skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Providing lower-cost ways of providing health care is directly contrary to the interests of anyone with political or economic power in our country: the hospitals and pharmaceutical companies that directly benefit from high prices, the politicians who receive bribes in exchange for passing laws that keeps prices high (or just failing to pass laws that would lower prices), and the typical employer who can use the increasing importance of health insurance and the threat of medical bankruptcy as leverage against his employees when negotiating work conditions and pay.

Our health care system is, like basically any other institution of note in the US, first and foremost a means to effect the transfer of wealth to our economic and political elites from the rest of us. We need to first come to recognize that our system is currently working as intended before we can think clearly on what to do about it and take effective action.
Is it just me, or would a recurring RIPE Atlas measurement be a great way to detect fuckery like this?

https://atlas.ripe.net/
A important aspect that I think is overlooked is that democratized access to exponential growth (like an index fund or buying a house) mathematically creates a growing wealth gap.

E.g. if 2 people equally start with $100 and grow their money at 7% per year, the difference in wealth is:

100 * 1.07 ^ 10 - 100 * 1.07 ^ 5

This function is still an exponential function.

So even though the second person is always 5 years behind in wealth, the absolute wealth gap will grow exponentially and cut the latter off from being able to compete on anything that they both want access to within the same timeframe. E
The argument for having insurers cover routine care is that prevention is cheaper. Ideally insurance companies would gladly pay for that since it would save them money in the long run.

The problem is that companies are penalized for long-term thinking. Why pay today when in the future it may be someone else's problem. That creates a sort of tragedy of commons among insurers. No one is insurer wants to pay today, but everyone would be better off if all insurers paid. That's a known market failure so some government intervention is necessary to improve market efficiency.

Unfortunately healthcare ticks a lot of other "market failure" boxes in its mode of operation. So it needs to either be heavily regulated or socialized to prevent market failures driving prices up and efficiency down. Don't believe me? Ask any economist that studies market failures.
An actress notable enough to merit her own Wikipedia article didn't want her name known, but her name was a matter of public record?

I don't know about this case, but it seems entirely reasonable that to argue for including the name, or not.

Plenty of public personas have aliases they wish to be known by, but their Wikipedia article prominently notes their real name.
I know basically zero about chip fabrication but I remember reading somewhere a while (15÷ years) ago that processor-in-memory was always a desirable design objective for obvious reasons, but that there are fundamental differences in the process for fabbing memory versus logic (different regions of Si doping not possible in same wafer, something like that? See this is where I should stay out of these discussions) that haven't been resolved, so the next best thing is on package pairing.
Sure, we learned "p => q" in discrete math, but we also learned "assert(someObj && someObj.data)" in CS101 or CS102. I think you're right, it is clearer, but not worth sacrificing the near universal familiarity of boolean expressions. I'd accept a change like this in Python, but it feels out of place in C++.
What does `Ctrl + [` send to the terminal for you if not esc? In my experience these are always the same, so Vim shouldn't be able to tell the difference unless it's a GUI-integrated version like gVim.

Try to run `xxd` and then press Ctrl-V and either Ctrl+[ or Esc, then Enter and Ctrl+D. Typical terminal setups will show the same codes both times (1b0a for esc and \n).

Alt+Space (or Alt+J Alt+K Alt+B to go up, down, left one word from current position after returning to normal mode) is what I often do which should work universally.
Quick question: who do you think Andreessen means when he says "we" in the manifesto?
Sometimes things happen after a long time ..

"Roman Polanski arrested in Switzerland 31 years after fleeing trial"

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2009/sep/27/roman-polanski-...
30 Years of Windows Server
Just getting the five year warranty is worth that little extra
And yet, Afghanistan sent the US military packing.
The specific issue with the concept as presented, is that there. is. no. financial. model. that makes this viable, under present subscription conversion rates, and ad models.

Nonetheless, archive.org actually saves youtube videos, automatically, at scale. Please consider https://archive.org/donate if it's useful for you.
News Feed Eradicator is open source:
https://github.com/jordwest/news-feed-eradicator/

(and indeed great)
Hi author here, sorry I missed this post. The performance benchmarks and cost comparisons are for comparing S3 vs EBS (ext4 formatted), EFS, FSx Lustre and others within the same datacenter (i.e. LAN use case rather than WAN use case). That means if you have an EC2 instance running in, say AWS Ohio, and are comparing those storage options also within AWS Ohio, then cunoFS is both cheaper and higher throughput than those other options. It's a different story over WAN. In that case, your own local NVMe storage is going to be cheaper and generally faster that remote storage over a WAN. But that local NVMe storage (on say your solo laptop) isn't going to have anywhere near the Enterprise-grade redundancy, availability and scalability that AWS S3/Azure Blob/Storj/Wasabi/etc has.
If I had to guess, they are probably using XTDB, which is bitemporal, i.e. every entity has an associated "transaction time" and "validity time". You can use the validity time to deal with situations like "Company reported X assets and Y liabilities in their 2020 balance sheet, and in 2022 it was discovered there was some 2020 assets unaccounted for", and in addition to this, answer questions like "How much assets did Company believe it had in 2020 given the facts we know in 2020? How about given the facts we know in 2022?"

I am not sure how useful this is for versioning data though. It seems like an orthogonal problem to me.
There is a very simple practical solution: let the GIL (or something like it that forces single-threaded execution) be an option that you can turn on so that you can run broken legacy code.
Trillion dollar US corporations are still under US law, which does include security requests and gag orders from secret services.
If you import another module the gil could be re-enabled.

Not saying that's what they will do, just what they could.
Nope, I'm saying that we should reform our immigration system so that isn't the case. You really need a foreign employee? Alright, but you have to pay a premium, and that employee is free to go anywhere else they like if they don't feel they're treated well. That would end the semi indentured servitude I've seen from h1b coworkers who were desperate to keep their job least they be deported.
If they have physical access to your server, they'll just go for that.

With mild difficulty you can mirror the disk, net, and RAM of any "commodity" hardware.
> (current title) DMCA Excemptions to "Copyright Protection Systems" Being Reconsidered

"Reconsidered" is a very poor choice of wording here, as it makes it sound like they are intending to take back these exemptions, in the future tense. As someone involved in this process often, my heart skipped a beat when I saw this headline.

In fact, all but one existing exemption was renewed. I dug into the Registrar to figure out which one was not being recommended, as it was remarkably difficult to figure it out... the information ended up being in some footnote.

> A renewal petition was not filed for the current exemption permitting circumvention of video games in the form of computer programs for the purpose of allowing an individual with a physical disability to use alternative software or hardware input methods. See 37 CFR 201.40(b)(21). The Office therefore will not recommend this exemption to the Librarian for renewal.
Same. I love Ruby so much but after doing so much in Elixir, the lack of elixir-style pattern matching and a pipe operator are so painful. Ruby is still a wonderful language and one of my favorites, but these were major missed opportunities. I got the impression that they wanted something different than what other langs have done, and I think it's great to consider alternative suggestions but it crossed the line a bit into NIH syndrome IMHO and I think we're worse off for it. Either that or the decision makers didn't really understand the point/purpose of it, but that feels unlikely to me.
It would be great to have a comparison to Dataframes and RDDs as well.
Got numbers?
by pls do you mean LSP?

and Kate has really quite good LSP support if you haven't tried it out, I was pleasantly surprised when I gave it a spin recently
You have to remember that originally those exchanges would also have had a public option available to compete with private plans.
I argue a bachelor degree isn't high skilled. It is merely "skilled" nowadays, especially in the occupations we are discussing. Here is H1B requirements from USCIS:

For you to qualify to perform services in a specialty occupation you must meet one of the following criteria:

Hold a U.S. bachelor’s or higher degree required by the specialty occupation from an accredited college or university
Hold a foreign degree that is the equivalent to a U.S. bachelor’s or higher degree required by the specialty occupation from an accredited college or university

But I understand if you call a janitor a "skilled" job then a bachelor degree is indeed "high skilled" from your point of view. Regardless, I do not think anywhere is hiring H1B to do janitor work. An engineer or a scientist with just a bachelor degree is never "high skilled" in my field of work.

>Maybe they should be paid better.

The reasons a semiconductor engineer or a biotech scientist don't get paid higher has nothing to do with how big the company they are in. The nature of software means it is inherently more profitable (low manufacturing cost, less legal regulations, more location flexibility, etc). Those result in the workers get paid more of the profit share. A biotech company with 200M funding and 5 years is barely enough to test 1 pharma product just to have the FDA deny it in the 6th year. You can get 5 guys in a garage to churn out a multimillion dollar software product in 6 months. It is not comparable.

My whole argument is this: Granting visa based on salary is a bad take and unfairly prioritize one type of industry over everything else.
https://slack.com/pricing/free for expediency, https://mattermost.com/ as you scale. Make it easy to onboard folks in the org from their personal devices, no corp devices.
Is this "not quite a recession" worse than any recession in memory?
Yikes, so sorry. I'm on a Mac, and while they certainly have their own share of problems, at least it's not that specific one.
If the certificate isn't logged in CT, it's not supposed to be trusted. That's the whole point. If it is logged, then the site owners would notice (Cloudflare, for example, has a service that emails when certificates are issued for your domains).
Please don't! Save that syntax for lambdas instead. It's so much nicer to be able to say

x => x + y

instead of

[&](auto &&x) { return x + y; }
I wonder if that one fell through the cracks. I could see those who use them not realizing it was permitted by an act of the Librarian.
>For example, an organization is not obligated to pay any particular individual an amount...

With you thusfar. Business is generally something engaged in by two individuals consisting of an exchange of value in good faith projected to leave both parties coming out ahead.

>that you deem to be satisfactory to obviate the need for state welfare benefits...

Specifically severed this to illustrate how little it takes to go from uncontroversial to "what are you on?" As an employer in the United States there is an implicit assumption you are engaging in business in good faith. This was part of the reason things like minimum wages ended up being a "Gentleman's Agreement" like affair. If you couldn't even keep up with Federal minimum wage, that reflected poorly on you as a business operator.

>the mention of which in this context is a non sequitur.

The mention thereof is far from a non-sequitur. Given that there is no dearth of evidence that the fact that places like Walmart and McD's have worker populations disproportionately represented in State Benefit's programs, up to and including HR supplied documentation on how to on ramp to said programs; that a preponderance of the evidence at least suggests at some level this is reflected in some aspect in the grand corporate calculus of "How do I get the most for the least?" When it becomes a part of your Corporate Strategy, we have issues.

Outsourcing your workers living expenses to the American taxpayer is not acceptable.

Deliberately paying people a wage so low, then handing them a "how-to" guide for food stamps is deliberately tilting your extraction of labor far more in your favor than the worker's, because you're turning around and telling the worker "Don't forget to file for <insert welfare program here> this month in your off time!" After all, I'm sure employees were not encouraged to engage in this activity on the clock.

So you're absolutely right. I come from different priors. You should have your shit straight enough as an employer to keep your employees contributing to, instead of being doled out to from, the tax rolls.

If you cannot do this, you should be strongly disincentivized from doing up to and including paying extra corporate tax to recover the costs of the people you're stiffing.

Back to the original topic at hand. How does a Union try to "take over" a company? A Union can't by definition, because at that point, the company would be a co-op. The Union is fundamentally limited to acting as an extraction to divert value delegation in the counter management/investor direction. The Union still has no implicit control outside of "you do what you want, but this group of laborers is not playing ball unless..." and channeling it down through a handful of savvy, experienced, and one can only hope, good faith represeentatives.

In no way shape or form does that line up with your contention that a union "takes over" which with it suggests taking possession of the assets and investments that make up the company.
I would not call it clickbait. "nuclear test" is a term that has a specific meaning, and it seems that most people would read the headline as meaning that the US has set off a nuclear (fission or fusion) bomb, unless I am completely reading it wrong.

I would consider the headline to be disinformation.
Back in a day there were scam ads "Your web browser is leaking your IP address xx.xx.xx.xx fix it with this EXE"
Maybe I'm wrong, so confirm by opening your previously-killed equipment and looking for corrosion, but:

> The box is waterproof

to me just means any water (or humidity) that's in the box when you seal it, stays in the box. Maybe add a dessicant that you can replace every few months?
very cool - looking forward to seeing the rest.
And this is why, kids, you need to enforce certificate pinning on your critical infrastructure!
Because that would be false if someObj is falsy. someObj => someObj.data, or !someObj || someObj.data (which are equivalent) would evaluate as true if someObj is falsy.
Is there a good tutorial out there for using GnuCash as a YNAB-like budgeting app?
Linux-Xenix-Unix vs. OS/2 and Windows: Dave Cutler Interview [video]
I don't know whether it's good form to post snippets of a teased long video release, so feel free to pull this... but the content is even more interesting that the title lets on: it's about why Windows was chosen as the primary personality for NT.
Brave breaks too many websites.
Hi sorry I missed this. Yes, you can run Samba for SMB, and Ganesha for NFSv4. Feel free to email us if you think there's a better way though.
> there's pretty much no human being alive that requires zero social interaction

That may be true, but my threshold seems too low for other people. And it doesn't mean interacting with others helps against feelings of loneliness, usually it won't or even does the opposite. The last person I met who I kinda vibed with expressed interest in living as a hermit, so I guess I'm not gonna be fun at parties very soon.
> It's almost what I imagine client-server Open Banking could have been.

That implementation leaves no room for gatekeepers or other busybodies so there's no way it would be in this day and age.
Is the recursion limit an implementation detail of the compiler though, or something statically built into the language? If the former there's nothing to prevent the language itself from being Turing complete.

(Similar to how every Turing complete programming language today runs on something technically weaker than a Turing machine due to finite memory.)
One suggestion is to sign up for an improv class. Lots of socialization there.
Meanwhile I'm using qhd at 60hz still. Never got the hype over 120hz
gnome text editor does that too
Just to pile on, I think that adopting bitemporal schemas is the solution.

There are various schemes you can employ to keep "archived" data within postgres (e.g. offloading it to another instance accessible behind a FDW).

I've thought about this problem a lot, and I think every alternative solution I've seen is just an approximation of bitemporal schemas with some limitations that are typically not worth the cost:benefit trade-off.

The main difficulty is there isn't a standardized framework/FOSS solution for bitemporal data. I feel like it'll have to get into the SQL standard before we see widespread adoption.
As a 16:9 refusenik/16:10 holdout it's pretty disappointing how, with the possible exception of LCD backlights, the 16:10 display panel offering remains basically the same as it was in 2006, and hasn't inherited any of the upgrades that the rest of the display industry have produced since then, like 120Hz or HiDPI. Seeing 120Hz be considered not "high refresh rate" nowadays though is certainly a surreal feeling.

Will 16:10 continue to be treated like an unloved stepchild? Can vendors really just not wait to kill it?
> Thinking deeply does not override your boss' orders

I can't say about your boss, but in my experience the boss never really get the details of what I am doing. That's precisely why the "performance evaluation" form is filled first by me, then given to my direct manager, who can read my answer and then fill their side of the form themselves. Because they need my help to understand what I am doing.

This means that I can't wait for them to see what I doing and value it (don't expect recognition...) but also that I actually can take quite a few decisions at the technical level. As long as I pretend that I am doing what they said, that's all that matters.

Engineers have some power. The problem is just that often they run for the shitty solution that makes the boss richer, because they think they will get recognition for that.
I wonder if that effect has a name in economics. But streaming services essentially killed themselves.

When it was only Netflix, is was great, they had a lot of content at an affordable price, consumers liked that, and plenty of people were ready to pay for it. They almost accomplished the impossible: they beat piracy without a single lawsuit, simply because they offered something worth paying the price they asked for.

As a result Netflix made a lot of money, and another company (call it B) thought: why sell our work for a low price to Netflix, we can do it ourselves and get the full benefits. So they launch their service, some people leave Netflix for the new service, so Netflix makes a little less money, and the new company a little more. Now a third player comes in with the same reasoning, and now the third company makes a little more money, and the other two, a little less, repeat as many times as you want.

Now, let's focus on company B. They made more money by launching their streaming service at the time they did it, but now, with all the other players (including piracy that made a comeback), their benefits drop, possibly below what they did when it was only Netflix. Everyone lost money.

So, by a series of seemingly rational decisions: each new streaming service made more money for the company at the time they launched it, in the end, everyone lost. There is some game theory here.
The EU also has a long history of raising standards in many, many areas across the continent. From worker rights to environmental rules to building codes to car manufacturing to passport controls to food quality standards, the EU pushes most members to raise their game every day. Yes, there are failures because nothing is perfect, but they pale in comparison to the massive amount of work that improves European lives every day.
I don’t follow.

There isn’t a perfect relationship between cap rates and interest rates, especially during this cycle cap rates haven’t fallen as quickly as expected.
The state-run exchanges solution was itself a compromise for Republicans and on the fence Democrats, particularly Arlen Specter, who feared a federal healthcare system would inevitably lead towards universal healthcare. They received their compromise, then refused to implement the exchanges in the hopes that the law would die.

It didn't, and they're still mad about it.
This is the first I have ever heard of a SIM pin. Which seems like a no brainier to configure, so definitely going to do that this weekend.
Supercharging Formal with E-Graphs
> I notice no 1 second delay when switching modes with the Esc key, so perhaps
> this is something you can configure in your terminal.

This is configurable in Vim. ttimeoutlen, timeoutlen, and noesckeys are pertinent. tmux et al may also need tweaking.
You missed the “per week”. $50.80/wk sounds pretty underpaid to me.
Or just turn off notifications? It's not hard.
Could you elaborate on the browsing methods?
Some day I'm going to do a conference talk where I just pay people to take on support positions at different companies and then compromise access to those companies through the systems they're given access to.
The list of carriers is so short. I wish I could pay $5 to re-enable cellular on my watch:

Appalachian Wireless

AT&T

C Spire

Carolina West Wireless

Cellcom Wisconsin

Consumer Cellular

GCI

Nex-Tech Wireless

Spectrum Mobile

T-Mobile USA

US Cellular

Verizon Wireless

Visible

Xfinity Mobile
As evidenced by lots of people enjoying it.
Yeah my multimonitor setup includes both 60hz and 240hz monitors, and it's so much easier to use the cursor with the 240hz monitor.
Safari’s version of this also allows you to associate specific sites with specific profiles [0].

[0]: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT212544#links
I think you're onto what might be biggest internal struggle that I've noticed since starting in Ruby in 2011: The tension between object oriented and functional. In many ways the two are not in conflict, but occasionaly they do clash, and that's where things get messy. As someone who loves the functional approach, it saddens me when object-oriented ways get in the way of a great functional feature or pattern, but at the end of the day Ruby is thoroughly an object oriented system. IMHO it should err on the side of object oriented. For people that really want functional, it's probably better to look at a language like Elixir that is inspired greatly by Ruby but functional from the start.