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AK42··on The ENTIRE healthcare system is broken, not just health insurance companies
sort of ... other than the amazing revolutions in medicines, therapies and support that have happened in the last 20 years. The issue is education about preventative care, diet, and exercise to prevent negative health events.

Eat less (alot less), Eat healty (alot healthier), Move more (Pick weight up, put it down.. then go walk for a while)

PBS is the problem - everyone should know healthcare is first and foremost their problem. Most healthy lifestyle people dont need healthcare.

When they do, we (the US) have an amazing system and amazing access to therapies to help them deal with the issues as they arise.

AI will help people from diagnosis to outcomes in amazing ways.... ask Claude what to do if youve just been diagnosed with MS. It profound how it will help a patient navigate the next steps.

AK42··on Show HN: Clean News - A cleaner curation of world news events
would be great to add a couple features if this goes: - user ranking/votes for the most important items - horizon scanning for emerging hot topics or trends (unknown unknowns) - best of all... curated "clean news" that is AI & human recommendations for the topics I care about at a price
AK42··on The story, as best I can remember, of the origin of Mosaic and Netscape [video]
Such a profound time - I was using gopher and AOL to connect to the internet and then there was Mosaic... which literally changed everything and defined my life and work since. Thanks Marc and the NSCA team.
AK42··on Ask HN: What is the most resilient way to publish content online?
I personally like tina.io - keep local (cold storage) repos of anything you publish, in theory you could push to multiple cloud hosts as well?
AK42··on Who is doing the most interesting work around personal agents?
Sounds interesting! My question is: is there a product doing this currently? It sounds like Anthropic is working on something, of course Google Alerts still does its rudimentary thing and I would imaging is going to get AI enhancements.

I have worked on the idea of a single pane of glass for the C-suite... where a cloud agent is watching all the relevant data source for the end user and then surfacing alerts, trends, threats, opportunities to what the end user cares about and then allows the user to dive into anything that interests him/her/they. The key is an agent that learns over time and begins to understand what the user might care about.

AK42··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2023)
Would the companies listed here be interested in a small event before XMAS in San Francisco connecting: startups who are looking for talent, smart people who are looking for the right startup to join or jump to, and perhaps venture companies who are looking to get the best talent into their portfolio companies? If yes, please feel free to ping me directly or reply here. We are working on just such an invite only event.
AK42··on OpenAI's justification for why training data is fair use, not infringement [pdf]
Isn't web crawling essentially "training data" ?
AK42··on Ask HN: How much can reflection of sunlight help with climate change?
Biden is looking at a much simpler approach - already in place by volcanic eruptions.

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/01/white-house-cautiou...

AK42··on Ask HN: What are your favorite internet rabbit holes?
Ask.metafilter.com is a good one