skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The fact that Medicare is legally not allowed to negotiate drug prices (a big handout by Bush administration to Big Pharma) isn't helping either.

That's entirely untrue.

Medicare pays for drugs either through Part B or Part D. In Part B, Medicare takes a discount by fiat, they get the same discount as commercial insurers.

For Part D, Medicare push the drug purchasing to private companies who can negotiate, lowering the cost of premiums.

Saying "Medicare can't negotiate" is technically true if you twist the meaning of the words, I guess?
Yup. Everything you say is true.

I would add though there are a couple places in the low end where one or two cents seem to matter. Or at least product managers think that it matters.

In the mid-range, RISC-V providers (certainly SiFive) are pushing the idea that it's easy/easier to add custom logic to your RISC-V based die. I'm not able to judge whether that's really true, but since they're starting with a clean slate in terms of interface logic then maybe. I can't imagine it being harder to add your own tile to a RISC-V design than an ARM design.

The tools seem to me to be pretty primitive, though. IAR says they'll have a compiler soonish. GCC still emits some "not completely great" code. (I mean, don't get me wrong, it's not horrible, but compared to the mature toolchains like ARM, Intel & MIPS, it's kind of bad.) Though it's certainly getting better over time.

If you look at the architecture though, it does seem a bit easier to implement than ARM and there's more to open designs than just the "free as in beer" argument.

RISC-V seems to be appealing to people who have a strong desire to "play around with" an architecture or a solution or are financially motivated to add logic that's somehow hard to add to ARM.
What is the name of the book/project that someone made to show one how to create a profitable side business without hiring anyone, AND who published their monthly income and list of projects? The guy who mentioned hiring a server guy every now and then.

The beginning of the book was free to read and garbled the letters as you moved along.
A more robust id solution which is applicable to entities with revenue over X would be a constitutional way to solve the issues discussed in the article

The governments most successful crackdowns regulate the intermediaries

So in graph theory, you look at the node you want to control and then take the complement and restrict the nodes in the complement, while prohibiting the target node from interaction with non-restricted nodes

there is no sanction on non-restricted nodes and no sanction on the behavior of the target node, with voluntary compliance entered into by the restricted nodes

Examples of this approach:
Accredited investor regulation (non-accredited citizens not prohibited from investing, businesses risk consequences)

Online gambling prohibition (citizens and online casinos not prohibited, voluntarily licensed financial institutions are prohibited from processing transactions)
But we have immigration laws, and immigration controls, and Trump is finally signing on to funding them. The rate of illegal immigration into the US has been falling, not rising, and a lot of the undermining of the market you're describing is due to the exploitation of legal immigrants, not illegal.

If you want to do something sensible about immigration, focus on reforming the H1B program and improving the standard of living for all Americans and not on this hyperbole and nonsense about a wall and a national emergency that doesn't exist.
Or you have to deny that people in this country illegally is a problem. (I don't agree with that position, but it is a logically valid one.)
Basing things on previous numbers for myself (my insulin has changed since then because the insurance gets to override my doctor and experience).

Assuming

- 50 units of Lantus per day -> 4.5 vials per 3 months @ 300/vial = 1,350 USD/month

- 80 units of Apidra per day -> 7.2 vials per 3 months @ 300/vial = 2,160 USD/month

total = 3,510 USD/month

Now, to be fair, I'm older and have more insulin resistance than a younger diabetic would. Either way, the numbers without insurance add up real quick.
are you the seller or how do you know? (serious question)
Sure thing! Shoot me your email - cory@oppsdaily.com and I'll add you!
The Coming Collapse
Truth. The key metric here is "what does failure cost"? If it is low, then it is an easier decision to make!

Most of the time failure nets a great learning experience regardless of other outcomes.
"It is impossible for any doomed population to grasp how fragile the decayed financial, social and political system is on the eve of implosion."
The reason health insurance became an employment perk was because of a tax loophole created during World War II. From A History of Employee Benefits and Taxation[1]:

> At the same time, the federal controls on wages was leading to significant angst and frustration among the labor market, and the threat of widespread strikes and other forms of labor protest became a serious threat to the economy and war effort. In response, the War Labor Board implemented a new income tax exemption to employers sponsoring employee health plans. This made employer contributions deductible on federal returns, while the benefits were entirely tax-free, to the employees [3].

> What started as a measure to avert crisis and labor strikes ended up becoming an expectation. As more and more employers leveraged these tax-benefitted health plans, American workers grew accustomed to getting their health insurance through work, rather than as individuals. The end of the war and the return home of American GIs exposed more workers to the new system, reinforcing its popularity and utilization [3]. By the 1960s, employer-sponsored health insurance plans had overwhelmingly displaced the formal individual market, a status that has persisted right into the start of the 21st century and provided a central tenant of the Affordable Care Act of 2008 [4].

In my opinion, this is yet another example of how even the most well-intentioned legislation can have disastrous consequences if it fails to account for incentives and second-order effects.

1. https://taxandbusinessonline.villanova.edu/resources-taxatio...
That's not true in almost any circumstance. What "benchmarks" are you referencing?
https://thegedi.org/global-entrepreneurship-and-development-...
Who are proponents of animal cruelty besides dog/cock fighting fans/operators? I doubt that these groups form a majority.
I wouldn't say its so much the UX. The UX even on some crypto projects is just fine (see some EOS projects, apps, and dApps). The problem I see is that what incentive do end users have to use crypto/privacy/blockchain/whatever apps vs the centralized alternatives? Currently? None, because no one gives a damn about their privacy/data. I don't think it will be my generation (millennial) that picks this tech up, I think it will be later generations that have seen our missteps when it comes to digital privacy.
I know people who have worked in this space (fintech permissioned blockchain). Although this was my initial reaction, they tell a different story. One angle to that is along the lines of "you wouldn't believe how bad the thing they use now is".
I think you mean spherical cow ...

But yes.

To avoid adding yet another semi-off-topic comment in the thread I'll add this here: Yes, absolutely, "Spherical [cow|chicken|horse|other]." Cheers!
I spent considerable time evaluating solar installation, in of all places, Tucson. The perfect place, right? I viewed it as replacing a fixed income investment.
(1) The internal rate of return was 1%
(2) It was obvious that any government subsidy was swallowed up by price increases. This was very sobering to a leftist like me.
(3) Grid connection and resell are critical, but there is no way to guarantee the terms of this into the future.

After all that, my wife’s intuition was still crucial in nixing the panels.
That's a facile answer and doesn't explain why so many other big tech companies are signing up for the survelliance economy.

Package theft is a drop in the bucket for Amazon and can't amount to more than the equivalent losses from shoplifting if they ran retail stores.
I just moved some math heavy code from Ruby to Julia and was surprised how easy it was. By far the biggest difference was the 1-based indexing. Moving to Rust would taken me much more time, though in Julia it's harder for me to optimize the low level details.
Here's a sample app in case you're browsing on mobile: https://go.glideapps.com/play/OAm2s2UzjLlDcTlx0JW6

(The Glide app builder cannot be opened on mobile yet)
> The cash balance in the Cash Account is swept to one or more banks (the “program banks”) where it earns a variable rate of interest and is eligible for FDIC insurance. FDIC insurance is not provided until the funds arrive at the program banks. FDIC insurance coverage is limited to $250,000 per qualified customer account per banking institution.

This is the first time I have seen this sort of product. It seems to be a well understood one though. https://www.fdic.gov/regulations/resources/largebankdim/swee...
Goes to show that health care is not the only factor that people consider when starting a business. It's possible that other factors are significantly more important, enough so that people will start businesses in the US despite the poor health care - in my experience the availability of investment and networking opportunities is a huge factor.
I also thought of that. Sometimes it is possible by the following moves to know what the promotion is, although sometimes that is not the case, such as if the piece hasn't moved after that, then you might not be able to know what promotion it is if you do not write it down. (Trying to guess isn't very good unless it can be proven from the sequence of moves.)
> What's the best alternative way to minimize the number of people in the country illegally?

Make it easier to immigrate legally.
1 based indexing? is there any particular reason Julia uses 1 based indexing? seems like a pointless thing to differentiate from other languages
You're naive if you think this about package theft. Show me one place where that is even mentioned on Ring's website or docs.
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Thanks for the link, that's a really interesting article about the Shiller vs Fama debate, though I'm not sure I agree with the conclusion that EMH is fundamentally sound - irrational mispricing a la Shiller seems to me much more plausible than some sort of rational pricing of systemic risk as an explanation for the extreme oscillation of prices around the expected value from future returns.
New Raspberry Pi challenger promises 7x the speed at 2x the price
I'm curious if Crystal was considered given its speed and similarity to Ruby.
Actually, those billions wouldn't have been taxed at all. That was part of the deal: Amazon gets all of the income taxes that are paid by their employees in the first ten years.
Use `gm` (alias for Get-Member)

e.g like

ps | gm

Will tell you exactly the different object types and member methods and properties are returned from `ps`.

ls | gm

Will tell you that ls returns two different object types (directories and files).
If you want to build a simple UI on top of a script for Mac, I recommend Platypus: https://sveinbjorn.org/platypus

The app has been around for years, is open source, and works really well.
The next Usain Bolt? Meet the 7-year-old who might be the fastest kid
...Amazon pays substantially more than 100k per programmer in the US.
Just wondering: How did you decide that you want to depend on Google Sheets as a backend?
This is just another attempt to reckon with the chaos of reality by applying a bunch of formulas and half baked concepts to a fictional life she probably aspires to but doesn’t actually lead.

Life is chaos, our emotions are unpredictable, energy and motivation levels are unreliable. I think the most important thing is you have clarity around your goals, you pursue them at your own pace, and forgive yourself your failings. This type of min/maxing can only lead to undeserved guilt, give yourself a break, we are all just humans.
When to Use a Parser Combinator? When to Use a Parser Generator?
Decentralized social networks are a thing, and will become a much bigger thing, fueled by the catalyst of the aforementioned monarchs of social media taking things way too far.
I was going to agree because I thought you said 1-2 hours/week. There is no way most parents have 1-2 hours free time every day.
Definitely Amazon. They ran ads about it and made a very public campaign that lasted years. Nobody forced them to run a secret auction for who was willing to give them the most taxpayer dollars. Apple, Google, and Facebook are all setting up big new offices in New York right now, they didn't need billions of dollars in subsidies to do it.
Is this one of those things where we pretend raising and murdering animals to eat them isn't cruel?
LeBron (and other athletes) earn playing income in every jurisdiction they play in, not based solely on the jurisdiction that the team is based in. ... This means they are responsible for filing taxes in each of these jurisdiction.

Do you have a citation for this? I'm skeptical. I live and work in Texas. When I travel to my company's office in NJ, effectively earning income for a week in that state, I don't pay NJ income tax on that income.
The US government has censored the broadcast media(tv, radio) since their formation. So we do have some fairly solid evidence that the US government has not wildly abused that power.

I'm not sure this has to be an all or nothing thing. We have some reasonable protections built into the Constitution and case law that back that up.

I understand your hesitation about having the government involved as there are plenty of examples of government influence on the media around the world. I share the same fears.

With that said, do we really have any real world proof that the US government in recent years has over stepped its boundaries in regards to media restrictions?
I was in a similar situation as you except I have a full-time job. I started https://cronhub.io a year ago and it's currently a profitable side-business.

You don't need to focus on the idea too much. I think it's important but seeing other companies solving the same problem should not discourage you to come up with your own solution.

Take a look at these products for inspiration (https://www.indiehackers.com/products) and some of them solve a similar problem but they still co-exist.
DIY array with 17 panels should cost $5000 today with inverters and grid tie - thought I would forgo the grid tie and just get a shit fuck ton of lead acids (probably 30 for another $3000) and have energy for at least a day.

Stop paying these racket companies and their dumbass contracts. The DIY is totally easy.
> We have chosen 1 to be more similar to existing math software.

https://github.com/julialang/julia/issues/558#issuecomment-4...
Most of the electron apps have a very customized look and feel, and default to a website-ish look and feel. Maybe not native but at least users are used to it, and it's not as alien as Swing.
So what you're saying is that private companies can negotiate on Medicare's behalf, but that they can't negotiate themselves. Sounds like they can't negotiate to me.
https://www.pixelbeat.org/cmdline.html#sets
It's common in the area, R and Matlab uses 1-based indexing. Fortran does it by default too.
Of course not. I'm saying that being taller than average is an important physical attribute to playing in the NBA. Of course you have to practice/play enough to have the necessary skill level, and there are other factors that matter. If you're under 6', then those other factors need to make up for the height disadvantage.
Yes if it provides a better product for users.
After a year, Oath (AOL and Yahoo) is rebranding again
I think this is wrong. Certainly the GCC toolchain spits out some remarkably mediocre code. RISC-V compressed is generally on par with Thumb2, and where it differed, Thumb2 seemed to be a tiny bit more dense.

If you compare GCC/ARM with GCC/RISCV the difference isn't too great, but even the IAR ARM compiler gives you noticeable improvements over GCC/RISCV. And ARM's compilers are actually quite good with respect to code size; MUCH better than GCC/RISCV (or even GCC/ARM).

That being said, were I to add some custom instructions, I would COMPLETELY prefer to do it with RISC-V than with ARM.

[] Though the gcc/riscv toolchain is getting better pretty quickly.
> And why would it need mine? Do I have a 1 in 10 million unique take on those things and unique talent? Or am I piling to the rest of the noise?

The results may not be super profound, but the process of creation is self-actualizing and good for the mind.
I don't think that example really shows the benefits of the "Powershell way". There's hardly any need for objects and what-not when solving an easy problem like this; strings will do just fine. With Bash, a close equivalent would be:

for f in {0001..0500}_A.csv; do test -e $f || echo $f; done
There's got to be at least one RESF member on your team. You can sell the technique by telling them they get to use Rust in your web front end.
Not sure about their marketing, but I know how and why people use it in their apartments and homes.

If curious get on one of the mentioned neighborhood apps, see how people use these devices: package theft, suspicious people/cars, vagrants/unstable folks, public disturbance (skaboarders scratching cars, etc.,) early hours canvassing by thieves, etc...
So, your question is: how do you stop a 7.6 billion person stampede toward the edge of a cliff?

You don't.
The page on IBM's site doesn't exist anymore (I found links redirecting from IBM's site to the author's blog).

An archive of the page on IBM's site can be found here[0]. Its formatting is a bit nicer than the blog (but overall pretty close).

[0] https://archive.is/BG3Tr
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Shoppers do not care about package theft or any other loss- making properties of a business.

Show me one place where package theft is even mentioned on Ring's website or in their doc. Is isn't.

It naive to think that Amazon is worried about package theft and that's why they bought Ring. Too many other tech companies have signed up for the surveillance economy for that to be true.

What's the real reason?
Just to clarify since you are responding like you authored the original post. Are you also the `johnnyrockit` account and just signed in under `gketuma`?
To the point that all major FOSS alternatives on the embedded space, including Zephyr from Linux Foundation aren't based on GPL.

Android already removed their dependency on GCC, following Apple's footsteps, and depending on how Fuchsia turns out, eventually the Linux kernel as well.
Reddit Protests and China’s Control of American Culture
Public and Bank holidays for 230 countries
Key Takeaways from Good to Great by Jim Collins
It isn't a rebuttal to this article, but I found this blog post about optimizing javascript to be really, really interesting:

https://mrale.ph/blog/2018/02/03/maybe-you-dont-need-rust-to...
> The people in this facility measure, as a matter of accepted practice, the output of individual programmers and programming groups and have, over the years, developed rather accurate techniques for estimating the time and resources that a project requires. Therefore, any substantial deviation from one of their estimates can be considered a true variance and valid comparisons of group performance are possible.

Seriously, that's the paper we should be reading!
I'm in the same boat as refurb, however these are just anecdotal experiences. It's possible that we're in rich areas (I know I am) and so the quality of the care reflects the clientele. In Canada it's more of a one-size-fits-all approach, but that one size is better than the average US hospital.
If it does not exist, most probably there's no market for it.
Maybe. Consider something though -

In South Africa Twitter is huge. In Germany, Facebook is. Instagram is big in the UK. Now take the possibly not unusual scenario in which a South African lives in London and has family in Germany.

Granpappy in Berlin would search for his grandson in London from Facebook but finds him on Instagram. He'd add the grandson as a friend and see the grandson's Instagram photos in his Facebook feed.

The South African guy in London searches Instagram for his nephew in South Africa, and finds him on Twitter. And sees that Twitter account's posts in Instagram.

If someone on Facebook finds me on Instagram, Instagram could notify me that Mr. X is searching for a profile that matches mine, and ask if I want to allow access to my stuff. If I decline he can't. Federation, with user control and consent.

I think it could work. And even if it was useful to a tiny monitory at least there's real choice. Inclusive of all.
I don't know the breakdown of your schedule.

But, would it be possible to immediately go to bed at the end of the day and then get up two hours early?
> Serious question: almost every economists thinks we shouldn't have corporate taxes.

Oh yeah? Got some evidence for that claim?
Another way to make them to scan would be that there is one space you can just write free text and then next to them you can fill in the circles to indicate rank moved from, file moved from, rank moved to, file moved to, and promotion (if applicable). You can indicate castling by the king's move.
YC's total investments represent $100B in valuation today. There's no evidence that they can't scale that.
There are variants of the joke for both spherical cows and chickens going back decades.

> "Postulate a spherical chicken ...", as presented in a 1973 letter to the editor of the journal Science titled A Spherical Chicken.

Turing discussed spherical horses even earlier :).
That's ahistorical. The reason union membership rates declined is that the industries they dominated shrank. By and large the unions killed their own industries. For example, passenger rail service was bankrupted by the punishing collective bargaining agreements the Brotherhoods coerced passenger rail lines into.

>>Not a lot. But that's the case for all of the west, and certainly also for the US.

Yes, and a large part of that is that any investor knows that any large stable concentration of skilled workers in the West will unionize and began extracting above market wages.

That's why the only unionized sectors in the West that have seen significant growth are those paid for by the taxpayer.
I hope OpenFirmware makes a comeback here.
How about "Congress does not believe Amazon should pay taxes on $11.2B in profits"?

People are mad at the Amazon, IRS or accountants. They need to be calling their Congresspeople.
What's wrong with using react-router? That's just one solution that I've found easy and without significant limitation. Easier than native solutions. I'm predominantly a web developer who uses React and related technologies a lot, which makes me wonder if many of the people who are frustrated with RN aren't exactly the target audience and will hit a learning curve.
We are intrigued by the spreadsheet model of 'programming' and wanted to build upon it. Google Sheets is just one of many such implementations and we plan to have our own for real-time performance and other properties that Sheets doesn't have.

From a practical standpoint, it's a data source where people already have their data. People sign up for Glide and literally create their first app in minutes and it's ready to share. Much of this speed is due to the fact that their data is ready to go.
Beyond the Buzzword: Navigating the Blockchain Hype – A Field Guide
Sweet, but personally, I very much prefer to use a standardized approach like a Docker (or even K8S) PostgreSQL cluster rather than having to deal with a vendor API.