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SIRUM (YC W15) is hiring to make access to medicine more equitable
SIRUM is making medications affordable for all.
We’re a small (~25) but quickly growing team that’s passionate about our mission of reimagining healthcare access for those in need. We like to work hard, solve tough problems, and are determined to improve healthcare access for families who have trouble affording the medications they need to stay healthy.

We're currently hiring for both our Palo Alto Office and Atlanta Warehouse, as well as some fully remote roles. We have opportunities for senior software developers, software architects, sales, communication, and many other positions and are especially interested in anyone with pharmacy experience.

If you want to work in healthcare, love mission-driven work, and thrive in a startup environment, then we may be a good fit. Check out our open roles at https://www.sirum.org/about#careers.
Interesting there is this new series on Netflix, StartUp about this stuff. So the question really is "does it work?". Couldn't this be interesting for that it will force us to change the way we code? For sure the best paradigm will win over time. And the best coders. People are investing in the coders at this point like they do in a bank. Feels like this story isn't stopping anytime soon.
Yeah, but those aren't in data centers.
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Periodically I get inspired to create an Anki deck (or several) for some stuff at work and share it around; I bounce off it because I'm not sure about updates. In particular, I don't think there's a way to mark cards as deserving deletion on re-import of a deck? Does anyone know of a way to do that with Anki, or of similar software (this?) with such a feature?
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why is it sad that most of the chinese restaurants in america cater to american tastes? american style chinese is a valid food cuisine, and lots of people like that. if you want authentic food those retaurants exist as well. are the "american cuisine" restaurants in china exact reproductions of american food?
Almost all of us are writing under pseudonyms.
let's just pick a letter and it's fine.

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I pick the year 1995, right as the web starts to hit the mainstream.

I'd add some kind of built-in, frictionless, privacy-respecting, user-friendly, transparent payment/micropayment system. Built on open standards so we could have multiple competing UX's and the best one(s) would win.

Basically, think about how Patreon and Kickstarter (which are not without their flaws) have allowed people to support creators more or less directly. Now, imagine if we'd somehow baked something like that in to the internet itself.

The web is 99.9999% garbage and one of the biggest reasons is because we spent nearly two decades training people that everything on the interwebs was free which meant that it had to be ad-supported which means that nearly everything has been forced to pander to the absolute lowest common mass-market denominator.

Even with some kind of "good" micropayment system, sure, most stuff would still be free/ad-supported lowest common denominator crap. I have no illusions. Just look at every other form of media that has ever existed.

However, just imagine how books or movies or whatever would look they were de facto forced to be free for the earliest part of their existence.
i agree. i say all these gripes knowing anki isn't some huge corp that can throw money at this problem, but it really is time for a revamp or more competition in the space that is worth moving to.
> Now you have a cloud dependency to access your local files

That doesn't make sense and isn't how signing into windows with a microsoft account works now.

> What happens if your Microsoft account gets blocked (rightfully or wrongfully)?

A microsoft account that was created to set up a computer and then never touched again?

> What happens if the next Windows update, Microsoft "helpfully" activates onedrive sync of your folders by default and exfiltrates your data? (HTC did this to me before with their Sense UI).

> Maybe the latter leads to the folder if OneDrive syncs some copyrighted data to their service they think you're pirating?

Seems a little farfetched to me. I'd rate it on a similar level of risk to apple requiring me to create an id if I want to use any apps on my iphone.
The problem here is really Ethereum and the language Solidity. Chuck full of gotchas and completely horrible to work with.

The mechanics of stable coins is really trivial and thusly should be trivial to implement and validate. Unfortunately it is not, and it is sad that the hype and investment rush inside the broader crypto field does not foster languages and platforms that actually are suitable for the few realworld use cases that exists inside crypto.
Wider IP address space at the beginning could have led to static IP deployment to the home, allowing for self-hosted websites and email service that would have obviated the need for ad-supported websites and web services. We still would have had the issue of asymmetrical home connections but that’s a separate issue.
I guess I was triggered by the tone, which initially felt ad hominen.

> I'm interested in boosting solar.

Ok, thanks. I think I get it. Me too.

I definitely want to hear solutions (those Sunny Boy inverters and Tigo optimizers you mentioned). And legit criticisms are very useful.

Peace.
I'll stick my head above the parapet and say that as a content consumer I really like Instagram and it genuinely is my favourite social media platform. I'm probably an atypical user but now that I'm well out of my 20's the friends I still connect with online I have real connections with so it's a joy to see what they're up to. My interests (food, 70's sci-fi, cats, modern art) are well catered to and I've done a good job of curating the accounts I follow to get a good mix of interesting content. Even my promoted posts are mostly local restaurants and businessess so I've never really felt aggrieved that I'm getting controlled by big corporates. I've also found my experience mostly apolitical with the advantage that because commenting is so tacked on I don't feel the urge to interact with anything beyond liking images or sharing the ocasional post with my friends and family

I understand it's mindless, but I dont want it to be anything else. It's a toy platform for looking at device sized images and short videos on my mobile and that's all I want it to be.
Let me guess, you also install paywall bypass extensions?
These days software engineering is ultra-collaborative,

The rub is that it's both "deep, solitary" and ultra-collaborative. (Not for all, but for many, for some value of "deep"). That's what makes it such a demanding job, when done right.

Of course many managers don't care about / can't tell between "done right, or at least adequately right" or not, but that's a different topic.

I doubt anybody would say that doctors/nurses, managers, finance people, or lawyers are doing deep, solitary work.

Medical researchers, finance quants, and yes, (certain kinds of) lawyers all regularly do work that is, if not monastically solitary (or as deep as doing a math PhD) -- definitely much more focused than what is realistically possible in most open-plan, junk food driven, "just add the button the customer is crazy for it" development environments.

And in an case, much more focused than what their managers will most likely ever be capable of.
Yes, a major reason Apple is not cool anymore is that they are so successful. It is really very rare for the top vendor to be the cool one, because "cool" almost definitionally means something that not everyone is. Apple did it for awhile though.
Fiber internet. Having 1000 mbps up/down was so nice when I lived in a city where I had access to fiber.
Sriracha was invented in Thailand: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sriracha
Hm, nothing for Android - for either ff or chrome?
Seriously, though, what the fuck is a “standard unskilled worker?” Did that sound like anything but a reductive take on people less privileged than you in your head? At the least it’s a further elimination of empathy and human factors from your point. I didn’t think there was much left to discard, but here we are, with the lower social strata in an Excel column.

Luckily for us, I’m not debating you and need not concern myself with whatever you’d like to call the argument. I’m simply appealing to whatever sliver of empathy you have to consider that just maybe firing someone with a batch job is a good place to think about an ethical line. I didn’t even advocate to draw one, just introduced nuance to think about as a counterweight to your extraordinarily simplistic view of labor and its role in society.

If you can’t meet me even there and instead take an opportunity to call people who just might starve to death on the other end of such an experience “irresponsible,” based on ostensibly a distant understanding of finance and employment for lower social classes, we are not going to agree on anything. The ad hominem would be noting that from your views it reads like you have next to no experience with the financial circumstances you’re discussing, which given the topic seems an interesting but unnecessarily personal observation.

If these comments are in bad faith in this forum then I have absolutely no interest in baptizing my views.

Honestly, I’d be curious how your interview at Dominos would go. I’m not being snide. You should take a break from this line of work and go after the so many unfilled jobs you’re talking about for a while, because I think it would refine your viewpoint on this (speaking from personal experience). You know how one can interview for a cybersec gig and disclose that they were fired once for some bullshit and everyone shares a good laugh about the story while cutting an offer letter? That doesn’t happen at Dominos.
I'm saying that Torvalds believes in the GPLv2, and has consistently and coherently argued that v3 is overreach. But more importantly, there is the issue of surrendering copyright to the FSF, which Stallman requires (when he gets to his email in a timely fashion).
> This is (mostly likely) a rent-seeking situation where a few providers who are allowed in the market are milking it for all the profit they can.

That is also known as demand. They do because they can.
The inverse of "any contract that has been hacked was insecure" is "any contract that hasn't been hacked must be secure".

I think this is what OP meant. If something has been around for a long time it does probably mean it's less likely there is a really obvious security flaw, but it doesn't necessarily mean it is 'rock-solid' as plenty of things that have been seen to be 'rock-solid' in the past have turned out to be insecure.
You're literally talking across yourself, at least that's how I read it.

Your first comment [1]

> As long as everyone agrees i see absolutely no problem

and now

> Some agreed, others didn't...Consensus doesn't require everyone to agree, just the majority

So you literally just said there is a problem.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27666781
Thanks a lot for the links!
Yesterday I wanted to see something on Instagram. I think it was inside Relay for Reddit, where a WebView would open the Instagram page.

Not only was there this delay, but the cookie consent was ridiculous. I now checked and it's the same on the Desktop in Chrome.

I have no option to reject/disable cookies. Usually you get to choose which things you want to reject, like user tracking, personalized ads, but you usually need to keep the functional cookies.

This popup only has one button "Accept All" and one "Manage Data Settings". The latter would be the one where I get to choose what to accept. But all I get there is an explanation telling me that "your browser or device may offer settings that allow you to choose whether browser cookies are set and to delete them. These controls vary by browser, and manufacturers may change both the settings they make available and how they work at any time."

What is wrong with them? Honestly, Facebook is the worst disease on the internet, even Pinterest doesn't reach their degree of hostility.
But it's such a great litmus test to instantly identify the people that don't know what the hell they're talking about ;)
Funny to see the author of one of my favourite blog posts on the internet get downvoted.
I openly admit to working at Reddit. In fact, I got hired after reading a post in the monthly hiring thread here on HN.
Well thats not much different how they deal with their 3rd party sellers. An automated system detects “problems” and then just freezes your account, without much recourse except talking to the useless seller support that cant speak english properly and do anything about it.
In the case of being an amazon vendor (selling stuff directly to amazon in bulk), you receive orders from a computer system and if you dont deliver in the allowed timeslot they penalize you. Minimal human interaction necessary. Amazon is truly the pioneer in this type of development.
Let's hear about the several European countries where crypto of much more popular than credit cards.
> Only a fool listens to a strongly stated opinion, even when it’s worded as though it’s a fact, and not be skeptic.

I think I have bad news for you about the world, then.

> If we designed our society to cater to the greatest fool, we’d have ridiculous rules all over.

What is your plan for a society like the one we currently live in that appears to be mostly greatest fools?

> I actually think the main difference is I have a lot more faith in the intelligence of the average joe

According to polling, in the US the average joe claims that God directly created humans in their present form within roughly the past 10,000 years and that evolution is, to put a common phrase in their mouths, "fake news". https://news.gallup.com/poll/261680/americans-believe-creati...

Feel whatever you want about the benefit of religion, that belief is based on something entirely extraneous to evidence.
Who says you can't collect user metrics from unauthenticated users?
I wonder what their relative market share is. Lots of the people that have been on Reddit for years may user old.reddit. I certainly do.

I really can't stand their hostility to no using their app on mobile though. The UX seems purposely difficult to drive users towards the app, for the obvious reason of greater access to user data most likely.
I was trying to remember the name for this when I wrote the original comment, and now I recall it.

A chilling effect.

It started as a legal concept but it applies to censorship as well. It's sufficient to count as censorship if you simply punish legal speech sufficiently that the populace self-censors.

[1]: https://mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/897/chilling-effect
This is a pretty good writeup. It's from a firm that's focused on messaging and image control, so perhaps to be taken with a grain of salt, but I like that they're pushing C-suite types to connect the dots between "good for all" and "good for investors".

That said, I'm still a little leery, and here's why: Our system of incentives (that is, capitalism at large) is misaligned with properly resolving climate change. McKinsey's whole value proposition is that they will help your company achieve it's goals, whatever those goals may be. Even if working on climate change coincides with the direction of a company at some point in time, it's not the goal of the game. The goal of the game is "get more money", and that will be the thing that McKinsey should be focused on, as that is the product that they are selling: make your business more profitable.

With this in mind, it feels .... odd, that they were the first choice for a climate study. There are plenty of NGOs, non-profits, and associated orgs whose primary mission is fixing climate change. Even if McKinsey is totally on the level here (which I'm personally undecided on), it feels a little like calling the plumber to fix a blown transformer.

I suppose if I had to identify a singular, big reason that I'm leery, here, it's this: Renewables and other green tech is directly competitive with some of McKinsey's clients' goals. I make this assertion on the strength that they offer services to the oil & gas industries - as McKinsey does not publish their clients (another thing that garners my side-eye.)
indeed. ~$0.15 per captcha for >$200 sneakers is nothing. it may be shady but people are making a living filling out captchas all day. "Want easy stable income? All you need is a computer!"
Fair point. I was addicted the chart watching for a few months the 2017 run. I would put this under the speculative rampage.
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Ideally, commenting should be done on sites like Reddit and HN. Someone posts an article, you have a Reddit link-post with comments, an HN link-post with comments, a lobste.rs link-post with comments, etc.

Everyone's own blog post is a bit too decentralized, there isn't really a discussion. Comment filtering would be nice, but hard to implement, especially with context.

Digg/reddit-based sites have their own community and (tbh) echo-chamber. So people form interesting discussions and respectful disagreements, instead of "hot takes" and flame wars.

Heck, if the trolls want they can create their own site, where they bash random articles. But nobody else has to pay attention to their awful comments.
The fact that private sector can pay much better than the government can seems to explain it neatly. Concepts like honor and service to your country doesn't pay the bills as nicely as selling AMZN.
And that is quite a feat given how little information I hace willingly given Facebook compared to how I - until a few years ago - more or less volunteeres my data to Google.

Google knew everything about it and yet couldn't manage to serve anything but the sleaziest ads.

Instagram got the table scraps and yet convinced me to buy at least one thing that I'm actually happy with.
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I'm glad you mention this, thought I was the only one. I've been experiencing this on facebook.com, for years.

I'm puzzled how this is even technically possible. A website isn't supposed to be able to clear the history of where I came from?
The first part happened: https://teddit.net ;-)
You’re thinking about the culture of your site, I am talking about the rights of your users. Your users create the value and deserve it (honestly it should be protected by law). If you edit the link and then someone takes over the domain and makes it a porn site, that can cause direct harm to your users. You need to accept the cost as part of the cost of doing business, and if you really edit posts very rarely than the bureaucratic impact should be minimal.
Encourage the App store paradigm and discourage the browser paradigm. Users download apps that they trust instead of using a browser to directly go to a URL that (a) could be fake e.g. "whitehouse.com" (b) installs malware on the client computer. The theory here is that app developers know how to wade the shark infested waters of the internet better than grandpa or grandma and can code basic protections in the app. e.g. just because a website says click here, you don't really have to click there. Especially if a dialog pops up asking do want to give elevated permissions to XYZ?

Encourage the development of browsers for kids. Parents can configure their kids' computer to only run "KidFox" browser which has all the security features turned on. Only allows white listed sites that has been vetted by various agencies, denies escalated privileges, turns off all webcams, prevents remote hackers taking over their kids computer etc.

Lastly, it is more of mindset. Developers should take the attitude that every client computer, server, and database has been compromised to some degree. That is we should have defense in depth and not rely solely on one mechanism to protect us from the bad guys.
Maybe Ycombinator will incubate a rival that uses the HN model.
Also;

> The FTC has failed to plead enough facts to plausibly establish a necessary element of all of its Section 2 claims — namely, that Facebook has monopoly power in the market for Personal Social Networking (PSN) Services. The Complaint contains nothing on that score save the naked allegation that the company has had and still has a “dominant share of th[at] market (in excess of 60%).” Redacted Compl., ¶ 64. Such an unsupported assertion might (barely) suffice in a Section 2 case involving a more traditional goods market, in which the Court could reasonably infer that market share was measured by revenue, units sold, or some other typical metric. But this case involves no ordinary or intuitive market. Rather, PSN services are free to use, and the exact metes and bounds of what even constitutes a PSN service — i.e., which features of a company’s mobile app or website are included in that definition and which are excluded — are hardly crystal clear. In this unusual context, the FTC’s inability to offer any indication of the metric(s) or method(s) it used to calculate Facebook’s market share renders its vague “60%-plus” assertion too speculative and conclusory to go forward. Because this defect could conceivably be overcome by re-pleading, however, the Court will dismiss only the Complaint, not the case, and will do so without prejudice to allow Plaintiff to file an amended Complaint.

Not sure what the FTC's game plan was going into an antitrust fight without a market share pitch.
Thank you, this is insightful and explains a lot.

For everyone interested, clickable link https://openinsulin.org/

Very noble cause, I appreciate it.
This is fascism. Apple Logo = Hakenkreuz.
Even that has an "algorithm" behind it - they have to manage inflows & outflows, the heartbeat trades if it's an ETF, etc. Vanguard doesn't have a person sitting there buying a little bit of AAPL every time someone invests in VTSAX.

OP is trying to say that even something as simple as VTSAX could have a problem and, I don't know, accidentally sell all its AAPL and so it's proof that even for the current market there are rules that govern.

Except, of course, if VTSAX dumped all their AAPL somehow the trade would be unwound, as trades occasionally are. Selling stock on the market is not nearly as irreversible as it may seem.
Never claimed scarcity. Only that as demand has increased - and it has significantly - so has price. It's basic economics. Unless there are additional economies of scale from that multiple then prices are going to increase. This isn't about insulin. It's simple economics.
It does sound like TPM is required to be enabled even for these processors: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/windows-11-specifica...
first rule of sneaker bot club..
Hacker News is a monopoly in the social-news-aggregator-with-a-tech-focus-along-with-other-interesting-content-and-strong-moderation-space. dang better watch out for the FTC.
If someone started at a $5/hr job and was able to average a 10% per year income gain thanks to tireless effort and increasing skills they would eventually reach the income of $12/hr after 10 years. During this decade of tireless effort they would have seen no take income increase and their employer would have been giving them raises just to reduce the government benefit they receive.

It's hit or miss as to whether a $15/hr job puts people on a good long-term footing in their career. Putting a person in a $5/hr job that the government tops up will likely just create lifetime wage subsidies as we see today via food stamps/welfare etc.
Solar System vs. Lightspeed
> I think I have bad news for you, then.

Exactly. As I had edited in my last comment before I saw your reply, you have a huge lack of faith in the intelligence of others (that, or a big ego).

Believing in religion got humans a lot further due to in-group cooperation. Their exact beliefs may look wrong, but the way it makes them act is more right than atheism or anything else.

In your world talking about any religion would be banned, and what a sad world that’d be.