skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They expect to get votes by creating theater that seems to show they care and blames others for problems.

Obviously they can pass laws to do things but it’s more politically expedient to just talk about how they want to do things.
thank you. this seems very recent, which would explain why i haven't seen it yet. but it targets big sites, not something small like linux.cn. also, linux.cn has not been under active maintenance for a while, so i doubt that its maintainer would have rushed to implement it for that reason.

my friends tell me that the maintainer was a member of the beijing gnu/linux user group, which, at least in recent years, was more privacy conscious, and although that doesn't mean that the linux.cn maintainer was as well, if you pay attention to his concerns in the post, he does seem to share some of those values.
Most people get diabetes because they are fat and unhealthy. My comment stands.
That's why I prefer to read books by scientists that are established in the field. Granted, I might miss some spectacular insights that some revolutionists might propose, but I can be relatively sure that most of what I read is actually true in the sense of representing reality relatively accurately.
when you have a public health crisis like obesity, and you work in public health, it's not OK for your conclusion to be, "well they're all just lazy fucks with no self control, fuck em".
^ this is the true.

Sadly, it's really difficult to get companies to pay money they don't have to.
Public research grants are mostly for super early stage pre-clinical stuff which isn’t really the expensive part of drug development. The expensive bit is testing it in humans.
It's an unusual idiom to be sure. We talk about lots of fruits and foods every day without such qualifiers. Are we to assume OP meant possibly-stale bread because it wasn't explicit?
Awesome.

This is precisely the sort of beautiful thing I love finding on HN.[a]

Your work put a smile on my face.

Thank you for sharing it here!

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[a] For those here who only want to see the demo, it starts at 22:50: https://youtu.be/Ms1Drb9Vw9M?t=1370

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PS. I also submitted your demo to HN. I think it deserves its own post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40737961
> So essentially everyone who isn't very into law and order type politics and cares about civil rights is against this, regardless of where they are on the political spectrum.

That does not apply to the afd.
This post (just thinking of use of Unix tools within game software) reminds me of that bug a few years back within steam itself that accidentally deleted user’s root directories

https://youtu.be/qzZLvw2AdvM?si=F-Aq9Ha_GKEZH006
My understanding of GLP1 agonists is that they're relatively simple and cheap to produce. People have been able to source semaglutide and tirzepatide online for instance and there are communities on Reddit that will take you through mixing it/whatever you need to do prior to injecting it. I don't know where this three billion comes from.
To be fair you have to include research costs here, which is very tricky as most drugs won't make it that far and still cost some money for research. So even including the development cost of the drug itself is not the whole story as it would not take into account the other drugs that failed.

I'm not saying that Ozempic specifically isn't overpriced, I don't know that. But production cost isn't the only factor for new drugs (it's somewhat different if we talk about older drugs/generics).
cURL is nice because it's an HTTP request tool that's got about three decades of all the minutia built into it. It's got a CLI and a library, and it runs on every operating system you might develop for.

I think a big difference is that the author is pretty darn proud of cURL and brags about it often, and that curl's license is more permissive than wget's GPL.
Right-click the back button?
At this point we should rename "microtransactions" to "macrotransactions".

From a quick search:

$500 for a character cosmetic:

https://www.si.com/esports/league-of-legends/ahri-ban-rate

$50'000 for a feature bundle:

https://www.ign.com/articles/star-citizen-introducing-a-4800...

$100'000 for an auctioned weapon cosmetic:

https://www.followchain.org/most-expensive-csgo-knives/
After decades of doing this I have finally come to my senses and now only engage in arguments of this form where I could add a stage 0: buy leveraged options on my unpopular but obvious observation, and a stage 6: wildly profit from betting against the stubbornness and dismissiveness of such people as I had previously tried to persuade and bring into an equally advantaged perspective with my own.

I increasingly prefer to simply sit out stages 1 through 5 altogether.
Coincidentally, that achievement raised my taxes several thousand a year. Because I live in Oregon.

Oh well. It expires soon, right? I mean, the middle class part at least?

I’m confused at how that’s populist.
That's revealing a severe deficiency in Russian air-defense and close-in defense (tactics, equipment, probably a bit of both). People looking to smack the US Navy in the same way would be wise to look at how Kyiv's Patriot batteries have fared, though; quite a bit better, including against hypersonics.
I agree, simplicity is cool. That is why I love to support platforms that are simple to support. Say, if you have a piece of software that has it’s main entrypoint be a status icon, it suddenly becomes incredibly difficult to support gnome, since different distros will ship with different versions of gnome, which support different versions of status icon plugins, which work differently and sometimes they dont even have the plugins in the repo. Suddenly a feature that just works turns into a 3 page ordeal in the user manual do deduce what plugin must they install where to make our app work.
why not put them in rehab and restrict access to food? have an intervention same as drug addict.
I suffered with excruciating lower back problems for years. In the end the "cure" was not commuting (40 minutes each way) to work anymore. The time in the car was the problem.

I still have background low back discomfort -- which I've had since 16 -- but it's nothing like the debilitating agony I was living with.
Font as Tetris [video]
There's currently approximately 100mln obese adults in the US alone.

Assuming only 10% get the treatment that's $300 per person to recoup the costs.

There's really no reason why a drug for something affecting tens of millions of people should cost so much.
According to one report[0] in three months there were 9m prescriptions for semaglutide, which can be extrapolated to 36m in a year.

3b/36m = 83.34.

So they could have recouped their development cost in a single year, just from USA sales, charging only $84 over the cost price.

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/09/27/ozempic-wegovy-drug-prescrip...
I had the opportunity to work for Seymour Cray when he split off Cray Computer Corp. from Cray Research in ‘89 and a bunch of us moved to Colorado Springs. He was a fairly quiet and intense guy, always focused on whatever the “pacing item” of the project happened to be that day.
Not a lot. https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/rep-ocasio-cortez-...
One of the interesting bits of information that came out of Microsoft's acquisition of Github was that at the time, the majority of Github's revenue was enterprise deals. Enterprise is a code word that product businesses frequently use for services - yeah sure you have a product, but here are these guys who want to use it to the tune of $10M/year but you will need to do custom development just for them, so what is that? That looks a lot like a conventional service business running inside the same company as your product business.

Microsoft actually seems to specialize in that sort of thing (selling a software product, and then offering some quite expensive, bespoke enterprise consulting services for it). But they are not the only ones, looks around the industry and you'll see it everywhere.

The only real drawback to this model when you're small is that it dilutes your focus and multiplies complexity and cost because you have to manage multiple very different lines of business simultaneously. But if you can overcome those challenges it can make a lot of sense, be an expert at a particular problem, sell a product for the average Joes who have that problem, do bespoke consulting services for the money-laden enterprises who have their own complex versions of it.
Original title is "Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of an individualised, progressive walking and education intervention for the prevention of low back pain recurrence in Australia (WalkBack): a randomised controlled trial", which was probably shortened to accomodate the character limit, but the submitter forgot to update the indefinite article.
German parties always are against something until they are in power, then they magically have changed their minds or agree "with stomach pain"...
The purchase of plug-in hybrids was also subsidised (leading to reports of buyers who just collected the subsidy, but never actually charged their cars), so that doesn't explain why their market share actually increased.

...plus these are just the figures for May 2024 compared to the same month last year, which are not really that representative.
Are there people who still watch videos from that cesspit domain called youtube.com?

Do yourself a favour and use Libretube/NewPipe/Tartube/mpv, or any other youtube-dl/yt-dlp based wrapper.

No trackers, no ads whose aggregate duration is longer than the video itself, no idiotic Google employees who regularly break the UI, no aggressive policies against adblockers or any other extensions that you want to use.

Avoiding youtube.com and making sure that not a single dime goes in Google's pockets for providing such a shitty service is a moral duty. Directly fund video creators through Patreon/PayPal if you want to feel less guilty.
That's correct. The general rule is to use "an" before a vowel sound, and "a" before a consonant sound. This gets a little fuzzy with acronyms that have several valid pronunciations, but "walking" clearly starts with a consonant sound in this case.
Sorry if I'm being dense/lazy, but can you give an example of what this looks like:

> Bun shell replaced the need for something like “concurrently”.
I don't think LIDAR works from satellite, the distances is just too high.
I made these 5 websites (and earned $50k)
Is this the cost for the "pill" after research is done? The first pill is the one that costs billions after all.
I did, it can only email 500 people on the free tier (my meet-up has hundreds of people subscribed but only ~20 come to each event) and the paid tier costs $700/yr, which is way too much for a free meet-up.
I make it a point to use ML in every work meeting or interaction where AI is the subject. it has not gained traction.
> The EU is a behemoth that absolutely steamrolls smaller countries into submission

Yet curiously Hungary has been allowed to steep down into authoritarianism, and none of Orban's excesses like media or judicial overreaches have been been overiden through submission.
Except that people hate monitoring an intern all day, regardless of whether it is a human or a machine.
There are still some gains to be had on the CPU. I'm at ~570 MH/s on a 5950x
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_know_that_I_know_nothing
See also: Ostalgie (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostalgie)
I don't think it's on purpose, just a naïve consequence of using the URL for state.
The drug would not have come to market if it could only 'still be profitable'
In contrast Chelsea Manning did not run off to a country run by a dictator but had some sense of conviction.

Snowden is sadly now a useful idiot.
The Natural History of Pliny (77)
That's fair enough, but that kind of feels like poor and middle class Americans are the sacrificial lambs for healthcare for the rest of the world. There are certain income brackets that make too much money to qualify for medicare, but still don't really make enough to pay for healthcare out of pocket and don't have jobs that provide it, so they can't milk the insurance companies for endless amounts of money to cover their treatment. This leads to situations where people know that they can't afford the healthcare, so they don't see a doctor until situations are dire, go to an emergency room (where they cannot be denied treatment), ending up with an even higher bill that then needs to be accounted for in the rest of the hospital pricing, and therefore insurance.

I'm glad that we're able to subsidize drug prices to make it so Africans can get cheaper healthcare, and I am fine with charging the insurance companies lots of money and taking money from richer people in the process (since the high costs have to be rolled into the premium rates), but it's a little frustrating that it has to come at the direct expense of poorer Americans in the process.
The wave of authoritarianism sweeping the world is pretty alarming.

This bill (only temporarily sidelined) would treat every single person as a suspect of child porn crimes. Previously, you'd need substantial cause to put someone under heavy surveillance.

People talked about how that was due to principles of civil liberty, human rights, and freedom. But apparently it was actually just because it wasn't feasible to watch everything everyone says and does all the time. Now that the technology is here to enable it, our "free democracies" can't rush fast enough to put the boot to everyone's neck all the time.

Pretty obviously this is just the first step. CP is a tactical choice of the first step since practically everyone can agree on how horrible it is. (Come to think of it, this is low key exploiting the vulnerability of children -- nice one, government!) Once everything you say or do is sent to the government for review, you can bet it won't be for just that one thing only.

BTW, I think the government policy makers blow past all the problems with false positives that will inevitably occur because, when your goal is control of the population not the prevention of child abuse, that's a feature not a bug. You want everyone nervous and afraid. You want the stories of the lives of innocent people ruined to circulate. That helps keeps everyone cowed.
Native English speaker here. "A" is the correct article before the word "walking".
Curl is great! Stenberg and other maintainers should be proud.
The ars article says 10 billion to make.
Is the answer “because we can”?
> not blinded

Not at all practical to blind this intervention. Humans aren't that stupid, they will notice whether they were actually walking or not.
That is basically irrelevant to the point that was made though.
Actually health improved under prohibition. https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/2019/6/5/18518005/prohibit...

The provider of health care can require that individuals stop indulging in certain practices. In the EU they can say you stop drinking or no health care. A person would then be free to find an alternative provider of health insurance. Maybe the EU countries would allow private insurance.
I have yet to see the real-world project where a nicer interface to the JVM makes the difference. Not saying that they don't exist, just that they are way less than one would assume.
I covered that in my post. Those users are targeted specifically. There have been news stories about it recently. People don't develop general malware for x86 Linux that also happens to catch those users though. That was the point. If someone with resources is targeting you, you don't stand a chance regardless of what you do.
“Why not do a more expensive, more complex, less effective thing instead!”

Like seriously, do you hear yourself? Your solution is to… force (?)… people to leave their jobs and families to temporarily solve their eating problems?

People can do this today. They don’t because it’s a bad solution.
How about RTL-SDR detecting SAR signal?

I just wonder how many SAR sats we don't know about.
https://guild.host/ is also doing some great work in this space.
> “Art” isn’t a single thing. It’s not just pretty pictures

And this is why it was capitalized as "Art", proper Art.

> AI can’t make art

Not really: "we may not yet have AI that makes art". But if a process that creates, that generates (proper sense) art is fully replicated, anything that can run that process can make Art.

> And give a good solid definition for [T]hought

The production of ideas which are truthful and important.

> which doesn’t depend on lived experiences while we’re at it. You can’t

Yes we can abstract from instances to patterns and rules. But it matters only relatively: if the idea is clear - and ideas can be very clear to us - we do not need to describe them in detail, we just look at them.

> AGI” as well

A process of refinement of the ideas composing a world model according to truthfulness and completeness.
> replacing substrings, all of which can be done at the byte level

You actually cannot implement substring replacement at the byte level with Unicode, just think about what happens if there is a modifier right after the substring in the original text. You cannot just avoid the fact that Unicode (and human writing in general) is a mess.
No. The Commission is formed by the national governments and of commissioners.
Because we got people fat on processed foods for the benefit of shareholders, so why not get them when they're trying to lose that weight, too?
Author here if there is any questions.

Source code: https://github.com/Erk-/programmable-fonts

You can also see actual uses of this WebAssembly embedding to show that is not just for fun here: https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz-wasm-examples
YMMV but what solved my back pain was lifting weights - specifically squats and legs exercises that activate back muscles. Form is important!
> So they could cut the cost of Ozempic by 6, bringing the monthly price to $125 (which would be material for most people). They would still be raking in the cash.

If your assumptions are true, why are investors not jumping up and down to throw money at researching medicine? Is there no risk involved?

Why are governments around the world unable to pay for the development and approval of these medicines?
> some things are proposed with the full knowledge that they will be rejected

Sure, these are messaging bills [1]. If you're clearly out of power, they're an effective tactic.

If you're in power, a good way to lose it is by embracing messaging bills.

[1] https://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article2...
Why shouldn't he be proud of his tool that is basically the default tool for doing and describing anything HTTP-related (and not just HTTP-related)? That is used on almost any platform people are using?
> That sounds fine for the people of Hungary whom he represents. What should he do, roll over and take it from Germany? The EU is a behemoth that absolutely steamrolls smaller countries into submission. But the squeaky wheel gets greased.

What a uneducated, populistic and stupid take. Just a litle basic statistics about net contributors vs net benificiaries: https://www.statista.com/chart/18794/net-contributors-to-eu-...

Gemany pays shitloads of money into the EU so that places like hungary can benefit. If they feel that's being "steamrolled" into accepting things like the contracts they fucking signed they can fuck back off into irrelevance. As a German tax payer i'd appreciate that very much.
One can only hope that this will scare off the short term mindset and bring in leaders with long term objectives.

We don’t need money doubling machines we need solutions to real world problems.
Java's lack of string interpolation has never been a real issue. String.format works well enough for most easy use cases, and there are plenty of templating engines for more serious work.

This JEP seemed promising at some point, but in the end it was decided that it wasn't good enough to become a language feature. And that makes sense. It's likely that a future JEP will replace it. And even if it never happens, it's still not a problem.

Introducing poor language features just "because other languages pick a point" doesn't make sense.
not having read the blog post I can at least say that it doesn't pass the smell test for me. The fact alone that the price disparity is not "africa" and "the rest of the world" but rather "the rest of the world" and the "USA" makes that very unlikely as a direct conclusion.

Many countries that are comparitively rich should see similar high prices. This is not the case. Also when looking at the develpment costs of some of the most expensive drugs the high prices are simply not justified.

Especially in cases where the main costs for a manufacturer is marketing because development was fully or partially financed from public money.

I mean aside from insulin the epipen price hikes are also well known about. As manufacturing technics improve and whatever cost overheads are payed off the prices should go down for all drugs. This is not the case at all somehow.
Washington still has a higher overall tax burden than Oregon, though, so don’t fixate on just income tax.

But it’s also the most regressive tax state (Oregon closer to the least regressive) so if you’re highly compensated it could still be a win for you.
How is $2,500 not a reasonable expense for a small business?
I think it’s also because plug-in hybrids make a lot of sense for Europe. In a Nordic capital, I refuelled (E10) my car in January, and that lasted me until June. I’m now driving across Europe, and I don’t have to worry about finding chargers or subscribing to a million different apps or services to be able to charge my car. I also only refuelled in June because of the road trip.

Interestingly, it has been more difficult to charge my car in southern France than in Transylvania.
Your post will probably get a lot of flack but it is fairly well established the way the economics work out. America does fund a lot of the drug research that happens and a lot of the rest of the world reaps the benefits.

I already see posts of people trying to explain how they could charge less money. Nonsense, this is a drug that cost a lot of money to bring to market, along side countless other failed drugs. Unless we have a unified world effort to research and produce drugs, I don't see any valid arguments against the current pricing regime.
Yeah I feel you. I meditate but I'm so allergic to anybody telling me anything. Like, I know you have good intentions, but why this call to action? Just state the benefits you get and let me make up my mind whether I want to do it or not.

In my case, I was advised by my cardiologist because of high blood pressure. He said in my case he sees significant correlation with stress so anything that helps me to lower my stress levels will also help me to lower the dose of medication. It works very well for me, but I have no idea if it worked for anyone else. Moreover, I also do it while walking outside, with even better results (like 15-20mm Hg difference before/after).
Seems reasonable.

I used to deal with lower back pain and don't anymore. What worked for me:

1. Losing weight

2. Walking

3. Lifting weights

Obviously proper form for weightlifting is important, but I had no idea how weak my core was (and how much that impacts back strength) until I put in the effort to improve it.

Being able to bend over without worrying about throwing out my back is such a blessing.
A shame they couldn't control for performance bias. Six sessions with a physiotherapist would probably make a difference in outcomes even without the walking.