skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> If we're going to have Medicare and private insurance companies pay $56K/year per patient for a drug that may not have positive effects that outweigh the risk of side effects, that's a major problem.

The usual story for why we allow patenting of drugs and high prices is that development is very costly - particularly the cost of doing trials. If they're going to allow this on the market without trials that show efficacy, the least they can do would be to allow generics at low prices while we're doing the efficacy testing on the general public ;-) </sarcasm>
I always assumed that MoviePass's endgame was to funnel so many of the ticket sales through them that they could strong-arm the theaters into lowering their ticket prices. They thought if they captured the movie ticket sales market, they could tell the theater "Start allowing us to pay only $2/ticket or we'll remove you from our app and you won't make ANY sales!"

I could be totally talking out my ass, but that's what I always figured. I don't see how else they could be profitable.
There's a universe of possibilities between unrestrained globalised hyper-financialised capitalism, and murdering people who wear glasses and making everybody work on agriculture a la Cambodia.

Ideas like Georgism allow us to retain the most useful features of a market economy while taming its brutal, violent, undemocratic features. That's the premise of market socialism in general.
Any thoughts on the Xcode cloud service described in the WWDC keynote yesterday?

Curious how this can be folded into your business.
It’s not a bad compromise. Even that, I’m sure, would end up getting mangled over technicalities and added loopholes.
Chris Domas works at Battelle Memorial Institute. Battelle is a "non profit R&D house" that just so happens to hire "retiring" CIA operatives, and work on tons of CIA/NSA contracts.

Completely coincidentally Chris Domas managed to discover the only Intel CPU backdoor ever discovered and publicized the very same year Intel already patched it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lR0nh-TdpVg
That's absurd. If everyone had a higher tax burden social mobility would be completely destroyed.

Californians will never vote away prop 13 so property taxes will never go up, even in this imaginary increased tax burden scenario. With incomes taxed higher, prices would not come down at all.

No one would want to sell their houses, as they could never afford a new one after taxes. Prices would continue to be propped up by real estate investment wealth that is largely unaffected by this increased tax burden. No one could afford to buy a first home as their income is taxed to a degree that saving up for a 20% down payment would require being in the 1% of CA income or saving up frugally for >10 years.
It doesn't have to be force at the start. If a politician were to run on the platform "no free speech for poor people", obviously they're not applying force or threatening it.

And even when elected, they threaten no force, they simply remove a right from the law.

At no point did they threaten force against poor people, only that their free speech be taken away. They got elected and are doing it non-violently.

Now poor people no longer have free speech.

Hence, either you must treat a threat against free speech as violence unconditionally of it's physical or psychological component (ie if it has a legal component) or you must acknowledge that free speech can be threatened by non-violent oppression.
It was more like them selling $300 of movie tickets (I'd watch one a day) for $10. Everyone only used them for the arbitrage.
This is the first release under AGPL - feels like a major licensing change should be called out in the changelog.
Rust/C++ interop in the Android Platform
Isn't that the point, though? He was able to live leisurely, and pursue whatever interested him, which helped him be successful.

This is a main argument for UBI - how many people who currently have to work sub-optimal jobs just to survive, would be able to explore and innovate instead?
Because the other plants still reproduce and accept the genes that have been engineered. The next generation of the "natural" plants being then unable to grow viable seeds.
Thanks very much for the additional depth on what “old and clunky” could mean in cryptography. I am no expert in this area, and I agree that all these nightmare scenarios you mention (and many more, I’m sure) are very concerning. I prefer to use old (tested and tried) Unix/BSD tools for interactive development rather than their latest rewrites or modern GUIs. In drug design, I’d rather have a clearly understood 30-year-old assay with known failure modes rather than the latest promising experiment that may still have unknown failure modes. But generally speaking, I am a sucker for new tech and I seem to never learn to stop playing with new shiny toys. In a field with explosive growth field, like machine learning, at least I can use the benchmarks against the state of the art to help me decide how or when to advance technologies (every month or so, it seems). So.. is it worthwhile to learn to use age?
> making a public accusation (which is what you're implying).

These are the words Masad used on Twitter to describe the situation in the OP:

> As a matter of principle, when someone goes into your home and steals from you, even if it's not material, you have to respond.

That's a direct public accusation of IP theft.
>I think you're extending "working class" to mean "people who live on wages instead of capital". But most people make an additional distinction inside wage earners between workers and professionals, i.e. mechanics, factory workers, nurses, assistants vs. doctors, lawyers, software engineers, managers, etc.

This is a meaningless distinction because there was a time where mechanics and factory workers also made 6 figure salaries. The divide should always be between someone who makes most of their money from labor rather than capital. Actors and basketball players are not people that I think should necessarily be more impacted by a wealth tax.
not defending his action here at all but the psychology of being a startup founder is interesting here. he couldve "seen this movie before" and jumped to conclusions. he couldve just had a rough day. sometimes you spend entire adult life feeling like the whole world is against you and you lash out without thinking it through.

everyone is armchair quarterbacking here on what was the rational thing to do. but we are mostly not rational creatures esp when our "babies" are involved.
> So if someone wanted to demonstrate poor building codes by setting your house on fire, that would be okay too, since you know, it's in the public interest to demonstrate lax building codes?

Yes, of course destroying property and incurring expenses for the local government is exactly the same as releasing records... oh no wait - its not at all the same.
Reward Is Enough
The article has a good intro, and then never goes on to discuss the "key strengths". It's just clickbait. They're also late to the party on this. The US professional military has been discussing this for over a decade.

There have already been more than a half dozen articles on drones in Parameters, the U.S. Army War College's journal. "The coercive logic of militant drone use" [1] is worth reading. This covers how non-state groups have used drones, what worked and what didn't. The US Army is unused to fighting under a hostile sky, and now, a few times, they've had to. "In 2017, then commander of US Special Operations Command General Raymond A. Thomas noted, “[the] most daunting problem [of 2016] was an adaptive
enemy who, for a time, enjoyed tactical superiority in the airspace under
our conventional air superiority in the form of commercially available
drones and fuel-expedient (?) weapons systems, and our only available
response was small arms fire.” They also mention a drone disabling an Israeli naval vessel in 2006.

There's been a lot more military use of drones than is generally realized. Much of it is for recon. Commercial hobbyist drones are more than good enough for finding out what the enemy is up to, and most drone use by militant groups is for that.

So far, that article indicates, drones have been unable to yield a decisive advantage in any conflict. At least to militant groups.

Not many people read Parameters. That paper has only 65 downloads. More should.

[1] https://press.armywarcollege.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article...
The styling of this thing is beautiful. That said, is it too much to ask that they come up with their own original name for a device that is patently a solo experience instead of hijacking a term for humans interacting with each other in physical space?
Awesome. I hope its possible to write extensionen that can do redirection. I use a third party Reddit client (Apollo), but when searching on Google, Reddit URLs only opens in the official Reddit app, which I don't like. It would be cool to make an extension that would detect that you are loading a Reddit URL, and redirect you to an in-app URL for Apollo
Thanks for the steps - I never paid attention to the overflow menu. Worked like a treat!
Yep. One last twist of words knowing it would be screenshotted. He had his fingers crossed that would be the last of it -- and it was not.

Like a used car salesman sliding in some hidden fees after the deal is done. All of this is poorly saving face anyhow.
I think being able to put off capital gains on assets like homes and start-up stock is necessary for the tax system to not do awful things like force people to sell a home because it becomes too valuable or bankrupt someone who has stock options in a company that reaches a high valuation but has untraceable stock.
for_each is an anti-pattern for reliable Terraform IMO. Not sure it was worth the wait and there isn't much out there that can compare with the simplicity of Terraform.
> The only way their business model can work is if the majority of customers sign up and never use it, which is a very weird thing for a business to depend on, IMO.

This is essentially the concept of insurance, is it not?
Magic Leap's COO, CTO, and chief patent officer are leaving the company
Over half of women self-report interest in BDSM
Yes but then they fixed it right.
Do you think you should be taxed so that everyone's parents can try this unproven therapy for ~56k a person a year?
This is how police should get around the problems presented with encryption. This is real policing.

The PR barrage and faux posturing by the FBI to weaken encryption has always seemed like just lazy policing to me.

If anything, the hacking attacks on industrial centers has better illustrated than anything why encryption is necessary, and this new triumph has demonstrated that police can continue to function, even thrive in a world that permits encryption.
Ya, it's similar. We needed to add an initial pinning PR, a vulnerability and change log comparison, and scanning for unsupported tags. We also added support for private registries so that we could use the same pattern for non-official images. But the inspiration came from Official image repositories.
In theory it could all be a vast conspiracy of the news media to misinform people, sure, but that would be a conspiracy theory.
The ego and hubris in all of this is absolutely insane. Replit is a cool product no doubt, but my God, people need to take themselves less seriously. I seriously put some of the blame on the culture here. If we keep on acting like these companies and founders are God's gift to mankind, we will continue to see this type of egotistical, narrow-minded behavior.
While it's possible to enter altered states of consciousness via endurance sport, (or meditation, yoga, breathing exercises, etc). the experience is fundamentally different than ingesting psychoactive substances.

With one, you have to actively work to achieve an altered state. With the other, once you ingest the thing, it's happening whether you want it to or not.

One is an act of willful exertion, the other is an act of surrender.
I interpreted this comment from the CEO as part of the common, and I think not very productive, practice of describing whatever negative or potentially negative trait as part of the intro to a statement. To describe what particular hardships are specific to me, even if not relevant (eg, “As a left handed, childhood beating survivor, true fan of the Last Jedi, I think tabs are better than spaces…”)

I just kind of ignore it and assume it’s a natural rhetorical technique, sometimes unconscious, to just say something that’s perceived positively. I suppose technically it’s “appeal to irrelevant authority.”
Well put, and I agree that right now the most effective thing would probably be to buy a stock iPhone, from a random source, in cash, etc.

That said, one huge caveat: any stock, internet-connected phone is always one law away from being rendered completely transparent to law enforcement with legal jurisdiction over the place of sale.

In the US, for example, Congress could write a law that forces a back door.

The back door doesn’t even have to be to the encryption keys or algorithm, but could be a simple screen capture interface that can be remotely triggered with a warrant.
I understand what you're saying, and I agree to an extend. But this is a thread about the apology after these accusations were made public. Instead of the apology Ajmad gave, clearly stating that nothing was stolen would be much more beneficial.
Truths Must Be Shared
I don't understand the argument against proprietary software. Luckily it's free to download and try, so you might as well start now :^)
I had a similar experience. Got to see lots of movies in a small, comfortable (and expensive) NYC theater while always pre-picking my seats.
For those unhappy relying on a Twitter poll for data, here's a peer-reviewed study that says the same thing: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/322963522_Sexual_Ar...
Yeah the company I work for (https://www.copia.io/) is doing similar things for Programmable Logic Controllers, which historically have binary project files.

Also a means to an end given the current sad reality. But most vendors are slowly moving towards better VCS support.
Not according to the research I've done ¯\_(ツ)_/¯, or my own experiences.

EDIT: As I linked below, here is Krashen on the subject - http://www.sdkrashen.com/content/articles/down_with_forced_s...
> This is not the suggested use case for blockchains at all, not in enterprise and not anywhere else. The allure is blockchains is in automated smart contracts that don't rely on human honesty and aren't as prone to human error.

This is a bunch of words that have no relation to reality.

What is the connection between a smart contract and an actual physical good that is being transported?

How does a "smart contract" verify any of the following:

- that the goods are what they are (eco bananas, not green slime)

- that the goods are in the quantity described (1 ton of gold bricks, not 1 kilo)

- that the actual provenance of the goods as stated (that country of origin labelling required in the EU is accurate and reflects the actual country of origin)

- that the goods have actually been transported as required (refrigerated, heated, on time, within a time range etc.)

At every single point in this process you will either have people entering data manually or dozens, if not hundreds, of different systems scanning and entering data.
I've lived in the US and Canada. Nobody goes on walks in California. In fact where I live under 1% of the city is green space. I hate walking in this city. My dog hates it as well. Can you believe that?

When we lived in a major city in Canada there was so much green space.
It's a lot better than it used to be. But there are still quite a few annoyances. For example, you still need to use count as a hack for the absence of any kind of "if". You can't make custom functions. Modules can be kind of awkward to work with. There are still some places that can't take any dynamic values such as lifecycle.ignore_changes and arguments to providers and backends.
May be because with mushrooms, you don't necessarily know your exact dose of the drug, as I'm sure it can vary batch to batch, and shroom to shroom. LSD, you usually know how much you're getting on each tab. Of course, you could could process the mushrooms and figure out how much psilocybin you're getting, then do a comparison... But usually, I think people just eat the mushrooms or make them into tea.
His social media links don't make it seem like he's harvesting. At least whatever he is doing likely isn't going to be worse than what major tech and non tech companies already do. But again without knowing the person, I'm doubting this is about harvesting.

Though asking straight up for FB login is a lot though especially without any info for users. I tried to give it an app password. But neither my own side account real PW or app password worked.

Also. It's using Matrix bridges as his message says.
The CEO Amjad Masad was on Twitter doubling down on his accusations that Radon is a thief, even after his post on HN.

Even now Amjad refuses to provide any detail or receipts to Radon for his public accusations of tortious behavior.

> everyone is armchair quarterbacking here on what was the rational thing to do.

Do you seriously prefer your web psychoanalysis?
Alright, I'll take your benchmarks. Thank you.

However, it doesn't matter.

> It's not irrelevant. My point is that your ancient CPU with a horrible GPU is less powerful than a mid range smart phone.

I literally pointed out exactly why it's irrelevant, and you completely ignored me. I'll point it out again:

> I, and everyone else who talks about "bloated Electron apps" (including in this thread) is almost exclusively referring to desktop applications.

Comparing phones to laptops is an apples-to-oranges comparison. It doesn't matter if a low-end phone might be able to run an Electron app well, because we're not talking about low-end phones - the discussion in this thread, as well as almost every other thread that refers to "bloated Electron applications", is talking exclusively about desktops.

If your "point is that your ancient CPU with a horrible GPU is less powerful than a mid range smart phone", then your point is also irrelevant for the purposes of people talking about bloated Electron apps, because almost none of them are discussing phones.

> There needs to come a point where you accept that your hardware is crap not the software.

Yes, and 7-year-old hardware is not that point for these programs - maybe for ML training, but not chat apps. That point only occurs when hardware is slow enough that the algorithms needed to run the core functionality cannot run quickly on it. Software that does not make efficient use of its hardware is crap. Electron does not make efficient use of its hardware.

Electron is either crap, or makes it so easy to write crap that it might as well be. There's a reason that you see people so often complaining about it, and that's because it's so inefficient that it causes a noticeably poor user experience, even for developers running on mid-range devices (which makes it far worse on low-end devices).

As evidence, Ripcord[1] offers a substantial subset of the features of Discord and Slack[2] with significantly better performance. The fact that it's made by a single person and yet manages to significantly out-perform large teams of (ostensibly) competent engineers while still implementing the core functionality provides strong evidence that it is the framework's fault, because it's clearly not because those features are somehow intrinsically computationally expensive to implement.

> I'd say the majority of shitty applications I've used is coded in Java.

Yes, and I think that Java is a terrible platform, too, speaking from experience with Minecraft, GNU Electric, Netbeans, and Eclipse. That doesn't make Electron any less bad.

> Is it fair to say that all apps coded with Java is shit?

Nobody said that they (or Electron apps) are. All of the complaints that I've seen, including mine, is that Electron generally has terrible performance, strongly encourages bad performance, that all major applications built in it are slow, and while it might be possible to build fast tools in it, we haven't seen them.

> But also where are you getting your 15% from?

...literally the CPU usage of Discord while it's running.

[1] https://cancel.fm/ripcord/
[2] https://dev.cancel.fm/service_features
FBI Ran Anom Messaging Platform, Yielding Hundreds of Arrests in Sting
Russel's essay challenges many long-held assumptions about how the world should even work, so it goes far deeper than PG's essay. It is held in high regard particularly because of this, not because Russel was an academic.

It also explains its points in quite a lot of detail, building a very clear picture of the world and how it got here, pre-emptively dispelling any attack in the style of Chesterton's fence: it not only complains about the negative effects of the praise for work, but also explains why they were initially put in place.

Thirdly, PG's essay is essentially a special case of pretty well known, more general point. PG is essentially word for word stating a common socialist critique of wage work: the alienation one feels when their work is not under their own control, but instead dictated by a capitalist owner. "Finding a project of one's own" is in fact the individualist version of "seizing the means of production".
Eh, weak article, author paints a glowing biography of the hero of the story, but doesn't actually write what really happened. Or what really happened that escalated to the ousting.

No matter how right she was, posting an ultimatum was a tactical error. Also it seems the Google she encountered has a bad culture of sexism and racism.
Was this removed from the front page because Replit has taken money from Ycombinator?

EDIT:

Just to clarify. This post has gained over 200 points and 70 comments on the last hour. It jumped from top 5 posts to low end of the top 50 posts in seconds and is rapidly sinking. Just curious what decision led to the hiding of a popular post.
I was surprised to see that suggestion as well: every language course I've ever seen focuses on memorizing a (relatively) natural dialog and reciting it word for word from memory as its primary means of targeting fluency. I don't know about the research OP cites, but I've found that, for me, memorizing the dialogues as the courses suggest have been by far the most helpful way to advance in language acquisition. I will admit, though, that of the foreign languages I do speak, I speak them better than I understand them... so maybe there is something to this.
Daily.co looks easier to use than Jitsi, however I can't justify paying based on minutes when there is no "real" resource consumed
You can simulate what you want by simultaneously buying an at-the-money protective put and selling an at-the-money covered call. Then regardless of future stock price movement, at expiration (i.e. when the "loan" needs to be repaid) you always transfer the stock away.

Now why don't you plug in this scenario into any Black–Scholes calculator and see how much of a net credit at entry you get (if you even have one). That would be the maximum loan amount you'd be able to get under this scheme. If you could get one at all, the loan amount is tiny compared to the value of the asset.
How it works and what it does and what it's made of are very different things (cite: Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance) and once the novelty of how it works has worn off (yes, kudos, BTW) what is left is a mildly interesting device. The SDK and ecosystem are also mildly interesting, but the cute factor will wear off quickly and it's probably go the way of Neil Young's Pono.
When compared to other trucks such as the midsize ranger, and full size f150, yes.