skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A sizable percentage of vehicles have had this OnStar stuff since the 90s or early 2000s, which you could use if you had any kind of problem in the middle of nowhere and would have you on a call with 911 automatically after a crash (or someone in a call center was for you if you’re unconscious or the car is too much damaged), but the non-safety related features were always a subscription service and then suffered a couple bricking events when 2G and again when 3G was dismantled. It came after the custom “car phone” era of cell phone tech when cell phones were too unwieldy died - but stuck around forever.

It’s always been a feature that never hit quite right for one reason or another.
So it can track the free tokens it gives you.
I work in biotech. It’s a long, difficult, and expensive process to develop a new therapeutic. It is immensely discouraging to see middlemen riding on the back of biomedical innovation and enriching themselves at the expense of the scientist toiling in the lab all the way to the patient in the hospital.
Example of how punctuation can make all the difference...

'... and the problem is: The US is supporting Israel and supplying it with weapons. Neither Presidential candidate has any intention of changing that, nor is there majority Congressional support for changing it.'

The american people are mostly against israel and sending billions to israel. And yet nearly all of congress, presidential candidates, etc are in favor of it. Something is awry with representative government when nearly 100% of the politicians are not representative of the american people.
How to publish a new fungal species, or name, version 3.0
Users are given free tokens to use to kick the tires. It needs some form of identity for that.
Yes, his arrays which have length as an immutable part of their type certainly prevent certain kinds of bugs. Too bad about making it impossible to write generic array-handling subroutines, even if you accept the generally inexpressive type system as a given.
Try starting a lemonade stand without capital.

QED
One can start from typical UIs and start tinkering from there why it isn't good enough for programming.

Good first step is to notice that we dont have even static data objects. Still UIs are full of them (forms) but you cannot copy paste or store them as a whole, everything is ad-hoc.
Now imagine that every form could be handled like Unity scriptable object. And maybe something what prefab variants do: data inheritance.
Users are offered free tokens to test the app with and a google logon is as good as any to test with... I will agree it looks sketch though.
> isn't this mostly the levying of costs of very expensive drugs onto the insurance providers, rather than the patient? Meaning the "victim" of the price gouging is the insurance company?

I feel there's the obligatory remark here of "and how exactly is the insurance company paying for it?".

> I assume it does somewhat directly in the form of higher monthly payments (for the patient and other customers of the insurance)?

Absolutely directly.

> Can the insurance company deny access due to the high cost?

They have little motivation to do so. They just up the premiums. They're limited by law on administrative overhead costs, and are mandated to return unspent premiums (or roll them over), so the only way to make more money is "increase premiums, so we're allowed higher administrative overheads".

This was a hallmark of Martin Shkreli. He liked to paint a picture of "I'll ensure you're only paying a low copay while the insurance companies take the hit for this drug I'm charging exorbitant pricing[1] for", as if customers thought that insurance had a magical money fairy, rather than that money was coming from them (albeit usually indirectly through their employer). Sadly, he was often right - a non-negligible amount of people saw him as an everyday hero, sticking it to the man.

[1] Yes, pharma has R&D costs. Shkreli's company didn't do much R&D though, mostly patent acquisition[2].

[2] "Fun" story about that. New drug comes before the FDA for approval, and it is opened up for comment. Shkreli lodges an objection to approval of this drug.

Why? Because it's unsafe? No - trials thus far have shown it to be safer than the existing drug options.

Why? Because it's less effective? No - it's also been shown to be more effective than existing drugs.

Perhaps it's more expensive? No - cost of R&D and production, and estimated retail costs are expected to be lower than existing drugs.

Huh, odd. So why in this case would Shkreli oppose this drug getting to the market?

The only reason he lodged an appeal with the FDA had nothing to do with the drug, butbecause he and his company had just bought the patent to one of those 'existing drugs' referenced, and this new drug coming to market would crater the demand for his drug, and as a result torpedo the profitability of his investment/gamble.

Fuck Martin Shkreli.
Source? It seems to be doing well (along with "podcasting 2.0") for some (not-crypto-related) podcasts I'm listening to.
For everyone wondering why the google sign in is required it's because the "app" gives you 5 free tokens to play with. It needs to be able to track that and just using google as your identity solution is way easier than rolling your own.
More than likely, a quantum computer over many times the age of the universe won't do it.
It is a violation of privacy.
To paraphrase Schneier: law is a process, not a product. The raw text of statutes and regulations is just one component in the overall system, and there is no amount of contemplating the One True Meaning of the text that will lead to a functional understanding of how that system operates in reality.

(see also [1])

[1] https://xkcd.com/1494/
Also just wanted to add that I made this app in SwiftUI, therefore the links I have added are for SwiftUI. Some of the principles can be applied to any languages though.

I am self taught in SwiftUI and love using it, but am interested in multiplatform development too so if anyone has experience learning both SwiftUI and some other multiplatform language (ex: Flutter, Kotlin Multiplatform, etc.) please let me know.

Thanks!! :)
The article has a couple paragraphs about the complexity involved in fabrication and how labor intensive it is:

“Maus walked me through some of the steps needed to create CAR-T cells for the trial. We started with the room where the DNA instructions that are added to the T cell’s genome are written. […] We went on to the lentiviral-production room, where technicians create viral vectors carrying this DNA. From there, we moved to the tissue-culture room, where the vector is mixed with normal T cells to create the CAR-T. Finally, we visited the immune-monitoring part of the lab, where lab techs assay blood draws and other samples from patients, looking for proof that the CAR-T cells have made it to their targets.”

“Jennifer Wargo, a professor of genomic medicine at MD Anderson, referred to the cost of immunotherapy treatments as ‘financial toxicity.’ The patent for June’s CAR-T therapy for leukemia is owned by Novartis, and the median cost for the treatment is $620,000. Even if drug companies don’t try to profit from these therapies, the process is inherently labor-intensive: T cells have to be removed from the patient’s own blood, genetically altered, then reinfused. It’s difficult to determine where economies of scale might kick in.”
That's rad - thanks for sharing! I'll try to watch the whole thing when I'm not on deadline.

My jewelry work [0] is almost all in Grasshopper, as I've built up such a workflow there over the past... 8 years? that I don't need custom tools for most of it.

But my research work is all about building custom tools in C#. In fact I just finally published my component library yesterday [1]. Frankly I should have released it years ago, but I finally just bit the bullet.

[0] https://Xover0.com
[1] https://www.food4rhino.com/en/app/horta
What happens when your needs change. You down rank say youtube but later you need to look for a specific video. Multiple that by a number of sites. Do you have different profiles? This one is mainstream faag, this one is blogs?
That is how the SC used to work: they would decide cases on the narrowest possible grounds. If they don't have to decide a tough question, but they can finesse it with something simpler, good enough. More recently they have been willing to tear up decades of established law on a regular basis.
>If this is somewhat the case, I would sort of expect insurance companies to be lobbying for the system to be changed, and they seem to have the capital to actually make a difference in that "fight"?

Insurance companies have the opposite incentive. Their profit is, to simplify, a percentage cut of the total amount spent on medical care. If the cost of medical care goes up, they raise rates and the market pays for it (what else is it going to do?) the poor or underemployed or non-traditionally-employed suffer.

They will fight a small amount to keep costs low, but only in a relative sense in that they want to beat their competitors or not pay for one off extremely expensive things.

The middleman to which you give a fixed percentage isn't really all that motivated to get you your best price.
If you want to see which ones you've missed, put this in the JS console:

Els.filter((item) => {return ! Elsguessed.includes(item)})

In Firefox (probably also in other browsers), links in the console are also clickable, so if you want to look any up, printing them as a link may be helpful:

Els.filter((item) => {return ! Elsguessed.includes(item)}).map((item) => {console.log(`https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/${item}`)})

I got to 80 found / 34 remaining (plus, of course, various deprecated tags and some which I'm very surprised were not deprecated such as map). Of the remaining ones, I've used several in the past and would have been able to say what they do... stupid memory is bad at enumeration!
Ask HN: How do you think the FBI gained access to would-be assassin's phone?
Details are scarce on what kind of phone the attacker had and how the FBI gained access to it.
Source: https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/15/24199239/fbi-encryption-phone-trump-shooter-pennsylvania-gained-access
> Does Shannon actually have a concrete definition of "privacy"? Maybe you're confusing it with "perfect secrecy", which is a cryptographic measure I'm not sure applies here.

Perfect secrecy is the standard that a browser calling itself privacy preserving should use. It should give the adversary no information that they don't already have. The concept of browser privacy of course didn't exist when Shannon wrote his paper.

> I'm not aware of how you "round up your enemies" using conversion rate information on websites. It doesn't even tell you how many "specific class of enemy" there is, it's too muddled by the variable of the click rate of the audience.

The adversary can make a statistical estimate before getting the conversion rate, and another one that has been conditioned on the conversion rate. If the two estimates aren't the same, they have gained information, so Shannon secrecy has failed.

Why do you make this so complicated? Mozilla runs this program and if you participate in it, your adversaries benefit from your participation. So do you want to participate? More concretely, what do you think of Mozilla opting you in by default? Which side did they say they were on?
What makes Apple an AdTech company? As far as I'm aware the only ads Apple runs these days are in the App Store, i.e. outside of the browser.
It's a valid HTML tag indicating that its contents are not HTML but instead SVG. The contents of a <script> tag are also not HTML, but we still consider <script> to be an HTML tag.
Interesting, but weirdly written article.

> The Mac, before it was cool.

That caption (of an image of the original Macintosh) also made me wonder. I wasn't born, but I had the impression that there was a lot of hype around the Mac, with the iconic Superbowl ad and everything?

> While the UC-2000 apparently played video games, we can’t imagine how it would have looked like with such a tiny and colorless display.

This was immediately followed by an image of Tetris being played on the watch. No need to imagine, haha.
As a long-time Mercurial user, I'm not entirely convinced. On the one hand, Mercurial's command-line UI is so much better thought-through than git's that the comparison is ridiculous. And mercurial doesn't have an index, yay! (Okay, the ability to, on occasion, stage things is useful, but git's index usually just serves to confuse, even as someone who is also a long-time git user.)

On the other hand, Mercurial's model of the world is IMO fundamentally quite a bit worse than git's. Revision _numbers_ are obnoxious and add negative value. Mercurial's concept of branching is just plain wrong. Mercurial's mq extension is spiffy, but it's far more tedious to use than git rebase -i. Stripping mercurial repositories is a bit scary, and it solves a problem that git never had in the first place.
Where are they going to harvest money from? If people can't work, they can't buy things.
Just so others in this thread are clear: this post is from 2022, but her book just started shipping last week (mine should be arriving today)
Not much to discuss really, I just monkey patched a different metric function, then results for our use case became substantially better after training a model from scratch on the same data compared to the previous euclidean model trained from scratch.

I'm currently working on massive multi agent orchestration so don't have my head in that side of things currently.
Large orgs are often biased towards spending money for things as well rather than being inclined to use free stuff like individual developers tend to.

Anecdotally I've experienced a number of times some exec has proudly announced they've paid for some commercial product for everyone to use because their salespeople have sold it as a silver bullet for some common problem, and then dev teams need to diplomatically explain that there's industry standard open source tooling that's better and nobody wants to use the commercial thing.
I don't think this is fair. It's not like we have great privacy now, and Mozilla is in danger of giving it away; advertisers already fingerprint your browser and tie your traffic back to a real-world identity today. I don't think PPA would help them do that any better at all.

Mozilla's position is, instead of the arms race to hide/identify traffic, if the browser builds in a way to measure conversions that doesn't rely giving up your identity then advertisers have less need of getting at your identity through other means. (And they haven't said this, but I assume the next step is, if advertisers can measure conversions then it becomes easier to envision legal countermeasures in the form of regulation)
Avogadro's constant or number makes things relatively simple as you can treat 1 gram as 1 u and just work in moles. You have 100 grams of something, divide that by u or g and get number of moles of stuff. If you need to add something to react with, just multiply the number you just calculated with u of other stuff and get a minimum amount you need in grams.

It really doesn't matter that you have 6.02214097×10^23 things of something. Moles, grams and atomic units really only matter. You never go to yoctograms(btw defined in 1991). But instead deal with numbers above 1. Which is doable calculating by hand even. Avogadro is there just to tie 1 atomic mass unit to 1 gram.

Technically you could do it all on kilo, hecto, deka, deci, milli, micro moles... Depending on scale you work. As long as you keep it constant... In the end it is just moving the deciman point in the weight.
i agreed with you but the chat is what shines. gave me SOTA answers to how i should solve a set of tickets and problems i was interested in on my codebase
Would appreciate it if you did, be so kind ...
I don't think the terms of the Nvidia SDK can restrict running software without said SDK. Nvidia's libraries don't seem to be involved here. Their hardware isn't involved either. It's just some ascii in a bunch of text files being hacked around with before running on someone else's hardware.
What constitutional crisis has occurred that hasn't been resolved?

Constitutional crises involve fundamental breaks in the working of government that bring two or more of its elements into direct conflict that can't be reconciled through the normal means. The last of these by my accounting was over desegregation, which was resolved with the President ordering the Army to force the recalcitrant states to comply. Before that was a showdown between the New Deal Congress and the Supreme Court, which the former won by credibly threatening to pack the latter (which is IMO a much less severe crisis but still more substantial than anything happening today). However, that was almost a century ago, and Congress has not been that coherent lately.
> where a mix of bots, humans, and accounts that were once humans but aren’t anymore mix together to form a disastrous website where there is little social connection at all

And in the case of zombies, let's not forget the "deadbook" phenomena, which many predicted already back when FB was only picking steam: accounts from dead people, but where others sometimes still comment / upvote / like / tag / whatever.

I remember a post saying "Hey xxx, long time no see, what are you up to?" to someone I knew who was dead more than a year ago.

That was chilling and eerie.
Typed in 4 zeros for the password or borrowed his finger.
How AI Really Works (and Why Open Source Matters)
I'm not really engaging in forensics-style debate. If you don't already know why "fast" is so integral to search as a feature that it goes without mention, I don't think we are enough on the same page to discourse on the topic.
A true labor of love - much respect!

I owned an Amiga 2000 back in the day and learned the C programming language on it.
pdf works! can be useful for summarizing arxiv links here.

feature request: add support for twitter links.
I suspect that if I had the time, I could create a desktop from scratch, but I now believe it would take more years than I have left, and it would be less fun than I want anyway.
I’d never heard that it was designed to frighten children, but it tracks, I have vivid memories of it as a kid!
…and let us know before your company goes public
> The tool was so correctly designed, it didn't give way for something like github to be required for it to work. You only needed someone with an IP and port, and you can get a running host. Have a team near you? Run hg serve and you can collaborate immediately.

Why would Git require "something like github" to work? You can just initialize a repository and give people access via SSH. Done. There's no need to even run a Git specific server.

https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-on-the-Server-Setting-Up-...

> So now we are all stuck with three options: git (github), git (gitlab), and git (bitbucket). Good job, mercurial. You beat git so well, you kicked yourself out the fight.

Bitbucket supported Mercurial for a long time but the support was eventually removed because nobody was using it.

https://bitbucket.org/blog/sunsetting-mercurial-support-in-b...
It's more like your personal blog doesn't get included and is replaced with tiktok, instagram and others. Your blog isn't absolute garbage anymore than some random tiktok video. You are likely to find more garbage now because content comes from large entities.
Microsoft have their production models running on amdgpu. I doubt it was easy but it's pretty compelling as an existence proof
It has been a while since I read any of the books but I feel like this is a thing that is explicitly noted in the text of the books here and there. It's certainly in "A Few Notes On The Culture", a post Banks made to rec.arts.sf.written back in 1994:

"Humans and independent drones (the Culture's non-android individual AIs of roughly human-equivalent intelligence) are unnecessary for the running of the starships, and have a status somewhere between passengers, pets and parasites."

(taken from a copy found at http://www.vavatch.co.uk/books/banks/cultnote.htm)
nice.

here's a slightly shorter version:

javascript:open(`https://hn.algolia.com?dateRange=all&prefix=false&query=story:${location.href.match(/\d+$/)[0]}&sort=byDate&type=comment`)
Or Quartz Composer, the rendering thingy for macOS
You made a bug and security vulnerability generator for Wordpress sites.
Reddit is overflowing with bots, zombies, trolls, zillions of psychotic partisans calling for people to be murdered routinely. Twitter/X similarly has tons of that.

I've unaware that any of the large networks are anything but complete garbage (insert reply comment about how there are a couple great niche subreddits).
Calling this "the missing piece" oversells what it's a missing piece of. I'm not really interested in participating in something like this until other missing pieces are present also.

Most notably, content should be able to cite its sources and I should be able to verify that payment is being split and sent to those sources directly. Sending it all to whoever maintains the server and trusting them to pass it on to the right people feels like a recreation of exactly the problems that crypto micropayments were supposed to solve.

If I rehost some content, I should just be cutting into the server-owner's slice of the pie. Other contributors should get paid just the same. Otherwise you might as well just do paywalls like they currently do paywalls.
> The american people are mostly against israel

I'm afraid you're going to need some support for that statement.

https://www.pewresearch.org/2024/03/21/majority-in-u-s-say-i...

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/americans-views-divided-us-p...
This article is just full of hints. Where is this hardware from? Russia or Ukraine? It's probably not flight hardware, it didn't look like it would survive a lot of vibration.