skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Meanwhile some poor fool is spending over $50,000 a year to get an MFA in music always do your market research before going into tremendous debt to enter a field of work that no longer exists.
The "bigass bottle" of Ibuprofen isn't available in Germany and won't be, the limitation in size (IIRC 50 pieces) and prescription-free dosage (400mg) is to avoid having too much of it easily available due to the side-effects on the kidneys.

The theory is that it makes you think twice if you have to visit the pharmacy all the time. They won't sell you 10 packages at once either. Unless you rotate pharmacies all the time, at some point they will notice and ask you to consult the doctor to root-cause the issue.

That's the value pharmacies (are supposed to) bring, and it shows in that they have pharmacologically trained staff, while those drug stores hire whoever is able to operate a cash register.
The US accounts for roughly 50% of Roche pharmaceutical revenue, so pretty much.
Insulin is a good example of a medicene that is essential to the patient ( anyone with Type 1 diabetes).
This is fair. Both sides of the debate have made this ideological.
The pro advertising side make it sound like it is your capitalist duty to suffer ads.

No. Fuck that, I block annoyances in my life if I can. And I still buy crap don't worry.
correct..the for profit layer is fleecing the entire society.

Socialism for profit
> How is saying "it's shit" is "constructive feedback" ?

It means the contribution isn't up to the standards and therefore can't be integrated, and thus informing the contributor that he needs to improve his work in specific aspects in order to avoid similar problems.

> What is the constructive part ?

You're focusing too much on irrelevant aspects of the communication (i.e., which and how a word was used) and in the process ignoring (intentionally or not) what was actually said. Typically linus includes specific comments on the problems present or caused by a contribution, whether in code or the development process. In the very least it's very easy to understand that this sort of process works through negative feedback.
There’s a gray area where insurance goes from protecting against unpredictable losses to becoming a subsidy from those experiencing fewer losses to those experiencing more losses. In a true insurance market, people’s entire health is not insurable, since it’s guaranteed to have losses therefore it’s simply a subsidy from those who are not currently experiencing losses to those who are.

What would be more akin to actual insurance is insuring specific events within a specific timeframe, such as broken bones from year x to year y, and then the insurance can charge more to people who play sports versus people who don’t, since obviously they would experience more losses, just like people who drive more pay more for auto insurance.

However, this all gets murky with our requirement to force everyone to be provided with healthcare and people being in control of some things about their health (via diet and lifestyle) and not others (genetics, environment) and the inability to tease out causal factors.

The primary purpose of health “insurance” in today’s world is to serve as an agent for the buyer since the buyer typically has no idea about what they’re buying from healthcare providers and at what cost, so theoretically, the doctors, pharmacists, and statisticians employed by insurance companies can do proper vetting of treatments for the patient.
Scotland doesn't even have prescription charges - so nothing to pay here at all.
Well, Airbus has also had its share of issues with bad pitot tube data combined with automation leading to catastrophic accidents. [0] From the evidence so far it seems Boeing made a similar mistake. It's not the first and unlikely to be the last.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_France_Flight_447
It's interesting and a little surprising to me that this is the case (the marijuana stigma in the younger generation). I stayed in a hostel in Seoul last year, and everyone was lighting up, including Koreans.
Yes, and so to some extent so does RISC-V. Some RISC-V ISA extensions are still under development, but getting getting stable. Also the RISC-V is in comparison to MIPS a cleaner ISA. No delay slots for example.
>In the UK. It costs £0 to see the doctor and for the inhaler now is £8.80.

In Scotland prescriptions are "free", i.e., I don't pay anything for my inhalers, or anything else prescribed by my doctor.

This costs the Scottish health service £1.3bn (https://www.scotsman.com/news/bill-for-prescriptions-in-scot...). I don't know how sustainable that cost will be, but I don't hear anyone complaining about the policy, except for opposition parties.
500 Euro per month? What is the name of your insurance provider?

I have never heard of such outrageously priced healthcare plans (private providers excluded, of course).
As I understand it, in the US you also have to pay taxes. The difference is that you also have to pay through the nose for healthcare because it's not covered by your taxes.
I can see more innovation if big tech were broken up. Right now I think technology is in a stasis funk compared to the last 10 - 15 years. What's next a smart phone with 3 cameras that folds in a predetermined fashion - yawn. We need more innovation.
Binance seeking “diplomatic immunity” to avoid regulators; say cryptofund execs
Yes. That's the "social" in "social market economy".
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There have been twin studies that show genetics plays a huge part in schizophrenia and ADHD.

It's well known that trauma plays a part, but it is obviously not the whole story.

Twin studies:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4623659/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21336711
It would be amusing to write a basic web browser in JavaScript and call it Mosaic...
The classical arts used to be the vectors of vital cultural information (music, poetry and story telling are mnemonic techniques).

We then invented writing which made those media mostly obsolete.

We're still drawn to those disciplines though, because they provided an evolutionary advantage for a long time, making the trait of liking those things quite stable (since pleasure leads to practice, and practice leads to skill).

The same goes for gossiping and superstition.
The primary engineering challenge of VR is motion sickness caused by a mismatch of visual and inner ear information, which is extremely well established as causing people to throw up in a wide range of contexts outside of VR. The principles behind modern VR tech are decades old - the reason we're getting consumer VR now, in the late 2010s, is because commodity computing hardware is now fast enough to render scenes and track heads with a low enough latency to prevent motion sickness. However, low hardware latency is necessary but not sufficient to prevent motion sickness - the application developer also has a responsibility not to throw the user around in virtual space without corresponding real-world movement. A great many VR applications do not respect this principle - two such programs were mentioned by
JabavuAdams at the top of the thread. Hence, the primary cause of nausea on VR is motion sickness caused by content.

Yes, even in a decent VR experience you will get headaches after an hour or two, possibly or even probably from vergence-accomodation conflict. But that's entirely secondary - you won't last more than a couple minutes on a virtual roller coaster.
I remember one of the big selling points of the Dreamcast in 1998 was volumetric lighting.
It was just for cost comparison: The "equal active substance" (50x400mg vs 100x200mg) package is already cheaper in the US, and they have those larger boxes that skew things even more.

So yes, there are drugs that are cheaper in the US. There's also pretty solid reasoning behind why you won't find the larger packs in Germany: if you're in need of that, go to a doctor instead of ruining your kidneys through self-medication.
In Germany, and this might apply to other states of the EU too, you'll pay a fixed percentage of your loan for healthcare services. For Germany it's around 14-15% of your monthly income before taxes. So, if you earn well, you'll also have to pay a bigger sum for healthcare services.
Ohh, I actually bought your app last year sometime. :)
That's kinda made me use Paddle in the past. :D
>I wonder how many "data scientists" around don't know what a normal distribution is

What is with the poisonous gate-keeping in the data science field/community? Is it a bunch of PhDs stuck doing marketing, bitter that people in the business domain are competing with them?

What do you care if a "data scientist" doesn't know what a normal distribution is? Are you worried about them as competition? If that person is getting hired in a role over you, maybe you should look in the mirror or be happy you dodged a bullet at said company. Easy.

I realize you're being facetious, but I always think back to that post here where someone asked how to become a data scientist and one of the replies said you needed to be able to code all the algorithms from scratch in C, C++, CUDA etc etc. Hilarious.

The purpose of data science is solving problems with the help of data. Everything else is semantics. In the real world most of the value comes from pretty simple solutions. Most people aren't working for Google X. Most experiments aren't critical. Uncertainty is acceptable. The inane trivia --which I liken to stupid whiteboard coding challenges-- becomes less important as the tooling improves. Better get used to it, or the ambitious analysts and BI people will eat your lunch.
There is other ways to see ads. The companies don't pay money for advertising, they pay to make poor people buy things they don't need. If they would pay the site owner directly, maybe they would not be as poor?
It doesn't need to contain new information in order to be relevant. Their behavior may not affect you but I can guarantee that it affects other people, such as myself. I believe doing what's the morally right thing to do is more important than earning a few extra bucks.
> In the UK whilst there is free healthcare etc and its a country of 66m, the healthcare has been getting worse and worse. The appointment queues go up to years for a simple thing in London.

Agreed. In addition to that, private health insurance is extremely cheap in London compared to the USA, and you can see a GP or specialist the same day if you have this.

That doesn't mean it's not extremely unfair to those that can't afford private health insurance, as treatment should be needs based, not finance based, but it's also difficult to campaign against when you're a beneficiary of a broken system.
JavaScript naming conventions: do’s and don’ts – freeCodeCamp.org
800mg is only available by prescription (of course, you could just take 2x400mg, but that means going to the pharmacy even more often, which works out as designed)
Of course not, but you can't expect there to be no change in price when demand keeps going up.

That card you just used has two sides: people who are born insulin-dependent are paying more in part because of others who could have avoided developing the illness.

Address the cause of the demand increases, and you're on the way to addressing the price as well as improving peoples' quality of life.

I used to be a heavy smoker and although I've quit, I'm acutely aware that if I ever need a cancer related transplant I'll probably not be given the same priority as someone with a congenital cause - and with good reason.

I made a lifestyle choice that can have serious consequences for my health - and the same goes for people who choose to overindulge on shitty food.
Also, you need domain expertise to do good feature engineering and to develop good tailored architectures. These are quite critical to obtaining SOTA results, so far as I can tell. People like to pretend that deep learning and "AI" have made feature/model engineering unnecessary, and it's just not true.
Part of what js does in that ecosystem is support independent accounting for the advertiser of whether their ad was viewed and by who/what...which on the margins of course can still be tricked/gamed, but which for mainstream advertising is important.
I hope they're going to release it later, after cleaning it up. Quake 2 is GPL'd, so I think they're compelled to, and it would also be a good example of how to use the VKRay API and what it looks like in an actual game.
"it's still a medicine. Ibuprofen is not totally risk free and therefore needs to be sold by "professionals""

I don't know if you're using medicine as an official term here.

There are plenty of things that are medicine like, plenty of things that aren't risk free.

Peanut butter isn't risk free if you're allergic to nuts. Honey isn't risk free for young children. Alcohol isn't risk free.
The Dark Side of Sleep Hygiene
“Almost never,” except when you are. For example, Milo. All over social media for a good long while, along with staffers, until the money behind him dried up.
I was in a similar situation. I started working at 17 as well, and felt like I wasting my time at school. I stuck with it and put in minimal effort, just enough to pass all the classes and the exams. Depending on where you are in the world, this is a good idea or not. This worked against me a little bit later in life, when after a long break, I applied to a university abroad and I had a hard time explaining my relatively low grades.

I am glad I stuck with it. Not having a high school degree is frowned upon and it'll not be fun to explain that down the road.
Society does not take kindly to people who don't finish high school. You are already going to have a harder time being a youngster in the industry, don't make it harder by not having a high school diploma.

It's going to suck. I know. But please, do us a favor and stick with it. If you want to talk, contact me by e-mail (see my profile).

In the mean time, maybe you could talk to your school. At my high school they were pretty appreciative and they let me do some software projects for the school. It was extra work for me, but at least it made me feel going to school was not a total waste of time.
how do you imagine they would police it?
In other words: The direct cost of the insulin for the average German is not $55, but $0 - since it is covered by the mandatory health insurance.

That said, don't worry that you do not get enough back from your health insurance. This will come soon enough when you get older ;-)
when everyone has one
I can't see this comment in any of the post; care to give a link reference?

Doing a google search on the above comment leads to this HN comment...
Ask HN: SaaS MVP – form company before or after getting paying customers?
I'm in the UK if it makes any odds.

I am about to release the MVP of my first ever Saas product which (hopefully!) will have paying customers. I know I'll need to deal with the business sides of things at some point - form a company, create a company bank account, track money in/out for tax purposes. Should I do all of this before getting a paying customer? Or afterwards..?

The MVP philosophy would surely be afterwards but perhaps for legal reasons this is undesirable. What did you guys do?
It is true that in pop music and movies the best art does not necessarily win, but even bad movies have some level of professionalism that is absent from indie productions.

YouTube becomes the cartel these days, and tries to drive down the price for "content" to zero.

It is far more evil for artists than any middleman taking 60% or more of a substantial sum of money.
The Role of Trust in Hardware Design
Indeed. Perhaps people aren't arguing with paid operatives directly, but there are a lot of people repeating positions that were injected into the dialogue by paid operatives.
Booked this guy for Jesus because he's on the path to finding truth!
I pay into the system and have no issues doing so, when you think about it, at some point you too will be at the mercy of some(let's hope not) disease or someone you know will and you'd be glad you won't be going bankrupt. A healthy society is a productive society. if that's socialism then I'm all for it.
By "an activist group" do you mean "people against actual slavery"?
Thanks for chiming in @tomchristie!
Not sure what can you be skeptical about. The difference from RT Quake to Quake it’s only that the lights are not precompiled at the beginning of the level. Any other game just need to rework the light baking step to use RTX and job done.

The only downside that can be pointed out is that you are hardware dependent. Would be amazing to see thing in a console, all games with dynamic lighting would help developer and gamers.
Are We Changing or Dying?
As a sibling comment has pointed out, infrastructure is a good example. UK train networks are a superb example of something that did work great until privatised.

The NHS is a good example too, but it requires one to look under the hood and see how many functions have been outsourced to private companies over the last ~20 years.
this is the challenge with a global marketplace, where prices are set based on where the developers live, but are paid by people living in different economic conditions :)

I use Buxfer at the moment, which has a simple paid plan at 4.99, and a more complete one at 9.99 (with advanced features). I think offering more than one plan is a good idea, to catch different users at different price points. Unless your price is low, but at 20$+, its a really high-entry point for me
> The US is subsidizing the development of these new drugs to the world...

This is, apparently, a myth: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/02/11/big-p...
Fair enough, but the way I meant it, included R&D in the production costs.
FWIW the companies responsible for those ads are Taboola, Outbrain, and Revcontent. I posted one especially egregious example last week on r/adops:

https://www.reddit.com/r/adops/comments/b0n57e/its_embarrass...
Hi aitchnyu, just a heads up that someone linked to your (excellent) questions in the ElixirForum and I have replied to them there: https://elixirforum.com/t/phoenix-liveview-is-now-live/20889...
That's the greatest and most underrated opportunity for F-Droid.
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They do the same in France for car insurance, they give you a box you put in your car, which has at the very least a GPS module (but most probably have tons of other sensors)

I think they are mostly targeting young drivers for which insurance can be pretty expensive, and knowing well that most young adults these days don't care much about privacy
I know a few people who work in prison education programs and the prisons themselves are the biggest barrier to education. There are so many restrictions on the activities and resources available to prisoners that it's difficult conduct any educational activity.
No.
In UK almost all data are free of charge, you just need to find it.
Do you really think that a crime-free society is possible? And that it's achievable with social and racial homogeneity? That's pretty nazi to me
> Nordic countries have low crime rates to begin with

Nature or nurture? If nurture, then it's at least highly plausible that their prison systems have something to do with it. Recidivism is also much lower.
hi! i'm using org-mode for my projects, tasks and general info & planning. Didnt occur to me to use it for finances as well. Will take a look :)
Show HN: Calendar-plus- Python library for calendar that displays query objects
> that shows many websites has not been updated to work with latest PHP 7+, which I'd say is quite shameful

Speaking as an ex-hoster here who had to look after a fleet of shared servers running PHP (000's of sites) for 15 years, sadly life is not that simple in the trenches. The major problem with PHP is breaking changes. Even within the 5.x releases there were enough breaking changes such that upgrading from say 5.3 to 5.6 could break a site. The jump from 5.6 to 7.x has enough breaking changes to make you cry. I think there should have been a commitment to maintain 5.6 for the next ten years, if only for security fixes.

Now I'm not suggesting that developers shouldn't go back and fix stuff that breaks because the PHP folks removed/altered that functionality (with the good intentions of encouraging more secure programming, for example), but there's a labour cost and someone needs to pay for that time.

There's also functionality in PHP that shouldn't have been removed (register_globals) but should have been defaulted to disabled. Sure register_globals is insecure but what we saw were folks adding the same functionality back, just google for "php emulate register_globals".

And don't get me started about the annoyance that was removing mysql_* support. Those exact same insecure string concatenated queries are still being executed via mysqli_* and the PDO libraries. In my experience, binning mysql_* didn't make a damn bit of difference when it came to sql injection attacks.

Don't get me wrong, I admire the efforts of the PHP core team, but they made a rod for our already sore support backs whenever a new release of PHP shipped because of some fairly unnecessary BC's.
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I'm glad my comments are useful to someone.

On the 'reality' of mental illnesses, if I can be a little less serious, I do still recognise (as did my favourite professor) that it is still a very odd position to be in, to say that the illness must exist because of the presence of the treatment. Suppose that the treatment had for some reason not been invented, does that mean the illness didn't? Did the illness become 'real' the moment the treatment was discovered to be effective?
But how often do you need Ibuprofen, so this matters? I think I'm using much less than a small package per year.
It is technically discrimination though, as the company would be treating unfit people differently than fit people on the average. I think that the word discrimination is unjustly given a sort of taboo meaning in that any actual discrimination is horrible. And yet nearly everything that we do relies on discriminating.
I guess that works fine when you have money to throw at :) My current status is to know the money you have at any point in time (or estimates), to know more or less what is throwable and what is not ;)
> In reality, it's everything but.

Well, if you have evidence of that then my interest would be piqued. But I must admit I suspect you're just being cynical. By far and away most of the ads I see are honest but with an agenda.

Manipulative is a debatable term. Advertisers are manipulating you in the same way I'm manipulating you right now - I have an opinion and I want you to agree with me. I don't really see how you can justify getting unhappy about that. It seems pretty reasonable given that they are ultimately funding whatever it is you are looking at at the time.

> catalogs, phone books, trade shows, and Internet search engines

Those are literally compendiums of ads, except search engines. But in this instance, the consumer is proactively searching for ads. Clearly the ad is providing some value to consumers. And the idea that consumers should attend trade shows to work out what their options are is patently absurd.

And working out exactly what search engines would look like if they were not ad supported is beyond me. I assume you'd be paying some sort of subscription free for the pleasure of basically googling ads. Seems a bit backwards.

> People can trivially...

No they can't, decisions about things outside a person't domain of expertise aren't as easy as you want to pretend they are. What the consumers really want is (a) cheap and (b) one of what everyone else has. Advertising isn't going to help with (a) but it is fantastically good at (b).

Figuring out what everyone else is doing is hard work. That is one of a couple of value-adding opportunities for an ad.
https://github.com/AliasIO/Wappalyzer/blob/master/src/apps.j...

Handy reference from the Wappalyzer browser extension for you.