skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wait what? This arguably can be seen as adding more value for entrepreneurs, while edging out angel investors. It only becomes potentially onerous depending on the terms of the seed or later round, but the 500k means two people could go for a very long time without that second round and definitely without taking 50-100k checks from a couple of angels. If anything these terms are more competitive because the market is very competitive for startup funding and had to become at least seemingly more founder friendly. I recently put together an investor list because I'm building something that may see early stage funds as a target customer and I put together more than 100 early stage firms in about an hour of searching and that barely scratches the surface. You definitely don't need YC to get funding and if you have the right connections it may behoove you not to if you don't like YC's terms. YC is so far from the only game in town. The market is quite healthy.
Your walmart link is quite a discovery for me. I've always been suspicious when my pharmacy congratulates me on saving whopping 200 bucks on my generic meds, but I couldn't have imagined that a one year supply of this stuff can be had for under 40 bucks at walmart. In other words, my pharmacy's markup exceeds 50x of the original price (probably 100x since they buy it in bulk).
Check out blitz.

https://blitzjs.com/
You are assuming they actively seek out people by race. If the pool of people in your domain are predominately of a particular race, it may be simple demographics at play, not bias.
How is it censorship? Moving large amounts of cash is impractical due to physical constraints, but is still possible. And there are legitimate concerns at play for those limitations.
Is there anything on this which doesn't exist on Mega Drive but could be ported to it like the Atomiswave games were ported to Dreamcast?
Well executed FOMO ad, complete with time pressure and competition.

Parallels how to promote crypto to the public.

1) "What is it?"

2) "I don't know."

3) "Other people are doing it."

4) "What if I miss out?"

5) "I'm going to do it before it's too late."

Consistent messaging from all fronts.

"Buy crypto or be left behind. The revolution is now. Pay no mind to the fact that Bitcoin speculators have lost 37% since November and that we need more users lest speculators in our stock lose faith."

https://fortune.com/2022/02/11/crypto-super-bowl-ads-ftx-coi...
> I really dislike religion claiming monopoly on morals.

Where's the monopoly? A discussion on the moral values of religious rituals doesn't preclude anything. I don't even belong to a church.

It seems you think (perhaps subconsciously) that religion has a monopoly on morals. Why else are you bringing that into the discussion and arguing against it?

> Even animals care for each-other and protect each-other, can't claim culture or religion there - its a basic feature of evolution.

Religious morals are an instance of mutual care emerging through social evolution in an animal - the human, specifically. And humans call it "culture", because humans like to invent words to describe specific instances of phenomena.
> Imagine logging into the game and picking your level 100 character only to see it spawn in Rookgaard completely reset.

That could happen if the player was offline??
Well, if you need something shipped to you, you're probably paying for it if it's not a loss leader/cost-of-business for the shipper. Buy something from Walmart and they're charging you shipping if you're not having it sent to one of their stairs. So you can't lump in shipping on one end and ignore it on the other.

Your entire criticism seems to be "there may be specific circumstances in which this isn't actually cheaper, and that's bad because Mark Cuban."
She might think that Mark Cuban is "that nice boy from Shark Tank" and trust his generics more.
Look at the prices yourself, Cost Plus is cheaper for most of them.
I would have assumed it was the Eurasian wooly whino
I was wondering if Nim could be a good tool here by compiling to C, here is a PICO-8 inspired lib written in it:

https://github.com/ftsf/nico
AFAIK the illegal part of the kickback is when you're abusing your position to enrich yourself (the agent), when you have a duty to act in the best interests of the principal. You buying a widget, and then the manufacturer sending you a rebate (aka. a "kickback") isn't illegal because there's no conflict of interest. However, if you're in charge of buying widgets for a company, and the manufacturer is paying the rebate directly to you instead of the company[1], then it is illegal.

In the case of the drugs, it's fine because the person ultimately paying for the drugs is the insurance company, which also happens to be the entity receiving the "kickback".

[1] https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndca/pr/former-netflix-executiv...
I assume Mark Cuban is operating for narcissistic reasons, but if his ego is fueled enough by accolades then perhaps he will deliver a low cost alternative.

In anycase, it's generics and price comparisons online are pretty easy. Iff it is cheaper I'll buy from them, if not I won't.
If you want to learn the history of Kubernetes from the people that made it, I host a weekly Kubernetes Podcast. If you watched this documentary, you're the target audience. (If you're interested in the docume

Many of the people in this documentary have been on the show before; I recommend episodes with Brian Grant, Dawn Chen, Tim Hockin and Clayton Coleman.

https://kubernetespodcast.com/
I recall reading the developers of (the ultimately aborted) 'Fallout Online' remarking that Ultima Online's player mechanics were pretty close to what they'd expect from the reality of a post-apocalyptic wasteland. I can't find the source of this quote right now, unfortunately. I felt really gratified hearing that, as I'd been trying to explain the savagery of UO[2] in the 2000s to people talking about Rust's gameplay in 2020.

I think it's really interesting to look back at UO's design from a modern perspective. The designers have stated over, and over again[0][1] how absolutely wrong their predictions of player behaviour ended up being. It was such an ambitious, pure, and innocent idea. Its gameplay style may not have stood the test of time, however it was undoubtedly an important learning experience for game design as a whole. I'm tempted to say its a shame that games like UO are a thing of the past. However when I look back at my time playing it, the thing that sticks out the most is how much time and effort was spent just avoiding abuse.

[0] https://www.raphkoster.com/tag/uo/

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

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20050214050928/http://looter.4t....
I think this idea applies to diet, fitness, career coaching, basically all forms of self improvement (getting career advice from someone who became a career coach is especially ironic).

I think there are benefits for some people in having a system, or having external motivation. My wife goes to a personal trainer for example, which I'd reflexively say is unnecessary but I've seen how it makes her stay focused on what she's doing, even if it's mostly just a list that you could get on the internet. It's the same thing for writing advice. It will work for some, be pointless for others, and draw in a wider group than it actually works for because some people are expecting a silver bullet.

That said, there are definitely worse things to try

Just to add, I like to take notes, but only scribbles for the sake of noting the key points. I rarely if ever look back at them, and when I do they are mostly illegible, but I find the act of noting helps me remember. It was the same in university.
One way to find out
Even when you are in control, you really are counting on others to get things done. Putting your name on the paycheck only gets you so far :-)
Isn't that exactly the problem? When you factor in the cost of health insurance, Americans pay a buttload for healthcare compared to the rest of the developed world. A big proportion of this is because when people see expensive drugs they just ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ and say "my insurance pays for it". All this once-removed cost makes it hard for people to reason about what they are overpaying for as an individual so as a society we end up overpaying for everything. This is the same reason hospitals in America have incredibly convoluted and confusing and opaque billing practices – the harder it is to parse the true price you're paying for something (esp. in advance), the harder it is to vote with your wallet.
Surveillance may be "too cheap to meter", but it isn't cheap.

Millions of hard drives run 24/7 in thousands of data-centres around
the world. Millions are discarded and replaced annually. System
security is inversely proportional to the demands and power of
surveillance actors (NSO for example), so we all lose money when we
tolerate surveillance. By 2025 cyber-security will cost the world
about $10.5 trillion per annum, and a significant amount of that will
directly result from the existence of a concomitant surveillance
industry.

The cost to society and business in damaged trust and lost opportunity
must run to dozens of trillions over the past decade.

No! Surveillance is cheap to tiny minority who inflict a colossal
economic externality onto the rest of society.

> IT nerds tend to find technological solutions for all sorts of
> problems—economic, political, sociological, and so on. Most of the
> time, these solutions don't make the problems that much worse, but
> when a problem is of a purely economic nature, only solutions that
> affect the economics of the situation can possibly work.

This is insightful. Let's start changing the economics around
surveillance. Let's make it very, very expensive again.
i'm not vaccinated and will not be getting the jab, and i think vaccine mandates are a laughably bad idea, but you could easily just say less severe disease = less pressure on public health systems and "justify" it that way.
$4 is the cash price for (most) Walmart generics. You can just pay that yourself and not deal with insurance if you prefer. It’s $10 for a 90 day supply if your want to cut down on the driving.
Happy 20th Anniversary, .NET
Yes, I know. But I think you misunderstood this sub-thread.

IPv4 has 32-bit addresses, and we've run out of those, which necessitated a new protocol (IPv6) with a larger addresses space (and the use of NAT until it's rolled out everywhere). However, the GP said:

> Sometimes I imagine an "alternate history" where IPv4 had 64-bit addresses […]

Which would have allowed for continued use of this alternate-history-IPv4 without having to NAT and without all the work to enable IPv6.

My observation was that 64b addresses would probably not not even been needed, as we're using "only" 48b for Ethernet MAC addresses and we haven't run out of those yet, so an alternative-history-IPv4 with "only" 48b addresses (instead of 64b or IPv6's 128b) would probably also been enough.

At least until now, early 2022. I'm sure at some point the alternate-history-IPv4 addresses would have run out, and an alternate-history-IPv5/6 would have had to have been developed eventually too.

> And there's practical limits to how large a single L2 network can be, and it's way smaller than 48 bits of space.

Well IPv6 subnets are /64, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. (Though 2^64 hosts are not actually expected to live in a single subnet: that's the equivalent of four billion Internets.)
I use Block Bear on my iPhone - came across it years ago and it seems to work reasonably well.
PG realized something really early on: that the most valued commodity in the tech economy is the attention of the customer; The most valued skill is therefore to grab attention. That may be the reason, why he made this site: if one can grab every hackers attention, then that attention can be directed towards the goal of making money. And he managed to do just that. This ability to turn insight into a tangible result does deserve a lot of respect, imho.
I guess no one uses Clojure/Script on HN anymore. All of your requirements fit the cluster in designspace that the language was designed to occupy.

(cf. 'situated programs' in https://youtu.be/2V1FtfBDsLU)
Accoridng to historian David McCullough, the play Cato was a favorite of George Washington and well known to John Adams and Thomas Jefferson. Two famous American quotes likely originate in a slightly different form from the play itself.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cato,_a_Tragedy#Influence_on_A...
I had a blast making an asteroids clone for the arduboy:

https://twitter.com/00jknight/status/993188057812742144

hope my game is on this thing!

here is the code for it:
https://github.com/jknightdoeswork/ardutoids

Is there any hardware improvements to the arduboy fx? I found the screen scratches easily and the on/off switch is easy to break
But everyone in the world has access to a cryptocoin that will uphold their ownership in a just way?

Is that the argument? Crypto is "more just" and "available globally" and affordably?
What's next, Twitter geniuses realizing it's also not legal for the CIA to poison people in foreign countries? Supply weapons to militias? Trade narcotics?
A previous post here has the list: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30294688
Costco already is Costco for generic meds!

What I've heard (not researched) is that they typically have the lowest drug prices.
Maybe we should all just wait in our house until proteins stop replicating in nature.
It creates a group to focus people's anger on, it caters to the "do something" crowd. It is a populist measure just like a border wall for example.
https://iapp.org/news/a/new-eu-data-blockage-as-german-court...
The various visualizations like MatrixPlot, Manipulate ... just google around and you'll see many interesting examples!
In other words, you don't bother writing well when you write quick notes for yourself. So... cigar?
Every time I see a paywalled article on hacker news it makes me mad. We are the ones who will choose the future we live in. We are the makers and the dreamers, we are the founders and product people. If we tolerate paywalls, paywalls will be the way of the world. We MUST have open access to information or we will fall into a stratified dystopia.
Vote with your feet and your eyeballs.
It’s about 1.1TB for full sync geth nodes, and growing. Ethereum researchers are looking into statelessness and state expiry which aim to make it even easier to run nodes with little need for space.

People will continue to run nodes regardless of the price of ETH, just like Bitcoin.

ENS is a smart contract protocol, so I don’t see how it’s related.
Yes - to be clear, the author knows this is the confounder. That's why it was silly of the author to claim that the paper would describe a correlation without a trivial confounder.
And yet there are about half a dozen other projects that I've described that cover the exact same space -- retro development, hobbyist. And they're either on Ebay for a fraction of the price, or in landfill.
Thanks for the book recommendation.

It seems that teaching is the most underrated crucial elements to understand a new and/or difficult subjects. The FAST method proposed by Jim Kwik also includes teaching as one of proven elements to quickly learn and understand [1].

[1]Jim Kwik’s FAST Method Will Help You Learn Faster
>I'm concerned that Mark Cuban is capitalizing on people's lack of understanding about how insurance works and how easy it can be to look up drug prices (use your insurance company's website or just pick up the phone and call your pharmacy, they'll check for you)

That certainly hasn't been my experience. Most pharmacies I've tried this with need to actually 'fill' the script and run it through insurance to get a final price. And, in the era of 'COVID-related staffing shortages', good luck calling the pharmacy and actually getting someone on the line.

The sad thing is, all these pharmacies know about GoodRx and other discount providers. They could stop playing games and just run all scripts through these providers to get a 'cash price', but they don't. It's honestly like shopping at Kohls where if you aren't stacking coupons, you're the sucker paying too much.

I don't know about Cuban's mechanics here, but a website that shows you the final price, no games/codes, is a great addition to the market.
From the article's opening paragraph: "Books have changed the course of history, but has literature? We should not cheat, by calling, say, the King James Bible a work of literature. Let us discount everything but fiction, drama and poetry."
I got mine from Brooklyn Bedding, a high loft one since I sleep on my side.
Paris Climate Agreement goal still within reach, suggests new study
(1) His prices aren't really any better than retail pharmacy with GoodRx. The generics for little money is well covered.

(2) Costco actually does shit. They build buildings, hire pharmacists, buy inventory in bulk, and sell it to you in the store. Cuban has a website that takes 3 months to build and a little bit of transaction risk.
In the case of Northern Europe, in some countries the wolf was already extinct and is now making a sporadic return. Example: the Netherlands.

This is a country almost entirely urbanized with hardly any wild habitat for the wolf to hunt in. So they do a lot of hunting in people's backyard. Killing sheep and dogs. They hunt frequently so damage is large.

Even a single case is very impactful. I recently saw footage of 3 wolves tearing apart somebody's dog. To the owner, that is devastating. Next, this is spread on Facebook, and soon the town is outraged. Surely you understand this won't last very long, somebody is going to take care of that wolf if it happens a few more times.

I love wolves, I want them to come back and want them to thrive. But at least for the Netherlands, it just doesn't work. We don't have the natural habitat.
Why did we build nuclear weapons? Even knowing that they could potentially annihilate humanity - indeed, that was the point. Because if we didn't, Nazi Germany would've, and then we would've been the ones annihilated.

History has a shape, and that shape is largely dictated by science, technology, and game theory. Whenever a technology gets discovered that gives its controllers a significant advantage over others, and its discovery is obvious enough that it could likely have been discovered elsewhere, you have to adopt it. Otherwise, others will, and gain enough of an advantage over you to threaten your existence. There's a reason that the permanent members of the UN Security Council are the U.S, Russia, China, Britain, and France, and that Germany and Japan are not on it.

Similar dynamics are why we still have arms races; climate change; lying & exaggeration; corruption; profiteering; and privatization. For more thoughts on this, you might want to check out this SlateStarCodex blogpost:

https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/

It's tempting to look at a situation as a whole and say "This is bad for everyone. Why are we doing it?" without looking at the incentives and levers of control for each of the individual actors. Sometimes, these people even resolve to not engage in the bad behavior themselves, not realizing that not engaging in the bad behavior is marginalizing themselves out of the discourse, and that's why bad behavior persists.
We're talking about domain name registration right? No reason why it would need to be more expensive than the current system. The argument is that ownership is upheld in a totally programmatic way. Just is a value judgement, not sure about that. It depends on what you value. Available globally yes.
used to call numbers used by telephone repair/service persons (early 80's)and get hooked up with annoyances persons
Either I don't understand the phrase "Vertical integration" or Mark Cuban doesn't. Cuban says "We basically created a vertically integrated manufacturing company." But, they don't do manufacturing, because later Cuban says "The manufacturers love what we're doing for that reason". They also apparently don't do the pharmacy aspect because Cuban says his company "charges a $3 pharmacy fee to pay the pharmacists it works with".

It sounds to me like this is less of a vertically integrated drug manufacturer and more of a website to resell generics at a 15% markup plus pharmacy fee plus shipping and handling.

Looking at his website I see a "powered by truepill" logo at the bottom. Truepill seems to be a company that does online pharmacies... So, Cuban Cost Plus is, possibly, a digital storefront for truepill?
I don't see why it's condescending. If you have worked in tech your entire life, in an office in front of a computer then it's completely okay IMO to wonder what it would be like working a trade.

For instance, my entire family works in mining, some riggers, some electricians and others environmental surveying. I am the only one that works in front of a computer all day. When they get home from work, that's it they switch off, no emails, no calls, no reports to write late at night due to a delayed project. Their work shifts to another group of employees to continue or finish. They come home tired and sleep way better than I do.

I think about it all the time and what it would be like to work with my hands in a trade, sure we all work late sometimes and that's not industry specific. But its the feeling of working in a field with your hands as opposed to your words.

It's also easy for tradesman to look at what we do and think its easy too. But at the end of the day there's no perfect job and some appeal better to others.
We all understand the first part. Storing information on the blockchain, that's easy. But where almost all use cases fall down is in interfacing with the real world.

In this case it sounds like that is solved though. I know very little about the structure of the internet, but it seems you are saying that instead of asking a DNS server, every computer would ask the blockchain to resolve the domain name, correct? But wouldn't that require every single device that connects to the internet to "update its firmware" or something? Or could this decentralised DNS somehow emulate the old fashioned kind?
> I think though that CostPlus, if nothing else, has opened the eyes of a great many people who just assumed medicine was like any other product where the manufacturer controls the price

Like any other product? There are zero products like that. Manufacturers aren't legally able to control the price even if they propose a contract with a resale price clause. That's why everything has a "manufacturer's suggested retail price" printed on it.
> Any prior information about the domain can be encoded in a way you prepare the input samples

Adding features to provide further information about the input data can be helpful, but not nearly as much as ensuring that strong priors are reflected in the actual model architecture, whenever relevant to the domain. Johnson's paper about biaxial RNN provides one example of how to do this in the context of music.
the "one guy" you are referring to seems to be reputable and experienced enough to be speaking through the lancet. https://www.rmian.org/dr-carlos-francoparedes
>Of course, this could lead to a bigger problem, because insurance companies could account for programs like this in rates, and now you have an arms race where your policy only makes cost sense if you are getting these incentive payments.

Aren't the two in equilibrium though? The price of the kickback is priced into the MSRP of the drug, and the kickback you get is priced into the cost of the policy. If the kickback disappears, both would cancel out.