skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah i'm on Wegovy and the price in EU is less than 1/3 the American price. Same company sells it. They just figured that people in the U.S. are used to pay way more. It has nothing to do with insurance inflating price - it's not covered by insurance for almost anyone in either place.

Seriously what's wrong with the U.S.
Here in Europe, heating bills can bankrupt people and they have to overpay for rent because gas is so expensive they can't rent further from their jobs - their commute radius is frequently limited with gas costs that are insane - resulting in needlessly dense cities. A separate house is a thing for upper class. All of it sucks, but... no one gets bankrupted by healthcare costs here. This is simply unheard of. And health insurance costs an invisibly small amount. I guess it removes a great deal of worry for health-concerned people.
For those who misread the title as I did, this is not Dave Coulier. Moreover, it is not Dave Coulier wearing stonewashed jeans and a mullet, making Full House era jokes, in a forgotten Microsoft promotional video about Windows 95.
While the pharmaceutical industry is grotesque in charging the captive audience of sick people as much as possible, it is a fact that drugs are not the majority of healthcare spending.

On the normative question of blaming groups, it’s like that imposter Spider-Man meme of each person pointing at the other. Hospitals charge 10x the actual market price and health insurance boasts on your explanation of benefits that they got you a 90% discount. Americans demand cutting edge maximum intervention perfectly safe treatment with no formal government rationing, or HMO rationing.

Health care is a for profit sector. Fees are paid by third parties (so patients are not directly exposed to routine costs). There is heavy quality regulation. Providers are incentivized to treat more through fee for service so the sicker you get and the more procedures they perform the more revenue they earn (perverse incentive). There is no counterweight to negotiate prices down. The end result is 7% medical inflation per year.
That used to be in high schools and it was called “shop class”.
It's arguable whether this is better or worse, because now you'll have the text wrapping where needed _but also_ again where it would have on a wider viewport, even though it already wrapped. So on mobile you'll have a full line, then half a line, then a full line, then half a line, and so on, wrapping alternatingly at the natural edge of the viewport, and again at the original line end terminated by a line break.
Turing completeness is not a requirement of a programming language! Just because you can't do infinite computation doesn't mean you can't do infinitely useful computation :)

That said, Souffle is touring complete due to its adding of constructors to the language.
I can't read the article because of the paywall, but the headline and subtitle that you quote don't attempt to quantify Big Pharma's profits, much less call them mediocre, they're very specifically asking "who profits most?" There can be (and most likely are) dozens of players who all profit enormously from our ridiculous system, but there can only be one who profits most.
Your suggestion regarding avoiding binary thinking is a great idea, and in this complex conflict it is important to retain nuance. However, your comment above could itself be interpreted as an example of binary "with us or against us" thinking, which might be seen as escalatory or unhelpful if we wish to avoid bias and conflict.

In other words, it's important to incorporate diverse perspectives and not end up promoting the very thing you may be against.

In examining multiple ways Mr Cosgrove's comment could be interpreted, my perspective here is striving for a balanced viewpoint. Striving for a balanced viewpoint does not necessarily imply insensitivity or bias; rather, it's an effort to understand the complexities of this long-standing conflict.
And also not bifrost, the audio thing from Shiit audio.
Not sure why you expect bitcoin to do "high returns" for everybody, that was never a promise and never a goal. Are you going to argue that stocks are not fair because you personally didn't buy the stocks with the best returns?

Bitcoin only makes one relevant promise: There will only be 21 million. And that means that the people who are born poor get a chance at building wealth by not having the government constantly reduce the value of their money. Bitcoin is an escape from the system that keeps people poor.
I’ve tried to work on this problem, and it is MUCH more difficult than people realize.

If you are started with a single product (say a lithium ion battery), then you might stand a chance of developing a process that can recover a reasonable fraction of the metals.

But if you’re starting with a general pile of a bunch of stuff (CRTS, batteries, hard drives, PCBs, cables), it’s very difficult to optimize a process that catches even a modest amount of the valuable stuff. The metals are fused with nonmetallic stuff like plastic and ceramics. And the useful metals often end up being “down cycled” into less valuable alloys because they are difficult or uneconomical to separate. If that’s hard to believe, just try to think through how you would economically extract gold, silver, and copper from 100 kg of PCBs.

And the reality is that most ewaste does not come in nicely separated. The options are 1) spend extra money to have people separate stuff, 2) possibly develop AI systems to separate stuff, 3) have consumers separate their own stuff, or 4) develop better chemical processes that can actually handle a mixture.

I have tried to work on #4 with not much success. If anyone else has worked on this and would like to share their experience, drop a note.

Edit: another commenter drew the analogy to ore refining, but that’s not correct. Ores are much more homogenous relative to ewaste. It would be like if PCBS contained copper fused onto plexiglass—sure, then it would be easy to get at the copper. But it’s not just those two things—-it’s 100 things all bound together.
unprocessed red meat was also associated with significantly lower risk of T2D
Twenty Megabytes of Floating Ducks
I'm well aware that it's a fringe theory, which is why I'm looking forward to the test of a thruster based on this theory in space. It'll give some hard evidence either way.
With proper road design, traffic fatalities can be reduced to a negligible rate. Oslo famously achieved zero per year. Since roads can be designed with this degree of safety, it follows that high rates of fatalities are a result of poor road design, and hence not unforeseeable accidents.

"Accident" is actually softening language -- it diminishes the agency of the driver, and the designer of the road. "Traffic collision" describes what happened, and does not presume that nobody is to blame.

The "car" part of "car accident" is also softening: nobody is "hit by a car", they are hit by a motorist.
Back in my day, a teapot in orbit around the sun was the best we had and we liked it
+1 No idea what GP is talking about. I lived in Medellín for a while and never saw a single gun.
I don’t think you’re going to get them.
The US also has an absolute abundance of competition for the Walgreens/CVS "front of store" items - almost everything there is available at the grocery store or Walmart, and the things you need "right away" are often found at a closer gas station/convenience store.
> People migrating to the north in hope of a better life

This phrasing seems off, and it seems like it's trying to invalidate the concept of a nation maintaining its borders. One could also justify murder as done "in hope of a better life", as if pursuing a better life justifies the means.

If the US could secure its southern border people would likely be much more open to a road right to it.
> Ownership is just one method of providing occupation, but occupation can be achieved through other means: for example, guaranteed leases for a fixed period

In practice, with housing, such leases are effectively ownership. The terms on these are often 100 years or more, and when they come to term, since there are often significant improvements built in the land, the terms can't be renegotiated since the lessor can't force the sale or relocation of the improvements.
Dangerous to continue to give power to the government. They literally wait for an emergency, that attempt to convince you that the only way you'll be safe is if you give up another freedom.
They're probably thinking global rate because that's exactly what they posted. Western countries, even the US, are not the entirety of humanity.
I can't... you might be able to afford $10k, but right now, I had to think hard before spending $3 last night.

I hope to learn enough Verilog/VHDL/RTL to take advantage of the Free Shuttle program they have[1] eventually.

Currently, I'm wondering how to go from expressions to code I can load into a bitgrid. The thought of parsing code, building an AST, converting that to an acyclic directed graph of binary expressions, to actual bits to load the grid with.... overwhelms me, and has me putting it off. 8(

I do have a working simulator, written in Pascal[2], that can run fairly quickly for toy problems on my desktop PC. So, there's been some progress.

I strongly suspect I can get there, but need an accountability buddy to push me along. I used to be a self starter, but I stayed in an IT Admin job too long that crushed it out of me.

[1] https://efabless.com/open_shuttle_program

[2] https://github.com/mikewarot/Bitgrid
cut it out!
Of course seeing something you haven’t seen is shocking. To make someone give up meat is a stretch. My kids have been up close and personal to butchers in wet markets chopping up fish, pigs and chickens in Taiwan. This is the daily way of life for billions of people. I believe people over estimate the reaction this would garner from most of the world’s population, which indicates to me that a similar reaction would happen here if we saw it regularly.
I’m actually exploring legality of shipping meds from EU to us directly to patients.

There is a compounded med that isn’t covered by insurance and I wonder if I could find a pharmacy in my homeland(Poland) to compound and ship it directly to patients. I have found some places that apparently do it but the sites are bad and don’t seem legit.
The OSFC is a direct outgrowth of the coreboot hackathons/conferences between 2014-2017, opening up to wider open source firmware topics. All the fun "how to open things up" subjects* have been talked to death in that community, so the conferences are now about questions like "how to improve on the state of the art in firmware?"

* https://ecc2017.com/schedule-location has the list of 2017 with gems like: DDR3 on Sandy Bridge, reversing Mediatek MT8173, reversing x86 microcode.

2016, with video links: https://www.coreboot.org/Coreboot_conference_San_Francisco_2...

2014-2015 don't have video, I think.
All I had to do was nothing. Yesterday I said to myself, this is the end, I'll never go back, never again attempt to view a video on it, because 99% of the time they'll ask me to purchase premium, please dear self, find new hobby. Today my muscle memory took me once more to YT and there are no ads and no popups begging me for money. They pulled me back in.

I'm using not recently updated uBlock Origin + FF.
Rust was originally created in Canada, but your point is taken.
Another less infrastructure heavy option would be to build places to live with less parking, more mid rises (~5 stories), and good transit (this can just be dedicated bus lanes and traffic lights that switch automatically when a bus goes through at the cheapest)
The only way you're going to get this is through pride, be that national pride (nationalism) or professional pride. It requires care for the opposite party in the buyer-seller transaction, which the free market is essentially allergic to.
I (and most of my social circle) am over 50, and I can answer that question: there's no solid reason you can't train for and be successful in a different career later in life. I've seen it happen too often to think otherwise.

Whether or not you want to is an entirely different question, of course.
The 30 millions per month 'from' Qatar is likely given by Netanyahu's government [0], or at least exchanged against contracts and political clout from Netanyahu (according to a French middle-east 'expert').

Iran is linked to Hamas post irak war, when sunni and chia fundamentalists decided they were circumstancial allies, and have ideological links.

Ideologically the Fatah is way closer to the west. The recent expropriations in east Jerusalem (including the catholic hospital/orphanage my father was born in) were a signal Netanyahu's government gave that it would rather deal with Hamas than Fatah. It was a failure in leadership and humanity that coalesced into this very situation (not blaming the numerous victims here, who asked nothing: they're like people downstream a dam failure: their government failed them.)

[0] https://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/2020-02-24/ty-artic...
>* Medicine -> medication --- a softening (a nominalization of a denominalization, at that!). Down with medication!

I think the extra layer adds a shade of meaning here. Medication is something you take because a health professional wants to medicate you with it. Medicine is just anything that might make you better. That's why we still talk about "natural medicine" or "alternative medicine" rather than "alternative medication".

So in semantic terms this is actually an instance of strengthening. All medication is medicine but not necessarily vice versa. It probably just reflects the overall uptick in people taking pills prescribed by their doctors rather than Daffy's Elixir.
Seems like recently that hasn’t been the case as the economic situation in South America continues to worsen more people are crossing on foot.

Strange to be downvoted for pointing out the stats on the linked wiki article.
I know it's unfinished but why is it morally lazy to "use it"?

investment stuff - 500 employees making a product. It sounds like if investors putting in billions into the company are not doing their due-dilligence if your claim is true.

"not my server" - its like the word "module" in computer science. Server is a computer, or it's something listening on a port, or it's a waitress at a restaurant. Sounds like some words mean multiple things.

> I would argue that moreso than any other piece of infrastructure used by people,
Discord has the highest potential to harm the world, and our perception of our
place within it.

Waht? I'm actually very confused by this entirely.

I don't use Discord even though I play computer games, but your unfinished article should probably be re-written with actual logic.
Honestly, as our society expands its ability to extend lifespans, the true question for each individual will be “how long do I want to live?” And for some people this might mean wanting to live for a shorter time their their “natural” lifespan. Obviously people should be thinking clearly when they decide, but I don’t understand why we don’t let people make that decision on their own. Instead, we stigmatize and criminalize that entire concept.
No, I pointed out the difference, which is obviously real. The reason for the difference is irrelevant.

Uhhh no, the scale certainly wouldn’t be the same. An average American eats more than a hundred animals per year. You can’t seriously think people would be consuming at that rate, or could even afford to consume at that rate, without factory farming.

> some families [abuse their animals]… people wouldn’t feel any different

We literally put people in jail for abusing their animals, so yes, they actually do feel differently about it.
People could either buy themselves into a genealogy or do it through forgery, forgoing their own surnames. There were advantages to having a ‘noble’ surname: https://factsanddetails.com/korea/Korea/People/entry-7211.ht...

So while Japan has a couple of hundred thousand surnames in circulation, Korea has in total about 350. However the great majority of the pop belongs to one of the top eight or so surnames: Kim, Lee/Li/Ri Park/Pak, Cho, Kang, and a couple of others.
Pirate Infrastructure: The CDNs and Hosting Companies Under U.S. Scrutiny
You're lucky. I've seen entire engineering orgs convinced of the opposite, and highly resistant to improvement.
This is something of a useless article as a discussion point, since it discusses the conclusions the book argues for and the controversy, but not much of the actual argument, particularly its factual basis (assuming there is one) beyond post hoc ergo propter hoc.

Its worth noting that this issue has been discussed for a long time, and while the article acts as if the promotion of marriage in the face of trends the other way on a “think about the children” basis was a novel suggestion of the author, this is not at all the case; it’s been suggested for decades, been the basis of vast amounts of unsuccessful, even at the “step one” of actually influencing the marriage trend, public policy at the state and federal level (the latter as far back as the 1996 Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act).

And there has been lots of analysis suggesting that marriage, per se, is not driving most of the difference, but things like income and parenting style are [0], and that those correlate with propensity to marry (but are not themselves driven by marriage), so promoting marriage is likely barking up the wrong tree.

[0] e.g., https://www.brookings.edu/articles/the-marriage-effect-money...
No it wasn't, only relative to processed red meat:

> Over 5,483,981 person-years of follow-up, we documented 22,761 T2D cases. Intakes of total, processed, and unprocessed red meat were positively and approximately linearly associated with higher risks of T2D. Comparing the highest to the lowest quintiles, hazard ratios (HR) were 1.62 (95% confidence interval [CI]: 1.53, 1.71) for total red meat, 1.51 (95% CI: 1.44, 1.58) for processed red meat, and 1.40 (95% CI: 1.33, 1.47) for unprocessed red meat.
> Nothing temporary ever matters. Human life can only matter if there's something permanent about it. If there isn't, nothing ever matters. None. Nil.

Who said so? Your gut feelings?
At least here, their care isn't really optional. It's their responsibility, since it's their service. I think they have to prove it was through my own fault in order to brush it off, and that's difficult. Difficult enough that when I had to get my money back (lost due to fraud), they didn't ask more than a nominal set of questions.
The formatting of this guy's website is worse than lazy; it's actively bad. The blog post is simultaneously plain text, yet in a bounded box that cuts off the words, forcing me to scroll/pan right within the box.
I think fascism is a bad term to use here, totalitarianism or thought-policing is more what you mean.

Fascism refers to specific political beliefs including totalitarianism plus some form of cultural supremacy (typically racism, but it can also be religious or nationalistic), rigid hierarchy, and might-makes-right morals. Not all totalitarian regimes are fascist, and the behavior you're describing is neither hierarchical nor racist, so I don't think it's fascist in any way.

And I'm not saying this to simply be pedantic. Fascism is scary and powerful because of the specific combination of those ideas, especially the militaristic efficiency of fascist organizations. PC/woke mobs are not scary in the same ways, and need different precautions.
Polynomials, sampling theory, signal processing, Fourier series, etc. are all so closely related that learning even a little bit of one of these things opens up such a wealth of other things to think about and explore. Splines like this basically answer the question "what polynomial fits these points the best?" which, it turns out, is the same question you need to pose to begin formulating gaussian quadrature. And gaussian quadrature is super cool because it approximates integrals about a billion times better than riemann summation[1] for the same amount of computational effort.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-yUdqRXijo
If only tokens minted by MS were in scope of the vulnerability because of Harvest's outlook integration, maybe something like "Harvest OAuth CSRF Leaks Tokens of Microsoft Outlook Users" or "CSRF in Harvest's Outlook Integration Leaks User Tokens".

If you want to add any editorializing around mitigation, linking to the OAuth RFC[0] that dictates a MUST for binding the users auth state with the request to prevent such attacks would be instructive to readers.

[0] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc6749#section-10.12
Where in Europe are you? Even with our screwy property market, in the UK detached houses are hardly for the upper class only. Maybe in London, or somewhere like Cambridge.
So the shock of a factory farm is just the shock of “seeing something new,” akin to going to Disneyland for the first time?

OP said “more people would be vegan” which I think is strictly true. Everyone? No. Would a lot of people reduce their meat consumption from the currently obscene 150+ animals per year (average American)? Probably.
Communist automotive engineering departments by contrast are notorious for their near-decadent focus on customer satisfaction.
Thanks, good point. I've read the rules and decided not to add, since I don't provide a link. The system is currently closed due to budget constraints. In short, I've build the entire database with weights and formulas built-in. It's different from LinkedIn or other platforms since there are much more fields to fill. First 1000 invited users were mostly graduates from the same university. Now looking to apply into YC but I'm a little bit late.
The definition of a Planck length implies Quantum Mechanics. Pure classical physics doesn't have a smallest length scale. Classical mechanics is deterministic.
I mean a lot of this stuff was built before the internet.
I'm simply asking what actual mechanism constitutes "disclosure" for Moons.

(I didn't comment on his defense/explanation at all.)

Can anyone just answer what I asked?
Paving over every square inch of the country is the opposite of a solution. The more we entrench ourselves everywhere, the more we are affected by natural phenomena like forest fires and flash floods. And that is without even considering the effects on the ecosystem. Turning Death Valley or Yosemite into a parking lot with a suburb attached isn't a good idea. We need to get past the frame of thinking that every american can and should have a white picket fence for their own personal green-grassed fiefdom. That's not sustainable.
I work in automotive and I am genuinely surprised there isn't a NHTSA helpline of some sort to escalate these kinds of issues to force a recall.
Thanks, that page is super interesting.

> The Metropolitan Police officers were often referred to as 'Bobbies' after Sir Robert (Bobby) Peel

So _that's_ why! :D
I actually don't think this is true at all. While there will always be a percentage of people who would prefer that, my observations are that most people don't. They tend to have interests that drive them to put time and effort into doing things, instead.
Columbia, MD was one of the earlier planned suburbs. Each neighborhood has a grocery store. Worth looking at.