matt_heimer

It varies. At the largest medical provider in my region they stipulate "To self-refer for a Heart Scan, you must be male between the ages of 40-65 or female between the ages of 45-70 and have a qualifying risk factor."

Yep, keep everyone part-time so they don't get benefits.

People can be uneducated about medication, acetaminophen overdose is a leading cause of acute liver failure in the United States. A little bit of a barrier and forced information about the concern might not be a bad thing but it doesn't require a doctor. A lot of medication probably falls in the same category but is on the other side of the prescription fence.

And doctors aren't infallible, AI (and rule based systems) can act as an extra safeguard for them as long as they don't blindly trust it.

If the question is in response to the article's implication that 23andMe doesn't offer this anymore, that's not the case. They were bought by their original founder and continue to offer tests including a Neanderthal Ancestry Report.

I don't think we read the same HN. The home page is 25% devoted to AI most of the time and not in a negative way.

One of the nice things about MCP is that the tools have descriptions that provide guidance to the LLM. You can provide documentation in other formats like OpenAPI but its nice that the documentation is so closely coupled with MCP servers.

"Make America Great Again" leans a lot into restorative nostalgia so it's unsurprising that ideas from the past are going to be presented as an idealized goal.

That's what I was doing with my Pro 200 plan, except sometimes life gets in the way and I had couple weeks where I couldn't.

OpenAI must have statistics on what percentage of people with Pro accounts don't maximize the usage in a given. Even if it a very small percentage that is still income for providing nothing.

When you think about it, it's kind of ridiculous that the usage credit is use-it-or-lose it. It really should roll over.

We have to assume that OpenAI knows how to math. Given that the plans all scale usage equally now the benefit of the 500 plan is only for OpenAI. Enough of a percentage of users don't squeeze everything of plans every single month that this profits them more.

They still used multipliers in the email. The relevant passage was:

Starting October 30, 2026, your included usage in ChatGPT Work and Codex will decrease from 20 times to 10 times the ChatGPT Plus allowance. Your GPT-6 Pro limit in Chat will decrease from 200 to 100 messages per week. Your price remains unchanged and you’ll keep your current limits through October 29, 2026.

And:

For those who want even more usage and speed, the new Pro 500 tier offers our highest usage allowance, with 25 times the usage of Plus. It also includes access to Ultrafast, with up to 8 times faster token generation.

I stayed with the 200 plan because of how good a deal it was and because it didn't scale equally.

Now it makes more sense to get 100 plans from both Claude and ChatGPT plan to get diverse models.

It's like OpenAI wants me to give them less money or they are constrained on compute and need to shed load.

The OS one is funny to me, it's been hard to keep osdev.org online due to the insane amount AI bot traffic.