skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If we wish to import immigrants based on 'social impact' their are other avenues to bring in extraordinary individuals. We don't seem to have any problem acquiring the best Olympic athletes or artists, or actors.

More broadly, I disagree with our entire legal immigration system. It would be far better for us to have a points based system like Canada to bring in the very best and brightest and quickly integrate them into our system. Until then, I stand in pretty firm opposition to the H1B as it stands today.
Only the UK and Taiwan have a nation-wide single-payer healthcare system, although Canada comes sort of close with each state having its own separate single-payer system. Most countries use some sort of insurance model with varying levels of public/private provision and government and employer contribution. Switzerland is the only country with 100% private healthcare provision, but it offsets that with generous subsidies and having insurers offer a mandatory not-for-profit plan meeting legislated minimums.

https://www.vox.com/2020/1/13/21055327/everybody-covered
I spent a lot of time on my last install to get Hardware Encryption to work. While it has been disabled by Microsoft by Default I prefer to have it enabled as it covers my thread model.

The only thing that is hard to find these days is SSDs with 4K AND OPAL. The WD 850X has 4K clusters, but not OPAL.

The Samsung 980 Pro has 515B clusters, and OPAL. Not sure about the Samsung 990 Pro.
Astronomers detect most distant fast radio burst yet
Amusingly, one of the identified articles was vandalized soon after this article was published: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Scrobipalpula_cru...
Nvidia and AMD Deliver Powerful Workstations to Accelerate AI, Rendering
Counter question, how has Okta proven that they have integrity and are competent and can be trusted to run critical IT?

What quantitive evidence have they ever demonstrated that shows they can stop the attackers who would like access to the billions of dollars of assets whose access they authenticate? A criminal enterprise can literally hire tens to hundreds of skilled hackers full time for years to target these systems and still turn a profit.

The default assumption is that systems are easily hacked. Claiming protection against even small teams of moderately skilled attackers, let alone organized crime, is a extraordinary claim. Where is their extraordinary evidence?
I thought the point of No-GIL was to force users of python to provide proper locking.
They're lobbying all over Brussels, it's hard not to trip over a lobbyist or two when in the halls of power. They're not even subtle about it, full on fear button pushing.
> Recommendations for Okta

Seems a bit haughty to publicly chastise another company. The tone of this article is a bit off-putting for me personally.
Spoiler alert: It's not real.
Doesn't this end up in the same spot? Constant notification checking, etc.
> Conclusions: The existence of exceedingly large eels in the loch is not likely based on purely statistical considerations.
Not that guy but you have quite a few posts (really like some btw). Do you happen to have some specific best ones handy to share? I'll check out more of your submissions later anyhow.
Databricks has kept their Photon[1][2] query engine for Spark closed sourced thus far. Unless EMR has made equivalent changes to the Spark runtime they use Databricks should be much faster. Photon brings the standard vectorized execution techniques used in SQL data warehouses for many years to Spark.

[1] https://docs.databricks.com/en/clusters/photon.html
[2] https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3514221.3526054
One of the actors' demands was to put restrictions on AI use. So it's ironic that because of this strike they were actively helping AI improve.
There's difference between a conspiracy and a conspiracy theory.
https://docs.ruby-lang.org/en/master/syntax/pattern_matching... is worth a read to get a better understanding of the pattern matching capabilities than is conveyed in the various Ruby version announcements that added and expanded it. I'm a big fan of this syntax and use it constantly in my codebase. I also love numbered parameters, endless methods, and Ractors ;)
Solving the 100GB Game Download
Not affiliated with this project but it looks to be incredibly cool - very small team. I hope this shows up as a Linux / Steamdeck option in the near future as well.

Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5wAn-4e5hQ

TL;DW: Mounts a virtual filesystem that on-demands downloads game content to your local drive in the form of a cache. Start playing games instantly without downloading the entire game.
Understanding Numeric Data Types in Python
This is my first article on my new website (fullspeedpython.com) which, as the name implies, is a website about Python.

It's an introduction to numeric data types in Python (int, float, complex), but I also explore a little bit of details on some modules and talk about some of the CPython's internal details.

It is also the first time I used ChatGPT 3.5 to help me write content like this. I used it for suggestions on what topics I could talk about, some examples, to learn about things I didn't knew, and to suggest changes for some sentences (as I'm not a native english speaker). As I read now, only the Introduction feels machine-generated (although it was manually written - with chatgpt suggestions, ofc), but the rest of the text feels (to me) my own voice, as it is in the same vein as other content I have (for instance, on my blog). I'm a fan of ChatGPT!

Thanks, and I hope someone likes it! :)
I actually love method_missing. I don't think it should be used for the vast majority of use cases, and most ruby devs shouldn't even know it exists, but the power to reach deeply into things and tap sources is one of the things that makes Ruby amazing IMHO.
For those who didn't read: discipline.
> the department I was interviewing for was remote pre-Covid

If only that mattered. My org, 200+ employees, was very remote friendly pre-covid with lots of remote roles. Got 3 exceptions from RTO to hand out.

Congrats on getting promoted to customer, I'm glad that all worked out for you!
This continual push for upgrades drives resource exploitation, drives mountains of un-recyclable e-waste.

In 2023 should be desperately trying to keep our existing technology in use, not making people insecure for having a 120hz monitor (or making people insufferable, boasting they have 240hz).

I don't know what refresh rate I have, but it's just fine.
How do you prove that “they will not get compromised”

when a breach can be caused by an unknown CVE in the future?

That seems impossible to prove, I mean I understand you can patch, audit, encrypt, your way to a safer system, but proof (by definition) is a very high bar.

What is an acceptable demonstration of proof given unknown future events? How does one define proof in the sense “will not get compromised” (future tense is used in your phrasing so a proof would have to include all possible future outcomes)
But you can vote for your representative in the Parliament, and effectively hold veto on commissioner overreach.

This worked fine while socialist parties held majorities in the EP; that's not the case anymore, and it shows: the Commission-Council axis has been excessively strengthened by conservative parties.
Is there a term for people who aren’t especially sensitive to refresh rates?

I notice a difference in frame times fairly easily due to the stuttering, but can barely tell the difference between even 30-60hz on a flatscreen game (I do notice a difference when my desktop is <60hz though).

I’m a bit more sensitive in VR, but still can’t readily notice a difference above ~80hz. Sometimes I’ll clock it up to 120hz, but only for games that kick on motion smoothing since I can easily notice the difference between frame doubled 60hz vs 45hz.

I feel like I’m a freak or something for not being able to instantly perceive high refresh rates.
How can he be both making more than ever and nobody have money to spend on him?

Recession is when people can't spend, not when prices can keep on rising because people still do have money to spend.
Perhaps it could just fail at runtime if you ever import a module that doesn't support nogil mode? AFAICT that's how it works if, for example, you run Python code that uses f-strings in a Python version that doesn't support f-strings.
I have a hunch that the underlying problem is “too much love”.

Micromanaging children is the norm, although we kind of have an understanding that it creates less capable adults. Phones are great tool to control people especially as somehow it is the norm that we _should_ answer phone calls at random times during the day. Children of today suffer this. Also who were grown up before the mobile era, like me, we feel responsible to answer the phone because we love to be loved.

Maybe we should think about how we give and receive love more :)
Great question. As an American, I find going to the gym/exercising alone boring.

I try to get my exercise with a group of people friends. Often this isn't possible. But I've got several activities in my life that I do with a group of people and often those people become close friends.

For example, I know many people who are close to those in their yoga group. Or beach volleyball group. I like to hike or do outdoor activities with friends. Basically anything that gets your heart rate up, with a group of people, allows you to build friendship + social connections and not be bored while exercising.
Lets look at the top semiconductor and biotech companies.

* NVidia: $10B in net income 2022. Gross margins 70%. CEO comp $22m

* J&J: $18B in net income 2022. Gross margins 68%. CEO comp $13m

* Pfizer: $31B in net income 2022. Gross margins 75% CEO comp $30m

* Qualcom: $13b in net income 2022. Gross margins 55%. CEO comp $5m

* TI: $9b in net income 2022. Gross margins 65%. CEO comp $22m

Also H1Bs are being paid above market rates. That isn't true. The data is searchable. Look at Tata for a software developer in Austin. I see 20+ developers making less the $80k(Average according to glassdoor) with most making in the $60k range which i would argue is below entry level.

https://h1bdata.info/index.php?em=tata+consultancy+services+...

Edit(for comparison):

* Apple: Gross Margins 44%

* MSFT: Gross Margins: 70%

* Googl: Gross Margins 57%
There is absolutely zero repercussions, I hire them after all licensing approval. After the point of any city or state interference. I have run some of the smaller 400-600ppl events with zero police.
Depends on your definition of deliberate and knowingly bombing of civilians. If you give all intelligence to your Saudi partners - including residences of Houthi fighters, if you give the weapons to bomb them, if you give the fuel to re-supply the fighters, if you give the training to fly them and only wash your hands of the final decision - does that make one not liable ?

https://edition.cnn.com/interactive/2018/09/world/yemen-airs...

https://time.com/4528393/yemen-saudi-arabia-strike-wedding/

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/press-release/2019/09/yeme...

https://quincyinst.org/report/the-yemen-war-in-numbers-saudi...
When SIDE’s results were shown to a group of Wikipedia users, 21% preferred the citations found by the AI, 10% preferred the existing citations and 39% did not have a preference.

and 30% didn't respond?
Wouldn't the most practical solution be for a script or module to turn it off instead? Then you don't break any legacy code. Anyone writing code that is meant to work without the GIL would know to turn it off.
The Simpsons have referenced just about anything by now, I think.
For a long time Google supported a J2ME version of Google Maps that worked on loads of dumb phones
Same here. I was afraid that maybe nobody said anything and I'd have to be the one to say it first.
The public option was killed by Arlen Specter, a Democrat, who refused to go along with the other Democrats. Rs were united, which made his defection critical. Kind of like how Joe Manchin throws a wrench in the works every few years in return for oil and coal extraction benefits for his company in WV
TEDx goes to DEFCON?
That's way too terse. You forgot 'mutable' and 'return' :(
haughty? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37959904
Have you read it? The plot is tropey at best, and the characters' motivations bizarre. Whatever interesting ideas the author has are overshadowed by his lack of storytelling ability.
But false⇒true is truthy, so this headline is a counterexample to Betteridge's law?
It's a tough job. USDS can often be in a unique position to take the technical lead in a fire situation such that it doesn't happen again, and that can steer enormous positive outcomes for both the public servant, the contractors, and the general public.

As for non-sustainable lifestyle, it differs from person to person. It's an appointed position of 2 years, with one chance of renewal for that reason. It's an unique opportunity to see the government from a position of power, so it's expected for USDSers to try to make it count.

It's not always the case USDS will create further technical debt for contractors to develop sites. During cutovers, consider creating playbooks and provide context in those non-stop meetings to the contractors, and best of all, provide a phone number and an email for emergency.

And some of those people from USDS never left the government. ;)
'Storyteller,' an Argentine video game 15 years in the making
it might be hard to accept for the people that used to work there. right now, the labor market is pretty tight at the low end, so these hypothetical workers would likely not have much trouble getting a different minimum wage job. but it's not always like that. I remember it being surprisingly difficult to get my first minimum wage job as a teenage.
Amazon wide.
Thanks, I wanted to get the wider picture and completely failed to reach the original.
If it's literal anxiety (I could break a leg and not be able to call for help and die type anxiety) get a cell phone that has a good battery and NO SIM. It can still call 911 but can't do anything else.
have you ever walked through 50 miles of desert? getting on a plane is a lot easier
Ask HN: How does an app like Strava get insurance?
I'm building a product that has similarities to strava (not a competitor), and I'm just curious how it gets insurance when most virtual race companies require specific event periods.
This is a fantastic reading, kudos to you! I'll be sharing this with my reading group, I'll let you know if they've any feedback.
We are using self developed application layer security. It requires specialized client code and is terminated at a gateway that proxies requests to our normal applications.

I really, really hate the idea of this kind of eavesdropping.
That’s why I’m asking for a retrospective. What went well? What could be better?
this is an awesome comment. I have spent many hours (days?) reading through your site - especially the NeWS stuff!
I also went the smart watch route for the same reason, but with the new Pixel Watch 2. I was pleased that on Google Fi there was no additional charge and it pretty much activated automatically.

I do now feel comfortable leaving my phone behind, but I also get so many notifications I'm constantly lifting my wrist to check them. So I'm not sure if it helped or made things worse!

The main issue is email and slack notifications during the workday. I guess I never realized how many dang emails I get. I'm not yet sure if I should turn off email notifications completely or just try to unsubscribe from as much stuff as possible. During the workday, my email inbox is spammed by Jira notifications. It would be nice if I could selectively decide which emails to be notified on.
Connected car features were becoming common independently of Tesla and EVs. They're a function of the year the car was built, not the drivetrain.
Not exacly spite, but I think it would do just fine with GM not wanting to have living daily reminders of EV feasibility rolling on the streets.
It's a rhetorical pose, for the benefit of mainstream journalists. He can't come out saying "AHA I KNEW IT!!" because he'd look like a conspiracy nutcase and be ostracized even more than he already is.

Gotta play the game.
F-Droid: Android FOSS app store
Windows NT 3.1 Server. I remember it. I didn't know it was 30 years yet. Man am I old.
> you're committing to employing them for the next 30 years.

Not really. All my job offers started with "This is at-will employment".

Yes, employers may fear lawsuits from entitled employees, but it's actually not such a large risk as general public believes.
> Loss column: Insurance rate increases still bonkers and unsustainable. [...] Healthcare spending in general still stupid-high and getting higher.

Worse, nobody seems to have any idea how to fix that.

For the problem of high costs we can at least take a look at what other first world countries do for some idea. Most are spending well under 1/2 of what we spend.

For the problem of increasing costs though we can't look at others because they too have increasing costs comparable to the rate of increase of US costs.

For example, in 1980 the per capita health costs in the UK, France, and the US were (in USD) 385, 659, and 1036.

And here is what the costs were in those countries in 1990, 2000, 2010, and 2018, divided by that country's 1980 costs:

Year UK FR US
1990 2.0 2.2 2.6
2000 4.1 4.1 4.4
2010 7.5 6.1 7.7
2018 10.6 7.5 10.2

Here are a few countries and the ratio of their 2018 to 2000 costs:

2.1 Germany
1.8 France
2.0 Canada
1.7 Italy
2.6 Japan
2.6 UK
2.3 US

I used 2018 instead of 2020 because I did this calculation a few years ago, and 2018 was the latest data at the time. My source now has data through 2022.

If anyone wants to do this for other years, or for other countries, here's how to get the data:

1. Go to https://data.oecd.org/healthres/health-spending.htm

2. Uncheck "latest data available". This enables the year range selector control.

3. Use the year range selector to expand the range to cover the years you are interested in. They have 1970-2022.

4. The chart will then show the total costs in US dollars/capita by year of health care in 50 countries. You can use the "Highlighted Countries" drop down to narrow that to select a "background" of OECD, EU, Euro Area, G7, or G20 if you want. You can then add individual countries using the list on the left of that dialog.

5. You can change what is shown from total to government/compulsory, voluntary, or out-of-pocket and you can change the measure from per capita to % of GDP.
Perhaps it was the artist, not the subject, that was the virgin
I am little skeptical since a game needs to load one file and then another file and then another file and this could add up to an awful lot of waiting in an uncontrolled manner. Although big downloads are slow in my rural area I feel included by them because I can play the game in the end whereas streaming is not a good option at all.
Well, I agree with this but nowadays calculation for on-prem costs is rather rigorous whereas for cloud any nincompoop can come out and say "Look, we converted capex to opex and implemented best of breed auto scalable cloud native solutions" and be hailed as genius. No question will ever be asked to such managers and executives.
If it helps at all, keep in mind that many people who think they're doing object-oriented ruby are actually doing functional programming. Take a look at the Service Object pattern--A globally accessible reference with a singular method class (`.call`) that takes arguments and returns a singular value, and without you ever interacting with an instance of the class, etc etc. This is just a function in disguise! Every true service object could be reimplemented as a proc without the rest of the codebase knowing anything changed.

Writing Object Oriented code is hard. If you don't have a solid understanding of SOLID, at best you end up reinventing functional programming, at worst you end up with a big plate of spaghetti code. That's why most ruby codebases are a huge mess. It's still my preferred approach, but it's certainly not for everyone, and it's certainly easy to muck up. Thankfully Ruby is flexible and allows both--people just need to be honest about what they're actually doing, and not present any implementation of Ruby as object oriented.
Most employees don't have contracts, but under state laws if the employer substantially and unilaterally changes the terms of employment and the employee voluntarily quits then that would usually be considered a "constructive discharge". The employee would then be entitled to unemployment insurance, which isn't normally available to employees who quit. In some circumstances this could also have WARN Act implications.

https://www.rosenberglaw.com/blog/2021/08/constructive-disch...
Reading too much Peter Zeihan? I don't put any creedence to his gateways hypothesis. It smacks of rationalisation. There are simpler explanations that don't have to ignore Russia being a nuclear state that doesn't worry about a mass land invasion from Europe.

For example, Ukraine turning to Europe is just disastrous for Putin's authority. So the war stops Ukraine from prospering and demonstrating a different way forward to Russians, and it also turns Ukrainians into 'other'.
So move to Europe then. Enjoy your $75k/yr salary with 42% income tax. Other fomments in this thread are using $150k as a baseline salary of reasonable expectation. It's not a big deal to you after all. I on the other hand emigrated from Europe already and don't plan on returning. I make more here now per year than I did cumulatively in my first 7 years of work combined and finally have hope of not living with my mother for the rest of my life and can afford housing. And this is the "it didn't work out" timeline.
The blog post is specifically about the least read article in 2021, and in that context saying it can lose that status is wrong. The "least read article of 2021" is now eternal.

I don't get why you're so reluctant to admit you could have worded something better. "I assume the least read articles of 2021 mentioned in the blog post are no longer the least read articles this year" would have said the same thing without the ambiguity. It's not that big of a deal.
Also, the public option was scuttled due to Senator Joe Lieberman, presumably due to his close ties to the insurance industry.
'Always under fire': On the battlefield with Ukraine's elite troops
Is there any kind of objective study that shows:

1) What percentages of the population are able to distinguish between hZ rates in terms of normal object smoothness of movement, and

2) Same question but about mouse latency, given lots of hZ headroom so it's measuring specifically the mouse and not display?

At some point improvements don't matter any more, and I'm curious where that point is.

And of course there are always going to be ways to detect any hZ if underlying object motion is fast enough, but I'm not talking about frame rate artifacts like wheels seemingly moving backwards. I mean regular linear motion at regular UX movement speeds.
The linked article?
Is it "systemic racism" if the explicit rules of the system favor the race?

I prefer "endemic", because it is baked into the operators of the system...
Well that sucks.

Anyways…
> The network is fast enough for lots of small files to not really justify it.

Not really true. Try the following: ssh into the host doing the mirroring, with socks proxy. Now socksify apt through the connection.

The speed difference is amazing. Despite double encrypting.
A Brief History of the Walkman (2009)
I wonder if they accounted for the criminal history of black men? If I understand the statistics right a black man has a one in three chance of serving time in a federal prison. That must have an influence on future wages
No, that’s not true in 1992. The only other game in that time I can think of is Out of this World for the Amiga.
This would not be trivial and would require successful phishing. I've sent an email requesting to make this even harder to do. leaving out those details on purpose