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> drugmakers don’t have to participate in the negotiations so the federal government is not forcing them to turn over their patented medications

It is a negotiation. Drugmakers can negotiate prices, or refuse and lose access to the single largest purchaser of medication in the United States.

It is ridiculous that drug companies expect tax payers to just accept whatever astronomical prices they feel like charging while private insurers are allowed to negotiate deals.

The Websocket connection did stop updating a few times when your site was getting the HN hug.

You could push an updated list to Cloudflare KV every few seconds and have the front end poll it from there for cheap and near unlimited scalability.

Yeah, API arms race is definitely the next step. I’ll put up with reduced functionality or just stop using Reddit on mobile.

Worst case scenario is just web scraping Reddit and serving up to 3rd party clients as read only.

I am a Plus subscriber. Can’t even find a way to sign up for a waitlist.

I have been unable to find the Code Interpreter plug-in, it is not in the plug-in list or model list. How do I gain access to it?

My simplified understanding is that mainframes take vertical OLTP scaling AND system redundancy to the absolute extreme.

In any other computer your small number of general purpose CPUs have to handle all the business / application logic plus disk IO, network IO, cryptography, system housekeeping, etc. On a mainframe all those other things are offloaded to specialized coprocessors and the actual business logic gets nearly 100% of the cycles on hundreds of special purpose high frequency water cooled business logic CPUs running at 5+GHz.

Also any component can fail and be replaced without downtime or lost transactions. CPUs, RAM chips, entire motherboards, anything at all. You can rebuild it online while your transactions continue. Transactions can be run in duplicate across multiple hardware paths to ensure they are never lost and also verify output correctness.

If you set out to build a database server that handles 100 million transactions per hour and never ever goes down, you would end up with a mainframe.

31. Hodes and Mostaque confirmed Dr. Waseem's 10% equity interest in written messages to each other.

33. Since Stability Al had cash flow issues and fell behind in paying its outside counsel, Mostaque told Dr. Waseem that Stability AI would wait to formally document Dr. Waseem's equity interest until the company received additional financing.

I don't believe for a second that a hedge fund boss conveniently failed to record a 10% equity share by accident.

AWS spot g5 or Vultr fractional A40 with an Ansible playbook to set up Stable Diffusion, drivers, etc.

Copilot also runs a small model on the users machine to quickly provide simple predictions.

The CVEs are for CentOS Stream 9, not the RHEL derived CentOS 7 or Rocky/Alma 8/9. If the RHEL derived distributions were patched but not Stream it would seem that IBM-RedHat's promises about CentOS Stream being just as good are now provably false.

It is still the case. This team went deep into benchmarking mobile chipset power efficiency, Exynos does not do well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0ukXDnWlTY

There are multiple IMAX screen types. The full size giant IMAX you'll find at theme parks and such, the medium size, and then a small watered down faux-IMAX that theaters can retrofit into existing facilities.

Dolby Atmos competes with medium IMAX, I forget which is better but they are both miles ahead of a typical theater screen. The entire room has to be designed for certification from the ground up to ensure optimal picture and acoustic properties to every seat. Also the sound and projection hardware required for certification is significantly better than what theaters typically buy.

Let’s say this did happen, and Netflix responded by moving all their EU traffic to 3rd party CDNs. What then? Would ISPs start going after Akamai and such for the same compensation?

If the media URL is totally opaque (Akamai domain, encrypted binary file) I don’t think they would even be able to prove it’s Netflix traffic.

This is why I prefer to watch films on a Dolby Atmos or 2D laser IMAX screen. These outside bodies certify that projection and sound are built and operated to a quality specification.

You can find them in your local market if you do some research, most theaters do not have them and if they do it's only 1 of their screens. Theater chains do advertise them as a premium experience and reserve them for whatever the current big hit film is.

Corporate theater chains don’t care about fidelity, this is the only way to get a quality experience from their facilities.

I think "custodians" in this case means the administrators of the chat system. It was within their power to preserve this data, and they did not do so.

Because it would interfere with Google's data collection and so they don't want you to have it. Instead of having disposable browsing containers they make Chrome itself automatically log into your Google account, then offer to continuously upload all of your browsing data via Google Chrome Sync. It's an anti-privacy user story.

There is some irony in this as Discord runs on Google Cloud.

Another vote for Startech here. I needed to find a USB hub that could drive 10-20 USB 1.1 devices at full USB 1.1 speed, Startech was one of the few manufacturers to build such a device AND provide the detailed specifications I needed to verify the feature.

Why does HN run such a low resource site on a single bare metal server (plus identical backup) in the first place? 2x E5-2637 v4 is not that much CPU power these days.

An IaaS VM from the same vendor (M5 Hosting) would provide equivalent resources with much higher reliability. What benefit is 2 bare metal servers providing over a single properly sized VM in a managed resource pool with SAN backed storage?

I don't think it saves any money, and when those bare metal servers suffered identical hardware failures from a firmware bug HN was down for most of a day and temporarily migrated to an IaaS provider anyway (AWS).

Except now you require 2 machines and internet access instead of just one machine. You could offload your VMs before too. Keeping them all local and working offline are still important capabilities.

The upgrades aren’t even substantial. The CPU, RAM, and fan are all original parts. You could’ve ordered this exact configuration from Lenovo. The only deviation from stock is the AC WiFi upgrade.

I daily drive a T530, it was max spec already so I haven’t changed anything. It has more than enough power to do software dev.

This will just push people towards independently operated forums (Tesla Motors Club) and Reddit, which is already the norm for other car subcultures.

Most discussion already happens on enthusiast run platforms dedicated to one manufacturer or even specific models/years.

That sounds elegant for IO, but I wonder how device level security is handled, out of band management, and firmware updates.

MacOS AMI images, EBS disks, VPC networking, 10gbps ENA. Bare metal only, Intel available now, M1 coming soon. This is another game changer.

The post says they’re based on Mac Minis, but also use AWS Nitro. Is this custom AWS specific hardware?

What you are noticing is the RedHat “upstream first” policy, and it’s very practical. They try to minimize RedHat specific modifications and instead contribute improvements directly to the original projects.

This reduces the amount of code they are responsible for maintaining, and everyone involved gets the benefit of open source collaboration.

They have a blog post about it here:

https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/what-open-source-upstream

This isn’t a “lack of information security”, the whole point of transponders is the broadcast your aircraft identity and position.

Having to coordinate with every ATC jurisdiction along a flight path would be extra work and leave room for errors.

Additionally it wouldn’t work for flights that don’t have a planned route, like a civil aviation pilot who’s just cruising.

It’s akin to having a license plate on your car.

Dell can sell you a workstation with dual CPUs, dual GPUs, 3TB of ECC RAM, and a combination of up to 8 NVMe disks or 10 SATA/SAS disks. And the entire thing (including disks) can be covered by an onsite warranty that will send a technician, with parts, to your location within 4 hours, 24/7, for up to 7 years.

You cannot get those specs, or anything near that warranty, from commodity desktop hardware.

According to ESA Galileo satellites have a different orbit which improves accuracy in the high latitudes of Northern Europe when compared to GPS.

Also the system is designed to be a primary reference, not just a GPS backup, and European taxpayers have paid €10 Billion for it. For that much money it should work correctly.

https://www.esa.int/Applications/Navigation/Galileo/Why_Euro...

I think the QWERTY analogy quoted in the article is perfect. QWERTY is on typewriters, computers, and smartphones. Same interface, completely different implementations. And this is technology that everyday people are familiar with.

I don’t think the 100ms limit is to prevent competition, it’s near the max recommended latency for VOIP and video conferencing. Both of these are important for rural Americans to have access to.