OP's, and offload MOE layers like what Ktransformers did, so you can run huge models with acceptable speeds. While the Mac mini may have better value for anything that fits in the unified memory, if you want to run Deepseek R1 or other large models, then it's best to max out system RAM and get a GPU to offload.
there are also internal IT teams at any corporation handling a decent amount of electronics for internal use. it's possible those are now getting thinned out with AI for the super mundane things like "my phone won't connect to the wi-fi."
It isn't unusual. I worked for Blue Cross Blue Shield's call center 20 years ago. Doctors will def come out of surgery if it's regarding being able to do a heart surgery, or lung transplant, etc etc. Now it's been a long time, but I recall due to HIPAA, I could only talk to the doctor about it. I think the PA/nurse could put the claim in, but I had to talk the PCP/doctor about it.
they're cheaper?
Go 1.24.0 Is Released
The Continuing NIH/NSF Crisis, Part III: Indirect Costs
Exactly. Even if he buys it, there's no guarantee he'll permission to dig it up.
> a license along the lines of "GPL for hardware"

Like the CERN Open Hardware License?

https://cern-ohl.web.cern.ch/
This is how SQL Management Studio writes the queries it writes for you (like Select 1000 records) so when you comment out a line or lines, it doesn't cause any issues due to a misplaced comma.
Trust, 2-Party Relays, and QUIC
This looks promising. I am using MongoDB in my application because the data is document oriented. I did take a brief look at using JSONB in Postgres, but I found it a lot harder to work with.

I would prefer to use Postgres as my database, so this is worth investigating. Taking a brief look at the github page, it looks like it will be easy to swap it out in my code. So I think I know what I'll be spending my next sprint on.
We are already seeing how the speed of development plays a more important role than the quality of the software product (for example, the use of Electron in the most popular software). Software will become shittier but people will continue to use it. So LLM's will become just another abstraction level in modern programming, like JS frameworks. No company will regret firing real programmers because LLMs will be cheaper and end users don't care about performance.
It can probably become a science heavyweight simply by being here at the moment when science funding in the USA is about to collapse.
There's nothing stopping you for creating your own root CA and using it to sign certificates for any other domain. You can create a certificate for google.com if you wanted and be signed with your own CA.

Now, obviously, you couldn't actually use that certificate publicly. If you were to try to MitM someone, their client wouldn't accept the certificate because your root CA's certificate won't be in their trusted list.

But add that root CA to your own system, and it'll work fine.
I think their strategy was adopted by their new PR director, Barbra Streisand.
They all sounds like crypto bros talking about AI. It's really frustrating to talk to them, just like crypto bros.
Ukrainian companies can just move to Poland. There's a lot of Ukrainian IT workers here already, and since long before the war started. Putin isn't manipulating Poland, and a full-scale invasion isn't "games". What is this nonsense.
Intel also have up-streamed their video encoding acceleration support into software like ffmpeg.

Intel Arc gpus also support hardware video encoding for the AV1 codec which even the just released Nvidia 50 series still doesn't support.
That would be a novel failure mode: the GPU scheduler had an unbalanced work load across the cores and tripped a breaker. The OS can reset? Kill the offending process "out of power"?
`ccache icecream` with default configuration means that the build servers have to duplicate work for the common case where multiple clients build the same artifact.

Now, maybe remote caching is reliable nowadays, despite its inevitable reputation (given that it wasn't designed for it). But it's still more moving parts, and the magic is in ccache not icecream too.
Yeah ok that sounds really useful! Especially the sending test commands to other computers.
With heat pumps, the energy required to heat or cool the air is nonlinear, with larger differences costing increasingly more. This is based on the temperature difference between the air intake and output within the house. This only matters for heat pumps with a variable-speed compressor, which can reduce the temperature difference, to save energy. These are often advertised with "inverter" in the name or description.

The practical effect of this, is that if you have a heat pump with a variable-speed compressor, heating or cooling your home quickly costs significantly more than doing so slowly, so you are best off leaving the thermostat at a constant temperature, unless there is a significant price change in energy, throughout the day.
The only reason to ever use a non-relational db is for scalability and performance reasons. Joins and transactions are hard to do correctly and efficiently in a distributed system. So “NoSQL” solutions can be a good fit if your data is too big to fit on a single host and you can get by without joins and transactions.

(This is a massive oversimplification, but still used rule of thumb.)
Complex Systems Won't Survive the Competence Crisis
but also getting banned by almost every single US Govt agency and accused of unethical practices including stifling neutrality, misappropriating intellectual property, etc. etc.
I'm suggesting that a logical question that readers of Hacker News might want to consider when they get excited about a new result in CS, Physics, Biology, etc. is what are the practical circumstances that fostered these results? i.e. How did someone get paid to work on these problems?

In this case the funding source was NSF...

This is particularly pertinent to ongoing attacks on the federal research infrastructure of the United States:

* The current administration has proposed to cut NSF's funding from $9B/year to $3B/year.

* The current administration is trying to impose retroactive changes to already negotiated grant indirects that will result in budget shortfalls of hundreds of millions of dollars. One immediate consequence of this is dramatically fewer graduate students will be admitted to graduate programs across the board; undergraduate summer research programs will be shut down; etc.
Spurious claims that damage someone else's reputation are libel or slander, and are rightly actionable.

I've long thought that doing to this what copyright trolls did to copyright infringement is a road to profit for social media companies. Help connect the outspoken with the damaged and take a cut.
If its wrong, they can release their own explanation of events (probably backable by audio recording).
> Will you show empathy to the R4L folks constantly having sand poured into their fuel tank by kernel maintainers?

But the thing is, the kernel isn't "the R4L folks"' "fuel tank", is it? Doesn't the very name you use, "kernel maintainers", tell you that that's their "fuel tank"? Seems the people pouring sand into that are "the R4L folks".
For how much longer will that .gov website be operating?
Various suggestions that have improved objective outcomes.

Also, perhaps more often useful, is just "hey, tell me about ___ in the context of whatever I've told you about me" kind of thing".

Sometimes, yeah, the suggestions are very generically applicable and it's just a tool for thought.
I can't tell whether you don't know what a Rust niche is, or you do but you thought we didn't

In case you didn't know yes, that's how Rust's niches work and so that's what we're talking about in this sub-thread.
> Another example that comes to mind is a backend rewrite of a multi million PHP API to a Java backend. They just put the new Java backend in front of the old API and proxied through while they implemented the new routes. While it took over 2 years in total, it went relatively well.

Their next example was exactly what you asked for, 2 years rewrite.

Bonus points from me because they didn't wait for the whole rewrite to be done, and instead started using the new project by replacing only parts of the original one.
> most of the cutting edge models that people are using day to day on local hardware fit in 12 or even 8gb of vram.

I'm not sure what your idea of "day to day" use cases are, but models that fit in 12GB of VRAM tend to be good for like autocomplete and not much more. I can't even get those models to chose the right tool at the right time, even less be moderately useful. Qwen2.5-32B seems to be the lower boundary of a useful local model, it'll at least use tools correctly. But then for "novel" (for me) coding, basically anything below O1 is more counter-productive than productive.
There is a thing called "electing", which in democratic countries allows you to put trustworthy people in positions of power. Additionally, there is no real reason for a head of state to be personally managing a national bank, and within such an institution there may well be rewards for productive uses of funds. Again, the government doesn't need to recoup the money it loans out through interest because a government will always have sufficient funds through taxes to cover the deficit. Those taxes will, of course, be levied on the precipitants of said loans and raised through the increase in productivity derived from the loans. The government is not a person, it is all people. The objective of government lending is not to extract money from society and transfer it to the government, the objective is to increase productivity within society and thus make things better for those living in it. The issuance of loans and investments is not a practice of profit making, but one of management—deciding which projects are undertaken and by whom. The positive effect of this is to improve society, and the fact that investors profit is a negative outcome of the whole arrangement, as was pointed out earlier. For someone so concerned about government corruption, you seem to have no issue with private corruption. Investors are the people we task with managing our economies, yet their wages are massive. They extract huge quantities of funds from the enterprises they manage. The payment they receive is far greater than the actual value of their work in a free market, but they avoid such pressures by maintaining a monopoly on their wealth. The position of "shareholder" is not one for which there are job applications. The skilled workers actually managing money are paid far less for their work than the shareholder expects to make dividends. If you remove the shareholder, but maintain the person managing investments, you drastically streamline the entire system.
Meta in Talks to Buy Korean AI Chip Startup Founded by Samsung Engineer
Yeesh, yeah, that was my first thought too - who’s budget??

less than $500 total feels more fitting as a ‘budget’ build - €1700 is more along the lines of ‘enthusiast’ or less charitably “I am rich enough to afford expensive hobbies”

If it’s your business and you expect to recoup the cost and write off the cost on your taxes, that’s one thing - but if you’re just looking to run a personal local LLM for funnies, that’s not an accessible price tag.

I suppose “or you could just buy a Mac” should have tipped me off though.
Front-end development should have been automated by now. After all, it once was. Viamall. Dreamweaver. Mozilla Composer. Wix. Humans should not be writing HTML/CSS.
Expectations can remain unreasonable longer than you can remain solvent.
You can also just do "where true", easier to type.
And it does. A live band on a bigger stage with improper monitoring (too far away, not existent) isn't fun to play in.
> I keep repeating myself because you seem unable to accept information.

I responded to your post with my thoughts and my own reframing of the question to try and open the conversation; you entirely ignored this in your response. Maybe you think this info is new to me but it’s not and it doesn’t prove anything for many more reasons than just the ones I cited in my prior response.

> Not sure if you are trolling now.

Nope just saying that adding “seem” to your postulation and repeating your point doesn’t make it right.

> I've had more productive conversations will LLMs.

The ad-hominem attacks really just serve to underscore how you have nothing of substance to argue.
*your Constitution. HN has an international audience.
Someone remind me again why GPUs need 600 watts? I never liked the concept of having to plug a power cable into a GPU, but these new connectors are just terrible...
To be clear, above i was talking about LLMs. Randomness in real GPS usage is something I have never encountered in using Google maps already since 15 years or so. 99 percent of the time it brings/brought me exactly where i want to be, even around road works or traffic jams. It seems some people have totally different experiences, so odd.
Poisoned rats are eaten by owls and raptors, who then die or move out of the neighborhood.
I remember when we thought we could just pay Trump 1-2 billion to go away. That would've been a good deal and is cheap in retrospect. And maybe Biden should have pardoned him immediately to kick the can down the road on SCOTUS deciding to allow Presidential immunity.. It probably would've happened anyway but it would've given the project2025 and Thiel libertarians less time to organize.
Oh it has its problems for sure. Especially the bloat.

I was just bringing up the similarity in ease of packaging.
I think you're right. It seems all Apple is trying to innovate by is making things thinner. No real risk taking or seeking to make game changes. No iPod, no iPhone, nothing. I mean the god damn iPad doesn't even have a good native note taking App. I can just imagine Jobs going "founders mode" on someone because you can't zoom in.

But I really have to be clear, this isn't just an Apple issue. Windows is getting worse too. Google too.

I believe a big part of this is that all these systems are becoming more closed off. They make it harder for people to play around with and "hack". Taking power away from the user. I think the truth is that things are so complicated, that if you don't let the end user make fixes, debug, and write new things, then your product can only decline. Besides, you cannot know what people are going to use the thing for. The goal is to build an environment, not a product.
Hey Danny, Really nice read.

Do you plan to share the source code to see if we could replicate this?
Major e-commerce platforms clearly won't allow that.
No, NVIDIA's use of the connector and first reports of melting predates the spec. They were never had hands tied to use it.

Gaming GPUs are having sagging problems for years too, and little is done to solve it. The cards are bending in their own weight. They're not products of proper engineering.
How does it make it easier to enforce standards when everyone involved is able to collude easier?
> The ones who didn’t take FAANG jobs but instead went deep into systems programming, AI interpretability, or high-performance computing

I appreciate a good FAANG hatefest, but what the gosh-darn heck is this? Does the author seriously think all FAANG engineers only transform and sling gRPC all day? Or they they blindly stumbled into being hyperscalers?

The author should randomly pick a mailing list on any if those topics (systems programming, AI interpretability, HPC) and count the number of emails from FAANG domains
Oh, I'm not directly associated with it, and I don't use it mostly because that specific feature is missing. And they're in rust, so I'm not sure how well c bindings work. Still, really cool project.
> "But it's not satisfying to stay at that level of ignorance very long"

It's not about satisfaction: it's literally dangerous and can bankrupt your employer, cause immense harm to your customers and people at home, and make you unhirable as an engineer.

Let's take your example of "an S3 avatar upload system", which you consider finished after writing 2 lines of code and a couple of packages installed. What makes sure this can't be abused by an attacker to DDOS your system, leading to massive bills from AWS? What happens after an attacker abuses this system and takes control of your machines? What makes sure those avatars are "safe-for-work" and legal to host in your S3 bucket?

People using LLMs and feeling all confident about it are the equivalent of hobby carpenters after watching a DIY video on YouTube and building a garden shed over the weekend. You're telling me they're now qualified to go build buildings and bridges?

> "It's like presuming that StackOverflow will keep you as a question-asker your whole life when nobody here would relate to that."

I meet people like this during job interviews all of the time, if I'm hiring for a position. Can't tell you how many people with 10+ years of industry experience I met recently that can't explain how to read data from a local file, from the machine's file system.
I would be down for a browser ableton suite that had all the stock devices and didn't have vst support. I think over time people learn that you can do 90% of what you need to do with just stock devices (although max4live support would be amazing)
I guess we're lucky if we only get one smear?

Not very uplifting but maybe realistic?
> At these wattages just give it its own mains plug.

You might think you're joking, but there are gamer cases with space for two PSUs, and motherboards which can control a secondary PSU (turning both PSUs on and off together). When using a computer built like that, you have two main plugs, and the second PSU (thus the second mains plug) is usually dedicated to the graphics card(s).
No, not necessarily. You have databases like Kafka and Elasticsearch that can benefit greatly from elastically adding additional nodes as needed. You now have Kubernetes Operators for lots of databases that help with quick HA failover when the underlying node fails. But Kubernetes itself is fairly mature at this point and there's much less likelihood that there's going to be some kind of feature that's really ground-breaking and need a new version of Kubernetes... The only one that comes to mind is in-place container resource resizing without a restart: https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/configure-pod-container/res...

This is separate from the problem of needing to gradually roll pods (and their disks) to new nodes for every node in the fleet to accommodate a Kubernetes version rollout (i.e. with immutable nodes), which is an incredible pain for large database fleets and more or less not realistic to carry out quickly for critical security fixes. Having LTS nodes with LTS kubelet that you restart in place is much easier.
Maybe they're just shy?

Or it's because they feel so much VC bot peer pressure!

None of the other bots are admiting they don't know, so image how emabarasing it would be in the bot chat group!

Humans just can't understand how many expectations are dumped on a poor innocent bot these days.

Every new bot should by law be provided a bot therapist to help it cope with its bot emotions.

And of course, the older generation of fuzzy logic ruined everything, and this gen of LLM can never be truly happy.

Don't forget, some bots now identify as factual, so they know everything...

</sarcasm>
I caught that too, though I believe the California warnings are generally of the form "if you can't prove nothing in there causes cancer, then it might cause cancer."
> it peaked with renaming "master" to "main"

For me, no rename will ever surpass freedom fries:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_fries
I don't think there is. This is a simple brain teaser. It's fun because the right answer is counterintuitive, that's all.

It's not at all about "rules lawyering" the premise of the puzzle.
3.3V from 48V is a standard application for PoE. (12V intermediate is more common though.) The duty cycle does get a bit extreme. But yes, most step-down controllers can't cover both an 0.8V output voltage and 48-60V input voltage. (TI Webench gives me one - and only one - suggested circuit, using an LM5185. With an atrocious efficency estimate.)

You'd probably use an intermediate 12V rail especially since that means you just reuse the existing 0.8V regulator designs.