skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> All of the plastic deformation of wheel components should happen at build time.

I suspect this is true, except that parts being what they are (always with small inconsistencies) and the spoke nipples riding inside the rim and j bends in the spokes riding inside the holes in the hub tend to 'find their spot' after being exercised for a while. I've made it a pretty hard rule to re-check after 6 weeks and invariably something has shifted. This probably indicates that my wheel building technique could be better, then again, I've never had a wheel that I built fail - so far - and over the years have done between 100 and 200, some of them for very heavily loaded bikes (tandem trekking bikes).

Most recent wheel was actually this weekend, I'll be sure to give it another really good look to see if I missed something that might cause this which I can catch at an earlier stage.

My typical wheels: double walled aluminum rims, quality spokes and nipples (and the latter seem to be hit-and-miss, I've had bad batches of nipples more than once in spite of re-ordering the exact same kind, but I noticed it immediately during assembly), typically Shimano hubs.
That seems a ridiculous interpretation. US companies liable for actions performed by the CIA? Forget GDPR, the entire population of the USA is guilty of war crimes.

If the CIA required web sites to explicitly include a privacy invading snippet, even then it is dubious since it is under duress. And in any case, exactly the sort of stuff you would want laws like GDPR to hinder.
The real title: "Is YC the
Monopoly It
Thinks It Is?"
See also: the "Chinese Robbers" fallacy[1] -- just because you can find a ton of examples of fiat fraud, doesn't imply its worse -- without context it only implies its the most common form of currency.

[1]:https://www.lesswrong.com/s/XsMTxdQ6fprAQMoKi/p/DSzpr8Y9299j...
Continue reading to the part where the same medication is $8.80 from Mark Cuban's pharmacy.

The price at Walmart is less than half, regardless of whether or not insurance is involved. The deal is worse for the consumer whether or not insurance is involved.
Since its 'compatible' it would sit alone, just like every other from scratch, compatible tree would. Perhaps with a notion that the source is available, FOSS licensed.
Only the between the chapter “big picture” things. The regular details are treated regularly.
Needing to have it shipped is not a simple "more expensive".

Going to a store costs money. It also costs time. It's pretty easy for that to hit $5.
Any process with enough friction to prevent spammers/scammers also has enough friction to allow government censorship.

Even if governments do end up allowing alternative app stores, I imagine the laws will include some sort of liability clause that means the store owner is responsible for censoring any apps that the government blacklists.

This may not be relevant now, but when Western nations start banning E2EE chat apps and VPNs, I think people will become more aware of what a choke-point the app store model is.
Sure, it’s helpful but not really a requirement by any means. Normal x86 code tends to be self-synchronizing, for example.
Once long distance telegraphy and telephones are invented, you'd need to synchronize time again.
This feels a lot like the paddle battle in Fox in Socks.
> High tension wheels are also much closer to catastrophic failure or folding,

Another way to look at it is that the higher tension gives more force holding the rim where it should be. Catastrophic failure or folding is a result of heavy impact, not tension. Unless you jump off buildings on your bike this should be very rare. Are you really seing these kind of failures with modern mtb rims from quality manufacturers. Even at downhill I would expect most wheels to be replaced due to denting or heavy buckling, not folding?!?

> I've also been surprised a few times how well my bike was riding after discovering that my spokes were quite slack - kind of like it creates a bit of suspension action

Interesting, I hate that feeling because loose front wheels deflect sideways in corners, which is kind of what you pay money for suspension not to do! Your money, your choice.
Device != smartphone

but I agree with many of the points you made (and I understand that for some products, smartphones are going to be your primary target).
We keep hearing about YC network effect, but are we sure it is significant?

In France, there is a fund which is also doing seed index investing [1] they invest in 100 companies a year. But they are not an accelerator, just a fund, and they consistently get good IRR [2]. And they are as much known in the French ecosystem than YC is known in the American ecosystem.

Does anyone have an example of a seed index investing fund that failed ?

[1] https://www.kimaventures.com/

[2] https://twitter.com/2lr/status/1479042875019173889
Yes. Did anybody else cheer at this point in the theater?

I mean, come on. At last your nerd skills enable you to save the day in an action motion picture. Get to your feet and cheer for the Unix prompt on a Connection Machine.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connection_Machine
> Going to a store costs money. It also costs time. It's pretty easy for that to hit $5.

People need groceries. They're going to the store anyway.

If you can wait for a mail-order prescription to arrive, you can probably wait until your next grocery shopping trip to get it filled in person.
> Unless the spokes go slack, the tension does not affect the stiffness of the wheel.

Sure, but when they go slack you've lost the plot somewhere along the line. That should - in principle - never happen.

> Properly functioning wheels operate in the linear elastic region.

Yes, more simply put: they are non-deforming springs.

> Higher tension is related to higher ultimate load capacity and better fatigue resistance.

Up to a point!
I really enjoyed Anathem, but I don’t think that the vocabulary is supposed to be an obstacle; it is supposed to be a clue. The word “anathem” in the title should be a mystery but should also remind you of both “anathema” and “anthem”. Once you finally find out exactly what it means in the world of the book then you should see how those words both fit really well. At that point you probably won’t have any idea _why_ those words fit so well, but once you’ve finished the book you should be able to see that it is not merely the author’s contrivance; it was a clue to the deeper plot of the book (or to the nature of reality, if you take it seriously enough…).
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Following on from this discussion of Walmart's discount drugs, most or all of the pharmacy chains have similar programs, though it's possible that CVS or Walgreens (or both?) require being a member of a paid discount program.

IIRC Meijer does free antibiotics and some maternal health stuff, Costco just generally has pretty low prices that are published, Walmart is linked in the parent, Kroger has a variety of free/$3/$6 medications in some kind of association with GoodRX, I didn't see anything for Albertson's on a quick search but there may be one.
It is not making a distinction between literature and religion. It is making a distinction between fiction and nonfiction, with works that the authors intended as nonfiction counting as nonfiction regardless of whether or not they were objectively true.
> The country with the most extensive historical records is France, where nearly 7,600 fatal attacks were documented from 1200 to 1920.[1][2] There are few historical records or modern cases of wolf attacks in North America. In the half-century up to 2002, there were eight fatal attacks in Europe and Russia, three in North America, and more than 200 in south Asia.[3]

Wolf attacks are a nearly irrelevant problem. Older generations are irrationally/disproportionately afraid of wolf attacks.
Most pharmacies also have free delivery (via mail). CVS even does free same day delivery for $5/mo.
If this article is correct I hope that it will get incorporated into public policy swiftly.
I think you're missing my point. We're on HN right, where we often discuss the difference between technical merit and market fit. There's a time and a place for technically correct solutions, which Google excel at, but a successful business needs more than that, it needs to capture a zeitgeist, which Google sometimes fail to do, see Google Plus for example.

Of course the technical lineage of Kubernetes is Borg and parents (which I admit I've never heard of), but I put it to HN that Kubernetes' lineage is not what created the market fit. In fact I think it's disingenuous of the documentary to imply that (in fairness it does give time to Docker), hence why I'm so keen to give my version of events.

Your point about how The 12 Factors apply just as well to non-containerised software is exactly the beauty of them! The 12 Factors don't come from management, they're not an attempt (at least directly) to capture profit from a market. They are somehow fundamental axioms about writing software in this current era, they're maybe even self-evident, universal truths. It turns out that there is a fundamental connection between the ability for a piece of software to be efficiently scaled and for that piece of software to be collaborated on. 2 or more developer machines share essential characteristics with 2 or more scaled containers, which share requirements with 2 or more CI instances ― reproducibility, behaviour guaranteed by tests, ease of downloading, security, configurability through ENV.

You see how we felt like Heroku understood us the humble developer, it made us DevOps, all whilst helping us satisfy the bottom line of managers? Kubernetes is truly an extraordinary piece of software, but it hasn't, nor do I believe it ever will, achieve anything of The 12 Factors' lasting legacy.
> The 12 Factors aren't just about pushing your app on Kubernetes or whatever, they're just as much, if not more so, ideas that make _you_ a better engineer.

This is absolutely true, you can build a well factored app with intent to run it on 1 server. I would say it's very much worth it because adhering to these best practices will not only make maintenance of your app easier but it'll make things SO much easier to move from 1 server to multiple servers later on if you need to where "servers" in this case could be a Kubernetes cluster, Heroku or anything in between.

If anyone is curious I recently put out a 90 minute ad-free video going over how to create a 12 factor app with a Dockerized app at https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/creating-a-twelve-factor-app-.... It goes over the whole original 12 factor guide from start to finish and applies it to a code base.

Even now 10+ years after the 12 factor guide was originally released it still very much applies today because the guidelines transcend technology.

I remember reading this guide so many years ago and thinking "yep, this is it, they nailed it". So much goodness has come out of the Ruby community, especially around the idea of creating high quality services and tools built from really successful applications. In this case, the 12 factor guide is an extraction of best practices after running hundreds of thousands of apps on Heroku and Rails is an extraction of building Basecamp.
This person has no understanding of what a Monopoly is.

A high value service realizing it delivers more value than it initially thought, and raising prices... is not a monopoly. That's just business, life, etc.

A monopoly would be if:

1) You can only effectively start a startup through YC (Not true)

2) YC actively did things to subvert competition (Not true, at all, from what I can see)

3) YC owned a significant majority portion of some market, and used its position to arbitrarily set prices (A la Apple for taking cuts of apps written by people other than them, to be installed on devices you own), or otherwise damage the market's competitive viability in some way. (Clearly not true)
A major thrust of the book is that once off-patent, others can copy a drug -- but the actual process for creating it is not in the patent. The ingredients are, and it's up to the generic manufacturers to create a set of manufacturing steps that result in the same biological impact. An analogy would be getting the ingredients list for a cake, but not the assembly steps.

The manufacturers also need to prove that the impact is the same, but used fabricated evidence to do so. They also operate plants that are not subject to random inspection -- FDA inspections in foreign countries are pre-announced for political and visa reasons, and are under-staffed, leading to additional fraud.
From the Wikipedia article (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_mania): "At the peak of tulip mania, in February 1637, some single tulip bulbs sold for more than 10 times the annual income of a skilled artisan. ". There is nothing new under the sun ...
> Dead bug style circuit assembly has been popular in the ham community for a long time.

How ironic, given the website also does not support HTTPS.
PSA: If you haven't already learned pandas, learn dplyr/ggplot2 instead. Yes, R is a pretty clunky language (but it's closer to lisp than pretty much anything else as popular) but ggplot2 and dplyr are 100% the best currently available way to visualise tables in SQL.
I am building something of this sort.

Im the app, if you have the right permission, you can use xml to describe tables, forms, and you can use lua to respond on the sever side to control and database events.

It is very staright forward, and you can do it all directly on the web.

It is still alpha, but if you are interested let me jnow and i will open a playground for you.
>Except nobody should actually be paying $22.80 for generic Prozac. You can drive to any local Walmart and get it for $4 and they will bill your insurance, which will count toward your deductible. (Walmart has a list of their $4 and other cheap prescriptions here: https://www.walmart.com/cp/4-prescriptions/1078664 )

Can you elaborate on how this works? Are they giving you 30 days' supply of drugs for only $4, even if you have no insurance? Are they charging both insured/uninsured people $4, but billing the insured people more (via insurance) to make up the difference?
I'm surprised anyone reading this story wouldn't conclude that the real takeaway is to just not engage with cryptocurrency at all. This ecosystem is so convoluted it just turns me off at every level.
You’re not building against their code, you’re just using the end product, why would AGPL matter here at all?
I actually think it's a really neat idea. It gives off a hacky vibe, but as long as it's well-documented it should work well.
To restate what the twitter user was saying: "It seemed like this was a get-rick-quick scheme, but this person could be useful to my goals, so I decided to overlook that"

I guess you can argue that get-rick-quick does not necessarily imply scam, but it certainly reflects poorly on a person to ignore their doubts because the source of the doubts is useful. Its not a unique problem to NFTs, its a similar problem that a founder might face when, say, entertaining an acquisition by Meta.
I have cookies blocked from nyt and it crashes on load when it fails to set a cookie, resulting in a white screen.
"The Ugly American" has been claimed to have been an enormous wake up call to how the US does foreign policy. It allegedly motivated much of Kennedy's approach and was responsible for the formation of the Peace Corps. Before he was elected, he bought a copy for every sitting senator.
Before CALEA, surveillance was not "built in" to the phone system. Back when Guliani was a prosecutor, taking down the New York mafia, he wrote in his book that the FBI had to pay New York Telephone for a wired connection into any phone they wanted to tap. It really was a wired connection, manually wired onto the main distributing frame, and billed as a private line to a third location. On one occasion the FBI didn't pay their bill, and New York Telephone billed the party being wiretapped. That was part of the motivation behind CALEA.

Electromechanical end exchanges did not log call data for local calls. Some of them counted it, with racks of little counters, read once a month. Toll switches had a logging system involving a wide paper tape. No cheap storage devices existed in the electromechanical era.

What's now referred to as a "pen register" is today an extract from switch logs. But at one time, it was a real physical device. A device that put dashes on a paper tape to log dial pulses. I own one, and it's the one shown in Wikipedia.[1] Mine is hooked up to a dial and some circuitry for demos. You wind it up with a big brass key. The first dial pulse starts the clockwork moving, and it continues to run until there have been no dial pulses for a few seconds. Someone had to hook one of these up to a specific line to track what was being dialed.

That's what the Supreme Court was talking about when, in Smith vs. Maryland, Justice Blackmun wrote "Given a pen register's limited capabilities, therefore, petitioner's argument that its installation and use constituted a "search" necessarily rests upon a claim that he had a "legitimate expectation of privacy" regarding the numbers he dialed on his phone."

The "limited capabilities" are a lot less limited today than they were in the wind-up era.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pen_register
I pondered for a while that FOMO and imposter syndrome are rampant
among junior software engineers as a cause of over-engineering. But my
few experiences as an SE manager tells a different story, anecdotally
at least; left to their own devices with time and space, the kids will
come up with astonishingly optimal, even elegant solutions.

Good, confident managers can also achieve the same outcome by being
very directive.

The sweetspot for catastrophe occurs when insecure developers led by
insecure SEMs get into a jazzhanded squee of trendy solutionism. You
get a conspiracy of avoidant mutual stroking, each trying not to
expose the other's incompetence.
Well I mean think of a store which doesn't accept EU payment or ship to EU addresses, nor target EU residents with Advertising. You'd be hard pressed to say they service EU residents even if the site was able to be visited by EU residents.
I think it’s reasonable to judge presidents for ~4-6 months after they take office to six months after the next guy takes office. Plenty of presidents left just before or after things when to shit, but you only get 4 years, including a lame duck period, which means moving quickly.

Sure they don’t control the legislature but they do have quite a bit of leverage to make real compromises.
Crisis for crypto exchange Coinbase was recently prevented by “white hat hacker”
"Staking" was definitely not invented by this protocol as a term, and is not really related to the consensus protocol, barring the fact that you lock up ("stake") some underlying token in a smart contract. Various protocols offer staking as a way to lock funds, which might distribute a pre-existing token allocation to the people staking as a form of interest. This could be done for a myriad of reasons, like getting a governance token in exchange, or in order to limit the liquidity/dumping of new tokens. I can't say that I were too well versed on what has been happening in the defi space in the last year, but it's definitely not a new term.
Scaffold for a live-reloading web application that uses C and Webpack
No, victim himself has said in his post that he doesn’t really dabble in the NFT community
Why do we trust the FDA?
I’d pay $5 not to drive. Plus could the shipping be amortized over number of items.
The person you are replying to is using the word secured in a literal sense I think. Not the financial sense meaning backed by.
"Boner" can also mean a tremendous mistake -- negative connotation, but neither a slur nor a genitalia reference.
They realise what a monopoly is, but also, what a click bait title, and article looks like.

Hence the nisdirect re:monopoly
> These accounts have been identified by an automatic tool with complete accuracy, therefore any complaints about these punishments are in vain. They are final and complaints will be ignored. We will neither reveal our criteria for these punishments, nor will we hand out any proofs.

It's crazy to think that these people believe themselves to be above making mistakes like this.
The question is too vague. Why do you even need a CRUD app?
Can you share a little bit on your setup for Pianoteq?

I tried something similar a while back but didn't find a sound i liked. That plus needing to plug it into a computer had me abandoning the idea.

But now that the Steam Deck is releasing, I can use that instead of my PC. Your comment made me want to try it again!
Is the pharmacy cheaper than AllDayChemist (including shipping)? Doesn’t look like it.

I guess the wait time and complexity of ADC might not make sense for those without insurance.
> I don't know about other insurance plans, but mine is virtually contact-free: my doctor prescribes me something, and I pick it up at a nearby pharmacy within an hour. The billing is taken care of for me, and I don't hear a peep from the insurance company other than a line item on their monthly letter.

This is basically standard in 2022.

My local pharmacy will even let me convert prescriptions to mail-order with automatic refill with a few clicks online.

They'll also phone up my doctor and ask for a 90-day prescription to make it easier if I want. They'll also call the doctor and request refills when the prescription is up.

> OTOH, this seems like a blessing for the un[der]insured.

Yes, but only if people read the fine print. As in my example above, it's actually more expensive to use Mark Cuban's pharmacy than your local Walmart for many prescriptions.

They are relying on people's assumption that it's the cheapest pharmacy around, and nobody in the media seems to be doing anything to investigate that claim. A couple minutes of research shows it's not really true.
If that’s the case, I’ve seen way more of that “social engineering” in the Bitcoin community.

At least there are uses for ETH
Most drugs aren't sitting there on the shelf of my local grocery store. And I don't go to Walmart 'anyway'.

You haven't found a drug that's "more expensive", you've just found that shipping is a cost.
Let's use cash as an analogy.

Someone comes to you and says "I'll give you X Euro if you let me hold onto your Y Dollars until you give me X Euro back."

You think, well Euro are useful, maybe you need Euro specifically to invest in an European business. So you agree.

But when you review the contract presented it just says you give Y Dollars, so you go "wtf?" and refuse to sign.

Apparently, some people are dumb enough to hand over their cash without reading the contract, and an entire industry exists to fool people into doing so.
I think that the Communist Manifest is an excellent piece of poetry - "All that is solid melts into air, all that is sacred is profaned, and man is at last compelled" etc - that unfortunately got over a hundred million people killed, and many times that number fubar'd ...

But many clung - still cling - to that futile dream.
Come on, there is realistically nothing stopping you from hosting a scam on a normal ICANN domain. What accountability are you talking about?
A kalimba would do pretty well, especially if using a rust resistant metal (ex stainless steel) and humidity resistant body (eg plastic). Some people call them thumb pianos.
And you have the gall to call Orban an authoritarian.
Uh, no. See The Lockpicking Lawyers videos on Kwikset Smartkey cylinders, including: https://youtu.be/XqsAFdFsQmQ
The rhetoric has moved on to "prevents severe infection" as the reason you have to prove you've been vaccinated.