skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The FDA, like other regulatory agencies, exists for a reason: to help prevent people from being ripped off, or worse, by snake oil salesmen. I’d rather we not go back to the days when hucksters and charlatans were selling marked-up dyed water or poison to desperate people out of a horse-drawn carriage.
he is like david attenborough of tech
> There are no laws in the books that says what Apple is doing is illegal.

Ummm. The whole discussion is that allegedly Apple is not compliant with DMA.
that's a mechanism intended to grant keys to reviewers and such, you can't use that as a primary transaction mechanism. steam has an unspecified threshold at which they will kick you off the platform for abusing that, they aren't there to be a free delivery platform for external sales and if it makes up a plurality of your sales they'll pull the plug.

you'll note humble bundle isn't literally the only sales those publishers make on those games, or even a majority of their sales, and it's also something that's specially blessed by valve. if you pull that as a random shit publisher not through humble bundle you'll get kicked off.
> that's one reason why they're more expensive than ACH

The Fed charges between 4 and 19¢ for a wire [1]. For the delta to be explained by the cost of warehousing reserves, we'd need to assume Zimbabwean costs of capital for the big banks.

RTGS is fundamentally more expensive than net settling. But wires are expensive because we're getting hosed. (If you wire frequently, there are banks that won't charge you for it, e.g. Fidelity.)

[1] https://www.frbservices.org/resources/fees/wires-2024 if you're a small bank, it could be as much as 95¢
It makes sense if enough people with influence over lawmaking and government have a vested interest in benefiting from “free” infrastructure and some level of friction to use public transit. Add a pinch of “public transit is useless anyway, I have a chauffeur” and here you are.

It is completely counter-productive and damaging to the economy and the environment, but it is not that odd, unfortunately.
note, that even with ForcedCommand, sshd still executes ~/.ssh/rc in the user's name, so she can execute arbitrary command once she can write the rc file (unless disabled by PermitUserRC).

shameless plug: you can prevent this by https://github.com/bAndie91/tools/tree/master/ssh-groupcomma...
It's different because you only have to figure out how to deal with Apple rather than discovering a new process for every app you want to install. Far lighter mental load.
I agree, except Windows had a massive PC monopoly back then. Apple doesnt have nearly that same monopoly today. It shares it with Google and in some markets it lags behind Googles user numbers.
Often it's via torrents. Or just data dumps on a web server.

Why restrict the data to journalists when it causes much more harm to the breached org for other criminals to get the data?
so you're their sales rep?
After watching the video, the car-free aspects seem a little disingenuous? It’s an apartment complex with a single large parking lot on one side (rather than with separated units surrounded by parking as in most U.S. apartments).

So tenants can and do have cars, they just can’t drive/park them next to their units. And the apartments are mixed use w/ commercial stores…but that’s not really novel either.

They do get discounts on ride shares, a free e-bike, and do have a walkable complex that’s safer for families and kids so it does seem like improvement overall.
Except that I don't think the FDA should do that? I'm arguing that people should have options that are not certain death.
To add to this, it was a leveraged investment scheme. Think if you buy a house with 20% down and sell for a loss between 1-20%, it's your money that disappears first and the lender is not impacted. This was the same concept except the investor's funds were the down payment. There's a bar chart graphic in the article demonstrating this.

Average reader of Bloomberg will not feel pity for the subject of the article as they are "supposed" to from the way the journalist wrote it. She played with leverage and got burned, lured in by the unreasonable promise of 30% annual returns. Not much different or "scammy" than people who lose their money in leveraged stock funds, Forex, crypto, or many other investment products.

Too bad, if she took her $200k and used it as a down payment on a residential property investment in 2021 the value would probably be up 20-30% in most markets. S&P 500 would be up 15-20%.
It would only make sense that they would do it. We test materials randomly at one place I went to randomly. It wasn’t every piece or every batch, but we definitely sent off materials to labs to get tested. We weren’t under the eye of anything like the FAA either, we were doing it to just ensure QA that out gearing was made with quality materials and not junk. It’s not cheap but it’s not outrageously expensive either to get metallurgy checked to make sure it’s meeting your requirements as per the mechanical design.
> People lost their jobs over the refusals.

A lot of those people lost a lot more than their jobs in the end.
I don't think being in that situation with a line of snake oil salesmen promising their unproven supposed-cures will help here.
> that’s why you get someone like “Anonymous” suddenly appearing overnight, attacking someone that is a foreign rival to the US and then disappearing for another 8 years

Humans can spontaneously self organise to a surprising extent. No government was behind Reddit's meme trading, for instance.

Not saying you're wrong. Just that spontaneous bursts of organisation aren't per se evidence of outside influence.
yep. in fact, it's the #1 import source

https://wits.worldbank.org/CountryProfile/en/Country/USA/Yea...
For me my windows setups are dedicated gaming devices, nothing more. Any general computing I do (with some random exceptions due to convenience) is on my Mac.

So for me the number one priority is performance and compatibility. Which as far as proton has come, using the LTSC version on Windows easily wins on compatibility (especially once you leave Steam) and in some cases wins on performance.

LTSC also drastically reduces the metrics sent back to Microsoft.
And your loved one dies of the disease at the exact same time they would otherwise have died of it, but now only after having gone through lots of expensive treatment and suffered a bunch of side effects.

The FDA is definitely the evil and twisted bad guys if they can't stop snake oil sellers from stating that their products cure disease X just because the snake oil guy us friends with someone high up in the FDA.
No mention of Google Answers?

I was an approved GA researcher back in the day. You could make some decent money if that was what you wanted to do all day.

Interestingly, the archive is still up in all its Web 1.0 glory.

http://answers.google.com/answers/
I remember hearing stories of customers flicking through physical books in bookstores and then buying them off Amazon. Can't do anti-steering in that direction.

> They rejected our PDF spec sheets for having links to our website.

I miss the world wide web where you could link to sites.

> They will de-list our products if they’re available for a lower price on another site.

This is straight up cartelization and can no longer be called a "market".
why must systemd re-invent everything?
> To call it piracy is the same as me telling you my pin and calling you a hacker when you login to my account, no?

Somewhat absurd linguistically and morally ambiguous, yet possibly legally accurate?
None in particular, except that all the code I am currently writing is in TypeScript. Especially if it comes together with HTML files.
> Why would the revision fee not happen with every update?

It would. So charge $25 again. So long as they charge what their actual cost is (with a reasonable margin) that's fine. But that's a universe apart from charging 10% of the profits of some streaming service because you "provide the platform".
Minecraft Java Edition runs way smoother under Linux for some reason. It also supports mod packs, which is an endless source of renewable fun once the base game has gotten tiring. Give it a whirl, I don't miss Bedrock edition at all. Everyone on Java Edition can play together regardless of OS, where Bedrock basically requires everyone to be either on Windows or Console
kuse is pretty cool!!!
It's super helpful for learning new things. I love how it can expand GPT's answers into a mind map. Looking forward to the updates.
Completely agree: Of course the markup that banks charge for them is not proportional in any way.

If it were, FedNow (which is also real-time, although I'm not sure on whether it's also real-time settled) and non-US equivalents would be equally expensive, yet SEPA instant and FPS are usually free to consumers. They do have an amount cap per day, though.
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So my comment is not relevant, and should be ignored. Managing the metadata of this scale is certainly no easy task without computer systems.
The stats are impressive (for the US):

44,000 square feet of retail and amenities

700+ apartments for rent

50+ shared courtyards

17 acres of land

2+ miles of bike and foot paths

0 square feet of asphalt
How is a console not a general purpose device? If I gave you a PS5 dev kit, what software would you be unable to port?
I've seen link preview solutions start to appear that I would assume are doing some basic moderation and logic to ensure consistency. I've recently seen on product hunt - Linkz.ai link previews SaaS .
I bet the treatment costs somewhere around $350,000.

These should be approved on the condition that the patients pay into escrow and get refunded one day if the drug fails trials.
Completely false comparison because the drug in question did provw safety though the clinical trial, only effectiveness that could not be determined. People should have options that are not certain death.
Not much point researching a better treatment when you can just sell something that doesn't work.
The last two laptops I've purchased have been the same model as dell's 'developer editions' that came with linux preinstalled. Ironically I bought them with windows both times because the windows versions were on sale for like 25% off while the true 'developer editions' were still full price.

First thing I did was format them and install linux. My mom has my laptop from 2008 and it's still going strong with a lightweight mint xfce distro.
Omega combinators would have made for better growth hacking.
>> Hashmaps don't have guaranteed performance characteristics

>Of course they do

No, they do not, at least not worst case O(1). If you write a very poor (but functional!) hash function or an adversary is choosing your items, then congratulations, your hashmap is now a linked list with extra steps.

Sure, you could use a robust cryptographic hash function, but you didn't because (a) it's not the default in your language and (b) it's slow and you are "a lot more interested in a low-constant-factor O(1) best case".

Otherwise, you're more or less correct.
Oh no, now I must use my own brain and make the cost-benefit analysis for myself. I wish it was in the hands of some people who neither know nor give a shit about me or my loved one
In react's model, all state is owned by a particular component instance. Most react devs opt for a 3rd party tool for shared state. I would not say that react is good at this.
Ask HN: Anyone working in Crypto space how can I break into it
Hello,

Can someone guide me from their experience in terms of how I can break into the field of blockchain as a software developer
This is a good list. Have you reviewed any blogging systems to see how many of these features they contain (in a comparison table for example)?
Artificial Intelligence 2024 Legislation
The point was that people are up in arms about either outcome: FDA denies approval, people get angry. FDA allows approval, people get angry.

> The real problem is that it costs too much to bring new treatments through a clinical trial

As opposed to what? Just letting anything go? We basically have that situation in the alternative medicine world and the grifters are out in full force peddling things that we know don’t work the way they claim. Imagine how bad it would be if we waived away clinical trial requirements.
Here's an option: buy cool dude tincture at 10 dollars a bottle instead of this treatment at 10 thousand or whatever.
Personally, I think it's egregious to deny people possible treatments, particularly in cases like that. I think FDA should be very strict on approvals (i.e. giving it that stamp), but should not be gatekeeping people. If people want to take non-FDA approved stuff, I don't see why regulatory and/or law enforcement should care. There's an incredible amount of paternalism inherent in the current system that nobody ever seems to question, and that blows my mind.

Now that said, I have a huge problem with this skipping. FDA rules need to be applied consistently and follow the process. I'm sympathetic to the desired outcome, but the problem is the system is set up as a gatekeeper. Fix the system, don't try to hack around it like this. That just further undermines trust and faith in the system.
Is artificial intelligence making big tech too big?
People assuming this is a competitive posture exclusively are missing the point.

The app store isn't just about making more money, it's about enforcing privacy and security guidelines for apps through the review process and through checks for unauthorized api usage.

Apple's product is privacy; they view privacy as a premium feature worth paying for, and 3rd party app stores that are the wild west for privacy are antithetical to this.
> The problem with them is that you cannot make the three different colors needed in a single material,

If that's the problem, why not just make 3x white leds per pixel and have a layer of color filters, like LCDs have.

Or at least make the leds in vertical stripes, so you're not assembling 25 million components onto a substrate, but instead 4k*3 components (each assembled from 2k components, I suppose).
Monday Crypto Overview
Your imagined situation relies on the supposition that the new treatment is "promising" - how often do you think this is the case?

A person facing death from disease is desperate, and desperate people are easily taken advantage of. This is part of the reason the FDA exists - to protect desperate people from being ripped off.

The FDA can and should prevent unproven medicines that are not ready for human trials from being used without due diligence.
It’s not a false comparison. Effectiveness is what makes a drug not merely dyed water. Hence the “ripped off” part.
The preliminary findings in this case are not related to the "Core Technology Fee" as far as I can tell.

The findings here are about steering. That Apple disallows app developers to steer users to alternative distribution channels on Apple's AppStore.

They do also announce that they have opened new investigations, which include the "Core Technology Fee", but they have no findings yet.
The thumbnail of the video looked very much like a several decades old apartment building in Spain that I stayed in not that long ago. The whole development really just looks like some European neighbourhoods, which is a bit strange but also not a bad thing. I think infrastructure for cars is one of the good things about the USA, but I also think combining it with this style of dense development especially in urban areas in warmer states will complement it really well.
Why Murena, the Next-Gen Privacy Tech Maker, Is "Crowd-Fundraising"
This illustrates the difference between a Business Continuity Plan and Disaster Recovery.
Odds are carrying a gun means you and your loved ones are more likely to be hurt than saved.
ChatGPT is simply another tool in a modern developer's arsenal. I'd be looking for a test that evaluates how well you can utilize ChatGPT but can't be solved completely by ChatGPT. Prompt engineering is an important skill to possess these days!
Yes because developers don’t want to pay $100 to then go through a super annoying notarization process to distribute their FOSS app.
Google Maps option to see how safe your current location is
30% returns sets off every skeptical alarm in my head. That might be doable for a year or two, but if anyone can get that consistently (and I doubt really doubt it), they're not just going to offer it to you/the public.
I believe it's this place on Google Maps [1]. There is even the candle shop mentioned in the article. If you compare it to the parking lots of surrounding buildings or to the suburban neighborhood to the North it's very compact. I assume the buildings we see cover the 180 residents mentioned in the article, and the space that's still bare is for the expansion to 1000 if all goes well.

In many ways it's not that different from the apartment complex right next door. I bet those also don't allow you to drive between the buildings. What really makes this development special is that they try to provide all daily necessities and amenities within walking distance. A sizable corner market, a clothing shop, a restaurant, a cafe (yet to open), etc. A very normal sight in Europe, but here you have it in a city block in Arizona.

https://www.google.com/maps/@33.413866,-111.8994126,202m/dat...
> am i not truly independent

Correct. If you advocate and vote for the same party in everything at all times, you are not independent. If you say you are then you are lying to yourself and/or others.
Providing a good service which “lock you in” is a good thing. What do you rather?
Commercial real estate prices are heavily interest rate dependent. Prices go down as the cost to finance debt rises. Apartment rents can stay the same or go up while the value of the building itself falls.
Ukraine is our business as it’s a bulwark against invasion of the rest of Europe who are very much our allies. Not standing against wanna be conquerors gets you more would be conquerors. He has no intention of stopping at Ukraine and has stated he want the old USSR back and more as well as annihilation of NATO. We don’t need another Holocaust which he would be more than happy to set up for Ukrainian citizens.
I find this tracker more useful than most because it breaks it down by state and progress towards adoption.

Category also provides an interesting breakdown in the common themes of these bills.
Yeah, I'm not going to the Internet and ask about things I'd like to buy, I'm going to ask my friends or take a chance on second hand stuff. A SearxNG instance that hardly ever serves up Google responses and Wikipedia are my main search engines outside systems I control.

Sure, I'm not really using this as a web forum, I'm not here for the community.
Record Labels Sue Two Startups for Training AI Models on Their Songs
At least for the Pfizer study, no Covid-19–associated deaths were observed in the study or control groups so this says more about COVID and the study than about the vaccine itself.

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2034577
If you're from the USA maybe you're used to effectively a single payment system (or a small number that all use the same card reader)

Many countries have far more payment systems. For example, Japan, 7/11 takes Line Pay, PayPay, Merupay, au Pay, R Pay, d払い, Smart Code, J-Coin, Bank Pay, QOU-Pay, WeChat Pay, Alipay, Nanco, R Edy, iD, QUICPay, 9 different train cards, Mastercard, Visa, American Express, JBC.

Some of them you insert the card, some use NFC, some you scan a QR Code, some you show a QR code.

Some have had big discounts or "points", probably to try to get market share. The discounts can go either way. Some are for the consumer (get 5% cash back for example). Others are for the merchant (zero fees for N months, etc...)

There's tons of competition.
Some years ago, one of those "Consciousness Studies" or "Intelligence Studies" people unveiled a new model for thinking about the brain: as an "ant farm" for mitochondria.

The notion being that ant colonies work as large scale organisms, and can do some pretty complicated stuff. Well, the bigger notion is that the brain, viewed holistically, really does look like an ant farm when it's in action. I wish I could find the cite . . . oh here we go

https://inference-review.com/article/the-excitable-mitochond...
I was ten years into Vipassana before trying the Jhanas and found them challenging. two years practising, I eventually got them. I found leigh brasingtons stuff very useful on it, though I think he was born with the "concentration" ability somewhat, while others like me have to struggle harder to get there. https://www.leighb.com/sitemap.htm

he also had a clinical study done while he went into the jhana states that is worth a look. that can be found here - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3659471/
That's backwards. React is a tool for writing declarative UI (or declarative anything really) that can handle state updates. Probably they're using it because it's the best tool around for that job.
Why Journalists Can't Always Tell You What They Know
One could of course try to keep the library, its 27 branches and its website up to date without connecting anything to the internet.

But I think it's understandable why they chose not to.
The links from OP are paywalled but the first few visible lines are enough to cast significant doubt for me on whether the treatment is even "promising":

> [Sarepta's] gene therapy for Duchenne muscular dystrophy failed to improve muscle function compared to a placebo in a large clinical trial

https://www.statnews.com/2023/10/30/sareptas-duchenne-gene-t...

> the drug failed a large, Phase 3 trial last year ... three review teams ... wrote that the data Sarepta submitted "cast significant uncertainty regarding the benefits of the treatment".

https://www.statnews.com/2024/06/20/sarepta-duchenne-elevidy...

I'm not sure what makes this treatment "promising" other than the gushings of the CEO. Are you arguing that we should give new treatments a free pass on regulations as long as its for a death-sentence disease and the CEO has connections?
How old is the kid? My 7 year old just got into "Kingdoms and Castles" -- nothing special but it was simple enough for him to get started (with plenty of new dynamics to consider as he figured things out).

I recently finished Sid Meier's book and I really do think 90s-2000s were the peak for strategy PC gaming. I'd love to just give my son an airgapped Windows XP desktop with a bunch of games installed from that era.
Bullets2016 (Desktop Only)
I eval'd popOS and mint and went with pop due to the fancy gnome tiling plugin. It's been a pleasant experience, but the software updater uses like 1G of ram on an 8GB laptop and I'm beginning to wish I was running mint xfce.