skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Source: My partner is a pharmacist with an MBA

The biggest issue to running a pharmacy independently by far is insurances. When you're not big enough to negotiate drug prices with the drug companies, or the payouts with the insurance company you get squeeze out in fast order.

Couple of examples, he worked at <big name grocery store chain with pharmacies> and they averaged a revenue of $3 per script. This managed this because they were able to negotiate prices with both the insurance company and the drug companies. For someone not big enough to negotiate, many drugs will cost the pharmacy more than insurances will reimburse. Another example is billing insurance companies. This grocery store paid 5 cents per insurance bill, and rebills were free. When he worked at an independent pharmacy, it cost them $1.50 to bill insurance, and rebills were not free. Keep in mind, the big company was able to negotiate $3 of revenue per script after negotiating. In almost all cases, an independent pharmacy loses money on the vast majority of their prescriptions.

Largely, independent pharmacies stay afloat by taking on massive debt and doing other value add services. The independent he interned at did warfarin clinics and diabetes stuff (not sure what). It's a passion project for the person owning the pharmacy. Not a profit center.

Insurance companies though, they rake in tons of money.
Include interactive Clojure/Scrips snippets in a web page with SCI and friends
Pixel phones already have some features kind of like this so it makes sense.
CEO pay always grew inline with worker's pay until 1978 when trend started to break. Coincidentally, 1978 is when 401K was introduced.

https://www.epi.org/publication/ceo-pay-in-2021/

Then in 1990s, all hell broke loose and the gap completely blew open between avg worker and CEO pay.
It definitely needs to be applied judiciously on a shot-by-shot basis.

There have been quite a few 4:3-to-widescreen conversions that were done using the original film that was actually shot in widescreen and cropped for TV.

Sometimes, the wider shot makes perfect sense. Sometimes, they keep the original cropped one but cut off top/bottom. Sometimes it's a combination of the two. It all depends on what's being framed -- two people in a car usually benefits from cropping (nobody needs the bottom third of the frame occupied by the car's hood), while a close-up on someone's face usually benefits from extending the sides (otherwise it's an uncomfortable mega-close up that cuts off their mouth).

But having the flexibility to extend horizontally gives you the artistic possibilities.
I guess I haven't updated insomnia in a while or something as I was blissfully unaware that I needed a replacement until just now. Looks good!
Oof. Your estimates of the power of 300 million people to overcome a military 20 million strong do not match mine. If we're assuming complete consolidation of groups (i.e. those 20 million wholly aligned against the 300 million)... Modern warfare is entirely asymmetric. It depends on how willing that military would be to deploy air power, bombs, and smart weapons. To say nothing of how much organization of such a resistance could be stymied by the simple expedient of shutting off the grid (electrical and communications) that could occur in an open civil war.

... in the abstract. I hardly imagine it'd come to a shooting war over something like the perpetual push-pull of figuring out what "privacy" is. That's a conversation that's been going on for hundreds of years.
> Phenylephrine for congestion is the classic example

So classic it's brand new news?
This is why 84-month auto loans are now a thing that more and more people are signing up for. Which wasn't too much of a concern with low interest rates... but now?
Yes. I was quite productive and happy at 4 days/week, and felt a strong part of the team that was still working 5 days/week. But when I tried a more "part-time" schedule of 3 days/week, I was less satisfied and less productive and felt less a part of the team. 4 days/week is still full-time, 3 days/week is part-time.
As a counterpoint, the most thoughtfully designed and responsive task management app I've ever used is a Flutter app (http://quire.io) Maybe check it out and see if it changes your mind about what's possible with Flutter.
I would argue that the primary job of a CEO is to provide the core strategy to the company. One can count on the rest of the C-suite and middle management to care about quarterly profits, that is their job. It is the role of the CEO to override those short term gains when they are in conflict with the long term vision. CEOs that only focus on the next quarter tend to run their companies into the ground. The CEO should always be thinking about next year and the next decade.
It's not about who can ping you. It's about the expectation of urgency behind that ping. A "ping" from a manager calling an unexpected meeting demands a lot more attention than a ping from a colleague looking for help most of the time.
Honestly, I think captive portals are probably on the way out, given how good 4G/5G is these days. I am not sure what business traveler wants 10kbps hotel wifi for $30/day when their phone gets 600Mbps down and 30Mbps up.
Non-rhotic accent, eh? Estuary English?

"ˈθʌrə"'s was interesting to me, I'd render "thorough" in my ideolect (Southern-inflected General American) "θʌrow". Is your pronunciation "standard" in British English (or whatever the prestige variant where you're from is)?

Also, I think you meant "ðə ˈmɛtᵊl Pb lɛd"
Perhaps verisimilar then.
CVS is fine... I just wish their receipts were a few pages shorter.
> We’ll see how people feel about this when they ask future systems to do things, and it produces text that it would rather not do that.

They'll probably abuse the systems the same way they do people who provide the interface to non-automated service providers who refuse requests for policy reasons.

But they won't get anywhere by doing so.
It seems that Starship well greatly upend these calculations and considerations. When launching 100 tons of payload costs $10 million, we should start seeing a lot more science being launched.
Sure. It's just not really much of a headline, or an idea. There are lots of interactions between combinations of things that haven't been studied. But fine, I guess it's not exactly on the Guardian's front-page.
Turing was familiar with the Jacquard loom for weaving patterns on punch cards and Babbage's, and was then tasked with brute-forcing a classical cipher.

Quantum wave theory existed but wasn't considered necessary for classical brute-forcing. For example, Shor's algorithm for integer factorization was published in 1994.

Turing's paper does not specify concurrency, local or distributed. (Though is non-distributed multi-core local concurrency just also a Turing Machine?)

Is anything sufficient?

From "Church–Turing–Deutsch principle" https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church%E2%80%93Turing%E2%80%... :

> The principle was stated by Deutsch in 1985 with respect to finitary machines and processes. He observed that classical physics, which makes use of the concept of real numbers, cannot be simulated by a Turing machine, which can only represent computable reals. Deutsch proposed that quantum computers may actually obey the CTD principle, assuming that the laws of quantum physics can completely describe every physical process.

Do modern QC allow a continuum of computable reals either? Not really yet, no; not with qubits, qudits or qutrits is there a complete real (0,1) interval. There are mean Expectation Values even on actual QC instead of quantum circuit simulators where it's either 0 or 1 for that run of the sim.

TASK: Represent e.g. π+1e-10 on a classical and then a modern quantum computer.

How many quantizations of theta π can there be?

And then with Bloch sphere rotations we have every possible unitary quantum operator?

And still there can be side channels in formally-verified classical and classical+quantum computers.
Or make a stronger spotlight and point it at whatever is directly in front of you, to blind you with reflected light.
Or you take a single picture of a group in front of a monument, but cut it off. As I understand it you could find pictures of the monument online, run the model, and have a picture with the group and the entire monument.

Probably google can even do this automatically - I would not be surprised if I get suggestions to fix images with cut off buildings via Google Photos in the future! Would be so cool.
I hear you and am certainly not denying the usefulness of the site! it's fabulous and has been fabulous for many years. It has also made many great appearances on HN over the years: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que....

But if we're to optimize HN for intellectual curiosity (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...), we have to consider thread quality, and there's no doubt that submissions like this generally lead to generic, and therefore shallow, discussion in the way that I described upthread.

Overall I think the best way for HN readers to discover a site like this is bottom-up: to run across an example of a great article and a great thread about it, and then click around to discover what else is there. This is more in the intended spirit of HN.

Edit: it's a little unorthodox for us to change the URL in midstream after a submission has this many upvotes and pre-existing comments, but I hope everyone understands that I did so to give the site more exposure and appreciation, not less. The alternative would have been to downweight the post as a "list submission" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37707904), and I didn't want to do that.
I thought Subversion was the answer to complaints about CVS? Then git followed afterwards.

/s
This happened to an engineer where I worked who had an analog phone with unshielded, untwisted cord exactly the length of the full-wave of the radio station.

It's also worth noting that lightning in the area can induce massive voltage and current impulses in long, unshielded, straight conductors.
Casio QL-10 (Calculighter)
How much safer is that though? If someone steals Hetzner's credentials that control access to IPMI, how safe are we?
Depending on who you ask.

Tangent: Imho, the only reason it is good is because it's not as grindy and / or the community just didn't put as much emphasis on min-maxing things. GearScore was a thing of course, but theory crafting wasn't anywhere close to what we have now.
Nice work!

Smallish nitpick:

> What is the difference between single and double quotes in sqlvisual?

>We typically use single quotes or double quotes to enclose string literals. For example, 'John' or "Smith". However, when dealing with identifiers, such as table or column names, we don't use any quotes. If an identifier contains special characters, we can use backticks (`) to escape them in sqlvisual.

Why? Particularly if you target ANSI SQL? Almost all dbms default to the standard double quote. And the ones that don’t support it in ANSI mode.

I point this out because I think it is enough of an obstacle to effect uptake.
Just like you learn anything else. Flash cards, pure repeated exposure, reading about the symbols long enough that you have a framework to fit them into, etc.
From the leaks this may be coming to the Pixel 8
> Only that if anyone was going to run a company like Cloudflare, we're lucky it's Matthew, he's not a dumbass.

This may be totally true, but it's extremely important to understand that it does not matter.

As a US-based company Cloudflare is subject to NSLs (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_security_letter) which will force them to reveal all traffic and never talk about it. There's nothing they can do to resist that, regardless of founder personality.

Combine this with the fact that Cloudflare terminates TLS traffic, so it's all in the clear within their infrastructure. It would be difficult to think of a more juicy target for intelligence agencies waving NSLs.

It'll all be classified so we'll never know (unless some future Snowden tell us). But it is logical and wise to assume all traffic passing through Cloudflare is siphoned off in cleartext to the TLAs.
> There seems to be a subgroup of HN community that believes low interest rates (below some arbitrary threshold?) to be immoral.

Ironically, this is a very popular belief in the Bitcoin community and often cited as the reason to adopt Bitcoin. I don't want to start a debate but essentially, the crux of the belief is that low interest rates are essentially a means of "printing money", which in turn dilutes the value of the currency and acts as a hidden tax on its holders. The idea being that Bitcoin having a fixed supply, isn't vulnerable to such debasement.
Usually those pronunciations are also links to the IPA helper page. I've used it to figure out pronunciations in the past.
In my impossible fantasy dream world, China and America could avert the "2nd cold war" by having dangerously over-leveraged idled Chinese builders (Evergrande, Country Garden, etc.) partner with American construction companies and put their idle/money-burning build capacity to solving America's own real-estate shortages. Each Chinese worker would be required to have an American teammate on the job, bringing a nice profit for everyone involved and building new friendships along the way. One can only dream...
Requiring the use of an app, in order to use some kind of adapter cable? I must be getting old, feel like I've just crawled from under a rock... :-)

That would also mean this cable becomes useless the moment URL encoded in the QR disappears?

As for the app: even if it's total crap, if only 50% of cable-buyers proceed to install the app, that 50% is still gained as potentially spied-upon subjects. There's a new please-spy-on-me sucker born every day, so to speak.
> The reason this occurs is because there is no baseline of competence in software

Funny, I actually feel like it’s the opposite - most orgs I’ve worked in have an ultra high bar in specific areas to pass an interview, leaving otherwise proven capable devs who can perform all sorts of projects like this from being hired. It’s like we demand all engineers be doctors to insert an IV.

What gets things done is smaller teams with fewer dependencies. Large teams of highly competent engineers tend to produce massive project scales.
The challenge comes with debt. If you are not servicing debt, then it becomes easier to be free to do the things you need to do when you want to do them.
New Tools. DuckDB. Delta Lake.
The title here on hackernews is wrong. Given their definition of unaffordable these homes are "unaffordable" for the "average" American in 99% of 575 counties.

But! there are over 3000 counties in the US. This is not even close to the meaning of "unaffordable in 99% of the nation..."

People might not like hearing it, but homes are in fact affordable if you don't choose to live in an overpopulated metro. And even then homes are affordable if you're not buying one that's being flipped with a few panels of drywall that you could've installed yourself.

And before you say, but you need to make good money still so the average American still can't do this! There are good starter homes on my street that sell for 5-10,000 dollars. That is within reach of a vast majority of americans.
>earns $150k - total cost to employer is usually 2x so $300k.

2x? why this much? Oo
New bacterial proteins shine light on climate and astrobiology
If a young'un should ask my age, I report it in hex. Keeps 'em on their toes.
At least we can talk about it! We're not like North Korea and we have our freedom to be homeless.
A guy who spends 12 hours a day, 365 days a year, digging a hole and filling it does a lot of work, without producing any wealth.

Work is a requirement for producing wealth, but is not a sole and sufficient requirement. Useful work is.

There are, however, plenty of ways to produce money without doing any useful work.
> The reverse is not true though, there are many different potential ways to write a word that produce the same pronunciation.

For any "real" language it's probably impossible to have a 1-1 mapping in both directions.

French tries really hard to embed everything required for pronunciation in the spelling, but because of dialects and phonetic drift that leads to some pronunciations having multiple viable spellings.

German seems more concerned with the other direction: for each pronunciation (in high German) there is one obvious way to spell it (barring some baggage around c/k/ck and s/ss/ß, but even that has rules that can be applied to mostly clear it up). The other direction also mostly works, the spelling-pronunciation mapping is fairly obvious even if you don't know the word, but it is more ambiguous than French (no way to differentiate e è é or ê; and ë is mostly inferred).

English somehow seems to neither try to maintain a consistent spelling-pronunciation mapping nor a pronunciation-spelling mapping, nor a tradeoff between the two. At least unless you know the origin of the word and are aware of pertinent linguistic history of the last ~200 years, or develop a good heuristic understanding for those. Probably because of the amount of coordination required to maintain a decent mapping in either direction. Both France and Germany have influential central control on spelling.
Universal? Absolutely not.

Example: I had an appointment at a doctor's office in a medical office park. By "medical office park" I'm referring to a plot of land with lots of doctor and specialist offices, which are not part of a single chain, provider, or medical group.

During the appointment, I was told to pick up some over-the-counter medication. I noticed that, in the middle of the medical office park, there was a pharmacy. So, I went over there.

There was a single employee on duty, a pharmacist. I was the only customer there. This was around 11:30, so I expect at least one person was at lunch. Though there was work to do, the pharmacist seemed relaxed, not hurried. They asked what I wanted, found it, asked some questions (to identify possible complications), and handled payment.

Since this pharmacy is in the middle of this office park, I expect they are mainly getting business from the individual medical offices nearby.
insomnia was my favorite http client until it started deleting entire projects: https://github.com/Kong/insomnia/issues/5167
Low code has been a thing in ETL data integration space for a long time. Anecdotally the most consternation I have experienced lately has been supporting buggy low code implementations which seem to becoming worse and not better over the last 20 years or so.
> while ECH provides a significant privacy improvement, I personally am against its implementation. Most ISPs enforce country-specific orders to block domains using a combination of DNS packet interception and SNI inspection. The legitimacy or sanity of such laws are a separate matter - countries would want to block websites that violate their laws.

That's exactly why I'm in favor of it: it makes effective censorship impossible.

> If we take away this last resort from governments, they would react by enforcing client side blocklisting and DRMization as suggested in France[2], or force root certificate installation using legislation[3]

Note that those plans both thankfully failed.

> or blocking large swathes of the internet as is the case with China.

No free country would tolerate that.
I already use Photoshop Generative Fill for uncropping videos, but it only works for fixed camera shots. Photoshop just added feature where you can just drag the video file in and do the uncrop in one step.

The problem I'm solving is converting videos from widescreen to vertical and sometimes you need some extra height.
Great write up for all the pitfalls and gotchas that come up when dealing with proper interactions

For something more "out of the box", I've been using interactjs for quite a while for a variety of my projects
Where do you live? How bad is the gun violence? Is it safe for little kids? How far to nearest city of 100k+?
You can actually autogenerate all reasonable variants of the code if necessary, there aren't that many architectures these days. Simd imstructions are usually very local, this shouldn't blow up the binary.

The point is to not have to write repetitive source code many times.
Ah, I misunderstood what type color.Red had. My mistake.
What is the real cost to just have those few methods be compiled in and then a branch? You don't need to ship a separate binary for each target, you can have dead code in it. I mean fat binaries take this idea to the extreme to support multiple architectures.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fat_binary
Thanks for sharing!

Hey HN – author here, feel free to let me know if you have any questions! :)
odd thing to be snarky about. organized religious practices coevolved with agricultural societies. I don't think this is that scandalous?
Is it easy/cheap/reliable to get prescriptions filled/delivered online in the US? Do many people use that option?
My eye checks every other year have had a retinal exam component for as long as I can remember, never been given any drugs to affect the pupil diameter though.
The 4 outlet water timer I bought came with bluetooth remote functionality. It needs GPS location data for it to work. Nope. Should have known some shit like that would be part of the deal, and could have saved a few bucks by getting the version without remote.

People need to just stop with this tracking bullshit.
The point is that it's not based on hallucination -- it's generated out of the authentic details provided from other images.

There's definitely a middle ground here that we perhaps don't have a good word for. E.g. what do we call a painting made by an artist who sat in front of the scene they depicted, vs. a painting made by an artist from their imagination? There's certainly some sense in which the first one was an "authentic" scene.
> replaced by something worse

Not if it is regulated.

Maybe there would be less online platforms but there would be some community driven as they were before. This mindset that ads are necessary sounds like Stockholm syndrome at best, gaslighting at worst.
Ah right! Actually it's a good point, the Equinox readme/etc do tend to emphasise the ML use cases -- partly this is deliberate (go where the money is)! But I should probably tweak it to emphasise more general parameterised models.
Interesting. Can you post the street so that I can buy them all right now and flip them?

/s
Build more, not less.
Insofar as I'm aware, Arecibo is not a sacred site to indigenous Puerto Ricans. Nor was there any concern about barring local access to the site, which had been available for literally centuries (excepting, of course, the historic bans of all but the most senior members of Hawaiian society - again sacred site).

I'm generally pro-telescope, and I've worked with people who have spent a lot of time at Mauna Kea (Keck, especially). But the more I learn about this, the more the Mauna Kea telescopes feel an awful lot like Mt. Rushmore: colonists moving in and saying that the natives' claim to a place is less legitimate than whatever "progress" the colonists have planned.
> The surprising thing is not that in the silent era Japanese audiences opted to watch films with live human mediation. What is strange is that no other countries — apart from Korea, Taiwan and Thailand, all then under Japanese influence — adopted such an excellent and fun idea.

Since these performances are noted as including ad-lib commentary and anachronistic (to the film) references, seems like MST3K is pretty close, though they comment over talkies.

[edit] I’ve also been to a couple showings with people who were on the production calling out jokes and commentary over it, and have been at film festivals where live-riffs or commentary were done by some set of podcasters or another. I’m in a trash-tier city so these are rare, but I bet they can be found in major US cities on a pretty regular basis, if you’re not picky about the sort of movie you’ll be seeing.