skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But Ibuprofen isn't necessary for most of its users survival and is still much cheaper. More importantly, with both a social safety net and public health care close to no one in Germany will die because they could not afford medical care. So you're comparing a $10 drug that most people take against head ache, cramps or light pain with a drug that, where its unavailability will kill many diabetes patients within weeks or months.
> "At its latest, the Transition is said to have ended with the first peaceful transfer of executive power, after the victory of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) in the 1982 general election."

The Transition, but not the Dictatorship, very different.

EDIT: original reply way too turgid
Is this page just stealing content from PVS-Studio's official blog?

https://www.viva64.com/en/b/0615/
I love Kotlin. I use every day for backend development, and I got surprised to see a birthday cake on Kotlin official Twitter account celebrating the just 3 years of the language. Kotlin v1.0 was released on February 15, 2016.
Buy 10 it will pay for your trip.
I believe we started with a faulty premise, that perfectly natural states of mind are an "illness"

I tend to agree, but this is only partly true. It isn't because something is "natural" that it is therefore healthy and desirable. Some mental states, whether genetic or environmental, are very debilitating to the individual that has to live with them. So there is value in trying to "cure" certain mental afflictions.

But yes, the field of psychology suffers from a fashion-based ideology that appears to want to mold every individual to the same narrow (and flawed) ideal. But in my experience, this fashion trend diminishes with expertise: most behavioral and forensic psychiatrists I've sproken explicitly eschew that type of prescriptivism.
AI’s Uneasy Coming of Age
Maybe similar costs. I don't think the major driver of Harvard pricing has anything to do with its costs though.
UK GWAS identifies genetic markers explaining 2.5% of household income
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I'm not sure how much user security will come out of the new Gmail policies. A lot of companies will just start asking for username/password for IMAP access. Now the user is more vulnerable than if the developer was allowed OAuth access. Unless they plan to break that somehow as well.
Liability seems to be focused on pointing blame, and then based on that we decide who should clean up.

In situations like this perhaps it would be more productive if we had a system that focused more getting everyone to clean up and prevent this from happening again first, and then look at the liability part.

I do believe that this is the innate human response, the desire to "do the right thing". Most of us have the right mixture of nature/nurture to want to do that. But if the system doesn't enable that behavior or punishes that, that behavior will get suppressed and we end up in a miserable situation for everybody.

I dunno, it's not exactly an easy question or it would be solved already, and bad faith actors will exploit the goodwill of others too.
Facebook acknowledges concerns over Cambridge Analytica emerged earlier
A lot of people listened to Douglas Crockford when he talked about "The Good Parts"[1] of Javascript. Unfortunately, very few people also listened to his warning[2] than mixing foreign Javascript was insecure by design (only proper trust boundary is the page).

[1] http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596517748.do

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfBL2sc2zUU
computers are the whole reason why air travel is literally orders of magnitude safer than car travel. airbus is fly by wire, it can't work without computers. boeing at this point is most likely, too - i don't know about them other than i read here.
Stanford Researchers Create Hydrogen Fuel from Seawater
Kraft Heinz Can’t Count on Ketchup to Save It from the Future of Food
Good point.

You have to think the scale though. US is not the same as e.g Sweden and can't be the same. The amount of benefits you get in Scandi countries or Europe in general against the US are massive. At the same time you have to think that the US is a country of 330m people compared to an average EU country of 10-20m people.

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. (I had a meniscus tear and they appointed me to see an orthopaedic in a year after I was diagnosed. Just to see him. While its understandable that emergency issues are getting bumped up the ladder, mine which was a non-emergency felt like a bummer when I heard the orthopaedic wont see me for a whole year just to see at which stage I am at. That includes doing some scans to see my stage which the GP won't know unless he is some kind of magician. Yes again he can check if the leg is hammered around the knee to bump up how of an emergency it is.)

Generally speaking I think the main issue is that the US is such a large country that can't work the same as EU countries. That goes for everything, from benefits, to working schedules to prison systems etc.
The point is the correlation between spend and value to the citizenry has become detached in the US. The market is working great if you consider the value produced and extracted in dollar terms because that's what markets are good at. But is this what the citizenry want or deserve?
> But the article is making different point that if Apple would sell also yPhone with same technical specs and slightly different design and half the price then it would be outragous.

iPhone SE?
define consultant?

are you solving a problem/challenge for them? you are not a consultant, you are a contractor, freelancer or agency.

are you telling them - and help implement the mindset and processes - on how they can solve a problem/challenge? you are a consultant.

or to paraphrase jerry weinberg: a consultant gives advise when asked.

if you are the second, read "secrets of consulting" by weinberg (and "are your lights on").

then, what is your product? what do you want to advise on? and find out why this would be so valuable to pay you 10k, 25k, 50k, ...

then, get a client, anyway you can and make sure you deliver 20x to 100x times the value than what you cost (note: make sure your client can and will execute what you advised, otherwise you did not deliver any value). make the client your reference case, market the reference case, go a month on a vacation, your next two clients will be waiting when you come back.

my consulting company: https://www.f19n.com/
The problem with private prisons is they have a conflict of interest. Do they work to improve the lives of the incarcerated and lower recidivism? No! That would lower their bottom line as they get paid per person.
Correct and as a reminder, these elected representatives receive health care benefits that exceed those available for the majority of their constituents.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/members-congress-health-ca...
> some more common drugs like Ibuprofen are much more expensive in Germany.

What's stranger to me as an American living in Germany is that you can't get it at "drug stores" like DM, Rossman, etc. that are the equivalent of CVS/Walgreens, let alone grocery stores. You have to get it at an apotheke (pharmacy) that's a separate business. In practice that means it's both more annoying (due to more limited business hours) and more expensive. No going to Costco to get a bigass bottle of more ibuprofen than any one family could reasonably use here.

But you can order it online at Amazon, oddly enough, though it's still much more expensive than in the states, and it looks like the largest size on offer is 50-count.

I get that German society is somewhat more regulated than in the US, but I just don't see what's the threat with basic medicines like ibuprofen that necessitates them being sold at specialist stores.
There's a pretty good reason there's a lot of folks building new frameworks for Python in this space right now: async.

Unlike WSGI frameworks we're now able to support WebSockets, lightweight backgrounds tasks, super-high-throughput performance, and all sorts of other goodies, that Flask, Django et al. aren't necessarily able to excel in.

Good news is that it's pretty likely that some of this may eventually feedback into Django, Flask, and others, but in the meantime it's a case of trying to bring the Python async ecosystem up to feature-parity with existing thread-concurrency frameworks as quickly as we possibly can.
What are the Success tips for successful IVF?
Much of this depends on who your customers are. Are they the average computer user? PayPal is fine, maybe even preferable. Are the hip, ultra-connected and young? It would be worth setting up Stripe Atlas as mentioned.
(Disclaimer: Not American)

I've been reading NYT for a long while now, and I've been noticing more and more of these "medicines are more expensive here" trope.

There's half an answer isn't there? The US is subsidizing the development of these new drugs to the world, at the cost of it s citizens, as these companies operate all over the world and not just in US. The _relatively_ richer people in Cali can afford to pay $x more than the people in Bali.

Sure, the exploiting the people under the marketing guise of "patented" paracetamol varieties is _very_ unethical, and just slimy. That we can all agree on.

But every time such an article is posted, the only question in my mind is, "isn't the problem half explained?".

What's the alternative, not innovate and let everyone die? As opposed to innovate, and some people who live better than the others pay a bit (or in this case, ~2.49x) more ?

Is there an alternative where everyone pays equally ?
Sure, you can lower the cost for an American and subsidize it (which comes from their tax again, so they're being more/less charged the same amount).

or you can increase the price for the rest of the world until the death toll vs affordability ratio looks good for the company that decides this is a good idea.

The problem is half explained.

The rest of the problem's explanation must lie here.

--- From the article:

Part of insulin’s price rise in the United States is because of the middlemen who buy the drugs on behalf of insurers and hospitals and negotiate discounts off the list price for their clients. So Lilly often doesn’t make the full $275 a vial (though, since rebates are secret, we don’t know how much less).

By selling an authorized generic, rather than merely lowering the brand’s price, Lilly is essentially doing an end-run around those middlemen and giving patients who don’t purchase through an insurer another option.

---

It's also a supply chain problem, not the manufacturing supply chain, but the business to customer supply chain.

I guess margins are not that wide enough for middle men to make anything significant in other countries except the states.

My tone in this comment is very inquisitive, not aggressive in any way, I don't mean to come across like that.
Not really sure why this matters in the case of insulin - the "good" modern-day insulins will never fall into generics because the companies have a backlog of incremental changes they hold on to until they need to renew a patent.
They reason they're annoying is because they distract from the content, which is the reason they're effective, they steal focus.

The ad companies aren't trying to find the limit of annoyance vsc effectiveness, they're trying to maximise their profit. They don't care about annoyance, in fact annoyance can actually be positive for brand advertising.
A lot of J&J's revenue comes from non-pharmaceutical businesses. If you rank by pharmaceutical R&D spending instead Roche comes out ahead of J&J. If you rank by revenue from pharmaceutical sales Pfizer is nr 1 with Novartis and Roche 2 & 3
Not sure I want to get pulled out of customs for smuggling
That's 50 x 400mg for EUR 6,29 (USD 7, give or take, incl taxes).

https://www.walgreens.com/store/c/walgreens-ibuprofen-200-mg... is 100 x 200mg, so about the same, for USD 5 (plus taxes)

But in the US you also get much larger packages that just aren't available in Germany: https://www.walgreens.com/store/c/walgreens-ibuprofen-200-mg... is 1000 x 200 for USD 20, 10x the drug for 3x the price.
You want to see a bigger differential?

When I was in the US, I needed an inhaler. It cost $250 to see the doctor and the inhaler was $150.

In the UK. It costs £0 to see the doctor and for the inhaler now is £8.80. Although I remember a time when it was £4.

Americans pay way too much for healthcare.
We should define "going strong"?

MS basically killed it, in 200x when the VB.NET snafu happened. I assume 100% of the VB work is legacy at this point and since solid architecture or design principles were never this language's strong points, it can't be particularly exciting legacy work either.

It's basically a career and technological dead-end.
The "hang 'em high" crowd is not a tiny minority. They're the supermajority voice on the conservative side of the aisle and you'll even see them represented elsewhere in this comments section.
Insurance isn't owned, produced, or exchanged by the community as a whole. It's owned, produced, and exchanged by single commercial entities based on the power of statistics. So, not socialism at all.

In the US medical insurance additionally has an unchecked and largely unregulated profit layer.

It really is that simple.
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Pardon the editorial here but this is a sloppy opinion piece.

- It would be helpful (and honest) if the article discussed the rate of demand in both / any / all countries.

- Why only Germany?

- Why only Insulin?

No doubt, the USA healthcare systems has issues that need to be addressed. However, that's not where the problem starts. The truth is, it's no worse than the (attention to personal) health of the majority people using the system.

BTW, I caught bit of the (new?) PBS feature on Cancer a couple nights ago. At one point, one of the doctors being interviewed said (paraphrasing): "We could reduce the rate of cancer by 50% if we were willing to adopt the changes[1] that have already been recommended. No additional research required. 50%!"

[1] Diet, lifestyle, etc.
Apart from the openness/freedom aspect, can anyone summarize the pros and cons of RISC-V from a technical perspective in comparison to other major ISAs, e.g. x86, ARM, MIPs? Or point to some resources discussing the matter?
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It was very difficult to understand how to add a second city. I didn't notice that the result of the search was copied, and I was worried that changing the text would remove the first city.

I'd like to change the type of a leg from car to plane or vice versa.

Can I add some additional data to a city, like date of arrival?

Is it posible to send a permalink (or something similar) to a friend?
Why look at the racial distribution? The gender divide is much larger. 93.2% of all of them are men. Are men incarcerated for lessor cause than women?
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1/4 of the customers are paying with paypal
Per your own quote it isn't socialism: The private insurers are getting the profit, not "the community as a whole".
That sounds like a dystopian cyberpunk future, I don't want to live in a world where corporations can juggle nation-states on their whims...
yes $100 per household, we pay $5 per prescription item, with a limit of 20 items/year per household
The whole point of insurance, especially health insurance, is collectivizing risk. Otherwise you might as well put the money in a savings account.
> The difference isn't as profound in modern titles where a plethora of lighting techniques and tricks.

That's the key thing though, RTX removes the need for all those tricks (which are tricky to get right, humans are good at spotting lighting flaws in a scene) which is a net win for the game developers who can focus that time/effort elsewhere.
That's a market failure. I'm not pro-privatization of prisons.
CN2 is basically a fast lane to China that you can buy from one of China's biggest internet providers (China Telecom). It has two flavors, CN2GT[0] and CN2GIA[1], CN2GIA is said to be faster.

Some vps providers buy these fast lanes, make their vps fast to access in China, and sell them to hungry Chinese users. The most popular one is Bandwagon[2].

[0] https://www.ctamericas.com/products-services/internet/global...

[1] https://www.ctamericas.com/products-services/internet/global...

[2] https://bandwagonhost.com/cart.php
They need to overhaul the industry and it must start with how the FDA approves new and old drugs. For example, drugs should have hard expiry regardless of patent claims. No more generic exclusivities. More importantly, scrap biosimilars and make all biologic manufacturers turn over the specific details to produce identical products.
I think that the main problem with unions for software developers, especially at this particular time, is that tech recruitment is very much a sellers' market at the moment. Most of the companies have a lot of troubles finding quality developers of all levels, remuneration is growing to absurd levels and short-term contracting is almost a norm rather than an exception. For a moderately experienced developer, changing jobs is both a) trivial, and b) often the best way to ensure promotion and pay rise.

Unions were designed for a market where employers were taking advantage of job scarcity and insecurity, and where changing jobs often meant difficult re-training for new equipment and methodologies, which was often provided by unions. That does not exist today, at least in the software industry; a solid GutHub account is a much better certification than any training or even a university diploma.

My point is that, for the majority of software people, traditional unions can barely give any benefits over the power they can have themselves. And for the best people it can even provide disadvantages by lowering the standards.
The point of the article, and the concept it's trying to promote, is to understand that even though the person giving the argument might be flawed or under-educated on the position, that it doesn't invalidate the position.

The way to get the most value out of flawed people is to find the best version of their argument and then argue with that. The person isn't all that relevant.
For anyone interested, Nerdwriter made a video about this very painting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKNAZr0QJzs
Yeah, many supposedly legit websites (even large media companies) run these very scammy "man from YOUR LOCATION got rich in 20 days!" "one weird trick to get younger" ads that ultimately lead to some scam

But if you ask them, it's not their fault, but the ad company (Google), which in turn will point to a different company, etc

And in the end, people are scammed and Google gets a bit richer, but it's nobody's fault or responsibility
It's incredibly sad.

When I first moved to the Bay Area a decade ago, there were many houses made up of artists, musicians, anarchists, and punks that held poetry readings, music shows, fed people (via Food Not Bombs or similar efforts, or just by simply cooking food on regular days and offering it to anyone who happened to swing by), supported people who were struggling (Needle Exchange, mental health support groups, survivor groups), or even provided a temporary place to sleep to strangers in return for abiding by a code of conduct and doing some chores or paying some (truly) nominal fee.

Those places, some of which had been around since the dotcom days and had effectively become local institutions, quickly started disappearing as landlords started aggressively serving eviction notices. One notable example that comes to mind was Hellarity [0] -- Hellarity was somewhat exceptional as it was a squat, where most of the houses I'm thinking of weren't. But it was a pretty special place nonetheless.

I don't want to glorify these houses too much since there were issues as there inevitably will be with any large, mostly unstructured group of people. There was plenty of shady and unsavory stuff going on.

What's sad to me is the loss of diversity of human experiences, and the loss of the resources offered in spaces like this. The loss of these inordinately impacts lower income people. People escaping abusive situations. People who aren't on tech salaries or benefits. People who don't have health insurance at all.

Also: a friend of mine who rents space in an art studio in Berkeley that dozens of artists work out of was telling me that the space was just sold, and it's becoming increasingly clear the new owners aren't interested in keeping it as an art studio.

The Bay Area kind of bums me out, to say the least.

[0]: https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/03/07/18708901.php
The general rule to this type of question titles is that the answer is NO, right?
Nope, I personally thing Solarized looks horrible. I prefer more neutral colours. Things I do like: Monokai Pro, VS Code Dark+ theme.
The trope of "the US subsidizes healthcare for everyone else" has no basis in reality. Drug production is not operating at a loss in Germany.
Editing of posts seems to be broken. Sorry for the typos. Also had added some more thoughts on liability for neglience and signing NDAs which are now lost, but I don't want to try again.
Yes, this is a constant irritation here, presumably to protect the awful Apothekes, who have a protectionist guild, and also - shamefully - sell complete nonsense like homeopathy.

I normally stock up on OTC medication like Ibuprofen when I’m in the UK.
Just to be clear, you are almost never engaging with a paid operative. Push that out of your mind, it's paranoia.
Prices of basic drugs like ibuprofen, paracetamol or aspirin are a bad choice for comparison. They are so cheap that pharmacies will usually stock a brand (sometimes competing brands) that they can sell for higher margins. Also in Europe they are limits on how many can be sold at once without a prescription, so they are usually only sold in smaller packs compared to the US.
How does this definition fit with having multiple private entities offering the same service and competing in the same market? It doesn't have to be state controlled and forced onto everybody. Is a small subset of the community considered "community as a whole"? How about when multiple independent subsets pay different prices for different services?

If you are getting a discount from you employer for your own products and services (cheaper Windows license as a MS employee) does this imply a socialist setup?
Smartphones, cheap or not, are not a problem. The core benefits they bring to poor people are mobile data connection, web browser, phone connection and IMs bundled in a single device. None of that is "supported by ads". The problems of smartphones (that are beyond mobile phones) start with the application ecosystem, completely disfigured by the cancer of advertising.
We pay for healthcare every month, even if we dont go the doctor.
Last year I paid 500€ per month for healthcare, and I went one time to the doctor
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I would trust Boeing after this.

With so many eyes on them at the moment, next couple of decades should be pretty good in terms of following the rules.