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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Online Anonymity Revival
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Not sure if this would apply to your app, but a common pattern is to display a "draft saved" type autosave message. (Email, for example.)
the problem is most capitalists wouldn't dare venture into that arena due to how intrenched the incumbents are. This makes the market highly inefficient due to lack of competition. Good on Cuban for daring to go whether other capitalists will not. I hope it works out for him.
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Absolutely nothing about the historical bad behaviour of the US in Central and South America has any bearing on the threat the CCP poses to a billion Chinese and the world today. Nothing.
Costco also works out deals to sell “special” revisions of major brand offerings. One example is a Sony Bravia that has a physical microphone disable switch.
Sure, this is a valid point. But this is not true for the majority of Medicare patients and, importantly, not why this is the case. This is happening because of existing deals and non-competitive drug purchasing.
It's impossible to have a job without a car.
Used Car prices have increased a lot in the pandemic due to the chip shortage, logistics bottlenecks, and rising demand. So most car loans that predate 2020 are in the money - the car can be sold to fully cover the loan. But cars purchased in 2021 are not necessarily in positive equity. This is why repos are growing and why they are mostly for car loans originated in the last two years.
Does it benefit customers though?

At $13/mo, Spotify Premium costs $156/yr.

On the other hand, the cost of a CD album is $10-$15 new. Used, borrowed it’s even cheaper. So for that amount you can buy 10-15 albums new. Which will be with you forever. And you can now get digital singles for $0.25-$2.

Discovery is still possible or even better through good old fashioned radio or internet radio, which is what both Spotify and Apple are recreating through curated playlists and literally radio for Apple.

And if you want to listen to an individual song, ad supported free options are available across the internet, which labels and artists are thrilled to provide you since it gives you an incentive to buy the album/song and/or pay for a live performance ticket.

I’ve been budgeting about $100/yr for the last few years, and by leveraging sales, etc. my collection means I struggle to spend even $30-$40/yr now, which means that I have $60-$70 which i use to support a variety of smaller artists whose music I may catch live and buy the albums they burned on their PCs for $10.

Obviously this isn’t ideal for all. Those who love to listen to all the newest music all the time would be better off with the streaming services, but I suspect a surprisingly large percentage of people may be better off just buying their music if they have the patience to build their library over a few years, or the money to put down a large upfront investment.
Why would there be submissions? These drives predate HN.
Another good reason for code in the database - keep compute near the data. Particularly for aggregate functions where you're asking for a small summary of a potentially large amount of data, you're better off implementing that logic in the database to avoid excess data transfer.
> Why do people borrow money to buy a car?

Because new cars are nice, and people are bad at time value of money? Also I think it's partially a cultural thing, very few of my friends and family buy brand new cars but I know some people would never even consider a second-hand vehicle.

> It's almost as bad as cheating on your wife (and far, far worse than cheating on a gf).

What a curious point for comparison! Although I get your point if you just mean purely financially.
If you talk to random people in a democracy, they can't vote their interest even if they wanted to, because they don't know what's actually affected by politics and what isn't.

Some people switched to culture/values voting (ie, telling other people what to do), some people just enjoy winning and so vote for whoever they think is going to win.
Hope this is a problem ML might solve some day with audio quality feedback. I place a little device with microphone next to me and it tells my player/speakers whether the music/sfx are too loud and the voices can't be heard, or a song in a playlist requires a different equalization/volume to sound right, or I just moved away and need the sound louder, then moved near and corrects it so I don't get deaf.
If you are not modifying/editing the files (just reading them) and you run Linux, then do this:

1. Don't allow users to sudo.

2. chmod the files to 400 (read-only) as the normal user.

3. chattr +i the files (as root) to prevent modifications. This makes the files immutable (cannot be changed).

So if ransomware (running in the context of a normal user) gets onto the machine, it cannot encrypt the files.

Hope this helps.
most popular means most concentrated not highest volume . thirst traps are taking up the most time in aggregate but there’s a massive supply diffusing the audience , hence they don’t surpass khaby lame
You're assuming apprenticeships are available. Friend of mine ended up going to community college because the apprenticeship he wanted had a waiting list that was several years long.
Data can be anonymous and useful. You however have to define what you mean by useful, an use that to inform how you go about making it anonymous.

A good example is: https://gretel.ai/blog/gretel-ai-illumina-using-ai-to-create...

Full disclosure, I work at Gretel, but I thought this was relevant enough to mention.
Not just generics.

Ever get a coupon from a drug manufacturer that drops your copay from hundreds of dollars to $10 or $20? Ever wonder why?

It’s because Medicare gets an automatic discount (I think 20% these days but I’m no longer in the biz) from the manufacturer’s official price. So they simply set the official price at some huge figure and rake in huge bucks from the largest buyer, Medicare.

Then they negotiate with the for profit insurance companies and subsidize the copays so that nobody complains to their congress person.

It’s a huge rip off. Medicare should be paying a discount to the median price actually paid on the open market. But apparent nobody has an incentive to fix this.
Yeah no.

Generics -are- equivalent and regulated to be as such. [1]
If you are hearing anything different it's just BS.

[1] https://www.fda.gov/drugs/questions-answers/generic-drugs-qu...
.. and (but I realise this is hindsight)

> almost invariably in rural villages that had already endured months of a severe drought

You'd think to look for nutritional reasons in a drought, not infections or viruses, which, afaik, tend to be associated with water.
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> Years later my diabetic cat even had a Costco pharmacy account (best place to buy insulin by far) and received a discount for being without health insurance.

IIRC, you don't need a membership to:

• shop at the pharmacy

• buy alcohol

• eat at the food court

I believe the first two are due to govt regulations, and may only apply in certain states.

It's also much easier for anyone to shop at Costco with a spouse's/friend's membership card now that they have self-checkout. You used to have to worry about the cashier flagging you if the cardholder wasn't there, but now there's no one who even looks at your card.
A billion here, a billion there, soon you're talking real money
Hardly magic, it's feasible albeit difficult engineering.

For that matter large scale carbon sequestration that stores more carbon than it creates, blue hydrogen, etc may well be green wishful thinking.
Yes all the responses are valid technical and logistical challenges.

If there are a bunch of groups with millions to billions in assets financially incentived for something to exist then my bet is going to be on that thing to exist until such a time as the market forces change to eliminate that need
There are differences between sensing a situation that could use some levity, saying a joke to get your mates laughing, deflecting tough feelings using jokes, and trying to get the focus off of someone else and onto yourself.
Not as surprised as I they still measure the height of horses in hands. Feet, sure, I can see that since horses have four of them but hands, really?
There is aot native compilation in javaland these days, but I assume you mean javac, the compiler that transforms source into jvm bytecode. It defers pretty much all optimization to the JITs and won't remove empty loops.
So someone builds something and they leave, and you can’t figure out their code? Or more importantly, you’re suggesting it’s impossible to figure out that code by anyone? Seems a stretch don’t you think?
> The pity of it is that the jobs are not oriented towards public works

Except for the National Guard and the Coast Guard (which, as I understand it, gets some military money).
Do you have a good, unbiased sample of instances of people injured by businesses?

Any random major corporation is dealing with hundreds if not thousands of lawsuits at any given moment. They can, and do, wreck the lives of thousands of people without it even being significant enough to report in SEC filings, let alone spark a journalist's interest.

And then there are all the injuries and deaths that lead to consulting a lawyer who says the life lost isn't worth enough to make a lawsuit practical. If you don't assess the number of these, it's pretty hard to say how friendly things are for personal injury lawsuits.
That's not what the twitter comment was talking about. It was saying that there are more states in 1KB than the number of atoms in the universe - or 2^8192 > 10^78.
Wait what? This analysis is very much a broken window fallacy (fallacy of the seen vs the unseen); there are also very likely individuals "who can only take the generic version" because maybe the dosing schedules/bioavailability are slightly tweaked by the fillers or delivery additive, etc.
Tiny titanium parts aren't trivial to machine and tolernaces need to be tight to get them interchangeable and have them work. Not sure if all the parts are made by conventional machining, if so, probably doable, if it needs chemical etching or EDM might cost more.
I mean WestJet hits destinations in every province and two of the three territories (though Whitehorse is apparently going to be cut come September). I think that's a pretty solid national competitor. What reason is there to exclude them?
Google Docs if you have editing privileges you can switch to suggesting mode and it will allow you to “suggest” changes (diff like) instead of outright make them, I usually like doing this for documents which aren’t mine.

Notion I agree but it does have a way to lock a page so you can explicitly unlock it to make edits, more clunky than having a “suggesting mode” but it works.

And both product actually have history so if you do accidentally blow away something or add garbage you can revert to the version before you made accidental changes.
Oh I have mistakenly stepped into this mess? I will step out and wash my shoes :)
They aren't perfectly equivalent, but see my sibling comment.
> My understanding of this new college is that it's aimed at solving the perceived problem of four-year Catholic liberal arts schools, namely that they graduate a lot of young adults with the same (or roughly the same) degrees, but without an obvious career path laid out for them.

No, it's aimed at solving a perceived problem of the Catholic working class, that they aren't effectively equipped and harnessed as a political arm of the Church to shape civil society.

The people this is aimed to attract is not people who would otherwise go to traditional liberal arts colleges and universities, Catholic or otherwise.
The "Minimalism and the non-binary body" is an example of how a text can be written with eloquence but be just as demented as GG Allin lyric.
Yes, the locals (union) my shop hires from offers classes to apprentices at the hiring hall these days, no trade school required. Multiple construction trades offer these programs, including the well-paid ones like electricians, pipefitters, ironworkers, and sheet metal workers. There are a ton of experienced tradespeople retiring and not enough younger workers entering the trades to replace them.
My grandparents died long before Covid, wasn’t a single one at the end that wasn’t “wired up and out of it”.
I was coming here to say exactly that. Thank you.

It’s important to point out how vast this spending is so that headlines that give dollar figures are balanced and the hyperbolic rhetoric can be put in context.

I would point out that it may end up costing more to source and administer generic drugs than $3.6B and could end up harming the pharmaceutical research economy.
People from elite backgrounds increasingly dominate academia, data shows
do I need to use a certain browser? I'm using safari and I can't understand this at all. The letters just pile up on top of each other.

edit: it started working for me -- the cursor would not move before. Not sure why that deserves down votes.
I didn’t actually go into Special Effects. Sometimes I wish I did, but Software Development pays better with more flexibility.

I once had a friend comment when we were talking about job security that the first thing to go when a recession hits is dance lessons and Karate classes. At the time it felt like film making was very boom or bust
The US and it's cronies have invaded more countries than Russia has since 2013. Not to excuse Russia, they'd be worse also if they could, but it's far from having been disproven - Libya is in a worse state right now than Ukraine thanks to the France, the UK, and the US (Libya in 2014, Syria continued after, then there was the sabre rattling in Iran, etc...). And of course Afghanistan, and the saga with Iraq where the US threatened military force if they were kicked out. And there's also the war in Yemen in which the US is a belligerent in all but name. And then there are also military actions in subsaharan Africa. Not to forget ongoing regime change initiatives. By all metrics the US has been more deleterious to peace than Russia in the past 10 years. Not out of inherent evil or any moral consideration of course, but mostly because of greater scope of action - which is of course an element in the magnitude of a threat.

Since 2013 US-backed wars have indeed led to more deaths and have broken the peace in more numerous countries with a higher population than Russia.

So no, you are incorrect in saying that they were wrong - they were definitely right. However, your media bias has led you to focus more on one event than on multiple others and from a different viewpoint.
Tiger Global to slow startup investments for two quarters
Ah cool, thanks
I see the view you express here pretty frequently--that older generations have /always/ viewed any new cultural development as a sign of moral/intellectual degradation, and--surprise!--it never really is. I do tend to agree that most fears about the new crop of addictive social media engagement engines is just handwringing, just like it was for TV, or music, or radio, or books.

That being said, just because coffee and methamphetamine have comparable effects on paper doesn't mean that they pose the same level of risk. A difference of degree is still a difference, and at least from my own experiences I'm starting to wonder if the human brain is biologically equipped to handle the addictive overstimulation modern life exposes it to.
And to think that there are people who get paid for this.
I wish Costco still had early entry for elderly and disabled. That was really nice during the pandemic.
You’re right to go to Planck length to get a number of bits to represent an atom, but here’s another angle:

To best guess, there are about 10^24 stars in the sky. That’s about 2^80.

That means you could simply, on Earth-prime, give an id to all the stars in 2^944 universes. Way way less than the multi-multiverse in question, let alone anything atomic.
> How long can a person wear one? The few times I work in office I wear one all day, and don’t find it difficult.

I can't wear the 3M ones I have (with a decent seal) for longer than half an hour without getting lightheaded.
agreed, I didn't mean to imply that they did. merely that this is something that is inherent to Steam's platform meaning they as much a part of the problem as the publisher here
My 960 Pro 1TB, which I paid way too much for back in the day is at just shy of 5,000 hours, and I've used the hell out of it since it was new.
With nvidia-binary version 515.48.07 on linux 5.15.50 it immediately crashes and restarts sddm

With nouveau, it works for up to a minute before freezing and locking the GPU.
Notion seems to have perfectly nailed that "eager adoption by non-technical teams" spot that Slack did a few years ago in their niche. I've worked with several organizations that went all-in on Notion, and can think of two that would have hired consultants if they weren't in the "no money" segment of the nonprofit sector. So I'm happy to see you embracing the consultant ecosystem for your product.
News Stories Without Pictures
Pictures, facial expressions spark emotions faster than when we read or take time to understand the writing.

What would it be like if news sites considered stories without pictures, and subtle titles(non-sensationalizing) so we consumes the actual story rather than judge by an image?
> It’s a huge rip off. Medicare should be paying a discount to the median price actually paid on the open market. But apparent nobody has an incentive to fix this.

Then they start issuing rebates instead of discounts?

Or yeah, sure, everyone's definitely paying $100 for this quantity of this drug, then we kick insurance back $80 for advertising for every unit that makes it to an end consumer through them.

There's no easy way out of price discovery when you are the largest buyer, because it becomes more than profitable enough to structure sales to exploit your policy to make up for the loss in doing the structuring.
> Call a url at google.com with a unique id and the response from that URL will tell yt if you are already signed in.

I don’t think this is possible. When Google.com receives an HTTP request from Youtube.com, Google cannot know which user it is because the user visited Youtube.com anonymously.
This is how most single payer systems work.

Australia [1] uses a broader spectrum of metrics but price of drugs in other international markets is a substantial part of it's analysis and negotiations.

[1] https://www.pbs.gov.au/industry/pricing/pbs-items/historical...
There is none, one of the main objectives of WASM was to be a machine agnostic bytecode, similar to JVM bytecode for example. People have even built wasm VMs on FPGAs
Countdown to Webb’s First Images
You haven't read grade 5 titanium or in combination with allusive? Gr5 titanium is quite common, many medical implants use this.
Ya, I also used tiktok for about a month before getting rid of it. I still think my point stands that everything about it makes it addictive.

TT is a bottomless content hole and isn’t that different from other bottomless content holes because they are that. TT takes it a step further with their format focusing on short, attention grabbing content, a best-in-class recommendation algorithm, and rewarding their creators with more views than other networks.

I don’t know if I agree Tiktok fosters better (do we mean healthier?) parasocial relationships than other socials. There’s a certain intimacy from the cell phone camera that YouTube and twitch doesn’t have (twitch has a different intimacy, but like you said they are on for hours a time). I think when TT creators are encouraged to upload multiple times a day, compared to once a week on YouTube or twitch, pushes something that feels closer seeing a best friend than watching your cool cousin.

I absolutely agree that TikTok is better for marketing a business than other networks, but it doesn’t have much of any utility beyond that. I wonder about the effectiveness of communicating over DM with businesses over Instagram vs tiktok.

For the record I’m addicted to YouTube and HN and don’t currently have accounts on any of the other services mentioned.
Ask HN: Any knowledge on Samsung machine's cycle wash modding
Anyone have any knowledge on hack of Samsung front load machine's pre-programmed cycle wash ?

That is a viable, possible way to safely modify its timer value settings and/or insert a kind of cycle into another (it has feature of Andrioid/iOS app. to be able to monitor remotely, but likely that's it) ?
When I read the headline, I thought "car repos" were git repositories associated with car software, such as self-driving car software. Maybe those repos are getting really huge, i.e. with lots of code, hard to maintain?

But that's not the story at all!
> My understanding of this new college is that it's aimed at solving the perceived problem of four-year Catholic liberal arts schools, namely that they graduate a lot of young adults with the same (or roughly the same) degrees, but without an obvious career path laid out for them.

The top of the home page states their aim, "Learn a trade,earn a degree, and graduate without crippling debt. The College of St. Joseph the Worker forms students into effective and committed members of their communities by teaching them the Catholic intellectual tradition while training them in skilled and dignified labor. We teach our students to think, but also to pray, to love, and to build."
Yes but no. Generics are not 1-1 substitutes because the FDA allows some (a lot) of wiggle room when it comes to bioequivalence.

A really good example where this fails miserably is Adderall for ADHD. The generics are absolutely miserable. And if you actually find a generic you tolerate you can never switch pharmacies because they’ll be different.

I’m no pharmacological expert but when I asked my pharmacist they explained it to me they said it was because Adderall is a mix of two drugs and it’s expensive to refine them into a balanced ratio but the FDA doesn’t care so generics don’t bother.
It’s by design. The republican position was that allowing Medicare to negotiate drug prices would amount to price controls. They also forbade the using of Federal funds to reimport drugs from countries like Canada who negotiate prices. It’s a specious argument with predictable outcomes that were in fact predicted and widely discussed at the time the legislation was enacted.
It seems like it would be trivially unconstitutional, yes.
Project Naptha
Yea, for sure. I got a 0.5% loan on my first car and had a moment when I had some spare cash and realized "Wait, I'm essentially being paid money to have this loan after inflation" and there was no reason to really pay it off quicker vs. just saving/investing the money.