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We're talking about allowing an "essentially" generic version of an existing FDA approved drug made by licensed compounding pharmacies that has been legally distributed for years due to the shortage. If it's safe enough for people to take in a shortage then it's probably safe enough for people to take in a not shortage.

As always, depends on the law. This is a bright line example of companies breaking the law to the direct tangible benefit of not only their customers but the population at large. Letting Novo Nordisk jack the price back up and deprive the vast majority of Americans access to the greatest good to public health in a century meanwhile is… maybe not the example you should be holding as the law working.

Yes, bootleggers can undercut legit competitors, providing a boon for consumers.

In this case, Novo developed the drug. In your view, why does Hims get credit for "the greatest good to public health in a century" and not the company that sank over $10B into developing Ozempic?

Of course, Novo faces competition from Lilly and every other pharma company in the world and continues to lower prices in the face of this competition.


And they provide a valuable service to their customers, I have a very positive association with various drug dealers I've had over the years. Say what you want but they're literally out on the streets serving their local community. For a more HN example, people in the real world are extremely pro piracy and view the people cracking DRM as doing a public good.

I fully expect the state to take action against the, to me, very obvious will of the people who are actively seeking out and purchasing these products. Clearly folks don't respect the legitimacy of IP rights in the same way they respect property rights since nobody blinks when buying compounded GLP but at the same time wouldn't shoplift at their local BestBuy.

So yeah the government's response isn't surprising but you won't see me cheering them on, and I don't think you should either. You literally stand to lose from it.


Because the point is for the AI to take the prompt, figure out what that prompt means in the context of the code base, and then make an issue that provides additional information.

It's asking the AI to takes its best guess at what you actually have to do to solve/implement the issue using the code that already exists.


Globbing is a matching library. It just means match a/c or b/c if they exist. You should get an iterator of somewhere between zero and two elements.

Sure, but Google isn't maintaining two sets of documentation here, the MCP server is just a thin wrapper around the webpage with a little search tool. So it's still the docs for humans just with a different delivery mechanism. Which is fine, but you can understand when hypertext exists largely for this exact purpose folks would find it odd and over complicated to reinvent the web over jsonrpc for robots.

This article is super weird because it's looking at an issue from orbit where the only things you can see are vague things like "funding" where the problem is on the ground and probably can't be solved by the levers available from orbit. The lesson of funding having arguably no effect on outcomes should either be that we genuinely don't know what improves outcomes or that we do but schools are lighting money on fire buying other things.

It means the problem is unfortunately local and you have to actually go to the schools and see what the issue is. Based on what my former HS spent money on I figure we will eventually find some commonalities:

* New computer labs, laptops, digital textbooks, learning software licenses, smart boards, and other and other expensive crap that is at best neutral from a learning perspective.

* Pointless building improvements that don't service education but instead service the prestige and egos of the administrators of the schools.

* Chronic long-term understaffing and light-speed "just get through it" lesson plans that makes teachers not give a shit, and powerless to do better even if they do.

I think "just blame the administrators" is too easy a cop-out because I've yet to meet one who isn't also underpaid and dying of stress. Although maybe I just don't have access to the real higher ups.


>> * New computer labs, laptops, digital textbooks, learning software licenses, smart boards, and other and other expensive crap that is at best neutral from a learning perspective.

I think we should be actively removing these things from schools, but it's a tough fight as parents against an entire well-funded EdTech industry pushing these things with a firehose of VC money.

>> * Pointless building improvements that don't service education but instead service the prestige and egos of the administrators of the schools.

This makes me crazy. We have a very fancy, very large new school building my city which is LEED platinum certified. I can't possibly imagine that that certification level is cost effective. I'm sure we could have built a very good school with a healthy safe learning environment and environmentally conscious decisions for heating, cooling, power, etc. for significantly less if the city were willing to forego the press release headline. This is also a really hard problem that pits taxpayers against a well-funded industry full of lobbyists.

Both of these can be traced back to the principal agent problem, which really is blaming the administrators, because they're making decisions and then don't have to deal with the consequences (actually integrating and using EdTech in a classroom, paying more taxes for the same or worse education, etc.).


Well yeah because investigative journalism and original reporting outside of the spectacle of buying a plane ticket to a warzone or weather disaster to the reporter can have a dramatic background is too expensive when people come to you in droves with literally pre-written articles you can rubber stamp and publish.

Which by the way if you ever want to get in the paper that's how, it's super easy. AI will help you learn how to write in the right tone/voice for news if you don't know how.


Meanwhile in real life IG and TikTok ads are the only ones normal people seem to generally trust. I've only ever heard people talking about getting Instagram or TikTok ads for things and actually buying them in a way that would sound genuinely jarring if they said "an ad on Google."

I think there's something to be said for how IG and TikTok ads are actually made that makes them more appealing which is that they actually try to be worthwhile content to watch in a way banner ads and TV commercials just aren't.


My IG ads are so extremely personalized with every detail of my life it's both extremely creepy because I volunteered none of this data, and very useful because they are showing me things I might want to buy.

I genuinely wish they would flip it around and put me in the driver's seat. I would easily turn to a "Meta Product Search" over search engines or Amazon or whatever.

I like only getting *.domain for this reason. No expectation of hiding the domain but if they want to figure out where other things are hosted they'll have to guess.

That’s really not a great fix. If those hostnames leak, they leak forever. I’d be surprised if AV solutions and/or windows aren’t logging these things.

So how do you get this ?

Let's Encrypt can issue wildcard certs too

For your actual production systems you might consider systemd-creds along with the LoadCredential= and LoadCredentialEncrypted= directives which do the* right thing. Nothing is exposed and credentials are placed in non-swappable memory. You can even have your credentials encrypted at rest with your system's TPM.

* Well, one of the correct ways of doing this.


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