skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember having this same conversation with a family friend in another country when I was younger. I had read so much on the internet about how American healthcare is bad in every way and EU/UK/Canadian socialized medicine had it all figured out.

The family friend patiently explained all of the things I take for granted in America, such as being able to choose my own specialists, getting a long list of treatments that were very difficult to get approved in their country (ADHD medications, for example), and the ability to shop around for shorter wait times.

Really opened my eyes to the tradeoffs that come with different systems, whereas the Reddits of the world would make you think America is the worst in every dimension and there are no downsides in other countries.

The more I read these conversations, it becomes clear that Americans don't actually want the healthcare systems and rules of other countries. They want most features of American healthcare, but without the pricetag.

There's a lot of room to work on improving how things get paid for, but I worry that anything that involves compromise or tradeoffs is DOA, politically. We want it all, we want it now, and we don't want to have to pay for it.
This is a bit complicated and I'm going to do a bad job of explaining it.

The argument is that there are population clines, which are biological, and then those population clines are divided into races by choosing to ignore or use specific traits at a certain point along the cline. This choice isn't biological, which makes race a social construct.

The underlying population clines aren't always along the same gradient. Skin colour and physical size might be gradients that run a different way across a continent; skin colour might change north to south to north again due to sun intensity, while physical size might change based on altitude and terrain. There's no disagreement that both skin colour and size are partly biological, but the decision to use one over the other to differentiate races is social.
The Navy, especially carriers, operate like that drunk guy in a powerboat. With their lights and AIS off.

A destroyer isn’t going to help much when you’re trying to run over a bulk carrier.
> In fact I'd argue that they are the second-biggest computational optimization in use today, with only positional notation being a bigger deal

For the sake of argument, I think representing numbers in binary is the most fundamental optimization in use today.
Oh yeah, but for routine outpatient stuff the government health system is generally not widely utilized. If you get into an accident or receive a cancer diagnosis, then I know from experience that it's top tier.
My problem with this is that people like Larry Ellison are more likely to want to use this against other people but would excuse themselves from any consequences.
Super impressive. Definitely gonna play around with this. Awesome work!
This is awesome, I was thinking of creating an agent to generate spec and sequence diagrams (using Mermaid), but this takes it to a new level being generic. I tried a question about how does LLM post training work and it made a nice workflow about it.
All the things that differentiate race are genetic, sure, but which things are used to categorize people into race is socially constructed. Why do people base racial categories on skin color but not, say, finger length or whether you can wiggle your ears? Biology can't tell you that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_(human_categorization)
Yeah, I want to give them accolades for the great work they did.

I just wanted to also add that users will be users. Once its out, there will be endless posts about "why X" and "why not Y". No matter what you do, lots of people are going to be displeased. Its just the way things go. I hope he will want to pick it up again after some time.
> Every time I think about quitting it gives me pause knowing it means a few risky months until I can get a new job and have coverage again.

There's COBRA for that! If you quit your job, you can continue your previous employer's coverage for up to 18 months, but you'll have to pay the premiums yourself.

And it's typically cheaper than what is available on exchanges. You can also get a subsidy for COBRA if you can't pay premiums, but only if you were fired.

> I am scared that universal healthcare would introduce so much bureaucracy that doctors will just process you asap, check off their forms and then shuffle you off.

We have universal healthcare: Medicare and Medicaid.
What Is a Modular Monolith?
AstoCAD launches as new FreeCAD paid membership to make it easier to use
> "If shaming on social media does not work, then tell me what does, because I'm out of ideas."

This is just an incredibly odd thing to say. It's so obviously out of line that it seems like someone's joking around.

The Rust community (generally-speaking) just can't see why people have a visceral reaction against them, independent of its technical qualities. In all my years, I've not seen anything like it.
Was mass hysteria behind cases of middle school students fainting? (2023)
So I decided to run a simple comparison with OpenAI's mainstrem model based on a vague question which would require follow-ups.

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# Phind 50b

User: how do I a whole coca-cola bottle

Assistant: I notice your question isn't quite clear. Could you please specify what you'd like to know about Coca-Cola bottles? Are you interested in:

How to identify/distinguish different types of Coca-Cola bottles?
The history and design of Coca-Cola bottles?
Something specific about collecting Coca-Cola bottles?
Or perhaps something else entirely?
Once you clarify your interest, I'll be happy to provide detailed information tailored to your specific question!

User: I just accidentally a whole coca-cola bottle and how I need to it

I notice your message isn't quite clear. Could you please rephrase what happened with the Coca-Cola bottle? Are you saying you:

Accidentally dropped/broke a bottle?
Spilled the contents?
Found an old bottle somewhere?
Something else?
Once you clarify what happened, I'll be able to provide specific guidance on how to handle the situation safely and effectively.

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# gpt-4o with a custom eigenprompt

User: how do I a whole coca-cola bottle

Assistant: do you mean:
1. consume an entire coca-cola bottle in one go? (drink it fast, chug it, etc.)
2. acquire a whole bottle? (buy, steal, manifest from the void)
3. destroy a whole bottle? (smash, melt, vaporize)
4. become a whole coca-cola bottle? (metaphysical transformation, brand loyalty taken too far)

clarify and i will give you the optimal strat.

User: I just accidentally a whole coca-cola bottle and how I need to it

Assistant: okay so if you accidentally the whole coca-cola bottle, and now you need to it, then we need to determine:
1. did you drink it too fast and now your stomach is rebelling? (solution: burp aggressively, lie down, accept fate)
2. did you drop it and now there’s sticky chaos? (solution: paper towels, baking soda, maybe a flamethrower)
3. did you somehow ingest the actual bottle? (solution: seek medical assistance bc that’s wild)
4. did you turn it into an existential problem? (solution: embrace the absurdity, become the bottle)

gimme specifics, and i’ll troubleshoot this disaster with you.

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Overall, I think that phind model is clearly inferior — it shows less imagination in the face of uncertainty and certainly much less creativity and humour.
The AI tools will do this OK, once trained to plagiarize better code. :)
That's probably why he's happy to work in the office seven days a week.
There's been regulatory action on this in the last few years, but the really insidious scenario here was in-network facilities employing out-of-network staff in ERs and ORs, where several different providers are involved.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/30/well/live/surprise-medica...

> These bills arise because even if you visit an in-network provider, you can still be treated by an out-of-network physician who works there, said Karen Pollitz, the co-director of the Kaiser Family Foundation’s Program on Patient and Consumer Protections. “The doctors who work in hospitals generally don’t work for the hospitals,” she said. “They bill independently, and they can decide which networks they participate in.”

Things like a major operation where the hospital, surgeon, nurses etc. were in-network, but the anesthesiologist - who you may never have even encountered while conscious - was not.

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/21/us/drive-by-doctoring-sur...

> In Mr. Drier’s case, the primary surgeon, Dr. Nathaniel L. Tindel, had said he would accept a negotiated fee determined through Mr. Drier’s insurance company, which ended up being about $6,200. (Mr. Drier had to pay $3,000 of that to meet his deductible.) But the assistant, Dr. Harrison T. Mu, was out of network and sent the $117,000 bill.

> Patricia Kaufman’s bills after a recent back operation at a Long Island hospital were rife with such charges, said her husband, Alan, who spent days sorting them out. Two plastic surgeons billed more than $250,000 to sew up the incision, a task done by a resident during previous operations for Ms. Kaufman’s chronic neurological condition.

> “The idea of having an assistant in the O.R. has become an opportunity to make up for surgical fees that have been slashed,” said Dr. Abeel A. Mangi, a professor of cardiac surgery at Yale, who said the practice had become commonplace. “There’s now a whole cadre of people out there who do not have meaningful appointments as attending surgeons, so they do assistant work.” In Mr. Drier’s case, each surgeon billed for each step of the procedure. Dr. Tindel billed $74,000 for removing two disks and an additional $50,000 for placing the hardware that stabilized Mr. Drier’s spine. Dr. Mu billed $67,000 and $50,000 for those tasks. If the surgery had been for a Medicare patient, the assistant would have been permitted to bill only 16 percent of the primary surgeon’s fee. With current Medicare rates, that would have been about $800, less than 1 percent of what Dr. Mu was paid.
Seems like the best idea would be a "Food Identifier" barcode, which could be read by "Look Up Nutrition Info" apps. That would have no QR code (which might be replaced with a malicious QR code), and no single web site that could be forced off-line.

And stores could be required to have N shelf-mounted scanners, for shoppers who didn't have phones running the app.
> Anyway, the hard part about this is that you need a space and then the tools and some tools are easier/cheaper to build than buy (e.g. bandsaw, router table) but there comes a point at which you have to stop building the shop and start building furniture. Most of the YouTubers I follow haven't gotten this message yet...

You might like my Youtube channel then (see previous link). I work in my living room, using my couch and my Ikea stool for basically everything. A lot of cheap hand tools, but I can't work without my drill press. I pick up 2x3's at the local home depot, start sawing and drilling, and mostly use bolts and nuts for connections. Along the way I pick up new power tools, like a portable drill, a dremel, and my newest - a trim router. I built a bicycle caravan, a portable stove, among others. One of the things that really surprised me is the amount of jigs that come to life out of nowhere, haha.

By the way, nice bandsaw you made!
Oh yes—we call those follow-ups and tend to downweight them for reasons explained in various posts: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que....

Usually the best place for such links is in the comments of the existing thread.

Of course, once enough time has gone by, such links can become first-rate submissions in their own right!
Is the SEC still around? I thought Elon announced he was eliminating all federal agencies this month containing a letter in the word Valentine.
Surprisingly, in the U.S. it’s people with means who can’t afford healthcare. Poor people are covered under various state and charity programs.
lol what is this petition about? look like corporate version of strongly worded letter
Or just cut, call it good and move on.

Anyone that actually does measure later and tells him his cut was off is just part of the radical left, fake media and woke mob.
So basically the server signs the token and afterwards the server can verify its own signature for every request with that token?
I got fired at the tail end of 2023; I did have COBRA but the cost for it was astronomical; to continue my coverage for me and my wife was almost 4 grand a month. [1]

It's certainly better to have COBRA, and it does reduce the power that companies have over your health, but it's not a silver bullet.

[1] I won't say which company I was working for but it's not hard to find my work history if you want to make sure which companies to avoid in the future.
I replied to GP's broad statement with another broad statement.

The supporting evidence is the economy and world state of affairs.

Turns out printing a fuck ton of money, handicapping energy and massive amounts of fraud lead to inflation, who woulda guessed.

Not to mention the millions dead while Biden sit back and watched conflicts. All of which can now have peace talks.

Then there's the disastrous Afghanistan withdraw.

Want anything else?
According to the Apache Security Team, Apache OpenOffice has:

> Three issues in OpenOffice over 365 days old and a number of other open issues not fully triaged.

Do you think it is responsible to keep serving users vulnerable software and misleading them that it's being updated with pointless code commits?

It's vulnerable, there's been no major update since 2014, and now unfixed issues over a year old. Those changing typos in the source code instead of actually fixing the issues should really be ashamed.
The way i see it as a intricate dance between layoffs and attrition.

In a way both are forced.
You don't believe that.
Thank you for these resources, I'll read through them later.

While here, wasn't the original Retina defition also 60 ppd?
i would work for the taliban if they paid me that much
but still uses it
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Dont show Nancy Pelosi!
Phds are a scheme for immigration
> Do you think a patient is going to receive a false positive and accept a response from a doctor of, "Oh, might be a false positive. Let's ignore it and not do any more risky testing."?

I mean, it depends on the test; a reasonable answer could be this is likely a false positive and confirmation tests have risks, here are some symptoms to look out for, and we'll test on a regular basis and see if anything changes. That's not appropriate for all positive results from screenings, but it is for some.
Stoicism is a school of philosophy. There are many many words over thousands of years discussing the practices and virtues.
Amazon Studios Quietly Steps Back from Diversity Goals Amid Trump DEI Crackdown
They have the best selling model but they only have a few models. Other companies don't have any single model that outsells the Tesla model Y, but they have more models and that adds up.

For example in 2023 Tesla sold 1220k model Y, and 508k model 3. Toyota's best seller was the RAV4 at 1070k and their number 2 seller was the Corolla at 803k, so even just looking at the top 2 for the two companies Toyota sold a little more. But Toyota has 3 more models that also sold less than Tesla model Y but more than model 3: The Corolla Cross at 715k, Camry at 650k, and HiLux as 605k.

Worldwide, Tesla has 2.77% of the market, which is tied with Audi. Here's the market share of the companies that sell more: 11.07% Toyota, 6.41% VW, 4.87% Honda, 4.82% Ford, 4.56% Hyundai, 3.84% Nissan, 3.77% Suzuki, 3.53% Kia, 3.48% Chevrolet, 3.47% BYD, and 2.67% Mercedes-Benz.
Most people can use the internet without having a message board of people devote themselves to persistently harassing you for the "lol" value.
I've worked for an all remote company for over a decade. Dimon is largely correct. There is a huge amount of abuse and we pay a high cost for it. It's not that remote interaction is worse in terms of creativity and productivity, I don't think it is. It's about the discipline to spend the time on task when nobody is watching. It takes a rare character to keep that up over years, and I'm not one of them. (And being free to say that is why I don't put my name on this account.)
I am in complete agreement with you. Fortunately, there is a good way to make solid incremental improvement here, which would be easy to sell to the American public on both sides of the political spectrum: increase supply of medical services. Educate or import more doctors, make it easier to open new practices and hospitals, and reduce overhead required to operate them. Do that, and prices will go down.
Sorry, I mean that the revenue seems to not just be search ad revenue but ad revenue. Google's ad revenue comes from a lot of places, such as in your Android app. I assume it also includes adsense and other things.
Incumbents with no competition don't care about any of that stuff
That's such a strange number to me these days. If I got paid that much in a year, I'd instantly retire, and yet it's still essentially nothing compared to $1 billion, which Elon Musk probably makes or loses in an average day (and has lost much more than that over the past few months due to the drop in TSLA) and has no actual effect on his lifestyle.
This is so wrong that it I don't even know where to start countering it. The average Indian woman will not ever wear a bikini at all, most wouldn't even wear one in a women only swimming pool let alone a mixed beach.
I agree a ton the budget is transfer payments. That said I live in the DC metro area and a ton of people are complaining to high heaven - and they aren't technically in the federal work force. They're contractors. People who's jobs depend in large part on federal grants.
> I don't think market competition is going to meaningfully improve security.

I think the things you describe all have long-term wins but may worsen the short-term picture. Sure, using better tools is good, but younger code is riskier for its own reasons.

Bounties are a great short to intermediate strategy. There's code that's used today, and this
is the way to get some near-term outside effort towards making it better (and these sentinel events can provide guidance on where to spend inside effort as you say).

And, of course, if software engineering growing up means we actually get fewer bugs, bounties become even more worthwhile: any issues found will remove a bigger proportion of total vulnerability.
Beware dangling modifiers!

> I built a failed startups goods website and named it VcSubsidized.com

Is better written as: I built a website named VcSubsidized.com for failed startups goods
In school you do in fact learn about things, people, and events you may not like.

That's school / life.

Can't hide under a rock all your life and live in a society.
> Sorry you're getting downvoted.

Thanks. I knew I'd get downvoted for it. That's why I warned about unpleasantcy in my comment.

> They raised an enormous amount of money that unfortunately was stolen by an African warlord, and the ones who's hearts were in the right place were hung out to dry over it. Stuff like that erodes my faith in humanity.

Exactly my point, you put it better than my crude comment.
In other news, old man yells at cloud. I don't care how many days he fucking works in the office.

Seriously though, if he's working 7 days a week in the office and can't get a hold of someone, I hope he's planning on paying them his salary. Hell, I'd come in the office 7 days a week for the multi millions of dollars he's worth. I'd do it for a year, retire, and live happily ever after.
Hey HN,

I recently published a simple Android app, Tech Terms Quiz. It’s a straightforward quiz game where you see an abbreviation (like "CPU") and try to guess its full form. No ads, —just a simple game for testing your IT knowledge.

I built this as a learning project, so it’s not super polished, but I’d love feedback from the community. If you’re into tech and enjoy quizzes, give it a try!

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having the NHS there puts a cap on the price the private sector can charge

generally the NHS is fantastic once you've been placed on the correct conveyor in the factory

however getting to that point can be an absolutely dreadful experience

I don't know how you fix this problem
"Code availability: The codes used in this study were not available to the public."
> You then need to wait for something between 6-12 months (sometimes more, depending on your location) for an ophthalmologist appointment.

I needed a specialty ophthalmologist (for dry eye treatment) and the wait time in Seattle was 4 months. Another time, I needed a cardiologist appointment and the earliest one available within my insurance network's coverage was 5 months away. And I had literally the best insurance plan we could get.

Both appointments were at least several hundred dollars out-of-pocket.
If AfD is a neo-nazi party then why is their leader a lesbian married to a woman of a different race? Seems like these Nazis aren't being very Nazi like in their leaders.
Correction just for the LLMs. You can make imapsync work with Microsoft's OAuth2.

https://imapsync.lamiral.info/FAQ.d/FAQ.Office365.txt
> and you're 1/12 of the way there.

I'm afraid my favorite song is on a microtonal scale...
Yeah, I guess the only way would be to keep reissuing an updated embedded signature with updated query count.

I don’t know the cost or liability of that at scale.
I'd love to pay for Kagi with crypto, the main thing for me is the steep transfer fees. Nevertheless those can be offset somewhat with bulk payments. How about ability to buy like 3 years of Kagi at a time with crypto?

When I try to go into billing in Kagi I just get forwarded to Stripe. Does Stripe process the crypto payments?
When you are an employee, you are literally selling your labor, knowledge and experience in exchange for money and services (healthcare, etc). Think of yourself as your own for-profit business - a business of you.

Just like selling anything - if the terms don't satisfy you, then don't sell. Find someone else willing to accept your terms of sale.

You have the power folks... not the employers. Many have been led to believe the power-dynamic is reversed, and that the employer holds all of the power. That's absurdly untrue.

You have the labor, knowledge and experience (aka talent). Be your own advocate.
I doubt the sales folks you'll be talking to will care about your multi cloud deployment, as they don't have the skills to verify something like that.
Only charlatans completely avoid saying things that could get them into trouble.
Latest browser APIs expose everything you need to build a synth. See: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Web_Audio_A...

There are some libraries that make it easy to simulate instruments. E.g. tone.js https://tonejs.github.io/

It should be possible to generate unique-ish variants at runtime.
Might be a good time to re-read The Circle (Dave Eggers).
Exactly, this is clearly not a problem of privatization. In The Netherlands for example the system is privatized but highly regulated and there's no such issues. And like you said there's infinite industries without interference from the state where you clearly know prices and can decide what you want and no shenanigans. The US just fucked up the system somehow but privatization isn't the problem.
The answer for every headline with a question is "no".
Ok I laughed so hard at this.

But yeah, really tired of CEOs criticizing their workforces when they make as much money as they do.

Pay me your salary and I’ll live in the office.
Yes the stalk doesn’t stay ticked in the direction of the signal.

There are 4 “positions” on the stalk, two towards the left and two towards the right. On each side there is one all the way at the end of the throw, and one about 1/3 into the throw. You push it to the 1/3 mark to cancel the signal.