skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not only that but new generic drugs are often more expensive (the first generic manufacturer get 6 month exclusivity to encourage generics).

After that more companies enter the market and prices drop. When Lipitor went generic, the first one was ~30% discount. Now it’s a 95% discount.

If this study just took average spending in the past then compared it to prices today that’s apples and oranges.
Uber fails to show up for me about half the time. It just goes through driver after driver, moving to another when the previous one doesn’t come well past the estimated time. Has happened in three different cities in the past three months.
Thanks for standing up to that unpleasantness. I know you aren't really supposed to feed into that, but it's refreshing to see pushback.
Unless something has changed recently, if you don’t make enough in cash back to cover the difference between the regular membership and the executive one, you can go by customer service and they’ll comp you the difference.
> Why doesn't almost any country in Africa South and Central America, Asia, and India continents have immigration problems and what can we all do to make it desirable for people to want to be in their homes?

Some countries do have immigration problems and emmigration problems. If they're more desirable than nearby countries, but not nearly as desirable as US/EU, then they'll pull in their neighbors, potentially too much at times, but still have those with resources leaving when they can.

IMHO, things people are looking for are physical safety, political stability, economic stability and opportunity, legal stability (rule of law, predictable courts, timely access to courts, reasonable law enforcement).

The top reasons people I hear people say they come to the US are because it's unsafe for them where they live, or to have the opportunity to make more money.
Sales tax alone almost hits this number, at least in high-tax states like CA. The problem is that you're paying sales tax with each car purchase, so if you buy the three cars I mentioned, you pay $400, $800, and $1600 (sum: $2,800) in sales tax with those purchases. If you just buy one $18,000 vehicle, you pay $1,400 in sales tax.

Factor in the time spent selling the vehicles (or getting screwed by the dealer on trade-in value), and it's much easier to see why financing a single more-expensive purchase could make financial sense.

Of course, this doesn't apply in states with low/no sales tax.
Thick and heavy compared to the watch in the fine article. For a desk jockey maybe that doesn't matter. If I'm being flung around at seven G, I'll take the thin, light watch at great expense.
You must be new to watches, all luxury watches sell a story along with the watch. Look at the webpage for the Omega Speedmaster. They will beat it over your head that the Speedmaster was worn by astronauts on the moon. Look at the webpage for the Rolex Submariner. They will describe, in great detail, how effective the watch is at deep sea diving, despite the fact that almost no one that buys one will even wear it in the shower.
In Texas the Costcos have a liquor store that does not require a membership. But so far as I can tell, the alcohol sold in the Costco-proper likely does require a membership. Perhaps the presence of the liquor store satisfies the legal requirement.
This is correct and Medicare Part D came in under budget due to private negotiation of drug prices.

I love how accurate posts on HN get aggressively downvoted off they go against the narrative.
Just because there's no perfect replacement solution to something doesn't mean we ought to continue to exploit the current one.

Debating as if there needs to be a replacement solution to a problem to justify change - that's Whataboutism style of debate.

If we used this line of logic with slavery, we'd still have plantations.
The whole purpose of this watch is to show off and brag to the rich friends how they got it etc. Not for common folk like us.
Just that single problem is around ten basis point of average tax. All these problems compound because to find the hundreds of millions to close a fiscal exercise, things will get cut and never repaired after. So any fiscal inefficiency causes much more damage than just the direct problem.
no doubt that there's some good intent there, but the public performativeness just undermines the genuineness for me.

i do think a dampening function on repetitive messages/sentiments would be a net-good however, since repetitiveness is not where the interesting/insightful points tend to be.
Some students supposedly require weeks of instruction and/or practice in order to be able to use variable assignment!

If there's a kind of instruction that reliably teaches students as a whole to write recursive functions successfully in just an hour, that will be a great advance for computer science education.
Who flattened Braun's grey designs? Ive's are a bit more organic and white.
This is pretty much it, in the US it's cheap (low interest rates) and easy to get consumer credit. If you compare how much you would earn on $40k if you invested it compared to the cost of the loan, it's often more financially effective to take the loan.

In Europe it's not so easy to get credit, and interest rates are usually higher (in my country, even before the current situation, car loans were close to 10%). It is usually more expensive to take credit, except maybe with real estate.
Plus technology and some loan terms enable vehicle location and tracking on later model vehicles.
That sounds fair to me. If we want to get the benefit of something, we ought to pay the price. Not offload it to some poor soul, literally.
In an elevated powershell prompt

Get-PhysicalDisk | Get-StorageReliabilityCounter | Select-Object PowerOnHours
Got my refund rejected a second time. Customer support nonexistent, got the same rejection reason.

Grr. Anyone else have a different experience?
The degree isn't accredited, so what it's worth is probably a lot more subjective.
The clock is going backwards.
Just buying gasoline at Costco is more than enough to pay back the membership fee in California. It’s about 50¢/gallon cheaper than other fuel in the same city.
When Coal First Arrived, Americans Said ‘No Thanks’
"Sir the algorithm is correct. It just told me that you are a pervert and I am wholesome."

We truly are living in a computer's world where what AI thinks of us is increasing "the truth". Who has gotten time for nuance.
Every single plant and fungi in the world contains natural pesticides to fend off pests and pathogens. E.g. caffeine, nicotine.
What was your loan origination cost? Usually, when the rate is that low, the catch is that you paid $1k to $2k for the loan. This really annoys me...like, the higher interest rate with the lower loan fee would be OK since I'm going to pay the loan off quickly anyways.
Would be kind of neat if they had automatic laser weaponry!
> having had friends of friends and family injured and killed by corporations and businesses

One wonders what profession these people are in. Also, being in the litigation industry, I'm sure you know that injuring and killing someone is a crime. I'm talking about accidents here.
There is not. And that's why Facebook was banned in China just as uptake was going exponential.
Yup, not even useful as an illogic analyzer.
> While taxi drivers must pass through a battery of paperwork, courses, exams and fees to offer what is known as public individual transportation in Brazil, private individual transportation services don’t have specific regulations on the books.

So, Uber steals the jobs of people that prepared to drive a taxi and paid their taxes. And Uber still says that taxis are evil like if Uber had not ignored rapes happening in their services around the world.

Uber propaganda is to vilify taxi drivers at any cost, to make them look sub-human. Uber is pure evil.
You're looking at it with the benefit of filtered hindsight. How many other things were they also told? They had to distribute their investigative efforts to what they reasonably thought were the most likely culprits. Once those didn't pan out, they did take the clue:

> However, as each new test failed to yield evidence for any old or new pathogens, the investigators returned to the old man’s words. Cassava was an important element of the local diet in Nampula, and therefore hard for Cliff and her team to overlook if they were considering a nutritional cause for the puzzling paralysis.

Doesn't seem arrogant at all.
Canvas Liquid Effect using Matter.js and SVG Filters
The comments here are IMO definitive proof that Democracy is doomed because its citizens DGAF: too many are all too willing to lick the boots of the nearest authoritarian so long as they aren’t too terribly inconvenienced. Y’all gonna get what you deserve… I just wish your foolishness wasn’t going to drag me down with you.
Keep the attitude! In the end, few things really matter. Better be jolly and funny too often, than taking too much (too) serious.
That doesn't really capture the nuance either. Autonomy can be isolating too. Collaboration is something your team needs to at least enable if not explicitly foster.
Beyond backing up to an offline machine and hoping for the best, it's tricky. I'm not sure I'd be able to cook up something that sits well even thinking on it for some time.

My mind goes to immutability (eg: read-only filesystems), being able to repeatably build the hosts/generate as much state as possible, and relying on basic availability/eventual stability -- basically have so much of 'it' that they may not take it all down.

To practically do what I envision would require at least a decent amount of hardware, if not engineering time/workflow changes.

I think the main benefit from this is that it opens the door to more effective administration.

You'd be able to see a bunch of audit policy denials for servers trying to write where they shouldn't. You could also routinely reload the hosts to ensure they're clean. Ideally no one system controls everything, so they have to break many barriers to truly deny you access.

By the way, this is why SELinux is so highly recommended. It captures countless different ways these kinds of things can happen. Web servers opening unexpected sockets [for reverse shells], users reading devices they have no business with, etc.

Enable it, tune the policies as needed, and then monitor it. It does a good job at protecting you. Too good, too many people disable it in my opinion. Most don't realize it makes a fantastic snitch for nefarious actors.
Immigrants get some kind of weird break on their credit history. My wife is a new immigrant, and she has higher credit than me even though our financial history has been intertwined ever since she came here. On the other hand, I got dinged a bit for not using any American-based credit for the 11 years I was out of country: we got married when I was living abroad, and I checked our credit scores when we moved to the states.
You’ve spent too much time reading Microsoft documentation
Here is an unscientific explanation. NA and EU are populated by older souls: some of them see the value of giving, while others, who've chosen the wrong path, are adepts at scheming; but both are similar in their maturity. The less mature souls are still busy with mastering their emotions and their nations are too chaotic for this reason: they either fall apart without a leader, or when a mature leader presents itself, they have to be ruled by an iron fist (China, India). Eventually the focus will shift to another place on Earth: the most advanced will move on there and America will join the long list of empires that were once great, but that event is still a thousand years away.
I used to think this. The Costco in Redwood City is a good deal compared to most stations, but the cheap station on Woodside Rd. (< 2 miles away) is basically the same price. It also never has long lines, which I often find at Costco.
If your religion means something to you but no one can tell by any visible sign it is indistinguishable from having no faith. If you every instant of your life is infused by your faith how does it show? Faith can be meaningful to a person without placing any demands on them. Reform Judaism allows people to maintain a connection with their ethnic heritage while having no content disturbing to a good Democrat. UU gives people who grew up with religion something to do once a week that bears some resemblance to it. Faith can be real while having no effect. Western Therapeutic Buddhism is not the only kind of religion that is all about providing something to the adherent.
Thanks for the tip. Haven't delved into GPU arch. much, guess I never found a good, clear overview.
I think the Wikipedia article is great; no issues with it. What I take issue with is what I pointed out: parent is singling out HRC for founding something she didn't even found, even when the first sentence of his source says someone else founded it, in an effort to make her look nefarious despite the fact that Super PACs are something both sides (first Republicans, then Democrats in order to keep up in this race to the bottom) do as SOP, and as all issue campaigns have done since there have been issue campaigns.

> If you've got a better example of a SPAC that funded internet trolls you could just post a single Wikipedia link to that instead of making vague statements about slant.

Sure, let me introduce you to the Willkies [0] and anti-abortion PACs [1]. Both examples of people pushing their issue opinions into the public square (with doctored content and a lot of money I might add) or directly into getting people elected to make policies they'd like.

> reality is biased against republicans

100% agree. My only thing here was taking HRC's campaign totally out of context. This is how US politics works since Citizens United (ironically also a case where a group of people wanted to release a super negative video about her in the political ad blackout period [3]).

0: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2022/06/fetal-photos-jac...

1: https://www.opensecrets.org/political-action-committees-pacs...

2: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillary:_The_Movie
You tried buying a used car in this market? Even junk commands a ridiculous price tag.
Next-generation data centers within reach thanks to new energy-efficient
Submitters need to get back to more descriptive titles on HN. If this post is the first and only exposure to this project for a user, "Project Naptha" alone doesn't give me confidence to roll the dice and click on an unknown link unless there are existing comments I can investigate. Thus, chicken and egg, scroll by.
> 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.

Can you link to some sources here? I'm especially curious to see who initiated many of these conflicts. Because once in a while the US tries to back existing movements toward more democratic governance.
Thanks, sounds great, will need to find that.
There's certainly nobody that can't take a generic medication, barring unusual ingredient allergies. What is actually happening is that people "dialed in" the dose they need on a different formulation of a drug, so they'd need to go through the process of figuring out the correct individualized dose for them if they switch to a different version. It would probably have made more sense for them to have started with a generic version so they don't have to go through this process more than once.
Seems like that’s been baked into the culture of American arbitration since its founding. Instead of top-down collective regulation, which was a relatively new advance made in the last century, the system from the start has always promoted individuals hashing out their differences in courts with torts. I am reminded that Lincoln had the rustic profession of lawyer when Illinois was still a semi-frontier state.

Isn’t that the aim of a libertarian society? In the absence of regulation, of overbearing government oversight or bureaucracy, individuals hash it out in courts? Would think that’s something that the American system since the Anglo common law days and the libertarian ideal agree upon.
Sadly rendered effectively write-only
> I'd use it at twice, or even three times the price of a cab, simply because the service delivers on what it promises, without unnecessary fluff.

I think you're in the minority. And remember that the subsidies went both ways - one reason Uber was able to attract so many drivers initially (and thus provide great service) is that they paid them more than driving a cab would.
Ercot asks Texans to conserve power Monday, fearing limited reserves
They do have LIDAR. Any damage to the laser-transparent central part of the cylinder, a scratch or spray paint, renders it inoperative. The cost to replace a LIDAR unit is easily the revenue (not the profit) from 250 taxi trips. You can imagine these might be the target of vandalism or theft because there is no perceived human victim and nobody in the car.
I work with a guy like this, someone who is always "cracking jokes" and it can be annoying. Especially when someone in your team is trying to convey something they want taken seriously.

I'm probably venting, but consider this: You don't always need to have something to say. Try not to say anything unless it adds value to the topic at hand. In work meetings, the pleasantries should come at the beginning and/or end of a meeting. This is the only time for banter. The rest of it should be focused, most people want to end the meeting ASAP so they can get back to what they were doing.
Yeah, fair enough. Coasties seem to do a lot of drug enforcement which is a shame (because The War on Drugs is a lost cause at best).
Valve don't have the market power with the big players you think. Microsoft, EA, Ubisoft all sell a subscription service and their games & DLC directly. Epic have a competing store, and pumped in enough money that people have gotten used to having their owned games in multiple wallets. The small and medium players are who Valve has power over, and even they get to choose between Valve's large cut or accepting a bribe from Epic for exclusivity. I see a remarkable change from when your game was on Steam or it didn't exist.
> Literal or not, taxi companies really are as a rule something akin to local Mafiosos.

Uber is NOT better. Read the article. They just take a bigger chunk from drivers and do not pay taxes.

I want Uber to disappear because their uncontrollable power, they use ride data to spy politicians, they avoid paying taxes, they mistreat their "employees", ...

Both sides are the same is false, and it is false in almost all situations. (Vote!)
I'm sorry. I tried to find it, but my google foo can't come up with the type of mold it was to narrow my search.
Further to that, was the price agreed to before the salesman knew how you would paying, cash or credit?
Looking on mouser and digikey it doesn't seem like flash chips, even into very fairly high density on a single chip[eg. 1], are all that difficult to get and get info on, though they all have very high minimum volume orders. So if a person wanted to try to do this on their own they'd probably be best off finding like 50 friends to go in on the order with them.

[1] https://www.mouser.ca/datasheet/2/671/micron_technology_mict...
Proof of stake is precious stones and metals.
Browser extension OCR:
From the homepage
"Project Naptha automatically applies state-of-the-art computer vision algorithms on every image you see while browsing the web. The result is a seamless and intuitive experience, where you can highlight as well as copy and paste and even edit and translate the text formerly trapped within an image. "
> higher trust societies with less low level corruption

Without a doubt this seems like a big/major factor. But we have corruption in the US. Do we have less corruption because of enforcement of anti-corruption laws? Or do we have those laws and an expectation that they're enforced because of some other factors? Not rhetorical, I just don't know. Casually it seems like many European countries have the same or greater expectations and similar prosperity. When I read stories about Russia and the former Soviet republics it makes me think that there's so much mistrust and hopelessness that a corrupt government is taken for granted.

I have no idea whether or not the US is exceptional but if it is I wouldn't jump to describe it as virtuous. But I do wish I could understand what policies we could pursue that might make other societies similarly high trust.
“Do not think that I have come to bring peace on earth; I have not come to bring peace, but a sword. For I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; and a man’s foes will be those of his own household.” Matthew 10:34-36
If you just launched, why does the Apple store say "age 9+ years"?
Maybe downlinks can only be sent as a response to uplinks (similar to LoRaWAN class A?) and uplinks are every few days?
If God had intended for us to travel faster than the speed of light in a vacuum, He would have slowed down light.
Pretty much every kid of that era knew they could make it writeable again with some tape though.
i hate the english version of amazon.de, for some reason amazon keeps activating this for me, and now whenever i type in an english book title it "helpfully" translates it to german
How does upper management look at that and not immediately say “Hey, waittasec, this is clearly bullshit!”?
One of the main developers at Edinburgh is Bulgarian. :)
“If I had a million dollars
We wouldn't have to eat Kraft dinner
But we would eat Kraft dinner
Of course we would we'd just eat more”
Yes, private companies like blackwater, shell, bp, dutch east india, coca cola, nestle, amazon, or facebook never participate in fascist propaganda campaigns or organize coups, hire mercenaries to kill unionizing (or just competing) workers, murder, or steal. And facebook didn't promote lies and propaganda during the pandemic at all /s

The CCP is at least very indirectly accountable to their own people and holds their country's long term interests in mind even if they do not care about the people and hold the usual abhorrent views of authoritarians towards minorities. This is extremely evil, but pales in comparison to an unaccountable corporate entity with what little human oversight it has steered by a combination of narcissists, neofuedalists and literal apocalypse cultist theocrats.
> It’s a huge rip off. Medicare should be paying a discount to the median price actually paid on the open market.

Non-Medicare federal spending often requires you sign a contract that the government gets the best price you give anyone. Blue Cross negotiates a better rate next month? Medicare automatically uses that one instead.
Nobody said its a 'violation of first sale doctrine', merely that first sale doctrine precludes a requirement to be authorized to sell legally purchased 'branded' items.

Since shopify doesn't actually tell them what items are an issue, it is requiring them to compile a full accounting including 'proof' of their ability to sell all of their items within 48 hours, or else suffer financial consequences when their store is shut down.

So it doesn't involve the constitution, but rather its shopify's unreasonable and unexplained policies and vague threats that are causing financial damage to this small business owner, demanding something that might not exist at all, because no special rights are required to sell 'branded products' legally purchased, and shopify will not specify what the issue is, so demands such an accounting for the entire store within an unreasonable length of time.
Ask HN: Good chess videos for 7-8 year olds
My son loves playing chess, and I'd like to find videos he can watch to get better. Would love to hear recommendations geared towards kids his age!