skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is nonsense that continues the status quo. We were recently trying to understand our options for something time-sensitive, and no one could tell us with any certainty it would cost $2k or $20k if insurance denied it. We were fully willing to pay thousands out of pocket (the price insurance apparently usually pays after "negotiations"), but couldn't get any assurance about the cost or even whether they could correctly bill just this one procedure at their out-of-pocket rate (and what that might be) when everything else was with insurance. It's not like we were the first to ever get it done. The system is just full of blatant unmitigated racketeering.

A good first step would be banning price discrimination for medical procedures. Right now you get three different prices for "I pay", "insurance pays", and "insurance denies and I pay". People can't tell you what those prices will be. The whole point of insurance is supposed to be to derisk these kinds of decisions, not increase uncertainty and risk. Attempting to use insurance and getting denied can 10x your cost, so what is the purpose of the insurance?
I think we need a function that returns the correct butter height given the dimensions of the input bread. We may also need an object containing different kinds of bread and the ideal amount of butter for each depending on the absorbtion characteristics of the bread, etc. The user's preference for butter might also need to be another parameter.
How much of this has to do with the policies highlighted - removing 50k parking spots, adding bike lanes and green spaces - and how much has to do with cars having better exhaust?

How much less cars are on the road today vs then?

The charts and title make it look like there's no cars in Paris anymore. That's not the case, at all.
After using pluto.tv for a while this inspired me to look into some HD rf modulators and get this project going
He won the popular vote in a year when incumbents across the world ate shit at the polls because of COVID inflation.

The US had the smallest drop in support for an incumbent party.
> Name literally any other technology that works this way.

How about people? They make mistakes all the time, disobey instructions, don’t show up to work, occasionally attempt to embezzle or sabotage their employers. Yet we manage to build huge successful companies out of them.
For the interleaving, yes we want to prefer the item that's been skipped fewer times. I got the wording backwards in the article; I'll fix that.

For shuffling, I was trying to come up with an approach that would recommend the top k items roughly the same amount regardless of how many total items are in the list. E.g. say you have 10 subscriptions that you really like--I want to have those be a reasonable portion of your recommendations whether you've subscribed to 100 other subs or 1000 other subs.

Contrast that to a weighted random shuffle where each subscription's weight is its affinity score and we sample them based on weight without regard to their order in the original list. That approach is much more influenced by the size of the total list, and my experience is the handful of subscriptions that I really liked were always drowned out by all the other "speculative" subscriptions I had accumulated in my account.

The computational complexity ends up being OK because we generally don't actually need to shuffle the whole list. I recommend items in batches of 30, so we just need to get that many items and then we can abort the shuffle. There probably is some more efficient way to implement this though.

During implementation I was mostly thinking of this as "sampling" rather than "shuffling" actually, and just ended up describing it as the latter when I wrote the post.
I used to think it was all about money. As it turns out it's all about power. The rich will "pay any amount of money to avoid taxes" as long as their relative power and influence increases.
"Ban all the cars" does have noticeable effects.

I wonder if something less all / none might have nearly the same effects with far less drawbacks otherwise.

E.G. What if only emissions testing certified low emission vehicles were allowed? What if only electric? How about requiring quiet utility trucks for garbage / freight / etc?

For cities that large / dense, adding in Caves of Steel like people-mover belts might be a great alternative too.
>You're extrapolating to cases that are different to a subscription to a digital software service. Companies have slowly but steadily made us shift and put subscriptions in our heads because [...]

Sounds like you're less against the concept of "annual, billed monthly" or even the "dark patterns" that Adobe is using, and more against the fact that Photoshop is now behind a $30/month subscription rather than an one-time purchase price like in the Good Old Days™.
I believe https://carto.bruitparif.fr/ represents 2022 levels, but my French is very rusty and I suspect that historical data review is more readily available to a speaker of it. Perhaps that site has lockdown data as a layer somewhere?
you mean no window opening? can you try to re open the app, or right click on the icon to open a window? let me know. (should work on your device)
He won by a single point, when 30% of the population didn’t vote. It’s not good for the future of the country that he got anywhere as many votes as he did but we should remember that an emboldened minority is still a minority.
> This is very different than Rust where every new version is abandonware after 6 weeks and the compiler does not let you specify that your code is from a specific version.

Do you have any specific evidence? Rust ecosystem is known for libraries that sit on crates.io for years with no updates but they are still perfectly usable (backward-compatible) and popular. Projects usually specify their MSRV (minimum supported Rust version) in the README.
The Great Data Escape: AI, Local-First, and the Cloud Exodus
We can. Slowly over time we need to raise awareness of the benefits of this.
Thanks! Do you have any thoughts on what a fair one-time price for the archive would be? At this moment there are puzzles going back to 1/1/2025, so about 100 (and growing daily). I've been leaning toward something on the order of $3-$6 (but of course I still need to code the archive access).
a.) You do realize that 15% is an insanely high proportion? For reference, the equivalent US number is 3.5% (excluding the current climate).

b.) Yes, it's insanely difficult, that's why the government should be making it EASIER for them to migrate, not flood with more paperwork. For instance, the UAE and Qatar have a Golden Visa programme that, upon verification of credentials by a govt-authorized background check company , grants a 10 year visa to doctors, high earners and uniquely skilled talents. Even nurses and pharmacists benefit from the programme and get the visa easily. The govt takes the effort to conduct the background check, instead of making them try to find employment first before coming to the country.

c.) My anecdotes were about clear and blatant, no regrets immigration FRAUD.
I tried to browser, but none of the links work! Not sure if it is just my browser,
or others also face the same issue:)
Yup. The increasing fragmentation of social media means you really need to understand the community you’re targeting before engaging in outreach. More communities are going to be less tolerant of brands and advertisers in general given current events and over-saturation of advertising in general, so every engagement point matters way more.
There will be a new aristocracy. The aristocracy of pull. #iykyk
The Atlantic complaining about the very-real harm Trump is doing while serving me Jordan Peterson ads.

Hilarious.
I worked on a DVB-H receiver back in the day and we tried to speed it up by having a complete second tuner in hardware and starting the acquisition on the next stream while decoding the first one.
Webp supported yay!
I copied the codes from the actual government communication: https://content.govdelivery.com/bulletins/gd/USDHSCBP-3db9e5...

As other commenter says, it’s interesting that there are also exceptions within the exceptions.
Paris has certainly not banned all cars. Just reduced their numbers.
present tense, mercenary. present tense. contrary to what your ego says, you are not isaac newton. make your drones. kill us all with them. as you gloat, your masters point them at you.
Yeah that makes sense! Once I'm done with the rewrite I'm planning to go through the app and convert the remaining htmx portions to datastar--should be a decent learning exercise.
Yes, but people don’t always follow the law. CBP reported a spike in people smuggling eggs last month, and the margin on iPhones is a lot more tempting.
Of course not. You’d have to pay for the product, just like we do with every other product in existence, other than software.

Software is the only type of product where this is even an issue. And we’re stuck with this model because VCs need to see hockey stick growth, and that generally doesn’t happen to paid products.
That's nice, but a couple of Rust rewrites are not proof of a general trend.

I've been working with C for over 30 years, both professionally and a hobbyist. I have experimented with Rust but not done anything professionally with it. My gut feel is Rust is too syntactically and conceptually complex to be a practical C replacement. C++ is also has language complexity issues, however it can be adopted piecemeal and applied to most existing C code.
HEIC nonsense from Apple supported?
Typing code faster. Building quick illustrative prototypes. Researching options for libraries (that are old and stable enough to be in the training data). Porting code from one language to another (surprisingly) [1]. Using as a thesaurus. Answering questions about code (like piping in a whole codebase and asking about it) [2]. Writing an initial set of unit tests. Finding the most interesting new ideas in a paper or online discussion thread without reading the whole thing. Building one-off tools for converting data. Writing complex SQL queries. Finding potential causes of difficult bugs. [3]

[1] I built https://tools.simonwillison.net/hacker-news-thread-export this morning from my phone using that trick: https://claude.ai/share/7d0de887-5ff8-4b8c-90b1-b5d4d4ca9b84

[2] Examples of that here: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/11/using-llms-for-code/#b...

[3] https://simonwillison.net/2024/Sep/25/o1-preview-llm/ is an early example of using a "reasoning" model for that

Or if you meant "what do you have to figure out to use them effectively despite their flaws?", that's a huge topic. It's mostly about building a deep intuition for what they can and cannot help with, then figuring out how to prompt them (including managing their context of inputs) to get good results. The most I've written about that is probably this piece: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/11/using-llms-for-code/
It's more fundamental than this, IMO. No matter how much you invest into faster iteration cycles, physical world just takes a long time, and the worst part is, you either have to get some very complicated thing right the first time, or add a sufficient buffer to your plans. Discovered a bug in your chip after initial tapeout? Add months to the schedule. Too much RF crosstalk in the PCB? Add a couple of weeks at least. Take Apple for example. Do you think they didn't invest into faster iterations? I'm sure they did. And each chip still takes 3+ years there, too. Qualcomm? About 3 years. Google? Also about 3 years (I heard of the upcoming 192GB TPU being developed over 2 years ago when I was there; it was announced this week). The "innovations" that they are talking about today were actually decided 3 years ago. 3 years ago was a very different time, of course.

There's also another problem when it comes to chips. On the higher end, you have to design for the technological processes that don't yet exist. E.g. 2nm did not exist 3 years ago, yet the design of the chips that use it was done back then. You're also doing it with bleeding edge tooling.
> The biggest mistake tech companies have done over the past 2 decades is not spending enough money lobbying.

What does "enough" look like?

https://www.datawrapper.de/_/Ldiwf/
The breakup of an empire is always a pipe dream until it occurs. The U.S. will not defy history and last forever. At some point it will fracture.
The implication is they're all in the same club. And if you know any family members of members of Congress, you know this to be true!
raiding old ladies' pensions and listening in on everybody's conversations does not put you in the same game as the guy who discovered penicillin.
There's still a lot of cars driving in Paris. And motor scooters.
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Made this site. Let me know your thoughts!
I would chose a random person from my company that was hired to work in that domain to solve problems in that domain. Yes, regardless of the position. Accountant in the domain, yes. Office organizer in the domain, yes. Essentially anyone in the domain, yes. No offense, but by restricting the selection to the general human population you're setting a low bar for LLMs here.
It's not about the information, but the connection to all Google services.
Rust has Tier 3 support for OpenBSD on x86_64
If that were true of AST implementations then "prettier"-esque tooling wouldn't exist. https://github.com/prettier/prettier/blob/3.5.3/src/main/com...
Worth noting that 50-60% of passenger cars in France are diesel, but Paris have been gradually banning older higher emission diesels (Crit’air 3, 4, 5) from Paris. Banning cars outright also works, of course, but I suspect a lot of the reduction can be attributed to getting particularly bad diesel cars out vs. the limited areas where cars are entirely restricted.
If you only care about events in one direction, it's a perfectly fine solution, but if you need something other than that, things might get awkward using SSE and regular HTTP calls, even with long-lived HTTP connections.

> once you're out of "HTTP mode" you now have to implement the primitive mechanics of basically everything yourself, like auth, redirects, sessions, etc.

WebSockets do support authentication via cookies or custom headers, don't they?
Forgive my ignorance, but why would you implement physics and animations on the server? I feel like you can get away with basic positional data and do the rest of that on the clients.
Perhaps I did not make it sufficiently self-explanatory. The play area is divided into sectors (some puzzles have 2, others have 4). Each sector contains some letter tiles. You can drag the letter tiles onto the dotted-line-bordered boxes, with the goal of spelling four valid English words. If you spell a word that is not in the game's dictionary, it will appear "broken."
That is altogether false. It doesn't agree with the lived experience of millions. Just wait until it happens to you, and it will.
> Caring about truth

I suggest reducing the tolerance towards the insistence that opinions are legitimate. Normally, that is done through active debate and rebuttal. The poison has been spread through echochambers and lack of direct strong replies.

In other terms: they let it happen, all the deliriousness of especially the past years was allowed to happen through silence, as if impotent shrugs...

(By the way: I am not talking about "reticence", which is the occasional context here: I am talking about deliriousness, which is much worse than circumventing discussion over history. The real current issue is that of "reinventing history".)
Collections rarely does anything. I mean they will nag you, but you ask them to only contact you in writing, and it basically goes away. The collection agency could sue you, but it's rare. It involves putting together a realistic case (we are sure this person signed this contract and owes us $X) and that is expensive.

The billing your credit card 50% is a "well we tried" type thing. They're happy if it works out, but not unhappy if it doesn't.
I am pleased that you like it.
And “manual scrub”, in practice, meant “find any reason to deny”.

> Some 60% of the claims weren’t reimbursed at all.

The article gives examples of very normal billing errors that were used as the pretext for this.

It’s very clear they knew they didn’t want to pay the claims. Even in advance of the procedures.

> Then, a week or so before her surgery, Arch was wrangling child care and meal plans when she got a call from the insurer. The representative on the line was trying to persuade her to have the surgery elsewhere. She urged Arch to seek a hospital that, unlike the center, was in network and charged less.
All the data suggests the opposite. He wasn't in a position of power at the time; the federal government was controlled by the democrats. Elections are run at the state level and are so disparate procedurally that Russia gave up trying to flip them directly. There has been no discrepancy between exit polls and the results. We have to face the fact that this is who the United States chose, and this is who a significant portion of the electorate is ok with.
Maybe it's a puff piece, but it contains examples of what he did with his life and businesses. You couldn't write an article like that after 2015 or so without it being influenced by his disaster of a political career.

My point is, he didn't just sit on daddy's money, he actually pulled off a couple of savvy moves. There are plenty of other things to criticize him for.
Yeah, I think you're right that it needs a hint mode, especially on the harder puzzles later in the week.
Noteable here: Out of network. What did she expect to happen?
Yes, but the US basically had to intervene and tell them to stop using it. If that hadn't happened they wouldn't have.

The US probably wasn't in preventing an invasion of Egypt, but if not restrained I'm sure that Britain and France could have realised their objectives, and if they had had a continuous need to realise different changing objectives they would have retained more capability.
So is your component in the list from a comment below -

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43665766

Then you don't pay the tariff.
Given that tires produce a lot of particulate matter, even EV's contribute to pollution significantly.
Lets say that a ton of us got a leaky look at what the likes of thiel datamimed from the humanity dataset. The last mile of the enlightenment wrecks all those romantic ideas of eternal progress by technology, self actualizationa and retardation repair by education pretty thoroughly. Those that are not in the know mimic those that are or just develop a amoral stance to whether and survive the times which are a changing. It turns out the civil liberty lessons do not survive the contact with the lovecraftian reality beneath. This whole 10 year ride since 2016 was not foreseen, predicted, effectively countered and not even mitigated by protecting cultural artifacts and institutions against the decay. The science whose prediction power is zero, who has no eclipse to show, is not one.
What are the pros of using CUDA-enabled devices for inference?
The stateside makers are up to $15,000 for certain editions of new titles.
To me the most important aspect of Erlang is the runtime's scheduler, which is preemptive instead of cooperative. This allows the message passing, sequential code and lightweight processes to be much more effective than in any other general language or framework using cooperative scheduling (like async runtimes or coroutines in Rust, .Net, Kotlin, Lua).

You can write actually synchronous code in Erlang and the runtime makes it so that no process blocks any other process by preempting them on a schedule.
There are a number of reasons why the reporting process for bugs needs a blackout window.

Just because a security researcher can discover things about a program that its own developers missed, doesn’t mean they’ve understood the entire picture. If you find one bug, you need to spend time making sure that it doesn’t represent an entire class of bugs. Once the advisory is announced, that’s blood in the water that will attract other predators. Only idiots and tourism companies chum the water before they expect more people to go into it.

Back when PHP was objectively awful, I joined the pitchforks and torches mob based on the litany of CERT advisories against it. I had an argument with a coworker about whether PHP was irresponsible to use, and the very next day someone defaced the phpBB instance he maintained because of an unpatched injection attack. I pointedly did not comment because 1) smug and 2) the timing made me nervous of being accused of having been the perpetrator.

But I did look at the patch that either just came out or that he missed, and was frustrated to find that the same pattern they fixed existed in two other functions.

I really think that it says more about a community, not in what mistakes they make, but how they learn from those mistakes. And I’d like to say it seems like SAP didn’t, but we all know what a beast that thing is. How many tens of millions of lines of code is that thing now? The chances that a person made a mistake and two people they’ve never met copied it are essentially 0.99 repeating.
I think agentic features of Cursor are better. I am sticking with it for now.
Based on some friends in Google, I don’t think they explicitly sell it but live ad auction is something I’m wary of.

Also, it’s less about what they currently do but what they’re capable of. A Cold War of privacy of sorts.
I hear from my OpenAI contacts that the next wave of thinking models are going to blow the socks off Google. In some ways they already do (speech, images). So this lead will likely be short lived. That said, in the meantime I did get paid API access. The friction for the scenarios I need LLM for is effectively zero, and I'll use whichever sucks the least at the moment for any given task.
I do not respect this project. "We are stealing and adding no value" is not a good pitch, borders on anti open source, and just fundamentally why would anyone support you or choose you over the original(s).
Shooting a healthcare CEO and shooting MLK are the same thing to you?

That's incredible.
Palo Alto confirms brute-force attacks on PAN-OS GlobalProtect gateways
> France and Britain alone used to be able to defend trade routes. I don't think it's a huge expense

France and Britain used to be two of the world's largest imperial powers, and at any time you could plausibly claim France and Britain alone could defend global trade routes, Britain, at least, still was.

You really aren't making a case for it being an easy, cheap job.
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That depends on how much "creativity" is in the prompt, but generally i would lean towards no, the AI created work is not copyrightable by the person who used the model to "create" it.

I believe that is the conclusion the US copyright office came to as well https://www.copyright.gov/ai/ (i didnt actually read their report, but i think that's what it says)
I believe we now have enough info to quantify the tradeoffs.

Dev is the sperm, Ops is the egg (or vice versa).

And it takes time for the sperm to talk to the egg. The sperm must travel. He types in Slack "Hello <Name>, I have simple trick to save money for bewba service.". The egg must travel, type in Slack, "I can't find bewba service in our catalog but I can't say that out loud".

Through time and effort, the sperm and egg finally connect, and the bewba service's money guzzling is shaved.

When the scenario is right, the travel time is not worth it. We kill of one of the sperm and egg, and accept the risks. The killed sperm-or-egg leaves the circle, and everybody in the circle is satisfied.
"The actual business models, at this point, aren't even known."

"AI" sounds like a great investment. Why waste time investing in businesses when one can invest in something that might become a business. CEOs and employees can accumulate personal weath without any need for the company to be become profitable and succeed.