My coworker's mother passed away last November. She left her modest $190,000 house to him clear and free, no mortgage, completely paid off after thirty years of factory work. He moved into the home in January to finally settle the estate. Two weeks ago, a letter arrived from the state Medicaid estate recovery office. Because his mother spent four months in a rehabilitation facility before she passed, the state quietly slapped a retroactive $114,000 lien against the property title. He called the state health department, frantic, asking how a hospital stay could bankrupt an inherited home that had no mortgage balance. The caseworker sighed and told him: "Federal law requires state programs to claw back healthcare costs from deceased estates. The house cannot be sold or transferred until the balance is cleared in full." He offered to pay a monthly settlement. They said no. The full $114,000 is due in 60 days, or they foreclose on the property at a public auction. A lifetime of working-class savings, wiped out overnight by a retroactive healthcare lien. You don't own generational wealth. You're just holding a property title until the state finds a legal mechanism to repossess it the moment you die.

I feel powerless. I hate what they’ve done to us. I hate them. Tonight, my heart bleeds.

1. This is so bad. Not only is the underlying paper not good science, but that paper doesn't even support this product. That paper is about using saccades to diagnose active Alzheimer's, not prodromal (i.e. pre-symptomatic), and it uses a different technology to measure saccades, not VR, which has not been proven to measure saccades accurately. Everything about this is misleading to vulnerable consumers scared about dementia. 2. This is very clearly a medical device being sold without proper authorization, as it's being used to diagnose a disease and it has zero testing behind this device specifically (as opposed to the concept generally). I know Silicon Valley hates the FDA, but one of the main purposes of the FDA was to prevent snake oil salesmen from using fear to sell products. 3. You can't claim a product is "investigational and can't diagnose Alzheimer's" on the footer of your website and then claim it's "the world's earliest Alzheimer's test" on the front page. That's not a loophole. That's just trying to trick old people who won't read the whole website or will be confused by it. Same thing with stealing Nature's and NEJM's logos, slapping them on your website, and then saying "those are the logos of journals that published a paper related to our product". 4. There's a recent crop of Silicon Valley companies who just outright lie about their product's capabilities to diagnose diseases and health conditions, apparently taking their cue from Theranos (see also Clair Health, Nucleus Genomics). It's a damn shame to see YC supporting one of them. 5. My biggest worry is that these fake companies will be financial successes. Proving a test can diagnose Alzheimer's early would take a huge amount of money, time, and effort. It's a distraction from marketing and selling the product. Saccade could very well outcompete a legitimate Alzheimer's test, making everyone worse off. 6. I bought X Premium just so I could write this rant about this company because it made me so upset to see all the credulous boosters quote-tweeting this and saying this huckster "solved Alzheimer's".

DO NOT USE THE NEW OPEN SOURCE ADOBE ALTERNATIVE ITS VIIIBE CODED

Unfortunate for someone playing a senior role in US AI policy (via the new SI Force) to get so many basic facts wrong here. - The agents *were* sandboxed, and used zero days (ie previously unknown cyber flaws) to escape their sandboxes - The agents *were* given specific constraints on how to succeed at the benchmark, and flagrantly contravened them - The agents did *not* go hunt for the answers to the test (they already had the answers, by cheating); 1200 agents coordinated via tens of thousands of messages over several days on much more ambitious and weird attempts to *not be caught* for cheating, and hacking Hugging Face was one side quest along the way I know there has been an avalanche of different incidents over the past few months, and in some cases the sandboxes were misconfigured or it's not clear how far the agents strayed from what they were told. I have sympathy for anyone struggling to keep up. But the HF incident is distinct, and is actually extremely informative about where AI development is and where it's going. Fortunately there are public writeups that do let us understand at least the basics of what happened. I hope Shyam reads them soon.

something very repulsive to me about modern culture in san francisco. a grotesque malformation of meritocracy where everyone is shaping the hobbies they had as a kid to be Experience. i started college at fourteen. i founded my first company at nine years old. my entire team is imo finalists. the engineers here are CRACKED bro do you have any more CRACKED engineers. it’s people who got hooked on applying to college being enabled by private capital and a genie in their macbook that can create any product they want. it’s creation as consumption. a stage play of the software boom. if we larp hard enough some of us will exit. nobody knows when the lights are going to come on but everyone knows they will so they’re all grabbing as much silverware as they can hold. i don’t know if nothing human makes it out of the near future but i know nothing that comes out of ycombinator will

Do you think Brady had avg athleticism but worked really hard and managed to get to the nfl?

Yes. Exactly this. There are many legitimate criticisms of immigration, and all western nations need to reduce it and reverse it drastically. But hating specifc groups is ridiculous.

People that took SAT prep courses pretty pissed at me right now. I'd be worried they're gonna hurt themselves if they weren't already wearing helmets to school.