skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There already is such tracking going on, exchanges do freeze balances sometimes. The problem is that if the stolen coin gets traded before exchanges can freeze them you wind up with a lot of innocent people holding those coins and it's not practical to freeze those later.

Consider these two scenarios: A stolen bike vs a stolen sack of coffee.

In the case of the bike, if you can find it you can take it back from someone else who bought it. You can identify it distinctly as your bike, even if it had been bought and sold multiple times.

Now imagine a stolen sack of coffee that the thief sells to a vendor at a market. The vendor dumps it into a big bin full of more coffee. Other people buy bags of it, some containing the stolen beans, some not, some a mix. Now you can't identify your distinct stolen coffee anymore. It's not practical to go after the coffee vendor or its customers.

Bitcoin works like the coffee example not the bike. Balances move around like so many kilos of coffee. If you were to make the coffee vendors or their customers liable for stolen beans they happen to touch then you can't have a functioning coffee market at all.

Of course that isn't to say the coffee vendor can't do anything. If the stolen coffee or money is still in the hands of the coffee vendor then they should turn it over to the police when informed. If it's already gone they can tell the police which way the thief went and how much money was paid. Hopefully the police can find the thief and take the proceeds of his crime to make the victim as whole as possible. Also, just because coffee beans can't practically be identified distinctly doesn't mean a coffee vendor that is knowingly trafficking in stolen coffee should get off the hook.

This is how it's done now with cryptocurrency and the biggest practical problem seems to be that law enforcement doesn't move fast enough to contact exchanges confirming that the claim of wrongdoing is bona fide.
Because the manufacturers can decide to stop selling insulin in Illinois completely.
It just depends on the scammer and the scam.
If you believe the market is choosing to waste money on ineffective marketing, sure. Do you have any particular reason to think that? Why would you expect return on capital to go up without marketing?
Have you ever read in popular media about a topic that you understand well?
(it is hard to get an unskewed picture even if the author has no agenda)

What do you think happens with truth tellers and their work if it is not aligned with the current elites version of the truth?

For example, who do you think has been worse for whistleblowers , Bush or Obama?
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You're aware that (AFAIK) every single other OECD state uses implicit (monopsony) or explicit price controls as a key part of controlling healthcare costs and maintaining access to healthcare, right? In fact it's maybe the one factor that pretty much every non-US healthcare system shares. Even friggin' Singapore, the usual "look, the market can work!" example for healthcare, does it.
> I am in the same boat but that’s why we (and a lot of other people) will never make that money.

This gets repeated fairly often and intuitively it makes sense. I'd love to hear a counterexample though - of a naturally lazy person that motivated themselves hard enough, for long enough, purely to make enough money to enable themselves to be stylishly lazy forever.
A robots.txt file doesn’t block scrapers, it’s the equivalent of a no trespassing sign. I don’t think putting up signs will suddenly become illegal?
HN is not the place to file bug reports on Reddit, and people here can't help you find workarounds since you aren't enabling tools that allow you to configure your experience.
> (g) On January 1 of each year, the limit on the amount that an insured is required to pay for a 30-day supply of a covered prescription insulin drug shall increase by a percentage equal to the percentage change from the preceding year in the medical care component of the Consumer Price Index of the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the United States Department of Labor.

Yes.
> Because there is no built in support to create expression trees from query expressions, your library is forced to re-implement common query patterns with a custom API.

Well, it could convert the "delegates" back to strings, and re-parse an AST from that. Not that I'm volunteering to write it.
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Clearly you haven't done the calculations. And what is this nonsense about negating carbon offsets?
More interesting to me is the second half of their article, and them having every team track profit and losses and be held accountable for being profitable to an external customer or another internal team.

And the talked tackled the "R&D problem" by having R&D teams find a "sponsor" who would benefit from their eventual work. Really curious how it'll work out.

Do you end up with more efficiency by making every team compete in an internal marketplace and have to address customer needs to stay profitable? Or do teams find ways to carve out mini-monolopies and moats just like in the outside world and live off the fat of inefficiency.
Would you be willing to explain what the applications of (2) are? I'll admit that I only undersetand a fraction of what you said in that section, but I'm curious what you're using it for.
"Markets" are poorly designed for health care/research investment in general. Just like roads, education, general science research, etc... It just doesn't play well with being largely run with a profit motive.

That's not to say there's on place for the private sector there, but there is massive friction between a profit motive in drug research and you know, building a more healthy society. See the "new Adderalls" like Vyvanse that offer no benefits over Adderall, but Adderall's patent is up so it can be made by generics and isn't as profitable anymore.
I own my own payment processing company and gateway, so I use that.
I do sometime recommend Stripe and Square to Clients but Stripe for most people is a no go in Canada because of the 7 day deposit delay.
Most tech people know very lot about very little. Most programmers know next to nothing about neural nets. Most neural net researchers know very little about self driving cars. Most self-driving car researchers are experts in incremental changes and know very little about what grand breakthroughs are likely in the next 2-3 years. To give you an idea, most go players and most AI researchers were shocked by AlphaGo. The expertise didn't help.

I think for technologists in particular expertise can be very dangerous as we tend to think we know a lot more than we do. Predicting the feasibility of an autopilot on a 1-2 year time horizon is a highly specialized difficult analysis. It's definitely not close to something most tech people can do well.
If you work in tech and get compensated with tech money and hold tech stocks as part of your compensation, then your net worth is already tied in a substantial way to tech as an industry. Buying more tech stock increases how much your net worth will swing based on tech industry trends.

Bigger risk, bigger returns. Oftentimes risk is opposite of the goal.

As long as you're aware of the interlinked nature of tech stocks in the tech industry, then by all means buy more, but if you're planning for retirement and you don't have a nest egg that's invested on lower risk with more modest returns, you might want to think twice about putting more eggs in the tech basket.
Usually if you're at a doctor, you're there for an illness or a health issue you want checked. I don't think most people make their way to the doctor's office, after taking PTO or an extended lunch to go there, to then decide not to finish signing in because they couldn't read the paperwork.
Can I rip my own CDs and import them into Spotify or am I limited to the music provided by the Spotify streaming service?

I think this is what is meant by a “music library”
Let them choose to not sell dirt-cheap-to-produce insulin in a state because "It's not economically viable".

I would love to see those marketing execs strung out in the court of public opinion for denying life saving medication because "omg our margins!"

That might just be enough to start lighting the fires that need to burn.
The issue here for some, if not many, is a matter of scale. It is one thing if an end-user, whom I am trying to service, comes to my site and gets my publicly available data. Maybe I monetize with ads, maybe not. It doesn't matter, that is the audience I am trying to service, regardless of size.

But when you scrape it my load goes up dramatically. A load I have to pay for.

It is analogous to the privacy debates going on with one said saying "hey, don't track everywhere I go and tag me with facial recognition" and the other side saying "hey, you are in public and people can see you." The issue is not complete privacy, but one of scale. And of intent.

I believe society is soon going to have to come to grips with the scale of things and legislate what are acceptable scales of action as it seems to be becoming a large issue in a growing number are areas.
It makes sense to me that our body would behave as conservatively as possible with nutrient stores in normal conditions. Plunging them into a crisis state, like a cold shower, would then trigger some kind of “use it all we are in trouble” type response.
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The approach is a lot more flawed than people necessarily realize. If I move my health insurance, my credit cards, banks, and utilities to protonmail, I'm not sure it's changing much. My credit card company is directly selling my information, and it doesn't matter if they emailed me some information or not. The same goes for the utilities. Gmail can't get at the information, which is a bonus, but they might simply be buying the information about you instead of scraping it from your inbox. Everyone else (the financial companies, the utilities, etc) are already selling your information.
Your backyard can be a walled garden--this is about the public front of the property.
As long as we have effective monopolies on new drugs, (either through patents or trade secrets) the market cannot function to drive down prices. I don't know why people like to pretend that it can. Life saving drugs are as close to perfectly price inelastic as you can get assuming no competition.
I mean misunderstanding the seriousness of the crime. Like, a recreational drug user might know that drugs are illegal in China, but not realize how bad the penalties are.
You're absolutely right. I didn't think about it like that, thanks.
The topic is price fixing; the discussion is about the efficaciousness of price fixing.

Why cap when they ought to have the power to look at the root problems? Why fix this one particular thing in a dangerous and probably-ultimately-ineffective way when they ought to be able to address the whole issue of price-gouging medicines more systematically?

(Other than the possibility of this being a band-aid while they do that, but I wouldn't trust a politician's word on that even if they were promising it.)
ConcurrentML has a outgrown its name. It is available in many different languages. I recall hearing Mike Sperber saying that his company usually just re-implemened it in whatever language they happened to work in that week.

It is a really nice system that is similar to go, but the primitives it gives you are in a way a generalisation of go's concurrency primitives.
Facebook now lets you erase the data it collects on your web browsing
I would never advocate for being mean. There’s no warm and fuzzy way to put it, that some people are taken advantage of because of their low intelligence. I was responding to someone who said that the suggestion was “insulting”.
No. AT&T started charging an upgrade fee, regardless if you went through a 3rd party or not. This started in 2018 iirc.
As others have noted, yes. It definitely impacts things. Semiconductor evaluation includes a significant time spent on long life expectancy (look up HTOL, or BHAST testing). HTOL and BHAST aren't just to evaluate for thermal stress (in fact, generally, there's ramp rates associated with the temperature changes to make sure you don't thermally shock something). They do it because diffusion, electromigration, etc, get much worse at higher bias voltages and high temperatures.

This was significantly less of an issue on older stuff (or on stuff that is run on really large nodes, which tends to be older), since you have to diffuse a LOT more material to actually cause problems compared to the 7nm stuff today.
Would running it inside a container and creating shortcut for your kids be a possible workaround?
I like to think they put me on an actual do not call list since I tie up and annoy their operators for as long as possible. One time getting the same guy a dozen times before he finally gave up and from what I can guess just went on a long lunch lol.
> I would never opt in to affect 99.9% of users because of 0.01% of users

Exactly. And thats the only point which needs to be made here.

It's like if one person was drink driving and hit someone. saying : "Well now thats it, we need to ban driving".
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This is some random person's calculation of industry returns. A person who says he works for a pharma company and doesn't link to any actual data.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/kelvinstott/
A dream come true. Something I've been looking for, for a long time now. Thank you for sharing this
I'd imagine a lot of CEOs are trying to maintain a certain lifestyle and can't retire. Maybe retiring from a CEO position might also mean a loss of access to elite social groups that they value?

> But I will never get there because I am not willing to put that much energy into work.

...either or, I wouldn't put too much stock into thinking this way. Energy output does not always equal monetary success.
I received a generous severance package from my previous employer when they were bought by another company and waited out that event in order to support my family for a few months while I attended a coding camp (I studied a lot before and after but wanted some in person instruction).

I managed to save a small stash of money as well on the side over nearly 20 years of work that I had as both an emergency fund and "one day I kinda want to do something different" fund.

My wife works as well and while she doesn't make much (teacher) it helped of set some costs).

The turnaround time from end of previous career to new job was about 8 months and that was probabbly the key. That's not too bad. I would have loved to go back to college for a more formal education but that was not an option due to the time commitment / I was a terrible college student when I was younger so i would have a lot to make up at a traditional college.

As a n00b i was making very little at my first job initially but after proving myself my salary has risen quite quickly. I'm not where I used to be in terms of income, but I'm happier for sure.
Yes. Literally every other healthcare system in a state with an advanced economy. (I'd love to see a counter-example, I've gone looking and failed to find one)

[EDIT] to the downvoters: no, seriously, please post an example of, say, an OECD member state other than the US that doesn't use either explicit or implicit (single primary buyer setting prices, that is, monopsony) price controls as a major part of their healthcare policy. I assume you know of at least one, and I'd really like to know if I'm wrong about this.
Reading this while heading in to work on a LinkedIn shuttle brought a smile to my face. I've always been embarrassed my company took this position given how much scraping LinkedIn does. Do as I say, not as I do I guess?
Electricity is not everything. Heating and transport eat up much more fossil fuel. That can be replaced by, uh… nuclear-powered electricity and synthetic fuels, I guess? However you do it, it adds a lot to the necessary power budget.
You can buy the formulation that was invented in 1923 for cheap.

It's newer formulations that are expensive, and those are still protected by patents.
> Why Americans ration a drug discovered in the 1920s.

The current top-shelf insulins were not discovered in the 1920s and are considerably better than the ones that were. The older insulins (going back to R, L, N sold in the 80s) are fairly inexpensive; on the order of $25 per bottle (and I believe can be bought over the counter). The newer insulins sell for on the order of $275 per bottle.

The numbers I see say it should cost about $300 for a years supply for me (given my current usage) if everything was optimal (non-greedy, short supply chain). Then assume it goes through 3 hands to get to me (original manufacturer, distributor, plan manager; I'm ignoring the pharmacy since I assume they're at least partially altruistic) and add 50% each time for a total of 1012.50 (300 * 1.5. * 1.5 * 1.5). So even then, it's still less than 100 per month expected cost. Though that's for only the short acting insulin, not the 24hour.

What it would really cost without insurance right now is thousands per month. They're making bank on it.
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Apparently the actual answer (I did say I'm not a lawyer!) is "it depends".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Possession_of_stolen_goods

The state-level standard appears to vary, the most common case is 'should have known', rather than 'knew for a fact'.

With Bitcoin, where all transactions are a matter of public record, I'd hazard that 'should have known' is baked-in. It will be interesting to see what case law is established in this arena.

That said, my statement above is clearly stronger than reality, except in some states where knowledge doesn't need to be proven.
No. There’s an upgrade fee even when you buy your phone through the iPhone upgrade program now.
In France this 'success story' led to a state law (2015-992, from 2015, the "loi relative à la transition énergétique pour la croissance verte") states that the part of nuke-produced electricity must fall to less than 50% in 2025, from 72% then, and that renewables must replace it.

In France nuke-power is backed by gas (which produced 10,3% of gridpower in 2017).

The sole reactor currently planned (Flamanville-3) is a complete disaster, more than 10 years behind schedule and 4x overbudget.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flamanville_Nuclear_Power_Plan...
> Yes well, it comes off as flaming,

Saying that someone who doesn't understand binary floating point numbers is ignorant and needs to study, while pointing them to a study resource, isn't flaming, it's an act of selflessness. It's a favor, a grant of knowledge and a nudge in the right direction.

> Even if someone is inexperienced, is telling them to study more and telling them that they are ignorant useful?

Yes

> Aside from the thing about tone, it is also a question of whether it is giving actual actionable advice.

The sibling comments did not exist when I posted my first one. It had also a link to actionable advice.

Mind you, no-one is forced to know how binary floating point operations work, as long as they don't intend on passing incorrect judgement that's brash and impolite.
IKE obviously does the key management part, it's part of IPsec in this picture.

There is no separate mesh routing in this scenario, everyone just uses normal internet routing and addressing.
Are there really aquifers that move water ≥ 1km upward? I thought they were mostly lateral or downward moving.
Is Unity the odd ball? I've never done any serious game dev but I've done plenty of screen drawing and Y-down is the only convention I've ever come across.
This is a great idea. Rediscoverability is a big problem, especially with the growing popularity of personal knowledge systems (Notion, Roam, etc), which have been discussed a lot on HN.

I take a ton of notes on Notion, but I worry that I'll never see most of them again. Maybe part of the value is just in writing the notes in the first place...?

Kudos for solving out this problem for Reddit!
You also have no obligation to them.
Be sure to find both settings: the one to clear activity up to now, and the separate one to ensure that future activity is not tracked either.
> fortunately is largely abandoned

Also fortunately, it's not totally abandoned. You can have my `let` when you pry it from my cold fingers.
BTW, I just wrote a comment to this effect on this post, though I am not a fan of Discord: https://support.discordapp.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/3600...
And as I said in another comment, let them make that decision...

I would love to see them attempt to justify denying life saving medication in only one part of the country because money.

Might just be the straw that would finally break their backs, and it's been too long coming.
What they mean is that with tinc, you can connect from node A to node Z without A and Z being directly connected. Tinc discovers who is connected to whom and will route through nodes to reach one another dynamically in user space.

IPSec by itself can not do this without adding very complex route statements on each node and enabling packet forwarding. Tinc operates in user space and does not require kernel packet forwarding or any destination node specific route statements.
Those abbreviations do not collide with a more common abbreviation in the same domain. Standard as a prefix in this title does not disambiguate its meaning. Anything to clarify it is a programming language would be nice.
The point isn't to make the coins themselves clean, it's to exchange them for something clean.

So a laundering service could specialize in buying tainted coins and to sell them off to other unsuspecting people, pocketing the difference. In return they could provide clean coins for their customers.
Don't forget the mundane detail of "I have no idea what Apple did with my 60GB music library or how to get it on my phone again".

Thankfully I've been a spotify subscriber for years so I can just keep kicking that can down the road, but some day I'd like my music back.
Not the same insulin.
Pharma companies are profiting off of your tax dollars

No. Pharma companies are paying taxes collectively which are then used to fund basic research they can all benefit from.

Another way to do it would be to form a consortium like SEMATECH [1].

If the government didn't tax and regulate companies and people so highly they would have more left over to join voluntary associations and do the same thing.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SEMATECH
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The problem with drilling is, you have a bore hole connecting your cavern to the surface.

And the bad actor potentially does not care about being noticed.
Pretty much every large retailer I've been to in the last 6 months has most of their employees supplied with smart phones of some sort, usually with a barcode scanner, that they can use for inventory processes. I've walked up to employees at the grocery store and a hardware store and asked for a specific niche item, and they've pulled out their phone, searched for the item, found it's location in store, price, and the number in stock. Seems like they're doing a lot of work with them.
What good is our species having the ability of written language, if we never learn from our past mistakes.
I'm probably slightly younger than you, and I barely notice the CCTV cameras anymore.

Weirdly, the one time I genuinely felt uncomfortable was last week. I saw a traffic camera* swivel across a junction. Actually seeing a camera move in such a way that it was clearly being operated by a human was genuinely unnerving. I took a wrong turn so it wouldn't see me, for no real reason.

*One of these things: https://d1ix0byejyn2u7.cloudfront.net/drive/images/uploads/p...