skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As I see it consolidation isn’t the root cause. The central problem is that pharmacy benefits manager have been allowed to invert the normal market. Normally for someone arranging the “resale” of a product from a producer to costumers would make more money if the price got negotiated down. But since PBMs have forced rebates of 70%+ that means that they are making most of the money on a drug sale. So even thought they are representing the buyers at the negotiation table, they want the prices as high as they can be.
Producers are sitting down at the table and outbitting each other not on how low the price could be, but how high they are willing to make it, it’s absurd.
And you’d think the insurance companies or pharmacies would object, but often they are owned by the same group so they all just share the proceeds from ripping of the people.
Since Canada and Mexico just closed their borders to the USA I think it just got a lot harder to flee.
Healthcare administration isn't really a high tech business though.

I think the culprit here is obamacare; after all it was written by the insurance companies. Who's surprised that it benefits them the most? Insurance stocks absolutely took off after it was passed.
Not to mention the efficiency of converting the stored Hydrogen to power. It’s hard to beat the efficiency of a battery and electric motor.
The almost full and complete point of this is to REMOVE the ability of "commercial players" from having a role or interest in the platform at all. They have already ruined the web and society as a whole (but that gets into a whole argument for/against capitalism... take a wild guess where I stand).
In the bio/pharma scene, this is most cruelly illustrated (in recent times) with this example failure: https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2017/05/18/no...

tldr:

- statins have a measurable effect on HDL and LDL levels that correlates really well with how much they reduce your risk of dying, and that risk reduction is real and big.

- therefore HDL/LDL levels shall be a great surrogate metric for new drugs; let's go find some.

- we found this great drug that does even better than statins do at HDL/LDL level changes

- two years and 12k patients in trials later: this new drug doesn't affect mortality literally at all.

- ...crap.
Last time this was posted I started working on a Gemini client:

https://github.com/electronstudio/2face

Currently it’s TUI, but will add GUI eventually. It’s fun to have a protocol small enough you can implement it yourself, but I currently have a weird bug where some Gemini servers work and others don’t because they don’t seem to follow the SSL spec.
I bet non-techie people _already_ read their daily dose of news from 1 to 2 news websites at most. Installing a dedicated app is not much different than surfing the same 2 websites everyday.

Also, for techie people, do you consider RSS as part of the "web" ? To me, an RSS aggregator app is superior to browsing 20 different news websites, all with different formats.

"web is just way more practical" isn't obvious. It depends about what you put in the "web" bag, and the use cases. Most apps use "web" protocols, so they are technically part of the web.
At the speed you are going, the sun will quickly be a pale white dot
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On the other hand, this bug only affects PuTTY users instead of all openssh users, which means it’s that much less of an appealing target for Hackers.
See also Goodhart’s Law: When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law
Overcomplex technical solution to a simple problem.

Besides which, if you really want to go full-on with technically clever solutions, keep in mind you could ensure no cellular service prior to opening. But then we're just getting into the realms of silly situations.
Wow I think the Maya thought of the caves as the entrance to the world the the dead. Maybe they saw a few skeletons down there that were deposited a long time before and concluded this is where the underworld is.

I have seen reports of skeletons placed perfectly in caves that are today only accessible with proper diving gear. At that time they concluded that it was placed there by incredibly brave mayans. Maybe these skeletons are far older.
How are those emissions calculated? Is there anything in the process that needs to generate co2? (like in concrete, where production of concrete generates co2 by itself).

If this co2 is due to electricity/transportation cost then the problem will solve itself with more electricity from green sources.
Colonoscopies in the US cost about $2,500 out-of-pocket, even with insurance. Most other countries are under $1,000 for the same procedure.
Regarding the 7 page listing of more than 200 various acts of political violence, including attempted murder, against conservative politicians;

I searched for the same document produced during the Obama administration and could not find one. From that I infer that during his administration, neither conservative nor liberal politicians saw political violence as enough of a concern to list it and enter into the permanent record of the United States Congress.

Political violence and oppression was one of the primary motivators for the United States to seek independence from England. We are going backwards.
PuTTY was written back in a time when SSH was proprietary software. It predates the first release of OpenSSH, which I believe was BSD-only at the time, by almost a year.

That aside, the official SSH implementation has never been any princess either. The PuTTY implementation is superior in many ways, not least in terms of modularity, although evidently just as prone to security problems as OpenSSH.

I'm all for new alternative implementations of important pieces of our stack, but please God no more security-critical C.
> Add other bits of cheaper living: lack of commute, cheaper food, etc. It's not just the rent.

At this point, people arguing for moving to lower cost of living area should just show the math.

> Also think how much is an extra hour every day (or however long you commute) worth to you in quality of life.

Just live close to the office. You can literally pay thousands of dollars a month and still be better of financially.

And really, how much is it worth? Is it worth $100K a year? Because that's how much less disposable income/savings some of the people with higher salaries would find them selves with in the proposed scenario.
There are plenty of healthcare related things that one can shop for, such as this COVID test. The price could easily be advertised on the healthcare facilities website. But it’s not because it would hurt revenue since price transparency benefits buyers, and price obfuscation benefits sellers by allowing them to price discriminate and charge each seller the most each seller is able to pay.
I find the best thing to do when someone's walking towards you, texting, totally oblivious to your coming towards them, is to play chicken with them. Just keep walking, see how close you can get to them before they notice you. It gets pretty close sometimes, almost had a couple collisions, but so far everyone's looked up in the knick of time, gotten embarrassed and quickly veered away. Gets that adrenaline flowing though.
>It's indeed a rhetorical trick (many of the most illuminating arguments lead you unknowingly to their point), but it's not pointless. One key aspect of white fragility is that it engenders an overwhelming compulsion to counter any attack on white identity or to insert oneself into discussions where their presence is detrimental to the discourse or even their own argument.

What you describe is less any case of "white fragility", and more a degree of irritation at misapplication or dishonest application of rhetorical technique.

Anyone who has had any exposure to classical rhetoric sees the structure of what you're trying to do, and is trying to inform you that you are undermining your own credibility by doing what you are doing.

>It's indeed a rhetorical trick (many of the most illuminating arguments lead you unknowingly to their point)

No, most good good faith rhetoric doesn't "unknowingly lead you to their point". It invites you to think. To ponder and consider. What you, and other adherents of white fragility are doing is not that. You're taking any counter rhetorical engagement as an a priori proof of your conclusion, which is an example of circular reasoning.

It's like saying a parent or guardian is demonstrating parental/guardian fragility because even though a child or ward makes a mistake they can't help themselves but to attempt to correct them. No. It isn't a failing on parent's/guardian's part. The ward has done something derp, and they care enough to call them out, and attempt to remediate the faux pas so that it doesn't continue making the ward's life more difficult than need be.

Same dynamic is going on here, without the implied authoritative relationship. In an exchange of ideas amongst equals with different viewpoints, instead of taking any further attempts at counterargument in good faith as an indicator you might be doing something in error, missing something, or as an invitation to broaden your view by considering from a different point of view, you instead double-down by asserting that it is an illustration of bad faith on the part of the person reaching out and trying in good faith to commiserate with you. In that sense it is little more than an overly elaborate rhetorical exchange stop point, as there is no further room for exchange of meaningful information if all you're going to do in the end is shunt further exchange into the "Haha, White Fragility" bucket.

Just figured I'd point that out in case no one else can figure out a way to make the point more obvious.

>Illustrating the idea that you can't help yourselves is meaningful.

No, it isn't. Eliciting a response to rhetorical bad form is like saying that a compiler is fragile because it calls out syntax errors.
I second this. I've worked from home for about 11 years now, pre-covid everything was fine. Met up with friends a couple of times a week, and the odd organised social.

A little more awkward nowadays with lockdowns and such, which has me a little twitchy.
There is no animal species more savage than humans. Orcas, great cats... nothing comes close to our innovation in torture methods, deliberately hacking evolved pain mechanisms to maximize suffering. Solitary confinement is a particularly ingenious way of inflicting agony.
On a planet with 7 billion people? Probably not.
Average is a difficult measure to use in isolation. Gini also has to be considered. While the average income (even figuring in PPP) in say, Czech Republic, is far lower than in the U.S., the poorest people in the U.S. are far poorer.
> allowing privacy-preserving statistical queries from outside researchers has the potential to be very useful

This depends on how many researchers and queries per researcher that you want to allow. The privacy budget eventually runs out, so there are definitely drawbacks that prevent effective use of this data across enough outside researchers.
>Where did you get the idea that the US doesn't have unemployment benefits?

I do not know why I wrote it that way, really. I am aware the US has some social security and unemployment benefits, but not much compared to many other rich western countries. It's pretty much at the bottom right next to Germany, which has a comically low (cash) benefits imho.

I realize those numbers may be skewed by stuff like:

- Food stamp programs (US)

- The state directly paying for apartments etc. in some cases (Germany)

- Whatever else infrastructure etc. you get to use for free as an unemployed person.

In any case "social security" is hard to quantify, and depending on how and who does it you'll see countries jumping all over the place in rankings. So I'm pretty much just going by what the general perception of social security is in various countries.
You created the throwaway account > 1 year ago.

Must have seen everything coming.
Paradox with just self-reference [pdf]
At least some of those marketing costs would still be needed, they'd just be called "education" or "outreach" or "access" programs. Patients and doctors still need to be informed of new advancements to improve outcomes.

For the second point, cost spreading helps particular people in particular circumstances, but doesn't lower overall cost. You're just running a wealth transfer or insurance program in addition at that point.
> It is totally possible to develop drugs without that moat, it just requires getting the money from somewhere.

US taxpayers seem to be able to find hundreds billions for R&D of fighter jets and aircraft carriers. Perhaps this is not as necessary as developing medicine. Or not invading and occupying random countries.
Do you know more about hydrogen transport? I heard it is quite more complicated and expensive than LNG (closest equivalent), because hydrogen leaks more easily.
Thanks for asking, we need more comments like yours
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Milk is not healthy, rice barely can qualify but I guess it's food. Beans are.
Sorry, yes, that was autocorrect - I meant "tut", which had been suggested by someone else on the thread
Who decides if something is a "derogatory" term?

Are the following also derogatory?:

* Nazi

* racist

* mansplain

* TERF

* alt-right

etc. My own metric for an "derogatory" would be "does this person apply this (negative?) label to themselves, or does some (antagonistic) other apply it?". That's not to say all labels a person doesn't apply to themselves is inaccurate, just that applying it is antagonistic so there should probably be a higher standard of definition, evidence and relevance in using it.

Quite a few of the above terms invoke what is often called "identity politics" which fits the description "argue against the character of the person, and not against the content of their statements" - although less "character" and more "demographic".

That said, "virtue signal" more accurately attacks a persons motivation, not just their character; Ad-homs aren't necessarily bad, if a persons motivations are relevant.

In summary, I disagree VS should never to be used; it is a derogatory term, but if accurate, and relevant, there's no reason not to use it. This differs from terms that are pure insults which generally lack enough meaningful information to be relevant, e.g. bitch, jerk, etc which don't really mean anything other than a pure expression of disapproval/negativity; of course, what level of accuracy meets the condition "relevant" depends on the nature/resolution of the conversation, and the context in which the word is used - in much the same way that "light-years" is a relevant unit for space travel, but not for land travel.
What type of energy can they develop? Iceland is well known for their geothermal energy I wouldn’t have thought that would have a huge impact on the landscape more than any other low rise industrial buildings.
Thanks for that link. I couldn't find anything searching her name plus "Silicon Graphics", "SGI" or "IRIX".
* Bigger homes means you feel more comfortable being lazy and spending all your time indoors

I call BS on that. Accordingly to this logic homeless must be the healthiest people. That aside, rich people (who also happen to have bigger houses) actually exercise more than the poor.

* Bigger cars means you are incentivized to drive 20 miles to a restaurant in comfort instead of walking over to a closer one

You telling that person with the smaller car would rather walk to the store (often VERY long walk in the US)? I call another BS here.

* Bigger TVs means you spend all day "watching the game" instead of going out and playing a sport.

Same argument as for size of the houses. I think you pulled these arguments right out of the place where the sun does not shine.
What you describe sounds a lot like URL spoofing, which is already pretty much used entirely to trick and scam unsuspecting users into clicking malicious links. Signed exchanges would just be an even harder to detect version of this.
Why would providing an unambiguous pointer to the name be any more controversial than just saying it? The only extra purpose doing it this way serves is being annoying.

(Its systemd, for anyone who doesn't feel like googling it)
A friend, who worked at a famous mobile/Fb gaming company, once told me his company would, sometimes, assign an engineer for an individual user or just few users. High spending users.
Downvotes are a flag for disagreement. I am interested in the reasoned points of those who disagree with me. Since I was downvoted and no comment was left, I requested that those who
downvoted come forth with their reasoned points. One or both of us have an opportunity to learn something when that happens.
I tend to write it off as less any kind of deep truth about humans (well, maybe the "bachelors can be married" one given that 9/10 students agreed with GPT-3 that bachelors can be married) than just the current weaknesses of how we train NNs like GPT-3 (small, unidirectional, unimodal, not to convergence, missing most of science in PDFs, etc).

In particular, I bet the "how many eyes does a horse have" example would be much less likely with a multimodal model which has actually seen photographs or videos of what the word "horse" describes and can see that, like most mammals, they only have 2 eyes. Think of it as like layers of Swiss cheese: every modality's datasets has its own weird idiosyncrasies and holes where the data is silent & the model learns little, but another modality will have different ones, and the final model trained on them all simultaneously will avoid the flaws of each one in favor of a more correct universal understanding.

I'm very keen to see how much multimodal models can improve over current unimodal models over the next few years.
while we are at it, let's also fix the obvious design flaws in C and UNIX/LINUX, especially the huge number of unfortunately named functions and commands.
Cenotes are amazing, probably the most memorial dives I did. You don’t need to be a cave diver to experience it —- there are plenty of impressive views while staying within short distance to open water.
Mostly WhatsApp and maps. I think your personal experience is skewed here:

- You don't need to have any group notifications enabled to use WhatsApp. You don't even need to be in any groups. A quick message / photo / video call is still useful.

- Preparing maps beforehand only works if there are no changes on the way, you know all the places you want to go to, and you're familiar with the transport options and schedule.

Sure, you may not find those useful in your daily usage. Just keep in mind that your view on limitations and benefits of those solutions may be skewed.
This is a little different. It was well after the last glacial maximum but the glacial waters were still trapped in the prehistoric lakes like Lake Iroquois and the Champlain Sea; the oceans rose once these lakes drained.

The caves are inland and part of the limestone karst found throughout the Yucatán peninsula and Florida. Divers have been exploring these fresh water cenotes and the attached subterranean caves/rivers for a long time. The cenotes were an important part of Mayan culture but that occurred much more recently (i.e. not prehistoric).

Salt water is not friendly to human artifacts. The cold fresh water in these systems is ideal to preserve them. This site seems like a very unique overlap in time and place. Quite a gift really.
Join a MENSA community and you'll soon see the vice of "intelligence signalling".
Which request are people thinking is offensive?
A fun book about this idea, Kim Stanley Robinson's Aurora.
Legacy and momentum plays a greater role in adopting a framework than sheer choice. If I could choose I would use frameworks in haskell or rust 100% of the time where I work. I don't because there is nothing built around it there and I need to get the job done right now. I would like to be the change I want to see, but sometimes there is just not enough time.
Information without wisdom is a dangerous thing. Merely reading books isn’t an education.
How is providing a framework which forces greedy publisher to keep their websites light "cheating".
> If I can figure out why they are disliked, I may be able to fix them.

fix? why would you want to become part of the echo chamber? i do understand the desire to not receive a downvote. Your specific example was indeed perhaps out of place and the downvotes were maybe "correct" and thus you were right to reflect and delete the post.

but more often than not, with contentious topics like donald trump downvotes are merely "i disagree". the pushback you're getting here is about that kind of downvote, and I agree. there's nothing to "fix". HN tries to make sure such topics don't even make it here for discussion, but the filter is steep so plenty get through.
> Restaurant, convenience store, grocery store, all are completely inaccessible except by car.

This particular aspect of USA struck me as quite bizarre whenever I visited on business trips. More so as I’m from India where it’s almost a given that things that you need on a day to day basis (grocery, bakery, pharmacy, convenience store etc.,) are available within walking distance. Apart from an opportunity to get some fresh air it’s also a good way to interact with my neighborhood community.

I assumed this is how it’d be in any developed country until I moved to Netherlands. It’s not too different from India at all in that respect here.

So now I wonder, what factors lead to that kind of city planning in US. It was a real ordeal for me to get a meal outside in US, had to either walk for an hour or order taxi service (those were pre-Uber days).
That’s a potentially dangerous recipe. Sassafras is currently banned for commercial food production in the US, as it’s a possible carcinogen. It would be worth doing additional research and weighing the risks before making such a drink.

That said, plenty of other comments point out that the timing of its indication as a carcinogen was a bit too convenient, and there are likely other factors at play. As always, do your research before actually following such a recipe.

One HN reader pointed out that the new beer won’t contain sassafras: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23730581
No, it’s the right one, I removed controversial sentence
The third option is to just have multiple generations live and die on the journey to getting there, with which ever generation is alive at the end colonizing the planet.
As a producer you can always circumvent the constraints imposed by a software. You can use a "this-is-a-title" tag to make text appear bigger, you can use a "this-is-a-list" tag to make content linear instead of using paragraphs, etc...

What I'm saying is that there can't be a format that isn't hacked and exploited to allow the publisher to do what they want, because ultimately it's their content so they control it. Maybe limiting the existing tags in HTML is a good idea (AFAIK that's one of the strategies of AMP) but reinventing a structured format will just lead to HTML-but-less.

If you want to give control to user, then you have to do that from the User Agent: forbid any publisher-provided styling, allow only certain tags, are going to actually do what you want, instead of inventing yet another format
The main problem is that language X has an implicit definition of Foo, which is similar but not identical to language Y's definition of Bar. This might work when the languages share common ancestry like German and English, where Foo and Bar are both descendent from Baz and have similar meanings, but will not work when you try to translate to language Z, whose speakers have a different word Foobar which has a meaning that encompasses Baz and Qux but excluding Xyzzy and with a completely different connotation.