skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Adding it to the list, someone is going to have to make a meta search engine for online RX

So far we have

goodrx, singlecare, etc.
amazon.com/primerx
walmart.com/pharmacy (walmart.com/cp/pharmacy-mail-order/1042239)
geniusrx.com
ro.co/pharmacy
costplusdrugs.com/medications

Another aspect is buying a year's worth at a time if it's a daily medication.
Indeed, a measure of good science record keeping is not having to repeat something just to figure out what you actually did.
Please don't post in the flamewar style to HN. The thread was noticeably degrading already, but your comment here was a big step in the wrong direction.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Look up the numbers for the French healthcare system, during the two lockdowns we had, hospitals were over capacity.
agreed it's legit and a great native SQL client and replacement now that pgAdmin has gone all browser-based
All we need to do to fix climate change is wait as well ;)
Anyone who doesn't really understand what a graph is, and what a branch means in terms of graphs, has nothing to map those commands to. Sure, they form some internal model. Maybe "commit = save", "checkout = load", but load what? Oh, load that commit id, okay. But now they are at the "final v2 ZIP.ZIP" stage, not terrible, but they'll bleed out on the first git pull that results in a merge conflict :/

Speaking of merge, I'm a git user since ~2010, submodules, interactive rebase, filter-branch, sure, they are simple from a graph perspective, but I still don't fully understand how git knows which diffs to pull up during merge conflict... :D ... and now reading the answers here, it seems when it does the merge it uses the graph only to find the merge-base, and then it's just 3-way merge, which doesn't really map to individual commits. (And because the 3way diff looks at the raw text this means during the merge the branches are "squashed" into 1-1 commits both on top of the common base.)
In the old alphanumeric pager networks you could receive a notification without having to transmit anything.

This meant that your location remained private -- even from triangulation attacks! Not even satellite pagers have this feature; they all require that you transmit first (often with a GPS coordinate included).

With the collapse of the POCSAG networks (at least in the US -- the vast majority are now off the air), we have lost something valuable.

Wide area broadcasting might not be as bandwidth-efficient as cellular schemes, but if you just want to receive a kilobit-sized notification (which might be of the form "you have a message from XYZ", prompting you to go online) that isn't a big deal.

We could go from always-on surveillance to letting people decide on a per-notification basis if declaring their location is worth receiving the rest of the message. Or if they should move to a different location before doing so.
It is theft under federal law, punishable by up to 5 years in prison.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Electronic_Theft_Act
So is building an open source vertical takeoff and landing aircraft and accompanying air taxi service part of reality, or part of the blockchain?
I can see Google offering “private indexing” to big publications for a fee in the future. Keeping 12ft ladder out of the loop effectively.
I've seen a port of the unreleased SegaSonic Bros., so it's definitely possible. Possibly more work than the Atomiswave ports? Not sure, but the System C is "farther" from the Mega Drive than the Atomiswave is from the Dreamcast.
I can definitely tell the difference, but it doesn’t bother me. Carrie Fischer approved the CGI version of herself before her death, so who am I to complain?
I'm copying this template for my next CTO blog...
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Coinbase just spent $14M for a QR code to bounce around on the screen for 30s
1. I pay for The Economist, I want to share articles with my family & friends without them having to jump through the login hoop, until quite recently there wasn't an intention method to do this[1]

2. My partner is an annalist, her work is often quoted and republished in part or in full behind paywalls, going through correct channels to read what they published can take days to weeks & they need to know Pronto!

Edit: Clearly because I'm paying for The Economist I believe they should be remunerated for their journalism, but a hard policy of "no access unless you've verify-ably paid" would be a worse status quo

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://myaccount.economist.co...
I also accidentally click it all the time. It's a bit bonkers because it's right next to the collapse thread arrow. And if you're collapsing threads to mark which comments you've read already, you definitely don't want to accidentally click "next", because you'll have to scroll back up to accomplish your goal.
Joel never spent 6 months working on a very simple feature request that should have taken 5 minutes and a half dozen lines of code.

I'd like to see him say with a straigh face that it is a good idea to stick with VB6 indefinately.

There is a lot of wisdom in his post, but it isn't always practical or possible to evolve a legacy code base.
The not so hidden assumption that came with the pitch was that a bunch of the well-paid senior staff would leave for greener pastures (they wouldn't stick to maintaining a "legacy" stack). The savings were coming from both incoming and outgoing flow...
Emacs daemon was never on my radar, I'll look into it. Thank you.
it's great native SQL client since pgAdmin went all browser based, and I like that it supports multiple SQL DBs with more support in the future as well
I suspect they cache the cache? And resolve any css issues?
Here's another way to put this into perspective:

Photons carry momentum, although it's too small to be perceptible under ordinary circumstances. If a typical photon of sunlight hits an oxygen molecule in the Earth's atmosphere, and deposits all its momentum, it's enough to give that molecule a "kick" of a few centimeters per second.

In contrast, a single one of these cosmic ray photons carries enough momentum (if it could somehow be delivered in the right way) to accelerate an entire E. coli bacterium, weighing as much as billions of oxygen molecules, to supersonic speeds.
Smart Things I Have Done While You Were Watching Sportsball
In my experience the best developers have a good grasp on their user needs and develop with them in mind. That being said, there are tons of other things that make developers great.
No need to avoid healthy omega-6 fats (2019)
Or alternatively, there are some senior staff that are just plain bored with the current stack, and want the chance to play with something more exciting to them. Both are possibilities, depending on where the idea is originating.
Well, it depends on your goals.

Recruiting cheaper programmers will probably look nice on immediate results for a time, assuming the rewrite progresses well.

Whether the flood of bootcamp grads which, thanks to law of large numbers, will also contain a lot more bad choices and overwhelm your filtering ability, be actually good stewards for continued existence of things possibly critical to the business... is a completely different thing.
Presumably the parent commenter meant "8 billionths", not "one 8-billionth".
Yeah otherwise you could have an ad blocker blocker unblocker running ads.
I'm sure you have good reason to feel strongly about this, but attacking another user is not allowed here, and we ban accounts that do it, so please don't post like this again. Also, please just don't post in the flamewar style to begin with. We want curious conversation here—not commenters at one another's throats.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
And here I thought they represented the double helix of DNA
There is that stripe/ycombinator mob thing. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30066969
Routing would be no different. Routers already work with IP address prefixes. In the scheme described, a computer's IP is just a /32 prefix of a 48-bit address, and serves as the router for the 65k addresses.
Would you please stop posting in the flamewar style to HN? You've included a snarky swipe in several different comments you posted to this thread. Regardless of how you feel about wolves, that's not what this site is for, and it destroys what it is for.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
Gambling is not a waste of resources. It is a transfer of resources from one entity to another. It's a zero-sum game.

On an individual level, gambling is roughly breaking even in the long run (say, 95% retention of the resources).
I switched from hardware engineering to software engineering, and the socket abstraction (as well as the TCP bytestream abstraction, which appears to have been part of the inspiration for how sockets work) seemed absolutely nuts to me. Kernel bypass style queues make a lot more sense from first principles.
I also always think it would be easier if we could have the addressing to extend to individual receivers within the machine.

In effect, a machine would have its own internal network with individual, publicly addressable nodes representing various receivers.

Just imagine how virtualisation/containerisation would get simplified.
> Countries with more regulation and more control by the state have... prices that are a fraction of the US.

Funny enough, the quality and ease of access (delays for procedures etc) also "are a fraction of the US"
Two things from the post stand out to me today:

> Perl is remarkably good for slicing, dicing, twisting, wringing, smoothing, summarizing and otherwise mangling text. … Perl's powerful regular expression matching and string manipulation operators simplify this job in a way unequalled by any other modern language.

Indeed! I still think in terms of PCRE (Perl-compatible regular expressions), and I love that Perl makes regexes a first-class citizen.

> Although the biological sciences do involve a good deal of numeric analysis now, most of the primary data is still text: clone names, annotations, comments, bibliographic references. Even DNA sequences are textlike. Interconverting incompatible data formats is a matter of text mangling combined with some creative guesswork.

This is still true! One common format (arguably the most common format) for sending around bits of sequenced DNA is the FASTQ format (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FASTQ_format). FASTQ files are (ASCII) plain text, making them really easy to parse. Of course one byte per letter of DNA is wasteful, so FASTQ files are commonly exchanged GZIP-compressed, with the .fastq.gz extension. Many platforms & tools read in or write out .fastq.gz automatically, saving you the (de)compression step.
State of the Web: React
There's definitely a movement to avoid certain kinds of seed oils.
This twitter account addresses why:
https://twitter.com/SeedOilDsrspct
Tapes and cards!! OMG that puts JCL into perspective!

Sure Kubernetes' API hid Docker, but its marketing certainly didn't. And I'm not sure it's right to say Docker was eliminated from Kubernetes, it was simply made optional. I think it's hard to argue that Docker isn't still the pioneer, like I mentioned Docker is the OG market fit which all the other runtimes are trying to emulate.

So well-designed APIs, which Mesos doesn't have, I can believe that. But I think it's fair to say Flynn and Deis put a lot of effort into theirs. I forgot about Rancher and Fleet! I don't know about their APIs. For sure Flynn and Deis never got as far as CRDs, but they still achieved those basic concepts we use in Kubernetes today; deployments, storage, config, logs, routes, networks, etc.

I'm just still not convinced that Borg did anything new or innovative that wasn't already in some Open Source project before Kubernetes came along.
DO you have a source that the Cuban applies the 15% to the Usual & Customary Price, not the acquisition price? It has certainly been implied to be the latter.
Being overweight or smoking increases the probability that you will need healthcare, but the probability density function (PDF) for that is flat and wide.

When obesity or smoking goes up the increased health care needs are spread out over decades because of the flat wide PDF. There is plenty of time for the healthcare system to expand to handle this before it can become overloaded.

COVID's healthcare needs PDF is tall and thin.

Because of the tall and thin PDF, COVID's strain on the healthcare system is short term.
It’s not capitalist. Heck try even getting a price quote online for a pharmaceutical drug. Oh wait you can’t as “it depends”.

Why the government hasn’t stepped in, is pure corruption.
This person is asking for money in order to help provide a service… and that service is “stop other people from asking for money to provide a service.” Hard not to feel a little irony.

There are approximately three outcomes here.

1. Google shuts this guy down, some way or another
2. Paywalled sites sue this into oblivion

Or worst of all,

3. Google stops being able to usefully surface decent news content.

Paywalls are annoying, but this is not a long-term solution.
Every time I tried to use this thing it said it was disabled for every site I tried.
In many cases better served by a fork of DOSBox, such as DOSBox-X [0] or DOSBox Staging [1].

The DOSBox development team really likes to take their time, and often rejects outside contributions. They are only interested in running games, so will even reject bug fixes, unless you can show the bug harms some game. They are still on SourceForge and Subversion, which also acts to discourage outside contributors. Overall a rather conservative and risk-averse approach.

The forks are at GitHub, and have GitHub Actions for CI, and more modern build processes/etc. DOSBox-X wants to support running all applications, including non-games; DOSBox Staging has more of a games-centric focus, but still is much more open to new and improved features than the original DOSBox is. Both have a much faster development and release cycle, and are much more welcoming to new contributors.

DOS itself may not be a moving target, but there is still a long way to go in supporting corner cases, features of the platform which applications rarely use, etc.

[0] https://dosbox-x.com/ https://github.com/joncampbell123/dosbox-x

[1] https://dosbox-staging.github.io/ https://github.com/dosbox-staging/dosbox-staging
Some people can multi-task. I'm watching the game right now.
Correct, It is not a universal fix, but a step in the right direction.
> Gambling is not a waste of resources.

Yes, it is.

> It is a transfer of resources from one entity to another. It's a zero-sum game.

All real gambling consumes as well as transfers resources, and is, therefore, negative sum.
>>This is not the treatment approach and is not remotely feasible.

This is from article:
"They then prevent people from drinking the contaminated water and use pesticides to disinfect it."

Basically they contaminate water with pesticides, which locals are drinking afterwards... there are no imminent effects from pesticides - that is for sure.

from wiki:
D. medinensis larvae reside within small aquatic crustaceans called copepods.

>>The guinea worm life cycle is largely human driven as well.

Not true. It affects mammals, including humans. Infected mammals becomes easier catch for predators. It is part of cycle of life, which humans are disrupting.

The main issue here is that hygiene of people in Africa is still on the same level that Europeans had couple of centuries ago, when they used water from the same water sources where they had dead cats and fecal matter, only European sources of waters are getting "sterilized" by cold weather, unlike in Africa where those water inhabitants thrive all year. USSR had very similar issues with infections from drinking water, until it educated population that only boiled water is safe to drink. Judging from the article - that is still the main issue and part of what they are doing.
Is this the idea behind HTTP 3? (Honest question.)
Nice baseless FUD that's completely wrong. :)

As an American, my longest waits and worst care were all in the US. I pay just a couple bucks in Japan and get far better, far faster care. Pissing blood from a major kidney infection and hospitals politely turning me away because my insurance was out of network and "oh this is too expensive for you. Try (next hospital that rejected me)" wasn't fun. Never had an experience like that outside the US. Here it’s “Do you have an appointment? No? Okay, we’ll see you in a few minutes.”

Not sure why Americans believe this meme, but it's very apparent that someone hasn't spent any significant time outside the country and is informed exclusively by facebook fearmongering when they say that. It's always "yeah, I know a guy who knows a guy who read an article saying the UK is worse!" America has massive delays for procedures already--the excuse doesn't work anymore.

But yes, the delays in Japan and the cost are a fraction of the US, and it's because there's more regulation. It's wonderful.
I'm in Canada, but this is quite helpful, nonetheless. Thanks!
Reading about air traffic controllers, I recall that they along with dentists supposedly had the highest suicide rates. Searching now, ATCs don't even make a top 10 list.
None of them is 'the' hero.
IMO, it’s not the CIA you need to worry about here.

You should be worrying about the NSA.
I won't be satisfied until we can grow auroch meat in the lab
> Then, why are the vast majority of the images of people in Google image search results for "techbro" or "tech bro" white men? Serious question.

For the same reason that an image search for "successful CEO" shows white men. Google's results are both a reflection and amplification of any input biases.
Not necessarily. Some people only plan for a 20 year retirement, some plan for a 30 year retirement, etc.
We should try get men to the moon first before giving this a shot.
Wouldn’t Amazon be doing the same thing with their pharmacy?
Until it's in a bank, he doesn't have $100m. Not that it wouldn't have sucked to lose his potential millions but they are hypothetical value right now.

I'd have diversified. Some cash, some ETF, some property. A lot of tax, now or in the future. I wouldn't complain about the tax, even after there's enough for a lifetime. (And yes I know both property and ETF can decline in value, but here's the thing: when you see their book value it's a damn sight more real)

Remember, unless I am very mistaken he didn't put $80m of real money in, to secure an amazing 20% ROI which out in your real world would be normally exciting. So the net effect of fees, gas, AML, tax even taking 50% makes him as rich as croesus compared to most people for very low initial input.

Do we know what real world $ went in to bootstrap?

(I know this story is mostly about the social engineering, which is of course the real problem)
Isn’t that what we have now with addresses and ports? What’s the difference?
Project FUBELT
The CGI Leia was produced before Carrie Fischer died, and she had the opportunity to see it and approved of it. After Rogue 1, the producers promised any appearance by Leia in Episode 9 would be from reused or previously unused footage, and not via CGI.
Sonic Robo Blast 2: a 3D open-source Sonic the Hedgehog fangame built on Doom
Please explain how your logic differs from that in the quote.

You may be reaching for something like "I have no confidence in public health mandates of any kind, based on our experience so far... therefore I'm inclined to not believe vaccine mandates will be effective."

But you seem to be leaping to say that vaccine mandates are not effective in preventing transmission ... because some regions are discontinuing requiring masks... This is very confused.
Oh man this really hits home as someone who did a lot of this searching for a "perfect" system. At some point it really hit me, I think a lot of people are subconsciously believing that the note system will do the thinking for you, and it's really very bad at that. The good news is, that's what you -- the human -- are for.

Literally all the computer can do is periodically remind you of something, and all you can do is try to pick how/when it can re-tell you things you already know. Anything after that is you using your human brain to make the real connections.

(Yes, discovering this has made me wildly skeptical of AI to the point that I generally don't believe in it anymore, i.e. I'm 99.999% certain we will never see anything remotely close to a "singularity.")
If backup cameras weren't expensive gadgets then I wouldn't consider them expensive gadgets, sure. But they are, so I do. When the facts change, I change my mind; what do you do?
I recently bought a house. My title company made a BIG deal about fraud. Basically, people figure out you're in the process of buying a house, pretend to be your title company, and give you their wire info instead of the real info. You wire a giant pile of house down payment to the bad guys, and they walk. You will not get that $ back.
TclTutor 3: Computer aided instruction package for learning the Tcl language
Would you upload your mind to the cloud?
I don't think that has any impact whatsoever. If people think they are buying a drug from a manufacturer they are wrong. Typically they are paying insurance who pays the pharmacy, who pays the PBM who pays the Manufacturer. This is true for generics and brand-name. Each step has price negotiations and a bunch of mixed incentives.
The SaaS Connect 2017 video you mentioned: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLKfbjNB5xE
YC isn't monopoly for angel investors. They are a high profile investor who invests in batches. Popular and well known.

Compare them to coke or McDonald's.. top of their industries but other brands exist offering a similiar product and they are not monopolies
Why do you dream of that?
GAE was also a hero, but too early for non-Googler.
brave browser
The CIA was supposed to be an intelligence gathering agency. It's morphed into much much more.
Doubt it. This site hasn’t changed since I saw it over 10 years ago
And what do you think they're expecting to happen after the retirement?
I'll be the first person to agree that there's plenty of wrong with Facebook, but many people are better off because they have access to platforms like Facebook even with their flaws. If you've ever seen online small business in a lot of developing countries, a significant amount of money they make is through online marketplaces.

they don't stay there because they are being exploited, it's because centralized platforms reach many customers and automate away a lot of the problems that you'd have if you had to set that infrastructure up yourself and pay for it.

If you're a creator you stay on Youtube because you get a sustainable income. They can do that because they're centralized. If you run your own peertube instance and pay more in server costs than you make in ads that isn't a solution.

And these simple economies of scale will always exist regardless whether your software runs on a server or a distributed blockchain vm.
Sorry if I caused any confusion, that's exactly my point. I didn't mean to imply that Heroku directly influenced the design and architecture of Kubernetes.
Worth noting that The Last Starfighter[0] came out in 1984, predating America's Army by about 20 years.

Also the The Bradley Trainer (also known as Army Battlezone or Military Battlezone)[1] was in the 80s.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Starfighter

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battlezone_(1980_video_game)#T...
So GC claimed that some US Medicare/aid prices would cause HCW to make less than minimum wage, yet now you say salaries are 2-3x higher than Europe, which generally has higher minimum wages.

Somehow all these excuses are still not jiving.
Due to the butterfly effect pretty much anything that includes large number of objects interacting with humans changed the course of history.
> "a jazzhanded squee of trendy solutionism"

Thank you for this phrase, I love it.