skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As the internet buzzes around the launch of Cost Plus Drugs I thought back to a Medium post by a friend of a friend.

A friend of mine went to pharmacy school with Kyle, the founder of Blueberry Pharmacy - the Cost Plus Drugs of two years ago you've never heard of.

As Kyle's Medium article describes 18 months ago the CEO of Cost Plus Drugs was reaching out to him to figure out just how/where he was getting the drug pricing listed on his website at the time.

Those of us that have been around for a while probably know where this is going...

Maybe because Kyle (Blueberry Pharmacy) didn't realize what was going on -or- maybe because he's so altruistically devoted to addressing the issue of RX drug prices in the US he described various aspects of the business he'd been developing for two years to what he should have known was a formidable competitor.

I've never met Kyle but the argument could certainly be made if he (and who knows how many others) helped enable Cost Plus Drugs with no personal benefit that's better for all of us. With no insult to Kyle the platform and marketing machine that is Mark Cuban would have been in the position to pull this off and crush them no matter what.

Increasing access to fairly priced RX drugs is a noble endeavor and Kyle should feel good about being a (however small) part of Cost Plus Drugs bringing them to a much wider population.

However, for those of us in startup land I can't help but look at this as a cautionary tale. Ideas are cheap, the details aren't.

In this case bad for Kyle, great for everyone else.
The Fly[0] came out in 2005, but it requires special paper that told it where it was on the page. It even worked as an MP3 player! I had one; It was big and clunky, and didn't work well if you wrote fast (which I did). It was still a neat thing.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fly_(pentop_computer)
This is good actually.

It represents real economic growth by playing against the currently undervalued environmental externality. I'm betting that large corporations will be successful in maneuvering the government toward individualized responsibility that ultimately absolves Amazon from economic responsibility and instead places it on the futurum civis in the form of ecological and economic asceticism. All in all a brilliant move for those who want to see line go up.
If we go by the physics definition power is work over time, so the same work over a shorter time is by definition more powerful. I don't think applying that term to software is inherently wrong.
Alternative Title: How To Manage Your Non-Technical Co-Founder.

This little post sums up my experience as a tech co-founder to a tee! Very well said!
Do you have the same attitude towards, say, FreeCiv?
How effective is it without cloud access?
A great paper and an important result.

However, it omits to cite the highly relevant SRBench paper from 2021, which also carefully curates a suitable set of regression benchmarks and shows that Genetic Programming approaches also tend to be better than deep learning.

https://github.com/cavalab/srbench

cc u/optimalsolver
thank you!!

EDIT: do you mean cl-tui?
> A particularly interesting question was whether the set of variable was unique for every system, or whether a different set was produced each time the program was restarted.

indeed! i'm assuming it finds the same variables over multiple runs with different rng seeds. if that is true, it seems the next interesting question is if multiple kinematic problems can be used for the training of the same net. one key feature of physics is that it was invented to describe general principles that apply to multiple problems, so it doesn't surprise me that it might find some more optimal representation that doesn't necessarily generalize to other physical problems.
I would love for Apple to make a smart wall planner / calendar using e-ink
JHFC, you people with your synthetic embryos and OrganEx reanimation fluid are scaring the bejeezus outa me.
Are there enough grammatical errors and enough craziness to convince the creator we are asleep?
One idea I have seen proposed to solve this would be to instead of funding public schools, create savings accounts for every student and allocate money to that account. Parents then decide the allocation. Public school, charter school, private school, structured accredited online home schooling, Offset the cost of a montessori school or whatever best fits the learning structure and style of the student. If the student has special needs then the funds could also be used to cover those costs. This could also go to school supplies from approved online vendors. This would put more pressure on public schools to choose 3rd party software vendors more carefully and more carefully consider what they are subjecting our children to, in my opinion.

Optionally parents could contribute to that savings account as a tax deduction up to a limit, similar to a health flexible spending account.

Philanthropists could also get a tax break by contributing to a batch of savings accounts in one or more localities with stipulations that the schools receiving funds not participate in categorical Orwellian or Totalitarian behavior and the organization would be hit with serious monetary penalties for violating the contracts.
Are you sure? Unless I’m messing it up, 1.5m/180=8333kgs. Flying would struggle to make that in an hour wouldn’t it?
Same here. I switched to Turbo Pascal before I finished high school then it was Fortran and then much later C followed by almost everything else.
Pork futures.
Sure, that statement is a bit of a non sequitur. Here's one that isn't:

Highly profitable, speculative, and complicated US financial firms have consistently grown to threaten the stability of US financial systems before collapsing. As such, these types of firms have a high burden of proof for legitimacy. If that hasn't been met, betting on fraudulence is pretty safe given historical context.
fwiw hacking hundreds of apps literally making them worse by fragmenting their source of record doesn't sound like a good plan. it's no surprise you have saboteurs, your company probably wants to survive and your plan is to shatter its brain.

outside view: you should be trying to debottleneck your sql server if that's the plan the whole org can get behind. when they all want you to succeed you'll find a way.
> I wonder if it will ever become public knowledge which were exactly the technology problems of Intel and who are those guilty for the decline at the company, because the failures could not have had any real technical causes but only bad management causes.

Why do you think this? It was a yield issue, and the best guess is it was caused by multi patterning. (Intel themselves said so.)

I found an analysis from SemiWiki titled "Intel 10nm Yield Issues" pretty convincing. See https://semiwiki.com/semiconductor-manufacturers/intel/7433-...
>The Netherlands is almost entirely cashless now.

Not according to DeNederlandsche Bank[0]:

"Consumers in the Netherlands can choose their preferred method of payment at most retailers. Although the use of cash at points of sale is declining, broad acceptance by retailers is also important – for example as a fall-back option in the event of POS terminal disruptions. The study, in which over 1,000 retailers participated, shows that cash is still the most widely accepted means of payment for point-of-sale transactions, at 97% (see Figure 1). Debit card payments are the next most popular payment method, with acceptance standing at 87%. There are substantial differences between individual sectors, however. Acceptance of cash and debit cards is the highest at petrol stations, large and small retailers, at >=98% and >=92%, respectively. It is the lowest in the entertainment sector, at 93% for cash and 80% for debit cards. A mere 3% of all retailers said they used a debit card-only policy, mostly for efficiency and security reasons."

I'd also note that it was the non-acceptance of cash to which I was objecting, not the ability to use non-cash payment methods. Perhaps that's a difference that's too subtle, but I don't think so.

[0] https://www.dnb.nl/en/general-news/2020/dutch-retailers-cont...
> It’s to become the interface for a person’s world, instead of just the internet

I imagine you will still use the internet in AR, otherwise how will you get information? What you probably meant is a web browser on desktops and phones.
This is very interesting tech. I'm curious about the details of how it works: where exactly in the blood vessel is it implanted, and how does it read neural signals from there? How clear is the signal vs how much of the function is made possible by AI denoising?
My team at Amazon is currently hiring for software engineers, scientists and machine learning engineers to help us control and optimize Amazon's growing fleet of wind and solar farms. We are a new team with a lot of scope ahead of us.
You can see some more info below:

- https://www.amazon.jobs/en/jobs/2165937/software-development...

- https://www.amazon.jobs/en/jobs/2159478/renewable-research-s...

- https://www.amazon.jobs/en/jobs/2079935/sr-applied-scientist...
I responded in much the same way below - your job as a sender is not to guarantee that the receiver will do its job in processing but to provide a reliable set of webhook messages so that if the receiver does fail, at least they can discover they've missed or skipped messages or are processing them out of order. As a sender, you certainly can provide guaranteed ordering or a way to identify the order of those messages. What you can't guarantee is that the receiver will process them in any given order if they choose to ignore the ordering you provide.
I can't see this being "the next big thing". Can't you just take a picture of your document with your phone if you want a digital copy for storage?
Yup, it's a subset of CSS of course. But you will be right at home if you know CSS.

We support multiple layers, but we are explicitly not advocating windows that can be dragged around. It wouldn't be hard to build, but I feel TUIs should avoid the requirement to shuffle windows around like a desktop app.
Strangest thing I ever found in a book was a unexpired unused sealed condom pack in a religious book in a hotel nightstand; normally search my hotel rooms to make sure there no obvious things that shouldn’t be there, were mistakenly left, etc.
No, I specifically mentioned privately held companies.
Dammit! I was just there at the end of June.
Push-button development environments hosted on your computer or in the cloud
Imagine in the current world that every other countries take the same approach and kick out that now hostile influence (basically banning Meta/Apple/Microsoft/Amazon). How would these companies look when limited to domestic market ? And is that really the world we want to live in ?
Hey Ian! We don't today but we're actually looking to chat with people who are on Selenium to see if we can/should supporting Selenium users.

If you're open to it! Would love to hear more about the use case and where you think we can help the most in Selenium :) Give me a holler at mike [at] deploysentinel.com :)
1.7M Lead Containing Consumer Products Sold Since 2010. 89% Were Made in China
This depends on both the field of study and the country in question. In the US, for example, nobody gets a masters in math except as a terminal degree (sometimes, perhaps usually, a masters is a failed PhD attempt). In Canada, it is relatively rare for somebody to skip straight from undergrad to a math PhD.
I'm not arguing against the dynamics of the current economic system. I'm challenging whether "that's business after all" is a sound ethical defense of a decision to raise new car prices in this climate.

You could just as easily claim that industry consolidation is "rational" because it the people making the deals make a lot of money, but the overall effect is often bad for society.
The idea certainly excites me.

Given the possibility that some findings might lead to the need for medication, are you going to have MDs or PAs or whoever on staff who can prescribe those?

For metabolites found in very low concentrations where draw-to-draw variance is high, how do you deal with that when a person is only sending you one sample at a time?

Is there ever going to be any effort to have this payable by health insurance?

Are you doing anything with the feedback data? As in, someone sends you a sample, you tell them to make a behavioral change, does your advice change if future samples don't show a positive intervention effect? How do you know if patients comply with your recommendations?

Are you going to offer genetic testing so, say, someone with high LDL or whatever can know if that's due to diet or they just lost the genetic lottery and nothing but statins can possibly help them?

I think LDL is not a metabolite but since your "what's measured" page ends with "more published below" and then there is nothing below, I'm not sure what the full extent is of what you're testing for. If not LDL, presumably something you're testing for can have many sources, including genetic propensity, diet, and other environmental factors. How do you determine which of those is most causally relevant before prescribing an intervention?
Localhost ip address has to be one of the strangest things ever found in a book.

https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/wf3e99/r...
Traveling the US misses out on different cultural experiences though which are the most interesting parts of traveling I think, esp making friends and dating.
Some folks call number they found on old business card and some people don't even call their relatives. :)
You have to declare you own the intellectual rights of the underlying code, a thing GPL does not grant. You can of course dual license your own code but you cannot own code released by someone else under GPL, and you cannot publish it in the App Store. It would be an absolutely trivial change for Apple to make their store friendly towards opens source and there have been multiple protests about this.

I think projects like VLC request some sort of copyright waiver from contributors so they can relicense in the future, or simply ignoring the TOS, and exposing themselves to summary deletion.
may i ask why you gave up on it, having considered one also?
From https://doublecmd.github.io

>Double Commander is absolutely free <,comma> open source software.

Implies free as in beer as well, unless someone rubs my nose into the price stated somewhere on the website.
> Let me ask this: what would convince you?

Continued inflation. But absent that I'm going to stick with the obvious hypothesis that the external forcing from slightly overgenerous pandemic relief, late-pandemic shutdown of Shanghai and most of Chinese output for two months, (edit: also automotive/heavy industry production shortfalls due to "chip shortage") and the removal of one of the biggest petroleum and gas exporters from the world market did what you'd expect those things to do. You can go farther and look at what sectors are seeing inflation and what aren't and see more evidence for this, FWIW.

But yeah, if we come back in another 18 months and are still at 8% YoY inflation, then that hypothesis will have been wrong. Wanna take that bet?
Also read the addendum from the same report:

1 Updates
2020-05-26: MongoDB identified a bug in the transaction retry mechanism which they believe was responsible for the anomalies observed in this report; a patch is scheduled for 4.2.8.
well, it would be much easier to pass if they propose that bill by itself without tacking on unrelated partisan bills
Why would someone want to use this instead of say base images made specifically for containers? like alpine for eg.?

And for languages like golang (in their examples) - why/how would anyone get such huge container images in the first place? Doesn't go give a neat statically linked binary?
The price of lumber is currently the same as it was in 2018. The price spike during the pandemic was due to reduced saw mill capacity and subsequent panic buying. At no point in time were we running low on trees.

We would need to consume timber at about 1000 times the current rate for timber demand to equal the necessary tree planting rate for carbon capture.
The frameworks ARE the HTML rendering. We're really running in circles about nothing in particular here, I think it's ok to leave.
Such a heartwarming story, thanks for sharing. Sad though how people's beloved possessions can be discarded after death.
if I'm an investor, then i want that the company is making me more tomorrow than today. I cannot eat customer satisfaction.

that's how it works.
I find it fascinating how China is described as an hostile state when it's manufacturing the vast majority of our goods.
The point is you are also impacting the climate in your day job, whether you intend to or not. You are essentially taxing yourself by causing some harm that needs to be later rectified. There is a reason that "reduce, reuse, recycle" is stated in that order.
Love how it's standing on its end like a black monolith.
How about an IP address[1]?

[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/wf3e99/r...
No no, he's perfectly fine right where he is. In fact, if you chaps could do a better job of keeping him away from the Tolkein estate, that would be lovely.
Google in Poland doesn't pay in USD. Why would you think they want simpler solutions?
If you denied it you'd have a banner in your post explaining that there is in fact a recession, and you'd be stripped of your ability to speak with your friends on {{ .platform }} until you removed your opinion.
Most of the "advice" is just stuff some ghostwriters came up with that sound good and fit into whatever image those people want to publicly project.
AI tools will deprive many students of learning to think thru writing
The Boyscout Neckerchief Slide one is particularly unnerving. I can just imagine thousands of Boy Scouts munching on those toxic things. Brands with missions ostensibly to do good for children, end up poisoning them with lead...
Because its's good (and expensive) that not everyone can afford it?
Textual builds on Rich. Rich says this, at https://rich.readthedocs.io/en/latest/console.html#color-sys... :

> There are several “standards” for writing color to the terminal which are not all universally supported. Rich will auto-detect the appropriate color system, or you can set it manually by supplying a value for color_system to the Console constructor.

with options None, "auto", "standard", "256", "truecolor", and "windows".
Awesome work, Albert! Looks like you are crushing it on HackerOne, over $37K in bounties?

https://hackerone.com/albertspedersen?type=user

You've obviously got a strong career in Security in the future. Have you looked at any Crypto projects? Seems like there are some massive bounties on https://immunefi.com and similar sites.
Some of the (?indicative) screengrabs on your website also seem to suggest that your app will advise a 'dietary source' when some level is low - is this actually your intention?

Because it's far from obvious that dietary supplementation of X is going to have a causal link to a reduction in problem Y, where Y is associated with low levels of X.

For example, a low ferritin isn't always best treated with iron supplements - certainly they won't treat the bowel cancer that could be the underlying cause.
Immigrants today are just as successful as earlier waves
What's the case for power equals Turing completeness over power equals speed of development?
Funny, that, seeing how M$ themselves are perhaps the biggest contributors to the current browser codebase monoculture issue.

Anytime a software project develops enough complexity, there is no shame in targeting a specific platform. Given enough eyes on a thing, though, those kinds of "supported" issues always take care of themselves.

But I'm just a lone developer trying to do something never before done. I'm still trying to prove a concept...
Earth currently has about 3 trillion trees, this population captures about 20% of current human co2 emissions (which includes soil creation). To get to 100%, you need 5 times as many trees, which means increasing the current population by 12 trillion.

Of course this is a crude estimate, not all trees are equal and planting trees in such large numbers would undoubtedly have other effects, but no matter what you are talking about an absurdly large number.
I guess the point is, maximize value per-launch, ideally as far in the net-negative direction as possible. I know that private companies do this already (it's kind of built in to the market of launch contract awards) but I am not sure private companies are going to be better in terms of climate vs well-funded public civilian space science agencies, because they are also incentivized to maximize the number of launches.
Have you considered that a consultant hired to fix a specific problem, and salaried employees seeking to justify their existence, may have slightly misaligned incentives?
We explicitly support building against librustc_driver-*.so for both "custom drivers" (what we call those binaries I mentioned) and generally "rustc as a library" usecases. We should maybe rename it to librustc and remove as much potentially-confusing "driver" terminology as possible.

Pinning a nightly and installing the "rustc-dev" rustup component are both necessary, the former because internal APIs of rustc aren't stable, but it's a supported usecase.

Both clippy and miri are developed out-of-tree like that, and sync'd using `git subtree` (or `git submodule` but we want to move everything to subtree).
Maybe I'm wrong, but with these diffusion models there is randomness in every sampling step too not just in the initialization and they can have 1000 steps to generate a single image.
You can eat fat dividends though. I haven't heard any decline in the share buyback program.
It's been 357 years, and Dart still can't go full screen without a hack like this: https://github.com/munificent/hauberk/blob/master/web/main.d...

https://github.com/dart-lang/sdk/issues/11506
(Jun 25, 2013)
How sure are you about that? There are countries that are successfully fighting addiction (such as Portugal) to drugs[1].

The US has massively failed addicts for some time, wanting to just put them in jail instead of treating them.

1: https://deserthopetreatment.com/addiction-guide/drug-industr...
Ask HN: Monitoring Solution for VMs and Containers
For a small fleet of VMs, hardware servers, databases, applications, web servers...
Prometheus, Zabbix, anything else you'd recommend?
I'm looking for a low maintenance on premises solution that is free and open source..
Or a variant with touch screen drag-n-drop for productivity nerds.
You are aware of how fiat currency works, right? The government can create that money with as much friction as is present in their keyboards.

And anyway, they don't actually need to run any new nodes, just compromise communication between them until all the blockchain records on the individual nodes are bunk.
Interestingly, TSMC spends about the same amount on their yearly equipment upgrades as the federal government on all roads in the U.S.

Really puts things in perspective…
Takis Zenetos’s “Electronic Urbanism”
you can use whatever base image you want lets say ubuntu:latest (i dont like alpine) and normaly base images tend to include a lot of stuff that doesnt have any place in container think why do i need a tool for ext4 managment inside contianer makes no sense ok for production throw it out thats what docker-slim does
and gets rid of vulnarabilities in programs that are not used by your program by simply getting rid of them
The pressure to grow stems from the massive amount of wealth that can be harvested from growth. The only way to curtail that is with economic policies that punish investors for getting too rich too quick, but almost all such proposals are instantly dead in the water as soon as anybody speaks their names.