MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by killingtime74 | 2025-10-19 21:29:17+00:00
Don't worry about the law think about the practical impact. It's now completely legal to ignore the patent in Canada so the price in Canada will plummet.

Canadian pharmacies can legally sell it and Americans (and all other foreigners for that matter) traveling there can legally buy it.

Unlike the criminal law, Novo nordisk would have to go after every single person individually and make the case that they are infringing the American patent. This is all without the help of the police or customs, as a private civil matter.

Obviously this would be uneconomic for Novo Nordisk. You can't search anyone as you don't have any warrants, as it's not a crime and then even if you could, you need to prove that the drugs they have on them were purchased in Canada.

Foreigners who currently pay a huge amount of money would only have to make one trip to Canada in however long period it takes for the drugs to expire. I know I would certainly make a day trip if I was using this drug.

Intellectual property law firms offer services to renew and watch registrations like this worldwide and it would have been very simple to have a contract with one of them.
by digianarchist | 2025-10-19 21:29:22+00:00
$450 CAD I believe.

US consumers would have to travel to Canada for injections which isn't practical unless you live on a border town.

It's unlikely to meet the bar for personal importation as you say.

That probably won't stop people from trying. There's already a huge market for illegal compounds and GPL-1 drugs are available alongside the usual testosterone and other steroids.
by inglor | 2025-10-19 21:29:33+00:00
Discussion of the merge request to mark it as nsfw https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroiddata/-/merge_requests/27861 https://gitlab.com/fdroid/admin/-/issues/252

Edit - found more context: https://f-droid.org/2025/09/29/google-developer-registration... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45409794

I still don't get it to be honest.
by 0cf8612b2e1e | 2025-10-19 21:29:54+00:00
I always wonder-in this case of such an epic company fuck up, does anyone ever get fired? Or is responsibility so diffuse that nobody is ultimately responsible?

Pharma companies are really nothing more than holders of time-limited, expensive, exclusive IP. The number one priority should be to maintain those protections as long as possible. How could any patent be allowed to lapse, even if there was limited commercial value, let alone, a blockbuster drug making billions?
Show HN: 18yo first iOS app: blocks distracting apps and unlocks with QR/barcode
by alhart | 2025-10-19 21:30:17+00:00
I built Recode because I realized I was spending 8-10 hours a day on my phone pretty consistently. I tried other screen time apps but I found them too easy to bypass and end my blocks whenever I wanted to use an app.

My solution was to build an app blocker app that makes users have to scan a physical QR/barcode to take a break from their app blocks. This helped me be able to get my screen time down to just a few hours everyday since I didn't want to physically get up and go across the house to get my barcode.

Anyways, since it worked for me I felt like sharing it.

App store link: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/recode-screen-time-control/id6...
by cal_dent | 2025-10-19 21:30:28+00:00
Think most people do get this. More technology, more growth and innovation is fantastic and people see the benefits (even its taken for granted at times). The problem is the in-between stage between new technology and huge society ramifications which, rationally, people should be concerned with. If you fall on the right side of that on the other side, great but many don't and that's happened time after time. Society doesn't move in a straight line up despite what lots of condensed charts say - collateral damage occurs
by geerlingguy | 2025-10-19 21:30:43+00:00
I'm happy to see this exist; I've considered putting together something similar using the data I compile for https://sbc-reviews.jeffgeerling.com/ - but it's surprisingly complex.

One of the hardest things is settling on specific tests, and ensuring tests are run in an extremely standardized environment. I do my best, but a test lab I am not.

It's good to have a quick way to get relative comparisons, even if imperfect.
by retsl | 2025-10-19 21:31:16+00:00
Not without approval, see https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Clipboard_A... or https://web.dev/articles/async-clipboard#security_and_permis.... But that is not relevant here.

Instead of the .torrent files, the compromised website served a .zip file, which contained a .exe. When opened, it shows a GUI to select a Xubuntu version and a button to generate the link. When that button was clicked, the malware showed a download link to the user and, in the background, deployed a second stage to %APPDATA%\osn10963\elzvcf.exe and executed it.

The second stage monitors the clipboard for cryptocurrency addresses which it will replace with attacker-controlled ones. The second stage is also added to HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\ to ensure it is run whenever the user logs in.

Both stages have some limited anti-debugging and anti-VM functionality.
by rootusrootus | 2025-10-19 21:31:45+00:00
If you have a prescription from a provider in Canada, the limit for personal use is 90 days. As long as it is a legal drug in the US -- which I don't think necessarily includes that it's patented here, just that it's approved by the FDA.

> There's already a huge market for illegal compounds and GPL-1 drugs are available alongside the usual testosterone and other steroids.

The peptide and oils markets are both big, but largely separate -- the peptides folks don't seem to want to be associated with oils. Within peptides, GLP1s definitely dominate, though the other options are pretty popular. In my experience it seems like GLP1s are kind of a "gateway peptide" -- a lot of folks start with a GLP1 on the gray market, and then start to branch out and try the other options available.
by jrflowers | 2025-10-19 21:31:58+00:00
Yep. I once met a guy that was somehow just as proud of his two pack per day cigarette habit as he was his decades of sobriety because “at least it’s not heroin”. Dude had severe COPD and died from something lung-related a year later in his mid-50s.

People that declare themselves immune to death because they avoid [x substance] can have some insane ideas about diet, exercise, sleep, stress and [y substance]. Believing that the world is simple and controllable is a dangerous intoxicant.
by Arch-TK | 2025-10-19 21:32:20+00:00
UUIDs take up 36 bytes as strings so store them natively as 16 bytes instead if you can.

This is still 2x the space of an auto increment number.

This is overhead for every table, every index, and every relationship.

That might be acceptable in your case though, the case where it became unacceptable in my experience was in a MSSQL Express context. But it was an idiotic decision to use MSSQL to begin with in that scenario.

Regarding random clustered indexes. Broadly speaking you want your clustered index to be made up of some incremental unique set of fields.

I mean, technically there is not a massive issue, but the largest tables in your database will be the non-indexes (indexes are just tables) and you want your big, mainly append only, tables to be nicely compact so a bunch of space isn't taken up by half full pages.

But again, I should honestly have clarified that the problem was mainly an MSSQL Express problem where databases are limited to 10GiB.

You might honestly be fine, but do look for documentation on your specific database.
by mschuster91 | 2025-10-19 21:32:26+00:00
> Now it is all about AI stuff that I do not give a fuck about.

Copilot is now a hardware key on the keyboard. The audacity, messing around with people's muscle memory just to push more slop.

Microsoft truly has gotten too large to exist and needs to be broken up finally and permanently. In fact that holds true for any company found to abuse their existing financial power to push through slop or other unprofitable shit to outcompete others by sheer user count.
by _heimdall | 2025-10-19 21:32:36+00:00
It isn't really general intelligence if it doesn't compete, or outcompete us, at a large enough portion of knowledge work jobs that we are forced out of the labor market.

Also don't forget that plenty of knowledge work is focused on automating manual labor. If AGI is a thing, it will eventually be used to also outcompete us on physical work too.

People like to point to plumbers as an example of a safe(r) job, and it is. But automating plumbing tasks is most difficult because the entire industry is designed to be installed by humans. Without that constraint it would likely be much easier to design plumbing systems and robots to install and maintain them more efficiently than what we have today with human-optimized plumbing.
by Terr_ | 2025-10-19 21:32:41+00:00
> based on a coin flip

To simplify: Yes.

While it seems foolish to discount all effect from individual agency or merit, we do know that random chance is sufficient to lead to the trends we see. [0] Much like how an iceberg always has some ~10% portion above the water: The top water molecules probably aren't special snowflakes (heh) compared to the rest, we're mostly just seeing What Ice Does.

Combine that with how humans seem hardwired to dislike/ignore random chance, and it's reasonable to think we overestimate the importance of personal qualities in getting rich. Consider how basically anyone flipping a coin starts thinking of of causal stories like "hot streaks" or "cold streaks" or "now I'm overdue for a different outcome", even when they already know it's 50/50.

________________

A simple trading simulation of equally-smart equally-lucky agents still demonstrates oligarchic outcomes [0]. When you also add a redistributing effect (like taxing the rich to keep the poor alive) it generates outcomes that resemble real-world statistics for different countries.

> If you simulate this economy, a variant of the yard sale model, you will get a remarkable result: after a large number of transactions, one agent ends up as an “oligarch” holding practically all the wealth of the economy, and the other 999 end up with virtually nothing.

> It does not matter how much wealth people started with. It does not matter that all the coin flips were absolutely fair. It does not matter that the poorer agent's expected outcome was positive in each transaction, whereas that of the richer agent was negative. Any single agent in this economy could have become the oligarch—in fact, all had equal odds if they began with equal wealth.

[0] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-inequality-ine...
by FridayoLeary | 2025-10-19 21:33:04+00:00
No it isn't. It's about filling in quotas ignoring talent and objectifying people based on their ethnicity, race and gender. It exists in order to assuage the guilt of elite white liberals. You just moved the goalposts to include things that nobody can argue against in order to make it sound resonable. My issue is that it's racist because it discriminates for people based on the colour of their skin.
by giancarlostoro | 2025-10-19 21:34:05+00:00
If it wasn't for the fact that they totally only targeted Bible apps and ignored things like reddit when doing this I would say its just an honest mistake, but they only seemingly marked Bible related apps. In one instance the developers app isn't even an app that contains the Bible, its a Bible reading tracker so you can keep track of which verses you have read thus far, still marked NSFW. There was not enough thought put into this ban and it only seems to target one demographic of apps.
by nickjj | 2025-10-19 21:34:27+00:00
I haven't gotten into battery optimization yet but I will say, I picked up a laptop not too long ago and put Arch Linux on it with Niri (window manager).

I am getting about ~4 hours of active usage where the display is on full time and I'm doing things (code editing web apps and scripts, running Docker containers, browsing, listening to music, etc.). I wouldn't mind more battery life out of it if possible, but it's not the end of the world.

What I'm really happy about is the price / performance ratio of Nimo's laptops.

I picked this one up: https://www.nimopc.com/products/nimo-15-6-n155-r7-6800h-fhd-...

It was $575 on Amazon a few months ago. It's a 15" 1080p IPS display, Ryzen 7 6800H (8 core / 16 threads), 32 GB of memory, 1TB SSD with an integrated AMD 680M GPU. That GPU can use up to 8 GB of system memory as its VRAM (you can configure the amount in the BIOS). It also has a 2 year warranty.

I initially got it as a travel laptop since I mainly use desktop machines. The keyboard is good and has a backlight, the trackpad is good to the point where I don't use trackpads much at all and I don't feel like it's in the way or a problem. Niri is super trackpad optimized too, I'm using 3-4 finger gestures a lot.

It's quite fast for what I'm doing with it and like it a lot. Once I'm back from traveling, I'll write an extensive blog post on my experience with it.

I don't work for the company or have any affiliation with them, I bought it with my own money. The only interaction I had with them was calling their support before I bought it to see if it was still returnable if I formatted the drive and put Linux on it. They said absolutely, it's no problem. I had no intent on returning it unless the hardware died early. For reference when I called I got a human very quickly and they were friendly.
by ionwake | 2025-10-19 21:34:46+00:00
after working in many companies for decades I can guarantee that the person responsible is some middle manager, who will just blame one of her/his workers who had that piece of work "deprioritised" to instead focus on the styling of a spreadsheet. The paper trail will point to the manager, who will just claim it was allocated to a problem character.

The cartharsis comes in knowing that them firing the innocent just keeps them repeating the mistake.
by rahimnathwani | 2025-10-19 21:34:54+00:00
AIUI, because they let the patent expire, the drug was not subject to price regulation by the government. So they could charge whatever.

And during most of that time, they were still protected by 'data exclusivity' which means that any generic producer could not get approved without doing their own clinical trials, until 8 years had passed.

So they gave up some period of exclusivity in return for being able to charge a higher price when they still had a monopoly.
by _heimdall | 2025-10-19 21:35:46+00:00
Anecdotal, but I feel like I've done a better job curating diverse opinions in my feed than any algorithm has.

Surely an algorithm focused on that would best me, but the only ones out there today are only motivated by selling ad space and data. Its a bit of an unfair fight today since that isn't my goal, but I don't expect anyone to fund a social media platform with similar goals to mine in their algorithm.
by inglor | 2025-10-19 21:36:19+00:00
They seem to disagree https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroiddata/-/merge_requests/27861#...

> We don't flag general apps, e.g., ebook readers and browsers. But bible readers are not general apps. They are designed to read bible and there are NSFW contents in bible.

Honestly I think their argument is pretty weak, especially since like you said in this case it was a bible reading tracker.
by giancarlostoro | 2025-10-19 21:36:34+00:00
This is my issue with it as well, but also, why did the PR only target Bible apps? Seemingly in a very lazy way at that. Had they taken time to understand how each app works and its purpose, they would have only flagged apps that contain the Bible itself. I would hope reddit and other apps that actually contain graphic NSFW content are next?
by madaxe_again | 2025-10-19 21:36:48+00:00
I mean, yes, these are religious texts, but if we are to judge them on a level with other content, they absolutely warrant a warning.

The abrahamic religious texts intersect largely around the Old Testament, which is a smorgasbord of genocide, slavery, casual murder, infanticide, sexual abuse of all flavours, and all the rest.

I guess the question is whether religious texts should be exempt from content warnings, in which case one should expect films like “The Passion of the Christ” to be available for general audiences, not R.
by mschuster91 | 2025-10-19 21:36:50+00:00
> I think there is more to it: IT desktop admins mostly trained on the microsoft ecosystem, GPOs, etc.

Compliance checkboxes. That is the true strength of Microsoft - in 365 you are pretty much compliant with everything out of the box or you at least get the tools and reports to achieve compliance, and even the stuff where compliance is questionable (i.e. GDPR), no one will bother you as an individual company too much because any court would throw that charge out for being unreasonable.

"No one ever got fired for buying IBM" is just as valid today, it's just Microsoft. If you are a large company, there is virtually no alternative than the unholy triumvirate of Microsoft (Azure, AD, O365), SAP and Oracle (Java + DB) - deviating from that means lots of paperwork.
by shripadt | 2025-10-19 21:36:56+00:00
This is a fantastic tip, thank you for sharing! It reminded me of an article similar to this one:

Brain Waves Synchronize when People Interact (The minds of social species are strikingly resonant): https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/brain-waves-synch...

"... when people converse or share an experience, their brain waves synchronize. Neurons in corresponding locations of the different brains fire at the same time, creating matching patterns ..."

"The experience of “being on the same wavelength” as another person is real, and it is visible in the activity of the brain."

"Synchrony may be a sign of shared cognitive processing ..." "The mouse study suggested another level of meaning for synchrony: it predicts the outcomes of future interactions."
by bigyabai | 2025-10-19 21:37:12+00:00
Does it matter? F-Droid is a distributor, they're allowed to reject apps they consider controversial or outside their wheelhouse. The person who spoke up was correct, the ruling is consistent and the definition of NSFW content makes sense to me. Evangelism isn't exempted from being called and labelled as slopware.

These people can perfectly well distribute their apps without F-Droid's help, they're not refusing to sign their app or somesuch.
by ryandrake | 2025-10-19 21:37:27+00:00
> Unless your theory is that the median voter is kind of an idiot who doesn't understand how the government works and goes based on vibes.

I think the median voter looks at what a politician says they are going to do, assumes they are going to do it, and votes based on that. Say what you will about the Trump administration, they are doing exactly what they were shouting from the rooftops that they would do. Grief people they don't like, sow chaos and division, start a devastating trade war on multiple fronts, and cause daily chaos and drama. They said it loud and clear for years before the election. They got elected. And, then they did it!

If I had anything good to say about these guys it's that they were 100% transparent about their plans and they followed up on them right out of the gate. Exactly zero people should be surprised at what they delivered. It's actually pretty impressive how faithfully they are delivering on all of their promises of destruction and chaos! In fact, polls of Republicans show consistent, strong and enthusiastic approval of the administrations actions, as they themselves fall deeper into poverty and hopelessness.
by TMWNN | 2025-10-19 21:37:54+00:00
Quoting myself <https://np.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/1md4wde/the_most_va...>:

>Novo Nordisk did not file for a renewal because of a mistake, or someone going on vacation, or anything like that.

>Novo Nordisk decided that the additional years of patent protection were not worth it compared to the advantage of the drug no longer being under the jurisdiction of the PMPRB <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patented_Medicine_Prices_Revie...>. Whether that decision was financially correct in light of GLP-1's subsequent application to weight loss, I do not know. However, again, it was not a silly mistake on Novo Nordisk's part.
by simoncion | 2025-10-19 21:38:05+00:00
> ...definitely [a] 24/7 SLA is what Proxmox needs to break into the enterprise sector I have experience with.

Well, their FAQ says:

For different timezones, contact one of our qualified Proxmox resellers who will be able to offer you help with Proxmox solutions in your timezone and your local language.

Consulting the list of resellers that that page links to finds one that blatantly advertises 24x7 support, and it's likely that others will offer it if asked. See [0].

[0] <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45637767>
by giancarlostoro | 2025-10-19 21:38:24+00:00
Again though, one of the apps has NONE of the Bible content, it is only "I've read Genesis 1:1" type of stuff, it is to track what you've read...

As pointed out in the PR... there's violent games with NSFW descriptions that were not flagged.

The fact they're ignoring so much is what makes me think this has nothing to do with NSFW content removal.
by RIMR | 2025-10-19 21:38:35+00:00
Yeah, look at the state of our freedom of religion. Conservative Christians love to push the idea that religious freedom includes the right to legislate from scripture, but honestly, it feels like people should know better.

People tend to think that when you get the government involved with something you are passionate about, that passion will now influence the government. Still, the reality is that you're handing control over that passion to the government.

This is how a "Christian America" would play out. Whatever beliefs are held by those in power would be written into law, despite the actual opinions of America's Christians. The government would declare itself an authority over Christianity and would start telling churches how to operate.

This was already partially true in red states before marriage equality (and probably still true today, to some extent). Progressive churches that believed same-sex marriages were holy in the eyes of God were told by the state that they could not perform same sex marriages - in some cases, even barring a pure non-binding ceremony as a form of "attempted marital fraud".

If you are an American Christian and you care about your right to worship freely without government interference, you should cherish secularism. Enforcing the Bible as a matter of law means that interpretations of the Bible you disagree with will be enforced against you. Requiring prayer in schools will lead to vicious fights between teachers and parents over which prayers are the "correct" ones. Literally any piece of scripture you write into law will become controversial even amongst Christians. But still, people insist that their freedom would somehow be enhanced.

And this doesn't even touch on the fact that a Christian America would turn non-Christians, especially Muslims and Jews, into a lower class of citizens.

It is unfortunate that he current powers controlling all branches of our government are primarily interested in taking rights away, and that those who voted for it think that this is freedom.