skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or maybe that's just an excuse pharma companies use because they'd like to have their cake and eat it, too. If they didn't actually want to sell their drugs for pennies on the dollar in some countries, they wouldn't.

If they are "forced" to sell there, it's only because of two reasons:

1) the US companies started selling there of their own free will, and after their patents expired in those countries, other companies were free to use the formula

2) Other companies would have created the same drugs with or without their patents, and the American companies would've lost all of that market share/brand image in that country. And I bet the competitors would do it for a tiny fraction of the faux R&D costs Big Pharma likes to claim for inventing a new drug.

Besides, the idea that if a company patents something that means it's the only one that could have ever invented that thing needs to die already. The "first to file" patent system that has been adopted in most major countries because of big companies' lobbying is another dead-giveaway that this whole idea is bogus. Why would you have a "first to file" if you didn't have multiple people inventing the same thing at the same time.

Many people or groups of people can come up with the same invention around the world roughly at the same time. Often, those alternatives don't become popular because their papers are in their native tongue and they lack investment, but the "invention" was already made.
I'm confused about the math here. This article is apparently current (published two days ago), and given that it's 2019, if he was indeed born in 1897, that would make him either 121 or 122, not 119, right?
Whoops, my tired morning self read "6 inches" and not "6 feet".

That's a hell of an error. Sorry folks.
Eyes Wide Shut https://www.newsweek.com/eyes-wide-shut-missing-footage-epst...
It would be cool to use a Split-Flap Display. like this.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04el3LYiOaI
The point is that the amount of political attention paid to drug spending vastly outweighs the actual impact of drug spending on the economy (or peoples' wallets). My cynical take is that it's easier to fixate on an area where you can demonize a small number of large companies, instead of looking at the structural reasons why the U.S. spends twice as much per person as Canada on healthcare overall.

Okay, let's import all our drugs from Canada and save a few hundred dollars per person on pharmaceuticals. Then let's get rid of all health-insurer profits and save another $180 per person. Now what about the other $5,432 more each American spends than each Canadian?
I had just looked up this wiki article a couple days ago based on this video:

https://youtu.be/DpXy041BIlA, "30 Weird Chess Algorithms: Elo World"

An intricate and lengthy account of several different computer chess topics from my SIGBOVIK 2019 papers. We conduct a tournament of fools with a pile of different weird chess algorithms, ostensibly to quantify how well my other weird program to play color- and piece-blind chess performs. On the way we "learn" about mirrors, arithmetic encoding, perversions of game tree search, spicy oils, and hats.

Is this also why it showed up just now?
The code is not the goal
That makes sense. I guess there is always a community of Early adopters with disposable income willing to pay high dollar to play with the phone and contribute to it's development. Guess my idealistic mind wants to shortcut to the part where the phone is in an iPhone hardware/UI polish level with a linux OS solution, at which point I'd be happy to pay top dollar for it!
any examples of such cities?
Is this hydrocontisone stronger than the over the counter variety?
There are no off the shelf parts, only off the back of a towing rig if/when someone is unlucky enough to total a Tesla. You can build ~2-5 cars a month business on that, not 10 per day.

And that doesnt even touch the realities of retooling for many many used car models they would have to support in order to meet that 4000/year projection.
Just take a look at Lagos. People don't care..
That, and calling battery "juice". It shouldn't bother me this much, but it does. Same for saying "daily driver" instead of "main phone".

I guess they are meant to color up speech / break monotony, but it gets irritating when metaphors are overused and nobody just says "battery", so in the end, just using the boring regular word feels more refreshing. Similarly for articles that keep overuse words like "whopping" instead of usual formal words (to appear more friendly, I guess), or infallibly say "invest" for everything rather than just "buy".
Yeah, sorry for missing Redisgraph.

The entire graph is stored in memory and only spans one server. I personally am not sure what happens when that server goes down. How many minutes worth of data is lost? What's the replication strategy for another server to take over the traffic? And what about transactions and correctness?

Those things matter a lot to Dgraph users who are storing and serving their source of truths. Horizontal scalability, persistence, correctness and avoiding downtime with consistent replication have been cornerstones for the design of Dgraph.
What "people like Epstein" was Gawker reporting on? Unfortunately I only know it from Theil-related stories, i.e. reporting that Theil is gay and the sex tape issue (neither of which seem "Epstein-worthy").
That's way near the station -- had I wheeled it that far I'd be dumb
You might've seen monkfish or ankimo(japanese for monkfish liver) on the menus of fancy restaurants before.

Turns out monkfish is a type of anglerfish! I learned this while bingeing a weird part of youtube where you can see how fish are prepped: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noR2am-pz_8
OMG, why so long for ::marker ? Finally! :)
But the study did not ask how many traveled for holiday. It studied how many could afford to do so, regardless if they actually traveled or wanted to travel.
They can, but this moves slow, and there's no guarantee they will do so unless the "mixed-use" code requires it. Grocery stores are also generally not very lucrative -- the margins are small and the lot sizes needed are usually pretty big, and they almost always need parking accomodation. Grocery store owners can't afford high rents. Meanwhile, developers can make a lot more money by stuffing a bunch of tiny condos in a high-rise box compared to accomodating an average market catering to the middle-class family. These kinds of businesses often need special rules in the zoning code to protect their land from being rebuilt as yet another beige/sheet-metal faux-luxury condo complex.

I'm speaking from experience. The developers in Denver are chomping at the bits to buy up another grocery store property in Capitol Hill (a centrally-located walkable dense neighborhood) and tear it down for multi-unit housing, and this has already happened in other neighborhoods (we used to have a walking-distance market before it was torn down for high-rises). I have the joy of living near a multi-unit box that is zoned as "mixed use" and has a total of 0 businesses and 0 parking spots, and they tore down a local medical office to build that. In another location, four blocks down, they're tearing down other small offices to build hundreds of apartments -- again, zoned for "mixed use" and yet, again, the ground floor in their blueprints only has more condos and lobby space. Zero local businesses.

My point is it just takes a while along with quite a bit of pissed-off political willpower until folks can comfortably ditch cars in car-centric communities, and density isn't a magic pill. What would likely happen is several years of increased traffic and parking utilization before everything falls into place. We're talking about bike lanes, public transportation, and walkability.
Didn't they already acquire them in Syria/Iraq? I bet Russians brought their latest radar tech with them when F22s were operating in the area, and now there is Israel with F35. They might be just observing and would be stupid to talk about it anyway and I doubt Turkey will get the same S400s, likely a dumbed-down export version. It's more like Turkey can't have all their tech obliterated instantly if they switched sides and US manufacturers will miss some projected profit.
Maybe not iPhones, but there's probably some of that with their computers.
Yes, you can get a work permit as for example a dishwasher at a restaurant (In theory at Burger King, but maybe they wouldn't hire unqualified migrants for image reasons). You can also bring your family and kids. I think you don't have the right to some things for the first year though. But as long as you are paid the normal wage and benefits you can get permanent residency after four years, and citizenship after another five.

This is the best document I could find: https://portal.research.lu.se/portal/files/40268826/Labor_Mi...
Seesaws at the border so kids in the US and Mexico could play together
Ignore US companies completely then -- look at European pharmaceutical companies. They make far more money selling drugs to Americans than Europeans, and they use that money to develop new drugs back in Europe. I'm not sure how you could blame European actions on your US abuse/corruption theory.
I am curious on the language choice of Go. Why not C or C++? Apologies if this was already answered.
"Unplanned" is actually - to some degree - closer to what got us older, denser cities on the east coast and Europe.

Places like San Diego absolutely had "plans": build a shitload of big, wide roads, zone mostly for single family units, and separate uses so that it's virtually impossible to live without a car.
No, the government only sets drug prices. AFAIK private pharmacies buy and sell drugs at set prices and add stocking\service fee to sustain their business operations.
I don't know, but I'm not sure I understand your point
Yeah I've had so many family members in hospitals over the years and these are always the most nerve-wracking, depressing places. And I'm in a "first-world" region with one of the highest costs of living in the world.

I think the worst is the nightmarish greenish-yellow hue due to the combination of cheap fluorescent lighting and "neutral" (light green) furniture/wall colors. One step in there and you just know there's probably someone dying somewhere nearby. It sounds sensationalistic to say, but man I always feel this sense of dread immediately.

There are newer/nicer places that _don't_ create this feeling right away, and the difference for me is night and day. Even though all the same stuff happens, the atmosphere is so different and doesn't trigger this primal dread.
I definitely agree with your comment about Twitter threads.
That's what insurance does.

Some events are extremely rare and extremely expensive. We shouldn't expect every individual to have enough savings to pay for every eventuality.

Sharing that risk allows nearly everyone to live better.

The question here is whether that insurance should be provided by a profit-making corporation or a government agency.

Though the US system of private insurance is badly broken, evidence from other countries shows that both approaches can work.
I don't fundamentally mind the policy decision. It's bad for Canadians and good for Americans, although we give up some agency in the determination of our own prices by making this play. I just wish the messaging around this didn't have to be so disingenuous.

Also, if I were Canada, I would ban the export of drugs to the United States if the US domestic price for the drug is higher than the Canadian price for the same drug. Because otherwise the effect would be that a single market would exist for the drug, and the average price in Canada would face upward pressure as a result. Although if they did this, an American administration bent on getting the same effect could cap all domestic drug prices to the prices paid by Canadians and skip the pointless importing step. I wonder how Canada would react to that? I guess if I were Canada at that point I would make drug price negotiations secret.
Physological evidence from the corpse, which was recovered, pretty conclusively demonstrates that Maxwell's death was a suicide.

Thanks for the warning about the twitter thread -- I didn't bother to click the link.
This is wrong. The companies are making profits abroad (example, insulin costs $6 to produce and in Canada they sell for $36). If you are claiming American consumers are paying for research via high drug prices, this is wrong too, since most of the research is funded by the government via universities and other orgs. In other words, US citizens AND the rest of the world can have low drug costs.
Sounds like you replaced more than TV with your learning and working.

You can be a couch potato and have zero friends too.
Pi Zero Ws are $10, ESP32 dev boards are $12. Why pick the more expensive one AND spend more time writing the software?
Jim Zemlin: Open-Source Loves Microsoft
I think it's safe to assume that anything you can do to make the patient feel more comfortable and take their mind away from their situation will help with stress and anxiety.
It's like the dentist chairs with a netflix table above your head. You are less likely to be aware of what's going on in your mouth and be hyper sensitive to the doc's every move if you are distracted by the latest avengers!
Is that really relevant, though? The point is, Iran can close the Strait anytime it wants. It can easily kill tankers, and there is approximately nothing we can do about it. Carriers don't change that, any more than a tank changes a hostage crisis.

And it's not like we don't have plenty of friendly airbases in easy striking distance, either - in Iraq, Kuwait, Israel, etc. Putting American military response into Iran within minutes of an incident is trivial. What's hard is doing it in a way that completely prevents Iran from closing the Strait. When they have hundreds, maybe thousands of weapons capable of sinking a tanker, hidden all over that coast? They could shut down the Strait for months, even if we applied maximum force.

Again, this is a hostage situation, with 25% of the world's oil (40% of the oil that is shipped internationally) as the hostage.
Web front-end tech breakdown
I've been in the mobile application space as an engineer for awhile and wanted to get a little more up to speed on the tools and techniques used today on web front-ends. Specifically, the more rich and interactive web applications.

What designers and developers are pulling off with what I assume is HTML/CSS/JS is blowing my mind compared to when I last played with this stuff. My goal here is a high level discussion so I'd have a head start on where to begin were I to implement some of these effects and animations myself. Some of this might be just getting familiar with the nomenclature used today.

Let's take this site for example: https://www.everest.agency/

- What are some of the concepts they're using to pull off many of the effects here? There are some 3D effects and transitions - is this done through CSS animations primarily?
- What tools/frameworks are commonly used today to facilitate development of a front-end such as this?
$50M in equity and $250M for a new fund. Happy to answer any questions.
Like the UN? (Sorry for the snark.)
> Do you have a plan to educate even 90% of users?

No, but I could easily create one if I was paid to put my mind to it. Just as a hobby, I already educate peers about how a lot of the internet and web and technology work anyway.

I don't really have a desire to add to my life the stress of dealing with the terrible decisions, past and present, of "modern" UI driven almost completely by shady marketing tactics encouraged and often forced by business. I certainly don't have the desire to do so without compensation to offset that stress.
The solution is to allow people to order drugs from anywhere.
"but all of these people live in the real world where accidents/sudden illness/etc do happen every day"

Yes, but we can also use Bayesian methods. If someone with powerful, murderous enemies dies in an extremely improbable way, it's not statistically sound to just say "accidents happen every day".

Of course you would need proof to actually convict someone, but it could definitely be a legitimate reason to start asking questions.
I, for one, welcome our new robot overlords: Tips for working with a co-bot
The slow initial growth of trees makes me wonder whether we'd be better planting fast growing crops like bamboo and hemp which can be processed into long term materials like fibreboard and bioplastic or added to concrete.
> Tcl/Tk is one of the cooler tools out there, though I wish it were not so... string-based.

The "string based" part lies at the very heart of Tcl and plays a big role in what makes Tcl Tcl. However, modern Tcl has moved away from "everything is a string" to "everything is also a string". The difference is that in the normal execution path native types are manipulated for speed, but the string representation is always available should one need more dynamism.

Tcl/Tk pioneered the notion of a scripting language as a library. It got threading right. You can run multiple independent Tcl interpreters in the address space of your process and they can exchange messages. No need for GIL, no need for serialization/deserialization (pickle/unpickle) ... just within process memory copy (or no copies in case data is immutable). Its virtual file system was another great innovation.

Lua has taken the crown for small embeddable/extendable language but I still have a soft corner for the playful vibe of Tcl. I would hesitate to use it in a project where I have to interact with folks with whom I have not programmed before (things like 'upvar' and 'uplevel' ups the amount of trust you need). But when its play time, breaking out Tcl is one of those guilty pleasures. Getting rarer these days, playtime that is.

Tcl had a reputation for being slow. But those were different times when the standards for 'fast' was much more demanding. Now I doubt it would be any slower than Ruby, it would likely be faster.
You're still possibly 'learning without doing'

I can watch Bon Apetit videos but until I start actually making desserts in my spare time, I won't actually be able to frost a cake
Every transaction has a fee which finally paid by everyone.
Work in fintech, I second everyone else saying integers is the way to go.
Totally agree but I can also say that at around 17-18 most Swedish kids I grew up around had been on some sort of travel abroad.

Either themselves or with a student organisation.

Sort of a vacation. It used to be very popular to "tågluffa" here when I grew up, which means getting a train pass and just seeing Europe by rail.
PCells from Artemis Networks: A Vindication
The article seems to be describing this as if it's a new idea, but at least in my experience, when you walk through some of the more world class hospitals (The Cleveland Clinic comes to mind), there is clearly a tremendous amount of thought in regards to interior architecture.

High ceilings that damp out sound, generally light and soft colors, soft sounds and diverse art installations.

It's a real shame that when people discuss architecture we largely focus on the exterior of buildings, but truly the craft is about how people move through and experience a space. This is especially relevant in the current era of large glass office towers, which while on the outside tend to seem rather bland, tend to have a far better interior experience than their external one puts on.
It does seem likely that most of these contacts were trivial. Apart from the headline names in this Bloomberg piece, he often courted notable scientists who of course would respond as he funded research. 99% or even 100% of those were equally innocent.

I have wondered how people with odd (or horrible in this case) fetishes that are looked down upon manage to meet. I imagine the number of people involved in the abuse must be pretty small.
Hmmm, this makes me wonder how much of the carbon petrified wood retains and if there isn't some method where the process might be accelerated (without a lot of energy input, a quick google shows you can do it rapidly using a heated chamber but that's going to be counterproductive and require an absurd amount of energy).

Although, maybe you could use concentrated solar or even geothermal for the heating part. Hell, you could probably make it profitable selling the petrified wood for use in construction (mantles, counter tops, tile). If it retains a decent amount of the carbon.
Managing memory is a pain and dangerous, doubly so when your objects form a graph (std::shared_ptr forsakes you), and Go's GC is quite performant. It's a database, so it's mostly I/O, and not CPU bound. Databases also do lots of stuff concurrently, which is easy in Go, and a pain to do correctly in C/C++.

There's also prior art for databases built in Go as well, such as CockroachDB.
Canada negotiates drug prices before they're approved, the US lets drug companies charge whatever they want.
I agree, what is the benefit of running balena here? You have Pi Zero, OLED screen (SPI library), and some code to access a 3rd party API.
Yeah that's actually messed up, he should have received a different menu of food that won't exacerbate the very issues he just had surgery for!
you should probably stop noticing things - that's a bad look my dude.
This is a great talk, thanks for sharing. So very applicable to this community on Hacker News.
California Assembly Passes $21B Wildfire Fund for Utilities
Fixed-point vs floating-point arithmetic! In scientific applications, you want to preserve precision regardless of the system of units (i.e. scale). For example, 1.23 meters is 1.23e2 cm or 1.23e-3 km. The side effect of this is the roundoff error of arithmetic operations. Floating point operations are not commutative or associative.

In financial transactions on the other hand, we always need only 2 decimal places. So there is no benefit in using floating point.
> Does it mean people self-report that they can't afford to go on holiday

Yes. See page 4 on this pdf

https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/documents/1012329/8658951/Hous...

(linked in https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/income-and-living-conditio...)
>I’m not a lawyer or anything, but even the legal system isn’t really supposed to look at motivation as evidence in a case, though I’m sure it sways juries.

"Motive, means and opportunity" is typically what investigators need before charging someone with a crime so not quite sure if it follows that it's not supposed to be brought up in court?
Yes but is per unit profitability (measured at the pharma co) higher in the US?

That's what you need to be true for your claim to hold water, not that the overall revenue pool is larger.
Your page is so long and so bad that I left it with the same assumption. Why can't you just have a paragraph explaining what it is, why it's useful and what it supports.

If I don't use any of the existing hook witchcraft, why do I have to go over paragraphs and paragraphs of comparisons of things I am not familiar with?
If you can live with a pure software version for the Pi, have a look at https://info-beamer.com/pkg/8474.

If easy to install using the OS we build and you can update it remotely through an API or of course on-device.
Yota Phone tried that and didn't succeed. They we're also sold on Amazon, so Bezos had the sales data, and he chose not to invest.
There is a lot of information missing in this post. For instance, what is a 1-week vacation? Something about those numbers tells me it's using the average cost of a vacation in Europe, rather than a cost proportional to the income of a person in that country. Would help a lot if there was more to this article.
Filling hospitals with BBC 24 News Broadcasts, raises stress, anxiety and pain