skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nothing I said above disagrees with the fact that many pharma are indeed doing what you call "monopoly rent extraction". I think all of those drugs are overpriced for non-economic reasons.

Regulatory compliance, for example, with the FDA approval process, isn't a deadweight loss; it's a process that reduces the risk a dangerous drug will be given to the public. It's mostly costly due to incompetence and bureaucracy, not because pharma is evilly plotting to continue to be the only people who can get stuff through the FDA.

If somebody comes up with magical ways to reduce the costs of R&D and QC in pharma, I'm all for it. Just be aware: I've worked around pharma for decades and it will only get more expensive to do any of this. Nobody is going to come in and magically disrupt the business with a new technology pharma didn't think of yet.
That's not true, but might be a common misconception. RSS rode the wave of the realtime hype at that time and has multiple standards for push notifications. RSSCloud und Pubsubhubbub are the two immediately in my mind, note that PuSH got turned into WebSub.
IE still had released, but it stopped moving forward after 6 because there was no longer a good reason for ms to invest.

I doubt google would spend much on chrome if no other browser were popular.
Well I was consulting my RSS feeds this morning so I guess the feeling isn't shared
A Harvard-trained economist shares his top money rules
It's not about trusting the security of SSH vs TLS, but rather the ergonomics of deploying either technology. All the Big Cloud providers offer both, last time I checked.

Point is, you can offer a secure & functional remote shell without touching Linux PAM or the Linux authx stack beyond `useradd` and a locked-down `sshd_config`. Orgs that already offer web services over HTTPS may find this route desirable.
I've thought of QR-encoding the URL to the Rick Roll video and "pranking" people trying to scan ads.

Here come the righteous downvotes; to defend myself, I never went through with it, and they were ads to promote the city's iniative to invite the corrupt organization the International Olympic Committee so they could feast on our tax money.
Oh, I know that AMD has done a lot to help out the open ecosystem (and even interop with the closed parts - heck, I got their closed AMDGPU-PRO Linux drivers to work on the PS4 without any patches, even though that's not a GPU variant offered elsewhere, because the amdgpu userspace/kernel interface is just so well designed). I recommend AMD for Linux users; lately, they've been doing good work while Intel drivers bitrot, especially on older hardware.

I'm just quite confused as to how HDCP factors into all that. HDCP really is just a hardware block that's part of the video output which you enable or disable; there is a bunch of nonsense associated with PAVP and other such stuff on Windows, but none of that should really matter to Linux, nor should whatever way HDCP is implemented affect other features of the open drivers. AMD certainly do deserve credit for their work on Linux support, I just find your specific HDCP story quite strange :-)
Pluto.jl
If they set up payments through a provider outside the US I don't see how a local police force is going to be able to track those payments.
I think it was the sunsetting of Google Reader that triggered the downfall. I don’t think I ever cared about push notifications for feeds. When you have your morning coffee, open up Reeder, refresh the feeds and read through a few articles.
Read the Christian Bible. Even if you are not religious its worthwhile to read it from cover to cover.
> Moreover, if the city is in any way hurt by the loss of revenue there's already an inherent conflict of interest in city planning.

It’s strange to frame this as us vs them. Revenue lost by the city is coming out of your pocket. Don’t you have a vested interest in not having scammers drain your city’s income? I do. It definitely matters who gets the money, if you aren’t singularly focused on the behavioral results of drivers having to pay for parking.

It’s also strange to use language suggesting the city couldn’t possibly be damaged by the loss of revenue. Enforcement efforts are trying to be net positive, cover their costs, and contribute any remainder to other public works.
I've had TSA open my kit and triumphantly remove a blade from my safety razor that I'd accidentally forgotten to remove, while missing loose blades I'd also accidentally forgotten to remove.
If there was a huge market for basic research then private companies would be all over it. The reason why there isn’t, and never will be, is because investors would rather invest in companies with a clear ROI than in no goal blue sky research. Kinda obvious when you think about it. Investors want to maximise their chance to make money. So they invest accordingly.
It's also about making it firing "for/with cause" so the employee can't make a successful unemployment claim. The more unemployment claims against a company, the higher unemployment insurance rates/amounts the company has to pay.
I don't think it was even just a technical issue. Linear feeds of all content just died out to be replaced with sites like Hacker News / Reddit where you have ranked ordering and comments.

As much as HN hates the out of order feeds, that's what the average user wants because most content is boring.
The website is probably in Russia I guess. Unless they catch someone putting the qr sticker on there's no link to the US.
Sure, but what's the alternative?

Dig out all other buildings that failed over the last 1000 years, figure out how they failed and why, and take action?

You can just copy what is known to work instead.
I think the CPS attempt in Nim could do this

https://github.com/nim-works/cps
>What if everyone had an analysis machine that could analyze the medicines

Because, as a post below notes, this is a pure fantasy. At this point you're proposing actual magic.

>Linux versus, say, Solaris and Microsoft Windows

Your choice of operating system isn't going to severely harm or kill you. "Move fast and break things" is a problem when the "things" are people.

>medical consequences have to get pretty costly before they're more costly than selling your home and emptying your retirement account and your kids' college funds.

Welcome to the reality of healthcare in the US for the uninsured (and often times for the poorly-insured).
I thought it was clear that I said both were real, but I understand maybe it was not interpreted by you that way. I wasn't saying your comment was wrong, I was speaking with thought in mind of some inferences that might be made based on your statement.
What caused you to come to these conclusions?

edit: Stop downvoting me. I did not realize parent commenter was OP of the reddit post.
The vast majority of factory workers are not salaried, last I checked.

However, even salaried workers in the US are nominally required to be compensated for extra hours. It's not quite as straightforward, but you can't simply expect 60 hours per week from every salaried worker--that will likely land you in trouble with the Feds.

The main difference is that "exempt" workers generally don't care to avail themselves of various enforcement options. They just leave and get a different job.
The Long Now, Pt. 1
The stuff tested by a coding interview won't get to staff level or beyond. Cross functional understanding, product or technology insights, strategic thinking, etc. are necessary.

Lots of people who come up through the ranks only know how to do coding interviews - coding is what they do in their job, it was the interview they passed and it is what they know in depth. These are also the people confused about why their careers stall.

I never used coding for interviews at Google - even for junior engineers I wanted to see if they understood issues beyond their fingertips. Of course there was always a coding interview or two, so that base was covered.
Create Blog Posts on the command line
Today on Sick Sad World: How the Cryptobros Have Fallen
600km per day by bike? that's an average of 25km/h for every single hour of a day ...
One of the most impressive folks I ever knew with this, was a Japanese manager, at the company I used to work for.

This guy had been everywhere. If you mentioned a country or city, odds are, he could tell you a good bar, there.

He would go on these marathon business trips, lasting weeks or months.

He always took just one bag: A fairly big Zero Halliburton carry-on.

Once he got promoted to a VP, though, he had to start wearing suits, so he had to add a suit bag.
How did you get a Duck Duck Go email address?
Really miss the SAS modes. Especially target tracking which makes it so easy to translate while maintaining alignment with the docking port.
You must be new here ;)

Even 30 years ago, while Kosovo was part of Serbia, people didn't pay for electricity. But at that time Albanians weren't paying for it.

Later tables turned and Albanians become rulers, but then Serbs refused to pay.

And why electricity was still delivered to the people in both cases - well, with everithing that was/is going on there that's the most benign issue one can think off.
The classic source for dungeon generators is RogueBasin, with this being a good starting point:

http://roguebasin.com/index.php/Articles#Map
Turning the "vs CUDA" question around, why would you prefer to program a GPU? The dev experience and available progranming languages are worse there plus you are coding to a proprietary hw and sw stack that can't produce portable apps.
Bitcoin network hash rate down 13.4% due to Kazakh protests
I can believe that. What does that have to do with working for a bureaucratic organisation? NASA innovates. It just takes forever compared with non-bureaucratic organisations.
How, exactly, does this system
help with RSS in any way?

You cannot make a Twitter-2-RSS bridge because Twitter block access to the data. In a decentralized system, access to the data is inherent.

Even when The Pirate Bay remains up,
that doesn't mean anybody's seeding

That is where the financial incentives come into play. Seeding will be economically incentivised.

If all the data is directly on the
blockchain, nobody can actually
download it all

Blockchains have come a long way since Satoshis version in 2009. We have approaches now where participants only need to download arbitrarely small parts of the chain. Yet the network as a whole keeps the chain intact.
I'm confused because U+1F635 can be stored in 3 bytes? I see nothing above 0xFFFFFF which would need the 4th byte? Or am I being dense?
This is exactly why I built Molecule.dev. It's brand new, using all the latest and greatest battle-tested tools.

I started it because I recognized that it took entirely too long to implement some of the most basic core functionality for cross-platform apps in a way that is up to my standards (i.e., minimal with no real vendor lock-in). It actually boggles my mind that nothing of the same quality as Molecule.dev exists yet. It's obviously a problem that developers everywhere run into when building custom apps. I've seen a few solutions, but (again) they're all either not up to my standards or they try to lock you in.

I think most developers prefer to implement things themselves, as they have their own preferences and may (like me) not trust that the code quality is up to their standards, so the difficult part here may actually be to convince developers that the code is high quality and something they themselves would write.
Remember when we told people not to click on random links in email?
The Player of Games by Iain M Banks.
Good point. There are even laws on the books in certain states/cities that they can only charge up to the amount it costs them to provide the service and collect fees. So from the city’s perspective it’s not a horrible outcome.
>If RSS feeds contain both the article and the content, then there's both little incentive for the user to actually visit the site and no analytics for the author to understand which articles are popular. When authors put summaries in their feeds with links to the original article, they degrade the experience for the reader.

Yeah, this is definitely a problem. FWIW, Ars Technica solved that by giving you full-text fees only if you pay for a subscription, which seems like a nice approach that more places could hypothetically use.
No thanks. Bad idea to replace the keyboard and have to carry a separate thing. There is a reason why the current laptop format is popular. That said, why do I have a sinking feeling that this is going to be widely popular? People will buy this like there is no tomorrow. And then, 10 years later, physical keyboard will be a new reversing trend.
https://spreadprivacy.com/introducing-email-protection-beta/
Once you've used the app once, payment becomes quite frictionless with an app. Without the app, I need to locate the pay station. Wait for anyone ahead of me already at the pay station. Then determine if it's the old type that issues a paper window ticket or the newer type that uses your license plate. If it's the new type, I have to enter my license plate info, taking care to remember not to transpose the two digits that always trip me up. If it's the old type, I have to wait for the ticket to print then return to my vehicle and place it in the proper spot in my door window sill taking care not to let it fall out when I close the door. Then I have to remember what time I need to move my car or add more time and return to the pay station to do so.

With the app, I have to do all of that once and the app remembers everything for me. If I am driving my wife's car, I don't have to try to remember her plate number. I can pay for my parking while walking to wherever I am going and I'll get a notification 5 minutes before my payment expires and can add time right where I stand at that moment. Parking apps can be great though it is annoying that every town seems to have their own app or payment provider.
"Or if there is a difference then Airbnb could say if anything bad happens to your home then we got you."

Wow, no.

If the data shows that 'people of certain groups are more likely to cause damage' it's 'game over' ... they could never release the data.

In fact, they probably don't want to even see the data, internally, it's explosive.

There would be a big fuss over it, and maybe even some court cases.

"if anything bad happens to your home then we got you."

AirBnB can't afford to cover you getting raped or killed by someone staying in your home.

People on this thread have misrepresented the issue by focusing on rentals as though they are commercial spaces, but a significant portion of rentals are merely places in people's home which is a giant difference.

Moreover, what sane person would trust a giant corporation to support them in the event of some kind of severe or traumatizing thing, let alone just property damage?

I almost wonder if the 'rent a room in my home' should be a completely different line of business from apartment rentals.
What are the overheads and dependencies compared to say QT, C# or Delphi/Lazarus ?
That map makes no sense in relation to your comment. The country is mostly ethinic Kazak, and peoples similar in the sense they are more Turkic than Slavic. Calling them Russian seems weird, making a case for irredentism even weirder considering they wont have the same idea as what is the "motherland."

Russia trying to recreate the USSR, I can see. They will start with the states the West is concerned with the least.
Such issues really need to invalidate the whole event.

You can't just go on pretending you still run a fair championship. Unless it's a tournament of "COVID-ball"
> The company who ordered people back to the floor when a hurricane was coming causing their death when the building partially collapsed

Question about this specifically. Was it ever revealed if that order was to get people indoors to a reinforced building that happened to collapse? I remember SMS screenshots of a delivery driver who was killed, and to have sent him on the road would have been a death sentence.
Any idea how the buyer did after that?

I'm a big microacquire lurker.
Where does plastics manufacturing fall under here? Is it industrial + electrical?

Also, according to that chart, 0% of the US energy comes from nuclear but [1] has it at 20%. What's going on?

[1] https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=427&t=3
Or to say a different way - don't hate the player, hate the game.
SF startup Bolt just implemented a permanent four-day workweek
I'm not sure why government agencies should require people to download an app just to pay a parking fee instead of making things as frictionless as possible (I live in Australia, we have the same issue here)

In some cities the parking meters are run by a private company.

Chicago, for example, leased its parking meters to an Australian company. (Or Spanish. I forget, one got the parking meters the other got the Skyway) In exchange for an up-front payment to the city, the private company gets to run the parking meters almost any way they want.

This includes raising prices.

Or worse, in the Chicago example, the parking meter company successfully sued the city and now Chicago isn't allowed to permit the construction of any new public parking garages in the downtown core, because that would hurt the parking meter business. The only new garages that are permitted are for new residential buildings and a calculated number of spaces exclusively for office buildings for hotels.
Most of the R&D done to make drugs isn't done at universities. They do some initial discovery work and invent entire new categories of drugs, but their overall role in the process of taking a druggable target to market is limited.

Academia gets to keep rewards; universities patent discoveries and license the technology to industry. This made $$$ for Stanford and UC (billions of dollars).

I am sympathetic to the idea that regular joe of US doesn't get enough benefit for their tax payments but actually I think if you look at all the benefits americans get indirectly from living here, it's hard to say for certain that individuals aren't recompensed properly. And, I suppose, if they wanted, many people can buy stock in pharma and enjoy the profits themselves.
I do 3 packs currently:

- a 44 L osprey

- a 25 L dakine w/ 15” laptop sleeve

- a 2-3 L small pack... satchel. $10 here in Mexico.

Bought the last one recently for day hikes to hold water/keys/wallet/phone/small battery for charging phone.

Great for traveling & living abroad, 1 month+, while working remotely.

I carry the big one on back, midsize on front, and store smallest in the big one until I arrive at accommodations and am ready to go out for the day
> One last concern is the size stored on the disk because UTF-8 supports four bytes per character. But since UTF-8 is a variable-width character encoding, it only uses as many bytes as needed. For example, the first 128 characters like ASCII only use one byte

I'm not sure this is true if you use CHAR instead of VARCHAR.
Moreover if I'm not misremembering indexes still store the full fixed size 3 or 4 byte representation and index size might matter.
However, I'll still use mb4 to avoid the fun times other have already described in the comments
In the limit what you are describing is a generic drugmaker.

It's certainly possible to audit drug quality by sending it to labs, and people do that for darknet drugs all the time, but there are still problems:

1) There is no way to use ex-post analysis alone to achieve the kind of QA that pharmaceutical companies do; they have visibility into the entire manufacturing process and process control. Put another way, a sample of a drug cannot be used to verify that the process used to manufacture it is safe.

2) There is no assurance that anything you get in the future is made with the same process.

The only way I see this working, honestly, is for a rogue jurisdiction to offer safe harbor to "generic pirates". The rogue jurisdiction would offer legitimate regulatory oversight in exchange for tax revenue, and the drugs would be smuggled out of the jurisdiction for sale. To some extent this is already the case in grey markets where brand name drugs which are sold for less in other countries get arbitraged/smuggled back to high-cost markets.
No, for the plane, it's indeed too expensive and I'd rather then pay for a gym membership on arrival.
I mean fabs are billions of dollars. Even if forced to open one they’re too expensive to do so poorly. Best to find a way to make it profitable than to throw a hissy fit about it and pout.
I recently encountered __init_subclass__ for the first time in Home Assistant's custom integrations. Configuration handlers were registerd by "just declaring the class" like so and I couldn't grok how it was registered by the runtime

class MyCustomOptionsFlow(OptionsFlow, DOMAIN="MYPLUGIN"):...

A bit of digging showed that __init__subclass_ was being used effectively as a registration callback, adding the newly defined class/DOMAIN to the global CustomOptions handler at class definition.

Very neat, not immediately obvious however :/
>it's conceivable a system can be invented where private auditors audit the output of an unregulated pharmaceutical manufacturer in such a way that the QC assurances to the consumer are as good or better as in our current system, with much lower regulatory costs.

No, it's not. This is ideological libertarian nonsense. There's a reason pharma came to be regulated in the first place. All this will lead to are more injuries and death of consumers.
I assume everyone is paying with credit cards, so I don't see how gift cards would help. The scammers probably live in a country with lax law enforcement with regards to hacking, so they can just deposit the money into their account when the credit card company sends it.
See [1] for a PyData London talk I did on "Python at Massive Scale", about JPMorgan's Athena trading and risk management system, used for FX, Commodities, Credit, Equities, etc trading. At that time, Athena had 4,500 Python developers doing 20,000 commits a week.

Also see one recent HN discussion on "An Oral History of Bank Python" [2].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYD9yyMh9Hk

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29104047
Sure, but that still introduces at least one nameable real world entity that can officials can convince to stop processing transactions.
Very nice to see the author uses Flarum (https://flarum.org) an open-source forum software to power his blog. Very innovative use!

We also use Flarum to power our user feedback site for Orion browser https://orionfeedback.org another example of Flarum's ability to adopt to different use cases.
> Some Dev commandline tools and compilers are starting to work, so these kind of environments will probably come first which will provide better performance than running under virtual machines.

Then it's not useful as the only thing interesting on macOs are the GUI applications. All the tools I used on macOs for the command line where already available on Linux.
> 1) It's not that inefficient, especially if you recalculate your feed only when it changes and use HTTP statuses (particularly 304 Not Modified) correctly.

Besides, assuming you're not hideously overcomplicating things, you'll just be serving a static file off disk. If your server is a raspberry pi, you ought to still be able to serve some 1000 requests/second if that is what you are doing.

Assuming most RSS readers poll at most once every 15 minutes (which is a really high rate), you'll need at least a million subscribers before you need to get a second raspberry pi.
Reminds me of when there was a police press release about 2 guys that broke into a parking garage and drove around the carts like an underground game of Mario Kart and stole one.

Then I realized it was technically a government building and then it all made sense, because cars and bikes get stolen daily without a peep.