skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>but it also contained a clause that it was “not a guarantee of payment.” Blue Cross was not obliged to pay the center anything, top executives testified. “Let me be clear: The authorization never says we’re going to pay you,” said Steven Udvarhelyi, who was the CEO for the insurer from 2016 to 2024, in a deposition. “That’s why there’s a disclaimer.

That quote is far less damning when you consider the surrounding context. The reasoning he gave for why "authorization never says we’re going to pay you" is that there might be deductibles, and out of network deductibles might be higher. That seems totally reasonable to me?

[1] https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25882446-steven-udva...
I would be interested in those tricks
Why AI Will Save the World (2023)
This game's dictionary is similar to Scrabble; it includes as many valid words as possible, even when they are obscure. It turns out that "asse" is a kind of fox:

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/asse

It's a sticky wicket with these obscure words. I've made other word games before, and people get upset when oddball-but-valid words are rejected. It feels more fair to be permissive, but that's just me.
> legalized fraud and looting

That's just government in a nutshell, regardless of country, party, political leanings, etc.

How does it go? "What's the difference between government and organised crime? One of them is organised."
I actually mourn the loss of it. It felt so much better than any other accursed on-prem search solution I've seen since.
> In a gold rush, the folks that sell pickaxes make a reliable living.

Not necessarily. Even the original gold rush pickaxe guy Sam Brannan went broke. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Brannan

Sam of the current gold rush is selling pickaxes at a loss, telling the investors they'll make it up in volume.
I take about 20g daily of psyllium husk, i'm worried about lead. Any advice?
Why not if it brings long term benefits to the country?

Better than putting that money in the military, isn't it?
I always thought the best automation is delegating to a specially trained person :) Still true, apparently.
My partner just canceled her trip where she'd have easily spent 4-5k in the US economy due to uncertainty in the border governance.

A lot of my friends are rethinking sending their children to US for college education while Trump is in power and are considering European schools. That's probably a few million dollars over next 2-3 years potentially lost from the US economy from just people i personally know. And no one is coming from China.
Isn’t that the lever that we pulled on ourselves?
Lawyers can't be replaced by AI because they are licensed professionals.

People will consult lawyers less in favor of uploading documents to an AI notebook and consulting with AI to make sense out of it.

People coming to lawyers will be more prepared and have better questions; lawyers will have to explain fewer basic to them.

There is likely a lot of interest in that because laywers bill by the hour and are very expensive. They don't necessarily want to pay for an hour just to be tutored on some generalities.

I have a tiny bit of experience in this general area, since I have uploaded my provincial and city traffic codes to NotebookLM. It gives accurate, on-point answers to questions about it, with citations pointing into the document.
I’d understand if these exemptions applied to companies and not industries. For comparison, Putin unilaterally nationalizes and sells off companies to benefit his inner circle. The US isn’t nationalizing AMD and selling it to Nvidia at the behest of Jensen.
Do you think Google doesn't sell that data, or that other companies don't collect and resell it?

In either case, I'm sure that's how it starts. "This company has very little power and influence; what damage can they do?"

Until, oh so suddenly, they're tracking and profiling you and selling that data.
Love the timing.
And if you build your tech in US, well, you are disadvantaged because you have to pay the tariffs on every component you import from China.

So it’s actually an incentive to build in China.
Scaling deep tech in Europe (2025) [pdf]
> also very clear that JS is not the future

I assume you are talking about WebAssembly/WASM/etc?

Foreword: I'm not super up-to-date on the state of these things, I'll refer to to as WASM from here on out but if that's not the right term then substitute it for "whatever it is that lets you write code, compile it to something that runs in the browser that isn't JS".

I don't think the future is clear at all. Honestly, I'd expect to see some kind of "Compile your JS ahead of time to this WASM bundle" before we see web developers switching over in droves to some other language that can be compiled to WASM.

Unless you take over full rendering, my understanding is you have to provide some kinds WASM<->DOM bridge to interact with it, my knowledge may be dated.

I write web apps in Javascript (Typescript), real "apps", not "everything should be a SPA just because", and would be interested in anything that improves performance and/or developer experience. There are some data-crunching operations that might run faster in something WASM and/or some aspects that I'd love to share between client and server (and the server can't run JS in this case). That said, everything I have seen is a significant downgrade in developer experience for something that is semi-supported.

I look forward to WASM support maturing and the developer experience improving. To my knowledge there is not a Vue/React-WASM-type framework out there yet or any framework for building web apps in WASM (without starting from a blank canvas).
It’s damning when you read the rest of the article. You’re right about the point of the disclaimer - it was not supposed to secretly mean “lol we have no intention of paying for this ever”, but they used it that way.

> They acknowledged that the disclaimer was not meant as a general excuse to free the company from paying bills. A prior authorization “usually” resulted in a payment, testified Brower, who reviewed the center’s bills. He said that the notice was intended for specific situations. For instance, Blue Cross would not cover a woman who dropped out of her insurance before the operation. Nor would it pay anything if a patient had not met her deductible. But otherwise, Brower said, Blue Cross intended to compensate for a procedure that it had authorized. “It’s inappropriate for us as a company to approve a code and then turn around and deny it,” Brower said.
Unless you work on vintage gear...
That becomes really clear when using Gemini Deep Research vs OpenAI. I tried running the same research questions in both and Google regularly reads 10x as many sources as OpenAI and does it faster.
Agreed. I think at this point we can discard the assumption of 4D chess.

(This is not to say that there aren't some Project 2025 plans in the background that parts of the administration are aiming to push through.)
I'm obviously not a fan of dictatorships, I'm just trying to rationalize why someone might prefer China to the US.

I think the problem is that the US presidency is too powerful, it might be better to turn the presidency into a ceremonial position. It shouldn't be possible for the president to do all this damage.
…and in the article:

> The Fedora project chose to write its own tool because it was undesirable to pull Perl into the build root for every package.
There's a default feed, and it's awful. Part of why I gave up on the site, it never seemed to "get" me, their features for tuning it don't work, and the alternative feeds weren't what I wanted at all.
They need more AI to find a solution to this AI related issue and then more AI for issues stemming from that solution.
<rant>Google is seemingly giving up on localization entirely. The whole world gets to be Yankee.

It's now started giving me F temperatures on my homescreen, for no particular reason. It knows I'm in Canada. I have set my units in the past to metric. What gives?

I still don't have Canadian English as a locale in Android or Chrome, after what, 15 years of Android? It's got words highlighted all over my page here as mis-spellings. They're not. I really did mean to type colour you piece of crap. I can switch to British but then get spanked for colourize instead of colourised etc.

And it seems to tie choice of English variant to things like pronounciation of words and accent for voice assistant. My car speaks to me in a British accent because I have it set to British English (the closest thing to my own spellings).

They never even tried to handle the facts of the (40M person) Canadian bilingual market. Navigation is either French or English, but many Canadian road sides are in both and it tries to read them out and butchers the pronounciations. Drive into Quebec and have your phone set to English and it's laughable what it does. (Notably doesn't do this for Spanish words in the US, which it seems to have no problem with).</>
Windows moved everything to sharepoint now, so documents are stored "somewhere" and can be edited by many users. What often causes strange bugs.

Also a big degradation is the whole "hidden" %appdata% folder that grows and grows in size with no tools to deal with it.
Real estate is cheap for a very good reason! Ask any insurance company!
Just to be pedantic, it is unclear if the Aztecs had "full writing". The notation system in the codices is probably more like a kind of mnemonic and accounting system along with a calendar. They probably couldn't write arbitrary sentences. But so little material survives we don't actually know!

The Maya though absolutely had "full writing" at least during the classical phase around 200 - 800 AD, and their writing probably derived from the older Olmec system. The Maya system worked much like classical Japanese or ancient Egyptian, and uses a mix of ideographs and purely phonetic symbols. They could, and did, write anything they could say. There are historical accounts of battles and names and etc. given in monumental inscriptions. And it is almost certain during the classical era that the Maya had full literature, with stories, mythology, histories, anthologies, religious scripture, etc. There were probably still priests who could read the Maya system when the Spanish arrived - one Jesuit recorded notes that indicate some of the phonetic values of some of the symbols correctly! - but they were mostly killed and most of the codices burned by the conquistadors.

It was not deciphered again until the 1970s and it's sadly still not widely appreciated that Mesoamerica had literate civilizations.

Fun fact: The Maya were such good astronomers and record-keepers that we have exact date alignment, which we have neither for Ancient Egypt or for Mesopotamia. For example any dates in Assyrian records are subject to a ~40 year window of uncertainty for exactly when they occurred. There is no such ambiguity for the Maya: Pacal the Great almost certainly died on August 29, 683.
"Criminally insane" and "psychosis of maniac" are incredible hyperbole.

The only reasonable word there is "criminally". Of course assassinations are criminal.

One doesn't have to be insane, psychotic, or a maniac to kill someone, or to let someone die. All it takes is valuing other things above the life taken. This is not that uncommon.

Now, you can think Mangione is wrong about the effects, that he did not have a rational plan that would get him his desired end goal. I think that's obviously true even. But that's just how most humans act most of the time, and is not insanity.
>Car insurance companies have to compete not only with each other but with alternatives like not owning a car at all. There is no alternative to being alive, so health insurance companies can effortlessly collude to raise prices across the industry knowing that they have the most captive customer base possible.

US healthcare has to compete against cheap healthcare in mexico or whatever
Have LLMs replace developers for lower level code can be a goal but isn't the only one.

You can use AI to assist you with lower level coding, maybe coming up with multiple prototypes for a given component, maybe quickly refactoring some interfaces and see if they fit your mental model better.

But if you want AI to make your life easier I think you will have a hard time. AI should be just another tool in your toolbelt to make you more productive when implementing stuff.

So my question is, why do you expect LLMs to be 100% accurate to have any value? Shouldn't developers do their work and integrate LLMs to speed up some steps in coding process, but still taking ownership of the process?

Remember, there is no free lunch.
A $2 print of a picture from the internet serves the same purpose, and provides the same functionality, as a $1,000 piece of art, or a $1,000,000 piece of art. The value isn't in the raw functionality it provides.
> they tried to claim that the slogan "from the river to the sea Palestine will be free" is genocidal.

There is no other meaning. The slogan is a call to kill every single Israeli. That is literally what it means. Where will the israelis be when palestine is free from the river to the see? The hamas charter still to this day calls to kill every single israeli. This is the problem. You yourself dont even know what it is you are calling for, then you get mad when others point out that you are using slogans that call for a genocide. For the record I think Likud is awful as well, but at least in the US there are no serious israel supporters using the israeli version of the slogan.

As far as counting deaths that doesnt work because Hamas is getting their own civilians killed on purpose while israel is doing the opposite. If hamas had a nuke it would wipe israel off the map, israel does have nukes and the palestinians are more numerous than ever. The palestinaians are deeply oppressed, but theyre also raging assholes who would love nothing more than to not just oppress but kill every isreali. Being oppressed doesnt make them right.
"Most components of std are about 95% working in .NET, and 80% working in C."

.NET

Core tests 1662 39 12 97.02%

C

Core tests 1419 294 82.83%

Missing from HN title: The "95%" pass rate only applies to .NET. For GCC/Clang it is only "80%".
I think Pixels are pretty polished, at least compared to all the cheapo off-brand Android options out there. Some people like Samsung better but I can't stand their UI. Apple would be fine if I could sideload...
This comment is strange, given that LLVM is rust's most mature backend
They don't have to be the same people if they were the people who showed up in the primary to vote for someone like Ron Paul and then stayed home on election day when the Republicans nominated an establishment candidate instead.

But also, you might be surprised. Elections aren't decided by the bulk of partisan voters who show up to always vote for the same party and then cancel each other out. They're decided by the much smaller number of people willing to vote for a candidate instead of a party, and therefore move votes from one column to the other.
Trump's Reality Distortion Field.
I'm paraphrasing my experience in using the Canadian government's own points calculator for residency.

That doesn't meant that there aren't special programs apart from that. Because I'm not of the demographic, I didn't dig into how a Chinese, Indian, or African student or family, for example, might qualify for residency under whatever qualifications. Last, I assume that there's been a significant amount of refugee resettlement.

But if you are an average person from the US, you may be boxed into the standard calculations.
i'll add that on-prem is getting 10-100x easier than it was 10-20 years ago (still very hard), and "i want to run this in my own datacenter" is becoming accessible to much smaller companies than just F500 enterprises
Well, certainly not by threatening to cut funding of humanities research grants. Otherwise they won't be able to conduct research such as this one... But I digress.

The "Violence Against Women Act" is from 1994. Most statistics of that time pointed to a disproportionate amount of women being victims of domestic violence in comparison to men. I tried to find more recent statistics, but this is a very serious topic, so it deserves to be treated with more caution. Also, this is one of the reasons why I think it should not be used as a "war on men" talking point. Do we want to solve the darn problem or use it as a weapon against political opponents?
And this would be part of that “minimized as being nice that I felt was essential” thing I mentioned in my original comment.
Here's the set of categories exempted from the tariffs (via perplexity)
Original source: https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/USDHSCBP/bulletins/...
Backup:
https://archive.is/el9Mz

via Perplexity:

8471: Automatic data-processing machines and units thereof, including computers, laptops, disc drives, and other data processing equipment.

8473.30: Parts and accessories for automatic data-processing machines, such as components used in computers.

8486: Machines and apparatus for the manufacture of semiconductor devices or electronic integrated circuits.

8517.13.00: Mobile phones (cellular telephones) or other wireless network devices.

8517.62.00: Communication apparatus capable of connecting to a network, such as routers and modems.

8523.51.00: Solid-state storage devices (e.g., flash drives) used for recording data.

8524: Recorded media, such as DVDs, CDs, and other optical discs.

8528.52.00: Flat-panel displays capable of video playback, including monitors and televisions.

8541.10.00: Diodes, including light-emitting diodes (LEDs).

8541.21.00: Transistors with a dissipation rate of less than 1 watt.

8541.29.00: Other transistors not specified elsewhere.

8541.30.00: Thyristors, diacs, and triacs used in electronics.

8541.49.10 to 8541.49.95: Semiconductor devices such as integrated circuits (ICs) categorized by specific types or functions.

8541.51.00: Semiconductor devices designed for photovoltaic applications (solar cells).

8541.59.00: Other semiconductor devices not elsewhere classified.

8541.90.00: Parts of semiconductor devices or electronic integrated circuits.

8542: Electronic integrated circuits, including microprocessors and memory chips.
As if the US would make the propaganda machine / spy device / tracker more expensive
Not a cat's chance in hell that any eu organisation will rush to this offer right now. Or maybe ever in fact.
Sorry, but what would have been the consequences of the tariffs on Chinese imports? Do you imagine American citizens having to pay twice or more for an iPhone (or not getting one at all) because of Trump? Not being able to afford a new laptop, because of Trump? Not being able to buy all the cheap consumer electronics, because of Trump? The "blackmail" (except it's simply the consequences of his own actions) goes two ways here- see also the TikTok debacle: or how to explain to hundreds of millions of enraged Americans that they cannot use their favourite social network because of Trump.
There are two categories of people who don’t like Rust:

1. C/C++ developers who are used to C/C++ and don’t want to learn Rust.

2. Go developers who claim Rust is too difficult and unreadable.

Which one is you?
Why are you so gung-ho about such a pathetic standard? The US shouldn't be terrified of students expressing contrary ideas, it should show them that we mean it when we say that freedom of speech is an important value.

It can well be the case that the visa has provisions that allow rescinding it for the things that you are talking about, but I'm pretty sure that they are discretionary, not mandatory, so no need to cower at the words of these students.
A dinosaur infested swamp, at that.
Last Month, Google, Youtube, Facebook, Instagram and Twitter (very close to this one, likely passes it this month) were the only sites with more visits than chatgpt. Couple that with the 400M+ weekly active users (according to open ai in February) and i seriously doubt that.

https://x.com/Similarweb/status/1909544985629721070

https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/o...
> I spend far more on restaurants, household services, and vehicle maintenance than those companies pay me. I have a massive trade imbalance with those companies.

And if, for example, a sales tax was increased this would motivate you to buy less services, make food at home and learn how to fix your car.
Seems like the tariffs are becoming a lot more complicated, and it is possible that it is happening by design
The FBI thought that MLK Jr was a "bad guy". They wiretapped his phones, sent government informants to infiltrate his church meetings, they sent threatening letters to him saying that he should kill himself or tapes would be made public. The FBI leaked damaging or false information to the media about him regularly.
Would you summarize all that as "A movie where the bad guy gets killed" because MLK Jr was assassinated?
That only teaches us your opinion: too little information and too much.
For those interested, the following article is a really cool explanation/visualization of the mechanical watch: https://ciechanow.ski/mechanical-watch/

(The website contains so much more than this)
> advocating for the murder of company leaders is essentially a roll of the chaos dice attached to a wish that somehow the resulting situation will sort itself out.

I think this misses the 'fuck it, I'm going out like a grenade' aspect. Someone facing death or long-term painful chronic illness due to lack of access to medical care, and who has the perception that this is in part or wholly due to health insurance problems, might not care that they're as you said, rolling the chaos dice. They won't be around for long to deal with those consequences. They might want to roll those dice as a desperate attempt to exert some control, to make some kind of statement, to a world they feel has trodden on them.

There's a kind of logic to it, one borne from pain and desperation. But there's a reason the cliche about a cornered rat exists.
That’s what happened to COBOL, right?
> We don't know what's going on in other people's heads

I don't know about you, but for most people theory of mind develops around age 2...
It reminds me of the Theo Jansen’s Strandbeests
> 8486 Machines for producing semiconductors & ICs: wafer fab, lithography.

Does US buy them from China too?
Sure, but I wear watches to tell the time or (mainly) as a fashion accessory. Not as an object to donate to a museum someday...

And 200 years from now, I'm sure there will be a few Apple Watches in museums as well. And some Casios too.
It's worth noting that this is another example of the "Trump would never do that" to "Okay, first of all, I don't agree with your definition of 'concentration camp'" pipeline.
The united states has the world’s largest incarcerated population. It currently dwarfs the number incarcerated by the Soviet Union during the 1930s. The USA has the fifth highest incarceration rate on the planet. In the Southeast United States, the incarceration rate of the Black population is 7% (as a point of comparison 2x the incarceration rate of minoritized Uyghur population of China per the World Uyghur Congress figures)
Keep in mind that anyone you email, chat, video conference, share files, or otherwise electronically interact with can record on their side and you can not prevent it.
Brabham pioneered the idea of a "fan car", with the legendary BT46B, which comfortably won the only race it entered.

The McMurtry is very interesting, but the use of "driving" here is a bit of a stretch. Since the vacuum under the car is actively generated, I wonder how much the quality of the track would affect it. It's been an issue during the recent resurgence of F1 cars with ground effect.
That's excellent - many organizations write down very little, and certainly not meeting minutes / decision details, which only makes this problem worse.