skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you compare the components listed on the performance stats, it seems to match the 2016 post pretty much 1:1. I wouldn't be surprised if they just updated the hardware a bit and that was it.
Lending seems to be far less of a thing in most european countries. Not taking into account bussiness loands, the only loan most people take on in their lives is a mortage. (Which has a lot of requirements).

Also, a "credit score" kind of system does exist in most countries, but it is usually an administrative record kept by a goverment agency which blacklists you from taking out more loans if you cannot pay them.

It seems the system is mostly based around a negative feedback loop. (Punishing people who haven't payed) instead of a positive one.
> This is a private company looking for profit. They want to raise your rates.

And this is the problem with insurance being mandatory. Their business model is to force everyone to buy an expensive subscription, and then increase costs every time everyone actually uses their service in order to recoup costs.

Yes, I am oversimplifying, but holy fuck do I hate insurance companies since I have never gotten one to pay out a claim without suing first.
Actually that is exactly how it's playing out these days.

The "circular firing squad" has now been taken to the international stage.
> Other than the omnipresent paranoia, the thing that struck me as the most bizarre is that almost nothing in the country is oriented around children.

I’ve been living in Singapore for a year and don’t really understand what you are talking about with either of these things.

Singapore is one of the safest places in the world – people go running alone at night without a second thought, you see young kids wandering around unaccompanied, violent crime is low, etc. Just last night I saw three kids who weren’t even teenagers cycling past me from the beach with fishing gear after dark. I don’t see any "omnipresent paranoia", if anything it’s the complete opposite. What paranoia did you see?

As far as being oriented around children, there’s playground equipment in all the parks and condos, kids pools in the condos, there’s a bunch of family-friendly things all over the country to see and do, the government has all kinds of incentives for people to start families, etc. What do you think is missing?
Tutorial: Virtual Machines with Libvirt and Networking
And? The Earth doesn't care about per-capita metrics. 100 is still greater than 10, no matter how you cut it.
From the perspective of an investor this is spot on but on a societal scale it would be better if capital gains were taxed more than dividends. Dividends have to be paid from the income a company generates, meanwhile the stock price can be influenced by almost anything and it doesn't actually require the company to generate more value.
Republic of Minerva
Vanguard and Schwab, with an increase move of capital to Schwab. They allow more advanced trading like options (no, I'm not that crazy - yet), shorting, buying and selling in the same day, etc, that Vanguard doesn't even support. Also, there's a downloadable web client that lets you create complex If Then type conditions, as well as aggregate news and customize dashboards and a bunch of other stuff.

I'm not that active trading, maybe I perform an action once every one to two weeks. I spend almost all my time just trying to absorb information.

Honestly, with all my questioning of index funds and contrarianism in comments above, I am slightly skeptical that the average person should have this much access to these types of tools. I could instantly blow away all my money and be left in debt (given they allow margin).
Ask HN: US Health Insurance for Founders
[Note: Please keep this on topic -- a different healthcare structure would indeed be great, but would love to keep the discussion focused on present options]

Hey team, are there resources you are aware of, for electing health insurance as a founder?

Right now both my co-founder and I are paying 700 dollars / month for COBRA. We are in New York atm.

If there are better options, or you know of a resource for this, would very much appreciate it
> First, the node binary needs permission to advertise Bluetooth services:

> sudo setcap cap_net_raw+eip /usr/local/bin/node

Use AmbientCapabilities= in the unit file instead.
To me TikTok feels like ytmnd.com with videos instead of images. I spent hours there when I was younger.
> whereas Occupy got nowhere

Agreed, in terms of overall progress which is why I turned down any offers to come be a part of their events or come do workshops when it was happening. Years later I got to hear about the horrible details from within from one of its more notable and disenfranchised OWLA movement member when we worked together on a CLIM COLAB project for MIT.

But what it did reveal was that this was a class-based issue, not a racially profiled one. And that despite all the talking points of equality the US is actually as a class-based Society with an Oligarchical Ruling Class. University degrees and the Institutions have been the gate-keeping to what remains of the Middle class, so it's been an absolute joy to see it be disrupted by COVID as it has had to restructure itself to adapt, and many are questioning the viability of its existence when so many ED-tech solution are available now, after countless scandals and evidence of deep corruption.

> I would be very skeptical of the self proclaimed woke people...

Agreed, much of whom gravitate to Social Media platforms to re-enforce those ideals and beliefs amongst other 'woksters' in what is a self-affirming (echo-chamber) feedback loop. I contend that if that effort were placed to actual activist pursuits we'd be in a much better position in the World, if you say its occurring I'll have to conclude my participation in this conversation with an optimistic, but highly cautious: we shall see.
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Basically, between 1998 and 2018, if you were out of the market during the best 10 days, you cut your return in half. And the more days out, the worse it gets.

Of course, this is artificial in the sense that you'd be pulling out one day, then back in 2 days later and doing it again and again, but the point stands, you can miss a week in the market and it can have a huge impact on returns.
I wonder if the "deal" was going to be just "we'll run your US infrastructure (and keep data) in the US, on Azure, and we split the money" rather than a buyout ? That would make more sense to me.

So more like "Microsoft will invest X billion for a Y% of TikTok and run its US operations".

You could satisfy the US government that Microsoft was guaranteeing the data would not be shipped to China.
One of the reasons that despite Go's several advantages, I still prefer an open language like C++ for native programming. Go is Google's language and people should never forget it.
Inevitably the long-term solution is going to be more layers of abstraction. Web application firewalls for every wifi device in your router, for example, or operating systems maintained by cloud vendors (for “edge devices”). If always transmitting connectivity isn’t required, maybe HomeKit-style app-based (offline or app-based updating) devices that use other devices as repeaters which can then be reverse engineered from their apps (largely illegally in many countries). I don’t think we’ll see open specs unless Apple or Google or government make a significant push, or a future large-scale chipset manufacturer uses open source as a way to both get customers and maintain long-term support for their chips. But we know how well GPL works with most hardware (poorly, unusably, etc.)
Ironically, 32-bit machines were already over and done when Intel made theirs.
It's a fine comment (and I learned a new word also).

Take the down-votes in stride. Topics about China often stir-up strong political emotions.
consider watching www.tastytrade.com. They advocate self directed investing using options. My wife and I live in the midwest as well and we like the approach.
‪Searching for real estate listings in the Miami Area?
You'd have to be careful! From what I understand, you can do it in Spain as well, but spend more than 6 months of a year there and you're now a resident for tax purposes.
No-one, not even your allies believe that the US is a moral actor, not since the Korean War or Hiroshima probably.
Yeah so the law is a lot more nuanced then that and just because of certain legal affordances are made, certainly doesn't mean that the company is made of singular focused human beings all acting in the same way with the same goals.

Quite the opposite, the complexity is enormous there's even an entire area of study for it "Organizational Theory".
I wonder if that anecdote exists s/Knuth/Asimov/.

TAOCP is in my opinion like the Bible. If you've "read" it, you probably didn't study the begats* and skimmed it out of order quite a bit.

* e.g. the fold-out charts in the tape sorting section
I work with Azure a lot more than I do AWS, but even on Azure Windows VMs cost a lot more than Linux ones - typically around 75% more for smaller VMs, and 40% for larger ones, which means you can easily end up paying thousands each year on Windows licenses.

Honestly, their high pricing of Windows VMs is insane - it's like they don't even want you to use them!
Why fund your own demise? You can’t take the moral high ground with an immoral enemy. This isn’t a movie.
> multiple offset/segment combinations could address the same physical memory address.

Would this have anything to do with memory exploits on the entire x86 range of processors?
>Banning TikTok violates the rights of Americans who use the platform

What rights? 1st amendment? Your speech isn't being curtailed, you just have to take it elsewhere. If you interpret this as a trade dispute everything looks fine. Banning Chinese printers don't violate the rights of Americans either.

>also Americans who work there.

what rights are we talking about?
Well it does keep things simple, and as a side effect removes the cognitive burden of choosing a certain argument style (for both the developer and user).
But what about equality of access and taking the high moral ground? /s
I'm old enough to remember how in 2017 people were un-ironically talking about putting Zuck in jail because Russia allegedly ("allegedly" because it was never proven this was state sponsored) spent $100K to organize some pro- and anti-Trump protests on Facebook, and Facebook allowed Cambridge Analytica do essentially the same data harvesting as Obama's campaign in 2012.

But a Chinese communist party controlled media company with tens of millions of subscribers in the US which was _caught spying_ by both Apple _and_ Google is totally fine.

Is election interference and spying done by China good somehow? I don't get what you're arguing here.

For a litmus test, consider whether you'd hypothetically be fine with a massive social network operating on US soil that's run by e.g. USSR, Taliban, ISIS, or North Korea, ahead of what many think is one of the most consequential elections in our lifetimes.
Whataboutism is neither constructive nor exculpatory.
Multi-Media suites like Adobes are good for kids, it require someone to help get them up and running with simple concepts and show them what's possible, work through a project or two. Once they got the hang of it they love to play around and show off their work. Then when they become a teenager it's more self directed and you can point them towards resources for tutorials, portfolios.
Interesting. And congrats on the recent move. Cloud for $BigTech is a great place now. One of the few inevitable growth spots in an awful broader market.
> Do you think women would be comfortable contributing to a project called "boobsize", which is part of a larger project called "weboob"? Not to mention "QHandJoob".

Looking at the authors, several women did contribute to the project.
They might be if they were true, but they're not: the only thing that was broken about sr.ht was that the links to the source code didn't work, but other than that it worked fine. The other sites mentioned like codeberg.org work just fine today, just without those links (a minor feature I almost never use). The whole "it needs meta tags" thing is also not true, I don't know where he got that from.

Quite a few points in this article are highly misleading.
Vetting Dependencies: Ensuring Software Maintainability
Figured this would be as good a place as any to plug this retirement planner I wrote a while back: https://lunchmodel.com/retirement

It's probably a little complicated for a layman, but I think it works pretty well, and is quite flexible.
> Even if you invest at the worst possible times (right before crashes) you’ll come out way far ahead of leaving it in cash.

I don't like this argument, because it seems to imply you would indefinitely leave it in cash. In this hypothetical situation, where a market crash is impending, and individual could invest at the bottom and make significantly higher returns than investing prior to the crash.

This of course goes without saying, "you can't time the market", but it's a bit dishonest to indicate that you can't beat the market here.
A straight forward argument that comes to my mind is TikTok being used in the manner Cambridge Analytica used Facebook. Except in this case, it is being done by a State sponsored entity with vast resources (monetarily and people-wise). Further, instead of it being used to help a candidate become elected, it's purpose would be to influence foreign opinions of China/the PRC.

That doesn't sound implausible to me.
The big hurdle for voice UI is discoverability.

That's probably why it's most successful in a handful of verticals, like timers and music control. There are a finite list of likely commands, and people can probably guess them first time.

When you move much beyond that, you start getting a high miss rate because there's no good way to pull a list of valid commands or options.

Importantly, especially for home automation, "option guessability" is a big thing-- you might know the commands, but the relevant options are specific to each location, and you were likely not there when it was configured. How do you know that the light fixtures are named "Left sconce, right sconce, ceiling fan, and table lamp", and not "north, south, Bob, and Matilda?"

Voice UI is also a terrible situation for error recovery. I can't figure out a voice-only UI that would handle a simple case like "which light do you want to turn on?" well. At best, it could read you a list of all the devices that might be relevant for the question, but that's so low information-density and will feel like a bad telephone IVR service.

The "Siri with a screen" design convention might have been sensible, as that would have provided a way to disambiguate queries quickly, with buttons to show the options, and at idle, a browsable list of supported commands.

Of course, at that point, you're making a more obvious machine with a (voice-based) command-line. That's shatters the illusion they're selling of this being your secretary/concierge, with arbitrary and broad capabilities, who happens to be a robot.
It’s pretty uncool to use just two years of experience at a place as a credential to shit on the culture of that place (and through implication, the engineers there).

I’ve been at Google for six years, and I’ve never encountered a “hostility towards the philosophical aspect of software engineering”. What a bunch of hooey.

There are certainly problems with the promotion system (and incentives it creates), but it’s laughable to say that it rewards shipping “at the exclusion of all other considerations”. In two years, I imagine that you didn’t yet serve on promo committees (or see many successful and failed promotions of colleagues), so I’m not sure your criticisms are coming from a deep understanding of how they work.

I’m sorry that you had a bad experience, or that you felt your specific working group had some kind of CYA culture or anti-engineering vibe. But it upsets me to see people indirectly shitting on or commenting about tens of thousands of engineers that they had never worked with or even interacted with. I don’t know why it’s fashionable to do this with Google right now, but it just shouldn’t happen with any company.

If you want to describe your specific, concrete experience, I’m sure that would be much more helpful and constructive than saying “the culture is X”, “Google engineers are Y” without any connection to specifics. My 2c.
There’s diplomatic pressure and then there’s egregious crackdowns in service of totalitarianism.
Have you read the comments on Instagram? The vast, vast majority of comments and comment impressions are essentially just "+1" or @-mentions, typically used in lieu private sharing.

It's the 2020s internet equivalent of walking around a museum with friends, repeatedly telling them about an absent third party, "so and so would just LOVE this". It's an interesting form of signaling that I think Instagram has cultivated really well.

If you look at IG comments through this lens, ranking or sorting is basically unnecessary.
I love my kyria, The number of keyboards the author went through before making this design in my opinion highlight all the issues he solved.
Currently doing a PhD in a STEM field in the USA.

I think your points are generally right but vastly oversimplifies the situation.

>1. Educated people (most former communist countries have fewer analphabets than the US)

Literacy != education. In the USA, we used to talk about the 3 R's: reading, 'riting, and 'rithmetic. That's the base level. I would equate education with higher-level thought processes developed in college. Re communist countries: yes, this is where communist control can be effective, but it also stifles creative thought (are you really sure the state's education regime is correct?)

>2. Tons of people

Certainly helpful, when used correctly. Definitely drives the cost of labor lower, though (simple supply-demand relationship).

>3. Infrastructure and clustering.

To an extent, sure, but the infrastructure development is more a consequence of the large amounts of people. Also, you get more bang for the buck when you build infrastructure there because so many people now live in population centers.

>4. The political will to move forward.

This is the primary point I would say is wrong. We have plenty of political will in the USA. However, we also have much clearer legal separation between private and public companies. The CCP holds a very different view on how private companies should exist. We in the USA theoretically can block companies from operating in certain countries, but we choose to not do so in most cases. Liberty is much more protected in the USA, which may hurt short term but works best long term.

As to your projections:

>won't see this in Africa

I presently agree, but no one expected China to do as well as it has 50 years ago.

>India is possible but unlikely

As China and India continue their border clashes, they will grow more distant. I expect the West to align with India than China, given than Indian values more closely align with the West.
I hold the AWS Solution Architect Associate certification. I had a lot of fun studying for the exam, and learned a lot.

However it did not help me one bit in looking for a job. Everyone wanted someone with experience.

My certification expires in November and I'm not going to renew it. I've decided that I'm going to work on getting an advanced VMware certification. There is still a lot of on prem out there, and I have 15 years of experience with VMware. So figure I should leverage that.
I thought Trump already said no to that plan.
Is it really "hypocrisy" if China started it first, by banning American apps? If country A bans imports of widgets from country B, and country B retaliates with a similar ban, is it hypocrisy?
the website is "adopt a guy"
> What do you think is going on at the other side of that trade.

A market maker happy to take the spread on a trade from someone that isn’t going to slam them with 5 more 100 lot orders and force them into an overly large short position. Nobody is going to front run my 25 share QQQ order.

Citadel wants to execute our orders, executing odd lot trades from retail traders is lower risk and more profitable than transacting with ‘market participants’ with good information and lots of capital.
What subscriptions have you kept paying for during lockdown?
A comment actually directed toward third-party readers would read like "For people who like Click but could also use X, try Typer." Using the second-person imperative to say 'Try this' challenges your interlocutor to ask "Why should I?", to evaluate it for their own use case, to say "You shouldn't have recommended this to me with no qualification, it's not for everyone."
The last time I did mortgage paperwork, I signed my name over and over so many times that I had to start taking care that there weren't visible differences between the signatures.
The gun is well concealed and I'm an accomplished competitive shooter - no I'm not concerned about that.
AstraZeneca exempt from coronavirus vaccine liability claims in most countries
ETH is getting back to its rightful value
> The best results came when they used waves of so-called Gaussian noise, which includes a wide range of frequencies and amplitudes.

Yesterday I was listening again to some videos of rain, to help me relax. I know very little about what happens when we sleep or why we dream. But if it is sort of like exposing our brains to soft noise, then that helps me understand why rain relaxes me.
NASA Astronauts Return Home in SpaceX's Crew Dragon Spacecraft
I do hope I deserve better than that. I’d say Canada or Swiss. Now only if they could ban FB and make their own...
The slippery slope/trade wars has begun.
Get LEGAL Indian immigrants as tenants. Especially the ones with tech related jobs. We always pay our rent. We dont want bad credit. We keep things normal.
There’s really no need for all of the speculation in this thread. Jeff Atwood documented the StackOverflow development process as it happened on his blog. Here’s the first announcement from 2008:

https://blog.codinghorror.com/introducing-stackoverflow-com/
Offshore outsourcing tends to be by far the cheapest, hence assuming people will use offshore firms isn’t xenophobia its based on a relatively likely assumption.
I think what you're seeing is the higher yield (+risk) of the small-cap fund. See this comparison to VISGX only:

https://www.portfoliovisualizer.com/backtest-portfolio?s=y&t...
I'm so sorry for your loss and for this comment if it turns out to be unwanted.

We can always do more. Don't let that overshadow what you did do. You showed yourself to be a loving and caring daughter/son. Please don't feel bad because you weren't listened to. You already exceeded what was expected of you and I think any parent would be proud.
I think that is the thesis of StackOverflow's devs. You can vertically scale easier and much further than what most people think.

No groud up re-architecture, no microservice complexity, no crazy high cloud bills for exotic high power VMs. Just upfront capx for your own big iron and the skill to run it.