skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Eli Lilly actually doesn’t negotiate for higher prices. I’ve had somewhat more insight than the average person into how the dynamics of the insulin pricing work, and it’s a total abomination, largely born out of a lack of a universal public insurance option in the US.

Despite the skyrocketing costs of insulin over the decades, Eli Lilly’s profits per unit are mostly in line with inflation. This is because in the US system, there is a pervasive system of rebates that exists between pharmaceutical companies and insurers. Insurers often may only pay 10% of what the sticker price is for insulin. But the way these rebates get negotiated through third party firms known as PBMs create a system that incentivizes insulin that is marked up an incredible amount and then discounted to X, than simply pricing it at X in the first place. But this obviously screws over anyone without access to the rebate, i.e. those without insurance. And this system largely exists because the privatized nature of insurance in the US. If there was some kind of universal medicare in the US, undermines those incentives and the market would normalize immediately.
protip: do not rely on your company or manager for growth, development, career progression, etc. although they may often mention and talk about these things, thats mainly marketing and unlikely to lead to meaningful outcomes.
A sobering sugestion for SRFI fan-boys
Bankman would have not sanctioned it because he's got much more to lose the greater the hole is. Someone around Bankman though, that has no substantial stake in FTX and suddenly realizes he was an accessory to financial fraud, has strong incentives to burn the house down.

From a secure and audited system where only a handful of people had access and the actions of each are recorded (if we dismiss Bankman's "backdoor" for a moment), all of a sudden we have a system that was wide open to the world and raided exactly after the financial collapse. As it's easy to see, your Honor, the hackers were in the system all along, forging the so called audit trail allegedly incriminating my client; when the game was up, they pounced.
As fearmongering as this headline feels, it doesn't go far enough. It won't be just Amazon. And it won't be just warehouse workers. The robots *are* coming.

Yeah, I know the argument...displaced workers will find other work. Yes, that's been happening, at lower and lower and lower pay. Meanwhile, the middle class is rotting from the inside out.

There's an over-focus on unemployment rate and other fluffy metrics (that make politicians look good). And not enough attention to the mental, emotional, educational and financial health of the middle class.

The sociopolitical fabric is already frayed, no one seems committed to mending it. There's a tipping point. There's a breaking point. Past performance is no barometer for future results.
https://archive.ph/kLPTh
Then shouldn’t it have bounced back up when it was shown to be a fake?
Those people are just as dumb. Crypto attracts this weird sort of clueless hero-worshipper type, similar to the Musk thing.
Are you sure it didn’t have a normal plug, with a separate clip for a reliable chassis ground? I don’t see how the half plug with a neutral wire to a radiator would be “safe”, even when compared to a neutral-connected chassis with an unpolarized plug. “The hot side is accessible to the user” is still true, just remove the wire to the radiator, now it‘s at line potential.
Separate of whether the correlation is correct do you or anyone have info on the Telegram minitrue issue? I was unaware and don't really use Telegram.
Show HN: I built a paywall bypassing reverse proxy and DNS server written in go
works great on phones
> I tried to use them from CSS as pseudoelements (as a 'content' fragment identifier) and style them (stroke color).

Isn't this just the general problem of loading an svg as an image via a link as opposed to injecting it into the DOM as inline svg? How would any of the existing CSS approaches help (or how would web components hider) this one?
…which has proven to be a remarkably effective way to create relatively stable currencies peoples actually use vs. utopian fever dreams that have largely ended in instability, corruption, and financial ruin.
The moment you name the type, you're talking about a particular implementation, no? The type system doesn't know about the semantics humans ascribe to names, it just matches shapes.

That's only because you, the programmer, expect a type named "hash map" to implement a hash map – but this information is not being described by the type itself, it's out-of-band. The actual definition of the hash map data structure is given by the algorithm. In fact, without inspecting the algorithm, it's impossible to know it correctly implements a hash map, you're just trusting the arbitrary name of the type.
That is a pure straw man retort.

I was clearly using US (not European) jurisdiction. Also I didn’t parse that statement, merely showed that both topics were in development and discussion in tandem, in US. Finally, the existence of special provisions for libraries, etc. All of which shows that the two have somehow coexisted, and that quote of yours is hyperbole.
0. Don't lie to the public. Even though you may think it is helpful in the short run, it is devastating in the long run.

All the rest is commentary.
Doesn't seem to work in Edge.
I think you have to take into the account that a competent government turning on you (US) would give you a hard time, crypto or no crypto.

It’s different if you are under Venezuelan rule, it’s government is small, authoritarian and incompetent.
The "trustless" aspect of crypto only covered the accounting. Naive people extrapolated this to include the actors exercising inluence over the marketplace without transparency or accountability. And therein lies the basic ingredients for a scam of epic proportions.
My first steps using Guix Home (declarative home configuration)
The model you present here is semi-quantitative, in that it has an example value of $1000 for insurance premiums, another of $X for liability, but "small chance" is not introduced as a variable, and neither are "lot larger" and the change in premiums as a function of change in safety spending. I suspect that if this model were completed in accordance with your premise of equality, it would imply there is no rational case for insurance.

This seems moot, however, as this is not shaping up to be a plausible model for how things actually went since Winterbottom's unfortunate accident. Road transport vehicles have become a great deal safer since then, even as the potential for them to do harm has increased enormously. For your argument to be pertinent, it would have to be likely that, in the alternative reality where Rolf's ruling remained the law and liability insurance did not come about, they would be safer than they are now.
I just had that realization that I'm sure so many have already had.. In a bankruptcy, we really are creditors.. but we're not Creditors, and won't get our money back until big C's have had all they want.
Helps when you are actually Argentinian.
As Robert A. Heinlein put it: "When you vote, you are exercising political authority, you're using force. And force, my friends, is violence. The supreme authority from which all other authorities are derived."
> For me crypto was always Ponzi scheme and nothing more, but it is because I don't laundry money or sell drugs, so I am not the target for crypto.

I find Bitcoin very intriguing because unlike TradFi it is not built in debt. Every dollar you have in your account is someone else's debt to you. Which is also the reason Bitcoin gets compared so much to gold! There is a fixed amount of nuggets and no debt is involved.

(Yes, I know that about 8% of the gold demand is actually driven by the technology sector, but the majority of gold's price is driven through pure speculation on... nothing productive! Gold's price is mostly driven by greed / price action.)

I think if you call gold or Bitcoin a Ponzi, you're using the wrong term. Greater Fool Theory is more fitting.
Interesting. It's hard to get a +200k right from the get go but achievable if you get to work at Google, etc...

Thanks for sharing that page.
I could have just talked to myself ;) but I did ask my more tech oriented young cousin, and she still only barely heard of it.
Of my software? A random machine with a network connection. It targets small/medium communities, so the focus is for ease of installation. You only have a static binary, or a container to run. :D

However that is just the ActivityPub service, there are no full clients for it(yet) outside of a link aggregator/discussion platform similar to old(reddit) and HN, which is another static binary, or container.

See my profile for links to the projects if you want more details.
See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8664671

Looks like supporting an enctype of application/json was proposed, but never went anywhere.
"Ur" is a German prefix meaning "old", "original", "predecessor".

So Ur-Lisp would be the old original Lisp that is predecessor to all other Lisps.

Other examples include Urrind (Rind == Bovine) which would be the predecessor of all species of bovine. Urzeit (Zeit == time), which is a generic very ancient time period before all humans (where the Urrind or even the dinosaurs might have lived). Ur-Computer might be one of the first computers, like the original Zuse or ENIAC.
What's real problem, currency or authoritarian government? What about solving the latter like they are trying to do in Iran?
Ur-Lisp means “original” Lisp, in the sense of “origin”. “ur-“ is sometimes used as a prefix (Ur-Fascism of Umberto Eco comes to mind).
In this case I guess it refers to the first Lisp, or maybe just the first prototypical Lisp, the founding father of all modern Lisps, I haven’t read the article yet.
Do you have a link to your code? I thought fs.FS is read-only, so I’m curious where/how you bring writing data into it (“copies from folder A to folder B”)? Or do you mean that your implementation of fs.FS generates the content on-demand, when net/http serves it?
Calculating hashes in a loop is dumb, cyberpunk is a pretty complex piece of code which also utilises GPU aspects like ray tracing,
Not if real people or other bots followed the lead of the first wave.
It’s actually pretty easy if you’re in a cafe in Venezuela and do a quick sample of 20 random urban caracans to ask if anyone uses crypto.

Obviously not a proper sample or authoritative, but pretty easy way to counter “these countries love crypto.”
As if people won't continue to procreate unless their employer gives them more money.

The global population is increasing, so some form of civilization will carry on. The issue is that certain societies have lopsided demographics that will topple the fragile social structures they'd been relying on, a lot of that being the consequence of short-sided incentives like what you're suggesting.
If it is a medium of exchange, all the attention never made a lot of sense.

The use cases are niche; that's the thing. Venezuelans who avoid inflation and ordering illegal drugs are not a trillion-dollar business. All the legal/regulated areas mean competing with existing financial infrastructure, which is low margin and incredibly competitive.

So if you see the space as a whole, it never had the potential market to begin with to justify those valuations. It was fuelled by low-interest rates, speculators, and venture capital.
It was, in retrospect, simply a bubble, and some people feared missing out after some became insanely rich with it.

Historically speaking it was nothing special: Tulips, new economy, real estate and now it was crypo.

When you are in it, invested people always tell you why it is different this time. The underlying economics stay the same; value creation is usually incremental and hard.
For anyone else trying to understand how this fits in, it's either the "Inline Styles" section or the "CSS in JS" section, as long as you use typescript and follow the same rules mentioned here
Bitcoin is now the fifth-biggest wipeout of all time
Pro tip: If you want to have a constructive adult discussion, don't lede with "You're wrong."

And for the record, you don't just vet source, you vet the information itself. If it can't be confirmed and you act anyway...well that is by defintion child's play.

If children - *in adult bodies* - want to play in traffic on Twitter, it's not Tw's job to police them, or change their diapers when they shat their pants.

Who's wrong now??
full title (edited to fit requirements): The historic crypto bubble: Bitcoin is now the fifth-biggest wipeout of all time, BofA says, with a shocking chart of the last 50 years in finance
You've been living under a rock and missed the Pokemon card craze in the past few years then.

"Target stores around the country have pre-sunrise lines around the block, and the trading card sections look like bread aisles before a snowstorm or toilet paper aisles at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic as fans, collectors, and resellers are trying to arbitrage tins of Pokémon cards that can be resold for an easy profit."[1]

"The intense demand for Pokémon trading cards, which steadily rose in recent years then rocketed up even more during the pandemic, has caused Target to temporarily suspend sales of the cards, citing a threat to the safety of customers and workers."[2]

"You can probably guess what happened next. Thanks to the increased visibility of card collecting on social media, along with a surge in grading services pricing out high-value collectibles, folks are practically camping out of stores just to get the latest Pokémon card shipment. Everyone wants to find a rare card that they can flip for thousands of dollars, just like they’ve seen in the news."[3]

"YouTuber Logan Paul (USA) has recently acquired a coveted PSA Grade 10 Pikachu Illustrator card following a record-breaking trade worth $5,275,000 (£3,862,424 / €4,477,146)."[4]

[1]: https://www.vice.com/en/article/7kv9dd/target-is-prepared-to...

[2]: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/14/business/pokemon-cards-ta...

[3]: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/14/business/pokemon-cards-ta...

[4]: https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/news/2022/4/logan-paul-...
A major assumption in the 'principle of least harm' on forcing people to get vaccines is that the vaccines are well-characterized in terms of efficacy and side-effects. In the case of the smallpox vaccine, it was a sterilizing vaccine (i.e. there were zero breakthrough cases post-vaccination as far as I know, so it could be used to effectively eliminate the virus from human populations), and the side-effects, though quite severe in some cases (far more than anything reported with Covid vaccines as far as I know), were well-characterized. For example:

Inoculation with vaccinia virus is highly effective for the prevention of smallpox infection, but it is associated with several known side effects that range from mild and self-limited to severe and life-threatening.

(2003) "Smallpox Vaccine: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly"

http://www.clinmedres.org/content/1/2/87.short

The Covid vaccines are uniformly non-sterilizing, i.e. breakthrough cases are common, even apparently the norm (this may be due to rapid evolution of new virus strains relative to older clinical trials) and the side effects seem to be relatively poorly characterized (heart issues with young adults? fact or fiction?). Hence, glowing stories like this Nov 2020 report on the Moderna vaccine might need some reconsideration:

https://www.science.org/content/article/absolutely-remarkabl...

One could argue, at this point, that a Covid vaccination is really only net beneficial to the elderly, obese and immunocompromised (comparable arguments have been made for the influenza vaccine). One could also argue that for-profit pharmaceutical corporations (who have refused to release patent rights to other manufacturers, which would drive down costs) have large conflicts of interest relative to their desire to maximize profits by pushing vaccination on those for whom it serves no beneficial purpose.
If you are a scammer, you would typically do wash trading (or hire someone to do wash trading) for your own token to make it look like there is legitimate activity. Just because these tokens have been swapped doesn't mean this was done by retail. The vast majority of these tokens are probably "failed scams" where the scammers tried but failed to generate traction.
Perhaps listening to Warren Buffett explaining how companies are businesses, and how you are buying part of the company will help explain the difference.

For example, when Meta P/E was 9, people should have said to themselves “hey, that’s an incredible opportunity”, rather than waste all that time hating on the company.

Crypto could recover if enough people “believe“ but there’s no real business
I've had to do layoffs in my team (as head of Engineering, I had all visibility).

It was pretty straightforward and un-conspiranoic: The CEO got us all execs together and showed us the P&L which showed that we had 10 month runway. It also showed that (as in most companies) the highest burn rate was from payroll. Then he mentioned that we had to expand our runway to 18 months. Which meant cutting in various places (including no free sodas). Finally we agreed to cut payroll in 10%-15% , which would have a strong impact on the runway.

And that was it... pretty straightforward.
The meaning changed but the UI did not. Almost as if Elon did not understand the existing meaning before reinventing the blue check. His own Chesterton’s fence.
Calculation-Induced Seizures
It’s too late. Whole countries block all eSNI requests, so it’s always going to fail open.
For starters,

re: first story ("subject: Exoskeletal unease"), it is interesting to see some meta perspective on identity creation [0] as it shifts from sincerity, through authenticity, to profilicity.

Let us just not forget that we can still take a walk and look real person into the eye.

[0]. "The Philosophy Of Identity" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QMHOsfjHq0
Yes and 10kg if lithium is fully reusable at the end of life of the car.

400k km in an ICE vehicule is 24000 liter of refined petroleum product.

Assuming 90% recovery rate for lithium (very conservative) in fine you compare 1kg of lithium to 24000 liters of refined petroleum product.

99% recovery rate makes it 100g of lithium vs 24000 liters of refined petroleum products.

It's quite a shock to me that people even discuss/compare when there is such a wide 5 order of magnitude difference.
There are so many red flags in that article, and that article is coming from Sequoia Capital itself. I can't understand how anyone would have invested anything at all in FTX, let alone an astonishing $1.3 billion in Series B and Series C. Does no-one at these VCs do any form of due diligence (e.g. reading the articles on their own web sites), or are they unfathomably incompetent, or living in some alternate reality from the rest of us where everything is reversed (incompetence is competence, war is peace, ignorance is strength, etc.), or is there something else I'm missing?
Neat! Like Jq but for XML and HTML.

Have you considered adding css sectors as an alternative to xpath? For many simple things a css selector is easer to write and more people already know them.

I believe it's possible to translate css selectors to xpath so it wouldn't need another selection engine.
Who confirms it’s fake? How does that get fed back into the algorithm in a system designed to work in real time?

It’s unlikely that the system has a quick mechanism to do this
We don't do accusations here on HN.
You are making two functions calls in the second loop, vs one in the first. If the result of read() could be checked for eof, then you would remove one call. Also, since the branch is so easily predicted, I would be surprised if there is much of a performance hit once the second call is removed.

If you see a 50% speed-up in the above code, I question what read is doing and the implementation of eof(). I would expect read() to dominate the if statement unless eof is extremely expensive. I have written dozens of read()/eof() functions over the years and read() always dominates because the read involves copying memory and/or making OS calls, etc., while eof() is a simple comparison. So if read() dominates runtime, example 1 and 2 above should not be anywhere close to 50% different.
Apple doesn't sell anything with a 30-pin connector.
I took the car to the store, it's not great but it's not as wasteful as proof-of-work blockchains.

What is the point of making irrelevant comparisons is what I'm asking.
What if regular exercise is the best cognitive exercise?
I think that the very very base level of EA (consider the relative good/efficiency of various charitable giving options; per-dollar things like mosquito nets save lots of lives) is not unreasonable, but the steps beyond are outrageous. You've got people saying that the only ethical giving is to AI organizations so that we either don't create the AI apocalypse or somehow convert all of our minds to digital form and this future benefit will outweigh every possible thing you could achieve today.

When people say "what use is the humanities" I just gawk at this new generation of tech billionaires who seemingly have developed very strongly held opinions about the social organization of people without looking at all at the prior work in this area.
I remember Warren Buffet explaining that his top two analysts that basically run BH struggle to beat the S&P 500. Then I read all these comments confidently predicting the movement one way or the other of this very volatile asset, whose behavior is inextricably related to the movement of the larger economy.

I guess it’s a good thing to pretend you can predict since you have a 50% chance of being right.
It’d be manual traders realizing there is a pricing mistake.

But it didn’t happen which indicates manual traders agree with the drop in general, indicating it wasn’t caused by the tweet.
It's another example of the ~800 volume work titled "Where the indirection go?" A solid 90% of the variation you see in the programming world is moving indirection higher or lower, inside or outside, like moving food around on a plate. When you compound these choices, you get a combinatorial explosion that's both intimidating and absurd. And the clearest indication yet that, despite our pretensions, software engineering is, in fact, software alchemy awaiting systemization. We need Lavoisier and Mendeleev for software, stat!
Could you provide a better reasoning than the one proposed, though?
I think the debt model is more true to what a currency is supposed to represent though. You can ignore the entire regulatory structure and just imagine there was some magic substance that was created out of thin air whenever you gave someone something, and consumed when you received something. Debt is exactly what it would represent. You to others and others to you.
This is not the case for backend applications. The license you want to be aware of that does this to backend services is the AGPL. Which indeed for some is a non-starter.
> who prefer the ease of the legal media streaming platforms

checks the need for different subscriptions for different shows and looks at my own library of purchased media for shows that disappeared for reasons

Are you sure about that analogy?
While it’s sad to depend on a web service that could be gone tomorrow, it’s not like we really “own” software installed locally either. License agreements contain the phrase “the software is licensed, not bought” for a reason.
For example the software I sell in my day job has an expiration date of a year, there is no perpetual license. It literally won’t start after a year. The difference between that and a web service is pretty slim.