skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have noticed several people in my life seeming to vastly overestimate the cost of getting healthcare through the healthcare.gov exchanges. If you leave your job, you can just do that. It’s much cheaper than the COBRA price, which I think people are looking at. For many people, it shouldn’t be a huge problem to get insurance this way. (I would still prefer single-payer!)
> Honestly, I don't really understand why they aren't already: they clearly violate the 4/5ths rule. And it's hard for me to believe that some enterprising lawyer hasn't already brought suit under this theory.

My guess is because 'not having a college degree' is not any kind of protected class. Not an immutable characteristic. It is a behavior choice. Do we really want to get the gov't involved in telling private companies what qualifications they can require for a particular job?
Yes, but the foreign students pay full price, AFAIK.
This means more investment into technologies that lock down a general computer and give continuous surveillance and control to the maker. Likely those restrictions will creep out of this low-cost niche to the rest of PC ecosystem.

Installing Linux on a laptop with secure boot was a bad experience, and I dread to imagine how much worse it can be made. For me a PC is only useable with Linux. But it is impossible to get rid of Microsoft influence - they dictate what PC hardware gets to the market.
Eh, that number is misleading.

SLAC National Accelerator, a National Lab that Stanford happens to run, employs about 1,600 people. They don't necessarily need to interact with students; other national labs are run by corporations (e.g., Sandia is run by Honeywell).

Stanford has a massive medical system, including an adult and children's hospital. They are teaching hospitals, and so part of the point is to train medical students and residents, but they also need all the staff of a regular (actually, top-of-the-line) hospital: doctors, nurses, techs, porters, billing, payroll, etc.

On top of that, Stanford also has a massive research program funded by grants from (e.g.,) the NIH, NSF, and DOD This requires people to actually do the research (heavily-funded profs rarely teach, plus postdocs and research scientists) and support it (animal health techs, machinists, etc). There is also a lot of bureaucracy involved in getting, doing, and accounting for that work. It certainly depends—in part—on grad student labor, but it's also not directly linked.

All in all, big research-intensive universities do a lot more than classroom education and the staff sizes reflect that. I'm sure there's room for improvement (I work at one and purchasing is currently a nightmare), but staff/students is not a great metric.
The important point here is that this puts a big decision in front of people before they get started, rather than treating this as something more like a post-signup engagement vehicle.

For general adoption, every ounce of friction has to be removed from signup.

Furthermore, reading the docs here[1]:

> Before you sign up for a service, it is important to understand its policies and terms of use. A Mastodon website will usually have its policies listed on the /about/more page, which can be found by clicking “learn more” on the landing page while not logged in to that website.

Every server can have different terms?

> Mastodon allows website administrators to set one of three different signup modes

:facepalm:

[1] https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/signup/
Covid is peaking in China now. It’s like April 2020 for them.
Large stone fruit pits (virtually all of them, but especially apricots) contain amygdalin, a substance that your body converts to (poisonous) cyanide as you digest it. Depending on the quantity you ingest, this can be lethal.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20196932/

Some hippies I know were powdering the apricot kernels (aka pits) and feeding them to themselves and their family “for organic health reasons” and almost killed their little boy accidentally as a result. They warned me so that I never did the same.
I think stories like the twitter refiring should say (posted 5 minutes ago)
Petrol stations. There are a few available in the uk. Sadly i could only find one hybrid car for sale, a toyota mirai.
I'd love to take a bullet train from SF to LA. I make the trip every two or three months for work and just hoping on a train and zoning out would be far nicer than running through buses/light rail/airport security/cramped airplane/etc.

Distance would be pretty similar to the Tokyo to Osaka leg of the Tokaido shinkansen. Total time would probably be similar. I left my apartment 3.5 hours before I arrive in SoCal. Hour and a half on public transit, 30 minute buffer for flight, 30 minute boarding time, 60 minute flight.
When I play Kerbal Space Program, which runs in mono, it uses the full 96W and doesn’t even charge the battery. Calculating that delta v is that hard.
But they could. You can't run your own twitter instance and communicate with other Twitter users.
I'd rather be competent in roughly 3 areas than spread myself thin across 10-20+ disciplines. Nothing wrong with being a generalist, but be aware of the opportunity cost of not being able to hone a skill and achieve full mastery of it.
> Americans don't really do electric kettles, largely on account of using 110V mains, which limits power to around 1100W

Most sources I can find indicate the usual (but not maximum) draw of US electric kettles 1500W, and checking a few popular models confirms that 1500W is common.
This is kind of fascinating. I’m not a Covid denier or anything along those lines, but a zero covid policy at this point (widely available vaccinations, clear endemic status) just seems like a crazy policy. Like maybe the craziest thing I’ve heard of from modern China
IQ is largely out of fashion due to some very uncomfortable truths about it… It is indeed still the best predictor of success. It is also very innate and genes have a lot of influence on it. Not much that can be done with equity about it.
This is why NIH forbids the use of its genetic data for research on intelligence (and several other topics).
Everything I have seen and read would seem to indicate that China's Government is drunk on the extra power and control their "Zero-COVID" policy gives them; they don't seem keen on giving that power up.

COVID doesn't even matter.
Here's another trade-off: performance in cold weather. This coming from someone expecting a low of -18C tonight, and winter doesn't officially start for over another month.

"The manager also points to another advantage that will save costs in the manufacture of vehicles: the fuel cell generates heat that can be used both to replace the car’s heating and air conditioning, which would also mean greater energy savings"

Cold weather is really hard on batteries and can significantly impact range. On top of that is the extra draw on the batteries to run the heater necessary to keep the occupants from freezing. The one upside of the gasoline engine's inefficiency is harnessing the heat it gives off to keep the interior warm. The amount of heat that requires at highway speeds on a -35C day is... substantial.
TikTok’s stratospheric rise: An oral history
The $8 program giving the same checkmark has NO verification except a valid credit card. None. Zero. Zilch.
The American solution to something being too expensive is to spend twice as much money on it.
So when he's bragging that severance is larger than it had to be, it's basically a lie?
Hello from Berlin, Germany. Currently spending my days mostly learning for exams and doing homework. I hate every second of it. Not because I'm opposed to learning stuff. But because I just think other topics are way more interesting and useful for me in the future. Every time I sit there and try to memorize something that I really don't see any value in, I feel such a loss of a lifetime. I just think of all the things I could do instead...
(theoretically I could drop out, but I don't have the courage right now)

Honestly, I'm passionate about all those fun little niche coding projects I have written in my notebook and want to work on. But I don't really have the time to develop my beginner-skills to the extent I would like to, for me being able to build them.

If anyone is in a situation where he has uniquely more than average free time. Please use this time to develop a skill, you'll be grateful for it, I can guarantee.
Social media has a lifetime value. It will go from one company to the next.
We've gone through this though in the west already. Vaccines + milder strains. I would say that in Canada over the last 6 months or so some very large % of the population got Covid ( >50% ?) but because of vaccination and immunity the number of deaths was smaller than it's been in the early stages of the pandemic with severe restrictions (since no vaccines, less effective treatment options, original strain and Delta were a lot more severe).

Either China is dealing with another strain which doesn't seem super likely or their strategy defies logic. Maybe it's a way of suppressing political dissent. Who knows.
I think this might be better for c/c++ though admittedly a bit more cryptic:

(x>>1) + (y>>1) + (0x01 & x & y)
Per Harvard's page linked above: "Foreign students have the same access to financial aid funding as U.S. citizens."
This is funny and true. The competition and prices all originate from elite institutions.

I wonder if it legal to completely clone a curriculum? Like could you clone an MIT EECS education? Down to the coursework? Or alternatively - force elite schools to license and manage franchisees?

I'd vote for you.
Guess again.

The solar panel can be made into more solar panels (or bottles or any other use for glass which is 95% of the material) at a profit. One person needs 1-3t of them to exist (about 9t if you throw them all away) to provide their energy plus about 1-3t of some kind of frame (usually steel).

The kg or so of uranium is spent fuel which is the really dangerous stuff. Then you have 10-100x as much moderate level waste. 10kg of depleted uranium (still a toxic heavy metal) and 30 tonnes of mining tailings including 1t of ultra toxic heavy metal sulfuric acid sludge and 2-4 tonnes of the reactor itself (of which about half is recyclable).
Is there a microneedle system that works better than others?
I've completely given up on left-clicking the start button. Right-clicking it gets me to most of the important system stuff (shut down, terminal, settings), and for third-party apps not pinned to the taskbar, I just use the keyboard to search.
I don't see any problem here as long as workers get freely to choose whether they want to live in factory dorms or in any other arrangements they can afford. Clearly such choice is available to them and there are numerous reports online that young workers are increasing choosing not to live in factory dorms. e.g. the following report talks about young female workers usually choose to move out of the factory dorm when they got boyfriends.

https://www.163.com/dy/article/DQQLE6DM0524PO2V.html

I don't think anyone here has the rights to tell those workers where to live.
Yep, all 12GB of it. I post a lot of mini screencasts that I made with Licecap[0]. Some GIFs can be as big as 30MB

[0] https://www.cockos.com/licecap/
> and guess what, if you go to The Onion about page, it's pretty obvious they are satire.

Obvious, yes, but not explicitly called out. That's kind of the point.
Is it any surprise that the more the government gets involved in a particular industry, the more expensive it gets?
I was going to say, I thought this was nothing new.

Now in this decade, almost a year ago I know someone who got a free tablet which appears to be a cloud device from a pure advertising company.

Microsoft may be a little late with an offering like this, plus it may not be the kind of thing where you can compete on price.
In the 1980s they solved it they solved it with coal. Or, occasionally, oil or simple (open cycle) gas turbines. CCGTs didn't really become popular until the 1990s.
Less than that. Weingärtner is 4€/month for an instance they say is suitable for up to 5 users. Masto.host is $6 for the same. This is a major advantage over centralized social media in terms of platform risk.
Good to see luddites finally managed to master computers, even administering web servers. But really they are just abbacuses with wires I'm sure.
I know it is; but they had somehow managed to change the glyphs spacing so that it isn't, yielding the same odd effect that I see in the sample in this article.
> depending on the values of x and y, `(x+1)<(y+3)` would have a different result than `(x+a)<(y+b)` when a=1 and b=3

If x > TYPEOFX_MAX or y > TYPEOFY_MAX-2, then this can already happen with the more (maximally) vague "signed overflow is completely undefined" policy; wider intermediates just mean that code is not allowed to do other things, like crash or make demons fly out of your nose.

If x+[a or 1] and y+[3 or b] don't overflow, then computing them in a wider signed integer type has no effect, since the same values are produced as in the original type.

More generally, retained overflow bits / wider intermediates (instead of undefined behaviour) mean that when you would have gotten undefined behaviour due to integer overflow, you instead get a partially-undefined value with a smaller blast radius (and hence less opprotunity for a technically-standards-conformant compiler to insert security vulnerabilities or other insidious bugs). In cases where you would not have gotten undefined behaviour, there is no signed integer overflow, so the values you get are not partially-undefined, and work the same way as in the signed-overflow-is-undefined-behaviour model. ... you know what; table:

signed overflow is \ no overflow unsigned overflow signed overflow
undefined behaviour: correct result truncated mod 2^n your sinus cavity is a demon roost
wide intermediates: correct result truncated mod 2^n one of a predictable few probably-incorrect results
It's something to be aware of, but in practice it's very difficult to superheat water at home.

For superheating to occur, you need very pure water in a smooth container with no imperfections. Tap water in most places cannot be superheated because it contains too many minerals, and most ceramic cups aren't smooth enough to prevent boiling.

If you're making tea, an easy way to prevent superheating is to drop the bag in the water before you heat it. Another way is to put a wooden stirrer in the cup.

There's a mythbuster video here where they show water being superheated: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_OXM4mr_i0, but note that they use distilled water (which nobody drinks) in a Pyrex container (which nobody uses). And they actually use a mug of tap water as a control.
Mostly, but not completely. CIRC error correction in the Red Book standard is deliberately designed with a soft failure mode for unrecoverable data - specifically, it will "interpolate" audio data to fill in the gap.

If you have a damaged disc, a drive can be better or worse at resolving "marginal" parts of the disc, which will change the data. Whether or not this makes an audible difference is an exercise for the reader, of course.

CD-ROM doesn't have this problem because it introduced a different error correction mechanism with more overhead. So in that case it is "either it ripped correctly or it didn't"... at least until you start getting into mixed-mode discs, or games that stored their FMVs with the weaker error correction mode to save space, or literally anything with copy protection.
> We make our daily coffee in a French press

Moka pots are much better. Your French press will start letting the coffee powder through at some point. I use these: https://www.rommelsbacher.de/en/coffee-tea-co/espresso-maker....
Sadly in the US they are going to be flattened by rolling coal in those monster sized pickups and SUVs

Maybe not even on purpose, the profile in traffic is almost invisible in the morning before sunrise, no-one is looking at the road anymore but rather their phone and no law seems able to stop them without enforcement.
On top of that, it seems like more schools are trying to do/increase graduate education and research.

In principle, this helps two ways. It increases the prestige of the school, thereby attracting students. More directly, it brings in new revenue streams, both from tuition (paid directly or via federal training grants) and via overhead on research grants. However, it requires more--and fundamentally different--kinds of admin.
Medibank says hacker accessed data of 9.7M customers, refuses to pay ransom
Charging for verification was a good idea - $8 per month is worth it if you're semi-famous enough to be at risk of impersonation. What's he thinking giving out the checkmarks but not doing verification at all? It removes the incentive and when combined with upranking anyone who buys the subscription turns it into a "I've paid to win" badge.
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21958359
That's also why Amazon is running out of people to hire, because it hires and fires people so fast: https://nypost.com/2022/06/17/amazon-could-run-out-of-people...

"Amazon is sounding the alarm over an internal memo which estimates that the retail giant could run out of people to hire and man their US-based warehouses within the next 18 months, according to a report. ... “If we continue business as usual, Amazon will deplete the available labor supply in the US network by 2024,” according to the memo cited by Recode."
Yes, you can open a college/university without being accredited, but you might find it's not such a good idea. Direct subsidies will be out. Most kinds of student loans and other aid will be out. You're going to have a bit of trouble attracting faculty or students, except those who are desperate. And if your students are demonstrably not getting any benefit from attending you'll be shut down as a fraud.

People really lost patience with that crap after Corinthian, Capella, etc. so there are a lot of new limits and regulations. Basically the only non-accredited colleges that can make a go of it are those that have some other kind of rich sponsor - most often a religious one.
In my state a moped only requires a driver's license. No title, registration, insurance or M class endorsement required.
I have a gas stove in my studio apartment. I still use an electric kettle to get water boiling before dumping it into a preheated pan to cook noodles/whatever. Highly recommend this approach if you are stuck with gas.
an ebike doesn't even require a driver license
>Think about sitting on an airplane with three 50” monitors overlaid with your vision

What will anyone do with that, except watch funny cat videos?
Important advice is to be that amazing father. Breastfeeding is a huge time/energy drain. And if one of you is full-time working, the other is full-time parenting during work hours. When working parent gets home, that’s when their parenting shift begins. Use parental leave if it’s available, negotiate more if you can.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-11-06/twitter-n...
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Now, this is a real problem. Not heavily pedaled mass shootings.
X200 people die from traffic accidents in US than from mass shootings. That’s right over 200 people from traffic accidents for each person dead of mass shooting.
Why is the US focusing on the wrong cause of death?
I use an "overnight oats" method that I feel would probably be even more energy-efficient: place the required amount of rolled oats in a plastic container, pour in the required amount of milk/water, close the lid and store in the fridge overnight. In the morning, heat the mix for a couple of minutes in the microwave (you're just aiming to heat it up at this point).

I wouldn't stake my life that this method is more efficient, but it feels like it should be (microwaves are a pretty efficient method of heating a small volume). Takes a bit of forward planning, though.
tangentially, I did a lot of travel this past summer

a lot of cities and towns are just not back, at all. they’re trying to have a bustling life but many local staples are closed, shuttered, resources strained. Opening hours just wrong and unknown, current existence of the place also unknown.

US, around Europe

kinda too bad. but yes unfamiliar territory economically
The Android Malware’s Journey: From Google Play to Banking Fraud
From https://ipad.fas.usda.gov/rssiws/al/us_cropprod.aspx

https://ipad.fas.usda.gov/rssiws/al/crop_production_maps/US/...

The midwest (not counting Arkansaw in that set, and just going from the labeled state numbers) makes up at least 80% of the total soybean production (Wisconsin and Michigan aren't labeled).

You will note not even a pail yellow on anything west of the Dakotas.

If we want to talk about water... check out rice production. https://ipad.fas.usda.gov/rssiws/al/crop_production_maps/US/...

Though there's some other interesting parts on that - https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1019488080
> My guess is because 'not having a college degree' is not any kind of protected class. Not an immutable characteristic. It is a behavior choice. Do we really want to get the gov't involved in telling private companies what qualifications they can require for a particular job?

That is true.

But race and sex are protected classes. And the 4/5ths rule says that if a particular requirement generates a resulting distribution that is more than 4/5ths different from the general population, then it is presumed to be a form of structural discrimination[1].

From what I understand, a requirement that is necessary for the job - for example, a particular degree like Chemical Engineering - would be exempt. But I doubt that the requirement for a college degree without regard to the subject would be similarly protected.

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1. This is not idle conjecture on my part. There were a number of pretty high profile firefighting tests that were the subject of lawsuits for this very reason. And the cities lost. Sadly, I didn't save the test at the time and I suspect that they've been lost of the mists of time, but I did read at least one of the tests in question, and it was a bunch of firefighting related questions.
You could replace "Mastodon instances" with "websites" and see the same effect. Several sites used by hate groups and similar have gone offline indefinitely after Cloudflare refused to provide them DDoS protection.
Abusing Windows’ tokens to compromise active directory
CVE-2022-33679 Windows Kerberos Elevation of Privilege
Better yet, use a large flat pan and just enough water to cover the noodles. You don’t even need to wait for the water to boil. It’s faster this way and uses less water. Kenji Lopez-Alt of The Food Lab has a few videos covering the topic. It’s a real win-win.
And just so we're all on the same page, you have no idea who Lou Paskalis is, and you're accusing others of being willfully ignorant.

Got it.
>"Why is it that if you go into my house uninvited, fall onto a ditch and break your leg, I could be held responsible?"

Because we have some really fucked up laws that should not exist. Go argue with the government

>"Why is it at least not a social norm to kick out sick and unmasked people from public institutions?"

Because The Socium does not want to have this norm. Might be unfair to some but who says the life is. As for your particular case - it is better if we try to build society where we do not need to go to a fucking passport office.
Meta: Why is HN obsessed with typography?
I use iA Writer Duo for writing prose and fiction a lot.

If you're willing to pay for typefaces, though, there's a really good "almost typewriter" font called Triplicate, which comes in four versions -- the original, a slight variation with the same metrics as Courier, a "code" version that has a few characters changed to be better for coding (this is a great alternative to the more expensive Operator Mono, in my experience), and a proportional one which fits the "almost monospaced" idea. (It's not designed for coding, but I don't think proportional fonts work for coding in most editors.)