skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s not false that doctors worry that. Doctors worry that single payer system will reduce their salaries. They’re an easy political target. They’re rich and (in this hypothetical case) their salary would come from the taxpayers. Taxpayers don’t like expensive salaries.

It’s irrelevant how much of the budget it is. It’s about perception and power. If you try to cut soap in the operating room or other supplies, you’ll look bad for endangering the patient. If you try to cut procedures you’ll look bad. If you try to cut doctor salaries, those “overpaid” doctors look bad for complaining.

Doctors have a reputation in america for being extremely well paid. If you tel people making $60k a year that their tax bill for medical costs could be lower if you reduce it by taking $50k from a doctor making $500k (taxpayer dollars!) they’ll support that. Even if it’s not a big amount.

Reducing healthcare spending 3% without any systemic change in medical treatments or equipment or negotiation with pharmaceutical companies is a huge and easy win.
it's about atomic commits. every commit should be a smallest possible self contained change. but tbh I also often do it at the same time, and if one is hard to untangle from the other during the commit, I just commit them together. to me, that's the lesser evil than not doing the refactor.
Seems more oriented to (potential) contributors than end users of the packaging system. Who cares about mission statements and inclusivity, secure funding and pay developers to make the tools.
CIA and MI6 and their "government website cyber attack", something about the west smells very bad, tasteless strategy
I'm not sure I agree here, because the manager has the ability to impact all those other hours.

A good manager helps remove the hurdles that will make those 40+ hours immensely more productive. A bad manager adds to those hurdles, potentially whittling productive hours to nothing.
My pet theory is that the problems which people often associate with government have nothing to do with the difference between government and private business at all and are simply a product of organisation size. The logic that a small number of decisions makers directing a large amount of labour/capital leads to inefficiencies due to a decision-making bottleneck certainly seems to apply to both (and indeed to wealthy individuals beyond a certain level of wealth).
"...actual smart people can make real contributions in non-engineering roles."

Can they? Certainly. Do they? Well, not as often as you might like.

I used to work for a government contractor who had what I liked to think of as a "butts in seats" strategy. The contractor got paid by taking something like 50% off the top of what the customer paid for the employees (back when I was a contractor in industry, that was more like 15% but that is neither here nor there). The "complexity and nuance" that goes into running that business for a maximal profit involves keeping the direct customers happy---and they're managers, not users---while having as many employees as possible. You need to ride the line between leaving money on the table and having so much broken that higher levels of the customer start to get upset. Laying down narratives is a very important part of that process.

This isn't, however, limited to government contracting. I've ridden quite a few projects into the ground in industry because the goals and incentives of Product Managers, Program Managers, etc., were not aligned with the goal of a successful project simply because there are many ways to be a successful manager and a track record of successful products is not the easiest.

Yes, they were all smart people. Many were even likable, skilled leaders. But if your goal as an engineer is to be part of a successful product and not to be a well-rewarded part of a successful manager's organization, then you will not be happy. Is that what you mean by "professional immaturity"?
Any modern examples? It seems cheaper and more effective to capture regulators—that’s what’s been happening in practice.
A collection of malicious eBPF programs that make use of eBPF's abilities
Framework is the only laptop I will consider purchasing in the future, for sure.
Maybe here (Italy) it is different, but AFAIK you need to login to the bank in order to do anything like changing the phone or the phone number, i.e. the 2FA is sent for confirmation (on the old phone) only after you are logged in/authenticated (and this needs access credentials+2FA).
how did they know it is coming from Iran ? Did they look at the IP package header ?
Iran Has Enough Uranium Near Weapons-Grade for a Bomb, IAEA Finds
This may be an unusual recommendation but a music subscription service such as Spotify, Tidal or Apple Music.

Music helps me personally to be way more productive when working on IT problems.
“Quiet quitters” make up at least 50% of the U.S. workforce, Gallup finds
Sharp doesn't make mechanical pencils, so far as I know. I'd also be sort of surprised if Panasonic made lightbulb sockets.

To your broader point, though, it's true that most of the major Japanese conglomerates have amusing/modest origins and have accrued side-businesses over time until they became goliaths.

It's still interesting that a company like Panasonic began with something so mundane. Other than a few cases like IBM (which began as separate companies making time clocks and card punchers), it's not that common a story in the western market.
> and then during the summer, would convert excess energy to a long-term storage

Like this ? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity_battery
Linked in learning is only $26.99 a month if you pay annually. If you have a university email try logging into O'Reilly with it. It it works for me.
I feel like I've been able to detect these, e.g. examine the writing and note that each letter is exactly the same every time it appears -- real people don't write that precisely. Though I'm sure that some random variation would not be difficult to introduce.

Bottom line it's like anything else -- if I don't know the person who sent it to me, I don't trust it. Automated handwriting is just more big-tech destruction of yet another facet of human to human communications.
According to wikipedia, electrolysis has an efficiency of about 70%, with a theoretical limit of 94%. Cracking water will always require more energy than it will produce, i.e. there is no free lunch.

The point of electrolysis is that it could be used as "clean energy storage" for other clean energy (e.g., solar). Hydrogen gas can be moved long distances, unlike other storage options that are more stationary (like a hydroelectric dam), and has higher energy density (120 MJ/kg for what I can find online) then even the best batteries available (2.54 MJ/kg for Lithium-ion nanowire?).
Tangential question: I know that wiretapping laws in many states require everyone to be notified if a recording is being made. Does anyone know if the same applies to a transcription?
According to Chomsky, the crucial fact about Iran that one should begin with is that, in the past 65 years not a day has passed that Iran has not been tortured by US (via sanctions, constant threats of being bombed, etc). The roots of the conflict date back to the decades following the WWII. Its democratic parliamentary government was overthrown in 1953 by CIA (when it sought independence, not following US orders), replaced with Shah’s regime. Credibility must be maintained; godfather cannot permit independence; so Iran had to be punished. Then, there was war with Iraq and support of West for Saddam. Following 8 years of devastating war, Iran was immediately punished by harsh economic sanctions that further destroyed its economy over the course of several decades. Iran responded seeking development of nuclear weapons, presumably as a deterrence strategy (Iran is surrounded by hostile nuclear powers in the region: Israel, Russia and Pakistan). Iranian scientists linked to its nuclear program have been frequently assassinated in public inside Iran. There have been sophisticated cyber and physical attacks on its nuclear program. The number 2-3 person in the country (head of the army) was killed by a missile a couple of years ago. Iran implemented the the nuclear agreement; as soon as its program was dismantled and its stockpile of uranium was taken out of the country, US pulled out of the agreement and doubled down on sanctions!

Albany is hosting a military group that plans and conducts physical operations inside Iran (for whatever benefits it has received). A cyberattack is a minimal response, frankly.
Great question, would be great to have a general "HN for other professions" thread!

One that I can share is econjobrumors.com, but I also have to strongly warn about it. It's a forum for econ PhD students and academics to discuss the academic job market, but unfortunately, due to its no-sign-up anonymous posting feature and looser moderation policy than HN, it's been taken over to some extent by right-wing trolls - it's even made the news at one point about how it might drive minorities and women out of the profession, that's how bad it was (is?). But last time I checked (a few years ago) it was still very active and even used by young academics from other disciplines (especially math) to discuss their job market, and I saw several "Is there an EJMR for Y?" posts, indicative that there were useful signals for people on the academic job market between all the noise.
I think its a bit of a resources curse. Google+ goes live and instantly they have tens to hundreds of millions of users.

If you bootstrapped a social media company and you have that many users, you'd likely read it as a signal that you're doing something right. But with Google that's baked in to their brand and connections with existing services. So it takes a lot of skill to tease out signal from noise. How many people actually find this valuable and how can we iterate? Again, its relatively straight forward for most companies by tracking a few key metrics, but with Google the dataset it just polluted.

It also wasn't existential for their survival. If Facebook failed, it would have brought down everything, so they were very much invested in the product and geared all resources to ensure survival. With Google+ it was just a feather in the cap and not a priority
Yes, but in the video it's mapped differently. Gyro left and right looks left and right, but gyro up and down walks forwards and backwards.
Not just that but it was launched _after_ google videos (January 25, 2005 vs February 14, 2005)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Video

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube
> he drives to the Google parking lot on a weekend and finds no one there.

Not true! People were there to use the free laundry machines and the Fitness Centers. And even eat at the one cafe that was open.
It could also not count as wiretapping, since it's about transcription, not about audio recordings.

If the transcription service's presence in the call isn't hidden from other participants, is it still wiretapping?
In Teams at least, it's called transcription, but really it's captioning. It's not recorded unless you also turn on recording.
I'd argue it's not enough. If you're using ZFS, you may notice a corrupt file during a monthly scrub. If you're not using ZFS, you may only find out years into the future, when the backups are long gone.

For accidental deletions, 7 days is indeed most likely fine.
I agree — I think often where there is a prolonged failure of democratic government it is a result of insufficient attention to updating the education of the voting population.
Stochastic Terrorism is an absolutely ridiculous concept, that no one who thought it through, rather then throwing it around as vague, general justification for censorship could take seriously.

Any act of terrorism, of politically motivated violence, can be blamed many different speech acts, through which the terrorist formed his ideology. Knowing that people commit acts of terror for all sorts of reasons, that there were for example assasination attempts against every US president - is every criticism of a president stochastic terror?

It's even more ridiculous in this context, because cloudflare protects the websites of actual, literal terrorists.
My wishlist:

We need a way to configure an ordered list of indexes pip searches for packages. —extra-index-url or using a proxy index is not the solution.

Also namespaces and not based on a domain. So for example: pip install apache:parquet

Also some logic either in the pip client or index server to minimize typosquatting

Also pip should adopt a lock file similar to npm/yarn. Instead of requirements.txt

And also “pip list” should output a dependency tree like “npm list”

I should not have to compile source when I install. Every package should have wheels available for the most common arch+OS combos.

Also we need a way to download only what you need. Why does installing scipy or numpy install more dependencies than the conda version? For example pywin and scipy.
You can increase efficiency without cutting people.
More packages in the standard library means it can run in less machines and more extra junk needs to be installed.

Minimal standard library languages let you pick and choose what needs to be run. Golang is a nice happy medium since it’s compiled.
macOS added this to the OS

https://www.maketecheasier.com/enable-live-captions-ios-maco...

Google meet also has it built in on the client.

Edit: previously incorrectly linked to https://support.apple.com/en-au/guide/mac-help/mchlc1cb8d54/...
I was born in Miami and I would say its become far more accessible, specifically fantasy sports betting.

Maybe Miami isn't a great example, but you had every form available, cock fighting, dog fighting, grey hound racing, horse racing, dice, cards, illegal street racing...

Any event that brought people together had its gambling, it just wasn't available in an app.

My guess is the apps have actually reduced the amount of gambling in these other areas (both illegal and legal).
> despise looking for libraries, trying to install them, evaluating their fitness, and so on.

This is exactly why I prefer the larger opinionated web frameworks (Django, Vue.js) to the smaller more composable frameworks (Flask, React). I don’t what to make decisions every time I need a new feature, I want something that “just works”.

Python and Django just work, and brilliantly at that!
I think you're confusing justice for politics.
The big secret is most engineers would be better off moving into management ASAP. It pays better, less intellectually demanding, and is far easier than claimed. Management failures are often pinned to their direct reports.
You guys must also think 50 cent always carries guns as big as an adult human, Ice Cube has literally shot bullets into the sun, and Ludacris never drives under 100mph. Al is satirizing hyperbole in rap music. The stream of implausible claims is why the song is funny- 100gb of hard drive space wouldn't have fit with the song at all.

Also, plenty of people were actually using computers with 100gb of ram in the late 90s. ASCI Red at Sandia had 1,212gb of ram in 1997. Blue Gene/L, which they were building when this song came out had 16,000gb of ram and was designed to be upgradeable to as much as 128,000gb - even much more if the node quantity were maxed as well.
I guess this is the answer... but honestly would hate having something that barely fits in my pocket around... I suppose sdcards are the new floppys but they are much too small, not to mention that they could stop being writable at any moment, but I guess its better than both...
Yep, that's correct. Difftastic is only a syntactic analysis, although it often makes the semantic intent clearer.
At least in Japan loads of stores are doing this (through requiring point card use, lots of history, and ID checks)

It’s not at all perfect but it did mean I was able to “just” get a PS5 the other day
Not sure why you're being downvoted for this comment I think this is right.
Where do economies of scale come from? Part II
Trimming the fat can be used to also be net zero in employment loss. E.g. cutting projects that are not going to make money and reinvest the effort from Engineers into extending more impactful (profitable?) products.
Discussion of Part I: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32614756
Pre reading: Is it because VC funded company needs to show returns ?

https://www.crunchbase.com/funding_round/typesafe-series-d--...

post-reading: ...probably
"virtualenvs suck, why can't it be like NPM?" is a specific problem and a specific solution. The problem being having to manage venvs (which have many gotchas and pitfalls, and no standarization), and the solution is to replace those with packages being installed into the project folder with standardized and well-known tools.
With higher NOx emissions, come higher generator efficiency. Anyway, you can control both on your combustion chamber, so the claim for open fires does really not apply.
A manager often isn't even an engineer, and a lead engineer often doesn't have a manager role.

Edit: To clarify lead engineer, they have authority over technical decisions, not people management.
Did you ever check out Tildes? If you’re interested (or anyone else), send me an email for an invite :)
So they are entirely fine with distributing pirated material, but a forum is too much? Reminds me to never to donate to them. I won't support censorious fascists.
Again? Last time this happened was 12 - 13 hours ago [0]

If you are self-hosting like GNOME, wireguard, Redox OS, Wine, etc it seems it is business as usual. But for those who went all in on GitHub, it's pretty much a recurring disaster.

At this point, those who are self-hosting might as well say they have better up-time than GitHub had since they are still unreliable even after two years of warning against the 'centralize everything' [1] nonsense.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32744717

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22867803
> Is it really bait and switch if the company has a contributor/committer license agreement in place?

Even without the CLA, it was permissively licensed. Having your code rolled into a proprietary product is always a possibility you're consenting to when you contribute code under such a license.
Does this or other discoveries give us any better estimates for terms in the Drake equation?
The largest windows didn't have shades, but some did. We'd also use free standing shades to help keep specific areas cool.

Some of the features of RMI's Carbondale office would probably be worth considering as part of a more thoughtful design.

Also, you're correct that there was never a need to store energy for months on end, at least at our latitude.
You can always do ' _ = your_varible', don't have to comment individuals
Looks like the system uses standard tanks. There's probably a scheduled tank replacement schedule.
suppose we have the tech to travel at a significant fraction of light speed, how long will it take for the spacecraft to reach that speed and similarly how long will it take to slow down when you are approaching a target planet?
This drives me bonkers. 10 years ago, I could easily place a call to my mom from Gmail. This was easy, and importantly, easy for her to figure out.

This endless parade of chat and video things that don't work very well is just nonsense.

'Meet' required an email invitation. So we went from clicking a button in Gmail itself to having to sit there and send an email.

This Duo thing doesn't autocomplete email addresses that are in your contacts.

And it ALL WORKED FINE 10 years ago! It's not like they're moving in fits and starts towards something that works. They had something that worked, and just utterly wrecked it.
There will have to be a chapter devoted to this topic in my (fictional) book: "A Dictator's Guide: Your Next Step After Being Fired from Corporate America for Being A Sociopath". ;-)
Did you even read what he wrote? In case it's not clear: The "genocide" you're talking about (which, btw, there was never a genocide that's pure hyperbole) is now happening to white people. If you found the former disgusting, you're forced to find the current state also disgusting.
Stopping in ports costs time and money (port space is limited, mooring in open ocean isn‘t a good idea if you can help it), which was one of the big reasons ships quickly dropped coal in favor of liquid fuels.

I don‘t know that putting heavy batteries on the top of the ship is a great idea. A lot of work already goes into making sure a ship is not too top heavy.

Fuel costs dominate aviation and shipping. If it were physically possible to not rely on a fuel with huge price volatility it would be nice. Unfortunately battery airplanes seem right now to be limited to replacing single engine planes on small short hops like Boston to Martha‘s Vineyard.
You can use difftastic as your default git diff tool, but you can also use it as an opt-in diffing tool. I recommend using it as an opt-in, but defining a git alias so you can do 'git difft'.

https://difftastic.wilfred.me.uk/git.html has docs.
Infant mortality (but that's also tricky because of differences in reporting between countries), cancer survival rates.

Life expectancy is a particularly bad metric to use to compare health care systems, because it's heavily influenced by (1) how much people drive, (2) how much violent crime there is, and (3) how much drug addiction the country has. None of those are health care metrics.

I don't believe there's any credible critic of American health care that premises their complaint on America delivering bad health care. We deliver pretty excellent health care, and we deliver it faster than a lot of countries with better health care outcomes. We are in many places in the US overprovisioned for care (by measurements like empty hospital beds, or overprescription of elective procedures). The chief complaint about American health care is how expensive it is, not how good it is.

That distinction is especially important because getting costs down may involve confronting the ways American care is better than it needs to be or should be. For instance: we do a lot more elective surgeries than countries with better outcomes, in part because we do them outpatient here, and they're inpatient (a much bigger deal) elsewhere. For example, my understanding is you're much more likely to get a hernia repaired (probably needlessly) here than in the UK.
Free markets require a government - to prevent use of private police forces to enforce their business by violating the rights of others.
The $50000 [chess] game (2007)
I think the "resource curse" hypothesis is interesting, but there's also a simpler explanation: social networking is an _extremely_ sticky, winner-take-all market.

Google+ isn't the only competitor to fail to unseat Facebook. I think that says far more about Facebook than it does about Google+.
Can you actually tell the OS something like that?
Sabbatical Stories: Zhalisa
It is not prohibited for an individual to maintain a foreign bank account in India but capital controls (FEMA) applies and banks providing services to Indian residents might need to comply with regulatory framework.

It's the same in most countries. The regulatory burden may be different but banking presence is required in the country if you are serving domestic market at scale.

Indian residents can open HSBC expat account domiciled on the jersey island as an example.
There's a very wide gap in what needs to be covered as a result of this consideration!

Disaster recovery/business continuity? Absolutely, you need it documented so that someone 'off the street' could be helpful.

Implementing yet another service gateway? Probably going to take a lot of conversations with people familiar with the streets involved.

Auditors won't care until it's realized. They'll want things like interconnection diagrams -- painting a picture so they can follow your adherence.

We have very high compliance requirements where I work -- about half of my time is spent on it.

They're less worried about how the bread is made, more that you can keep making bread the way you say you do.
I imagine bikeshedding galore lol.