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Pharmaceutical companies have massive advertising/marketing budgets, which a nationalized drug R&D program would not need. That lowers overall costs. The R&D and manufacturing costs would also be spread across all Americans instead of only the patients who need the drugs, so the costs would be much lower for the patients as well.
Maybe the way forward for the hydrogen power is to tackle the power storage in the grid first. Yes, I know that it is not very efficient, but few solutions there are efficient and we need some solution if we are going to increase reliance on solar and wind. Maybe while hydrogen energy storage will take its place in the grid, the technologies will get developed further, up to theoretically a point where a hydrogen-based car will make more sense realistically. (For example availability of hydrogen itself, the price and the number of stations around will be more allowing of it.)
Tell HN: HBO appears to be blaming Amazon and Roku in battle over HBO Max
I’ve been a loyal, full-paying HBO customer for many years, via Amazon Prime Video channels because I like consolidating many streaming channels into the single Prime Video interface.

I also use Roku for all of my streaming at home - I have no other devices which can effectively stream to my television sets and am not interested in buying others.

Recently after launching HBO Max, there’s been massive customer confusion about the difference between HBO Now, HBO Go and HBO Max, and finally it seems HBO Go is being fully retired (at least from Roku) on July 31 [0] and the fate of HBO Now (which covers the program for subscribing in Prime Video channels) is also very unclear and confusing.

The price of HBO Max ($15/mo) is the same as the Amazon Prime Video channel subscription, but the Prime Video option will not include expanded content items available in HBO Max.

While HBO feels it can charge the same price to two different customers yet deliver them different service, as a loyal HBO customer it is very upsetting to be treated this way.

I am suddenly relegated to being a second class customer undeserving of the expanded content despite paying the same price.

It’s unacceptably poor treatment from HBO, not from Amazon or Roku. To pull the rug out from under loyal customers who have configured their device and app choices over years to best suit their needs is overtly antagonistic towards subscribers.

HBO has some of the best programming, but if I can’t keep consuming it in the way that’s been working for me for years, I’ll have to cancel.

I submitted a help center complaint about this and if you are an HBO customer being negatively affected by HBO’s choices around HBO Max, please consider doing the same:

- https://help.hbonow.com/ContactUs

- https://help.hbogo.com/hc/en-us

[0]: https://help.hbogo.com/hc/en-us/articles/360049485594#h_16a41e4f-aba8-406f-8ced-35c7df013a8b
Having lived all over Europe and US for varying amounts of time, this is true. Yet, the subjective quality of life is higher in most of Europe than in most of the US.

Funnily, this is true within Europe as well. Most of Northern Europe is richer than most of Southern Europe. Yet, the subjective quality of life is by and large higher in the south. (This last part is my opinion, take it with a grain of salt.)
> WW2 was 13 years before.

9/11 was 19 years ago which killed "only" a few thousand yet the event's influence is still felt. In fact, we still feel WW2's influence today. Or the influence of the US civil war if I look at current conflicts :/.
edit: misinterpreted "desal" as diesel rather than desalinated water.

Well that's just not at all true. Hydrogen by electrolysis costs <$20/kg. A much more interesting fact about a kg of hydrogen is also that it has very close to the same energy content as a gallon of diesel, and significantly more when used in a fuel cell vs an ICE.

https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy04osti/36734.pdf
At $45,284 the US has the highest household net disposable income per capita in the OECD (http://www.oecdbetterlifeindex.org/countries/united-states/), where "disposable income" (http://stats.oecd.org/glossary/detail.asp?ID=46) accounts for healthcare and government benefits.
I think it depends. I've worked in places that had something like the following setup.

- Hardware in datacenters with operators who were not experts on the applications running.
- All remote access was done using a short term (~1 day) ssh keys. There was an authentication service to generate these.

It was pretty easy to imagine that the authentication service would go down. In this case a selection of people who worked on the infrastructure had longer-term keys on HSMs. (With very high logging and alerting for any use). It would actually make sense for these to be CA keys so that they could access different user accounts or similar.

TL;DR you are assuming a very basic SSH auth setup. As the regular setup gets more complicated having something like this as a backup makes sense.
Completely irrelevant, but HN is one of the few places online in which you can use the verb to cons, and most people will understand what you mean, even though this verb isn't part of any spoken language.
> Never needing to fill up is even better.

And which technology allows for that? The cars "running on water" that new age alien enthusiasts are always on about?
I doubt if there's any region in the world that comes close to SV when it comes to innovation.

Indian engineers, at least the ones hired from the top institutes, can certainly innovate if they are provided the right environment.
I drove through Chattanooga earlier this week during a cross country move. Gorgeous, underrated part of the country.

Close to Nashville, Huntsville (huge aerospace & engineering base has fiber) & Atlanta.

Pretty sure they also have municipal fiber.
In the case of health care, consolidation has probably made things worse by muting competition. There are now five big insurance companies, three big wholesalers, three large pharmacy chains and three big benefit managers. In the case of health care, consolidation has probably made things worse by muting competition. There are now five big insurance companies, three big wholesalers, three large pharmacy chains and three big benefit managers.
Your 20-30% claim is still way too high for even the median wages, ignoring typical SWE comp. it’s not clear where you got your numbers, but they’re not supported by the data.

The median US wages are covered by the subsidies above. Again, I want to emphasize that I support health care reform to improve coverage at the lower wages, but I’m trying to explain the discrepancy between the dire picture painted online and the seemingly irrational voting patterns of most Americans. The idea that you can move to a median European country and come out ahead financially due to government healthcare doesn’t really add up.
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I've spent the last few hours browsing Gemini, and it feels more like the early web than anything I've experienced in the decades since. I love it.
I can't read due to pay wall, but have a guess. Data systems, such as Epic, seem unnecessarily close walled. Is Epic the big winner, pharma, or something else?
> In that situation, I'd move somewhere like Chattanooga TN- average rent at around $1000/month, vs SF's $3000-5000. Food is cheaper too.

That rent difference turns out to be $24000-$48000 a year. If salaries are cut by 40%, it would only make economic sense to move if you earned less than $60000-$120000 a year (not accounting for cheaper food).

Whether the lifestyle differences would be positive or negative is highly dependent on the individual. And that's without getting into other opportunities available if you stay in SF.
Common Lisp was (per the name) designed to provide a migration path for a bunch of mutually incompatible LISP dialects that existed in the 1980s, but it wasn't fully compatible with any of them -- programs originally written for even MacLisp/ZetaLisp (the closest relatives) could take substantial work to port. See Pitman's post on Macsyma on this thread, for example: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.lang.lisp/fY92o...
To me all the difficulty is caused by the obscuration. Once you get to the point where he refuses to say which software he's talking about, your attention scatters to all the different things he might be referring to. If I talk about Oracle's subtle changes to layers of abstraction, you can read the sentence and decide whether that describes Oracle well or not. If I talk about "a widely installed piece of process management software" doing that, everything else I say is just a riddle trying to figure out which one.
At work I have scheduled meetings with no agenda. If we have nothing to talk, it's a short meeting. But it turns out that there's almost always something worth discussing. Without such scheduled meetings people might not think it's worth initiating a call or sending an IM and potentially interrupting someone's flow.

At home we FaceTime people we normally drink beer together and do it remotely. Two or three families in a videochat. We even attended an all-remote wedding.
I see. Given that Azure offers both Linux and Windows server environments, your analogy was a little unclear to me.

Ideally, this particular challenge can be overcome using something like terraform, which allows you to build infrastructure in a relatively cloud-agnostic way. But even that is a risk, since it's a relatively new project.
> It also has a tendency to leak.

But I mean, that has to be a limitation of current technology, right? There has to be engineering solutions that we can devise to make it as safe statistically as for example gasoline transport?
I Created Server Dashboard
That’s a great book, but it’s from 1997. I think some theories have changed in 23 years. For example, the Siberia-Alaska land bridge theory is just one possible way humans got to the Americas.
Science fiction and science dis/trust
This feudal lord probably have invested in an upkeep of few knights who enforce that chains stays in place. And then lobbied at the court against complaints from merchants and peasants. He might have also have to bribe few judges.

Also historically feudal lords had been constantly in debt spending more on representation then they have earned. Some moneylenders might have taken all this rent from river chain. Or the feudal lord have spent that income on luxury items stimulating demand for art or trade with far away corners of the globe.

This is an example of how economist have no idea how making money works..
It is cheaper because the cost of living and running an office are significantly cheaper than that of SV. Indian engineers are not always bad engineers that write low quality code.
> focused on ensuring that the publisher has control over the user's experience

Worth noting that this is modern browsers/web, and was initially not like this.

The term "user-agent" comes from that the _user_ has control over the experience, no matter what the publisher thinks. The agent (browser) acts for the user, hence user-agent.

User-agent CSS files were rampant back in the days, when a lot of content was unstyled. So you could navigate between websites and they looked the same, as they would use your user agent css files.

But then everyone decided they had to have a unique look on the web (CSS). Then they decided they needed unique functionality on the web (JavaScript). And here we are :)
I believe it's actually about $76k. Yes and no. The brand recognition is certainly more valuable than getting a degree from a cheap school and would open more doors, but I believe that like many schools, Berkeley still distinguishes the degree as different than if you got it in-person. In this case, the degree name is different even though it doesn't say "online" anywhere, so it will depend on whether the hiring manager is aware of its online nature or not.
It wouldn't if they were subsidized? I think a lot more auditing should take place. We are told drug corps spend a lot on R&D and that's factored into the price. That doesn't 'rhyme' with Gilead CEO's open letter[0] which says they base drug prices on the 'value it provides', not on the costs absorbed. My feeling is that drugs would be far cheaper if they would actually base them on the costs absorbed.

[0] https://www.gilead.com/news-and-press/press-room/press-relea...
At a glance it doesn't seem you're contradicting me but that faith stipulates following Biblical instruction. That describes the religion in practice, anyone that dons faith would do that (or portend to) as faith encapsulates all those ideas.

The notion that people should do good for its own sake doesn't really change the fact that it's the ticket for Catholicism. Conversely in, say, Calvinism nothing you do can guarantee Salvation.
I think a lot of it boils down to whether you're living in a place with other people or you're alone in an apartment. A family or roommates can give enough human interaction that it's not an issue at all. But many people have most of their human interaction through work and associated activity (commute, lunches, dinner after work, etc.), and the isolation is stifling.

As an introvert with a medical condition, a wife and three kids at home, remote working is the best thing that's ever happened in my career, and I can't see myself working in an office unless there were some incredibly good incentives (and closed individual offices).
Which request is offensive?
Pizza Hut’s Biggest Franchisee Declares Bankruptcy
Well, they are, but they are taxed for it so “its free”
Here's a long data analysis making that argument: https://randomcriticalanalysis.com/why-conventional-wisdom-o....
Subsidizing doesn't stop the price gouging though, it only distributes the cost and in fact may increase the incentive for price gouging since payment would be nearly guaranteed.

Why not free the intellectual property here instead?
Try the Redirect AMP to HTML[0] browser add-on to get out of the game without getting blank pages. There's also Privacy Redirect[1] for getting out of the Youtube / Twitter / Instagram / Google Maps game.

[0]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/amp2html

[1]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/privacy-redir...
IRIX 4Dwm was like the Rolls Royce of desktops. It didn't get in the way of what you were trying to do. This was in a time when you only ran one application on your SGI machine, e.g. 3D modelling. Compared to Windows, Sun and other desktops it was just nicer to use. The responsiveness, the cool fonts and the 3D bits with no anti-virus pop ups or other nonsense made it a joy to use. The icons were Susan Kate originals done in vectors before SVG was a thing.

Things like the CPU performance monitor were a joy to see and haven't been improved on. Same goes for the screen savers, not that we have them now.

There was nothing clunky about the magical desktop and normally your applications were tools that cost tens of thousands. Mere mortals thought they were seeing the future and what a brilliant future that was. The web was going to be VRML 3D in those days but we ended up with 2D bloat.

The tools you have shape how you think and SGI just made your thinking creative and imaginative. Everyone else was on Windows which had great apps like MS Office but an SGI machine had none of those civilian programs.

IMHO Ubuntu has a desktop that falls short of what SGI had even though it is an environment that doesn't distract in the way that Windows does.

How I see it is that you have consumer operating systems such as Windows, ChromeOS and OSX and you have professional operating systems such as what classic UNIX machines had. Linux desktops are in this professional mould.
That's an average again. Also not sure what you mean by "No."

That data neither proves nor disproves what your parent comment said.

Additionally disposable income doesn't account for "optional" spending on healthcare etc. by the individual.

When you look at median disposable household income, the US still comes in somewhere at the top, but the top 15 countries all have about the same ballpark figure (~30k USD), with US being the only country among them that doesn't have unemployment benefits, affordable healthcare, etc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disposable_household_and_per_c...
How Do Bats Cope with Viruses
That number is for mean, not median, so it rather misses the point.
StartUp 101: Business Model Canvas
You might want to work on extending the span of your attention, there's pretty dismal future ahead if people have trouble extracting the meaning from a few lines of text.
Interesting. How does this compare to just generating generic system load (e.g. running some benchmark)?
You think it is? You think it's a great thing to back down instantly when experiencing the slightest amount of adversity? Wow. Just... Wow.
Here's a well known site that promotes free-market ideals. Unlike the other one, fee.org has not been shadow-banned.
Who is to blame?

The government for not collecting taxes from you and using that money to pay the doctor?

The doctor for billing too high for the visit?

The insurance company for not covering more of the price?

Personally I would seek to understand why the doctor is billing so much and how that can become more fair for everyone involved.
Yeah, I can't figure out a single reason this would be OK. Even murders, rapists and other morally shitty people either deserve to get help to improve themselves, as they are obviously damaged in some way, or at least put in a place where they don't get worse.

I'm not generally for death sentence, but I'd honestly change my view if the alternative to death sentence is being locked up in solitary for the rest of your life. Death in this case would be kinder. Best would be that none of those options exists.
What the new Hong Kong security law means for Canadians – everywhere
Maybe ships is an even better fit than trucks?
My understanding is moving electricity into a battery is much more efficient than using it to break water into hydrogen.
You have Medicaid and Medicare reversed.
Why not use certificates as your primary authentication for SSH? Facebook has a great blog post on implementing this at scale: https://engineering.fb.com/security/scalable-and-secure-acce...
Three Actionable Insights to Improve Your Mind
Both iOS(Screen Time)[1] and Android(Digital Wellbeing)[2] show how much you use your phone and let you set limits for smartphone usage.
1. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208982
2. https://wellbeing.google/
I searched the page for "health" and "med" and could not find any mention. Then I looked up "Foundation for Economic Education" on wikipedia, and understood why: it's a libertarian think tank. To factor in healthcare would weaken their message.
i think he's referring to those who have the ability to charge their car at home, effectively never having to visit actual charging station
The US spends more tax money per capita on healthcare than most EU countries. And then it spends a bunch more privately.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_hea...
I use Royal TS. It’s basically a MDI in which you can include many PuTTY etc. sessions. Also allows you to simultaneously perform commands on all open terminals. Handy if you administer a large set of servers.
This is amazing. I have been interacting with folks like this for a long time, in some of my extracurricular activities.

I will say that it's easy for us to be sympathetic, when we see their "human" side, but that sympathy dries up, real quick, when we are victims.

I have worked with both perpetrators and victims (often, the same person).

It's pretty heart-wrenching. There's no practical solutions on the table. It's pretty difficult to get folks behind efforts to reform things.

In the US, a felony rap is a "scarlet letter" that follows people throughout their entire life, destroying any real chance at true reform. Pretty much guaranteed recidivism. Dishonorable military discharges are another one.

I have heard that the UK has a system that "shelves" criminal records after a certain number of years, and only employment in certain fields (like law enforcement, childcare, etc.) can view the records.
I struggle to see how comparing people who like particular technical products to supporters of dictatorships shows any of the "utmost respect" to any commenters that you claim at the start of your comment.
How is that not the parent fault ?
Because the cost of living delta is mostly just home ownership. Yes, that trickles down to somewhat higher prices for contractors, child care, etc. but it's mostly rents and houses. So $50K/year say is probably a pretty reasonable cost of living adjustment between the Bay Area and most reasonable low CoL areas. Cut more than that and you're also cuttings savings and spending power for things that are priced similarly across the continental US.
Umbrella App?
Eminent Domain.
GPUs do have much better gate density, and better clock speeds, but the problem here is so specialized that the improved raw speeds of a GPU don't remotely make up for its inflexibility.

Additionally, GPUs are optimized for throughput. CPUs are optimized for latency, I haven't seen the benchmarks but I'd blindly bet that a modern CPU could get lower latency on this problem than a modern GPU.

The blog post here solved the entire problem in just 3 clock cycles. I don't know how the numbers come back on a GPU or CPU, but the vast majority of the optimizations here are completely impossible on a standard instruction set, and would instead require doing dozens to hundreds of clock cycles. Going from 65 MHz to 5 GHz isn't going to make up for all the shortcuts you lose out on.
While there are definitely some horror stories about this in the US, it is a lot less common than people think. It turns out only about 4% of bankruptcies for adults are due to a hospitalization[0]. So you're much more likely to go bankrupt for other reasons.

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5865642/
Ah that's my fault then. About 2/3 of the way through the article something loaded or shifted as nobody can resist the urge to highjack scrolling and I lost the rest of the text so I stopped reading.
Like that time a Developer Evangelist overheard two developers exchange dongle jokes and got them fired for it. It doesn't take much.
First we move the factories to others countries and now we are moving the brains. If this extend, this will be the end of middle class in west society.
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Encrypted communication is communication that is indecipherable if you know the encryption algorithm but don't have the key material. Not knowing the algorithm is a separate thing. In the case of D-STAR, the algorithm is well known, it's just not analog FM. People with FM receivers would be just as upset to hear two people talking with SSB or CW, both perfectly legal on VHF.

Over on HF, digital modes like FT8 are quite popular. You will never be able to decode that without a computer, but that doesn't make it illegal (or encrypted). The algorithm is well defined and it's ~100x more bandwidth efficient than SSB voice.

Kenwood sells AES radios for non-amateur communications. It's perfectly legal for non-amateur licensees to encrypt their radio links. Your cell phone is doing it right now!

Yes, you can use those on the amateur bands if you want. It's against the rules. The reason amateur radio exists is because we follow the rules. It can all disappear overnight if you violate them. There are a few well-known bad apples that make it harder for all of us. It's not to be encouraged.
It's basically just a good TAA and the tensor cores are basically used as a poor man's Lanczos. The tensor cores are used for obfuscation, and to make sure it doesn't run on AMD. Very little about DLSS 2.0 is "DL".
The author is looking at consumption, not income. It's been shown that when you look at consumption, inequality isn't nearly what people think. https://economics21.org/html/when-it-comes-inequality-consum...
Musk ever spoken about what he'd do to get outside of the solar?

Speed of light is a bastard of a limitation to have to beat...
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