skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone who's been a cook/chef (still am, ish) in some legit good restaurants (including a world's 100 best spot), plus done business school (finance/economics), some consulting, been self-employed and so on, being a chef is a very mixed bag. It can be everything Bourdain describes and worse. Or it can be a lucrative career (does require you to have ownership however) with pleasant working conditions.

I will admit though, more restaurants are the former since most restaurateurs aren't very business savvy not educated. There's a reason most restaurants fail while a few can have many outlets and grow to billion dollar companies. Most restaurants languish at 1-3% margins (the actual average is 3 I think) while some do 20% easily. It's a good business to be in, however you need a strong business model, good execution and very good people skills.
Bunq's app works great on GrapheneOS without any Google services installed whatsoever.
> If a package manager only permits installing or depending on one version of each of package then ...

So just allow installing more than one version of a given package? Problem solved :)

> A locally coherent package manager requires a globally coherent software distribution.

Ah, so the implication is that "local incoherency" is bad? There are certainly some specific packages where you don't want multiple versions in use at the same time, but for most packages it's fine. For the sake of discussion, let's call those packages where having multiple versions is a problem "key" packages.

The problem with the solution in the article is that it requires some third party (ie. Stackage maintainers) to do a ton of extra curation work, plus every package that might depend on a "key" package needs to do work to make sure they're using the same version as everyone else if they want their package to be included in the next curated set.

An ideal solution would only require extra work for the maintainers of those "key" packages. This can be achieved by splitting the "key" package into two parts:

1) The "key" part of the package - only one of these can be in use, but has no public API.
2) The adapter package - depends on the "key" package and exposes a public API.

Since the adapter package is not a "key" package, it is fine to have multiple versions, and since no other packages will directly depend on the "key" package, there's no extra work for anyone else.

The maintainers of the "key" package will continue to release patches to older versions of the adapter package to ensure that all adapter versions are compatible with the latest version of the "key" package.
The second stimulus was a disaster.

It has led to an unprecedented sticky-inflation that can only be brought down by inducing a recession.

It's not that there were warned by prominent economists
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/11/inflation-larry-summ...
It isn't just talent, it is local ecosystem.

Large metro areas have a large # of services available. From office furniture delivered in hours to a wide range of service industries available on demand.

From food delivery to sign printing to courier services, large, dense, cities have economics of scale.
Oh, come on. It’s a lot, lot closer to bastard than retard or tard. At some point people have to own their own misperceptions.
The more stuff you store away in a format that you can't decode for free, the worse off you're gonna be, trust me. I recently started self-hosting my family's photos and videos, and the HEVC and HEIF stuff was a huge pain in my ass to deal with. Lucky for me everything before 2016 was untainted, any no one had yet bothered to turn on 4k-60p on any of their phones (making transcoding on my poor NAS's CPU nearly impossible), or I'd have been in real trouble.
I didn’t know that. Why does the NIH limit the number of residencies?
You literally just described Dutch city planning minus the last part.

Almere is not the future of living. A over-the-top clickbait title does not negate valid statements either.
At least in Vancouver there are private clinics[0] where you can get MRIs, CT scans, endoscopies, etc within the week if you are willing to pay.

[0] e.g. https://www.timelymedical.ca/
So, if I am going to live in an area for a year... I should be required to purchase a house, including all the money, time, and effort that involves? I would hate to live in a world where that was the case.

I have both owned and rented at different points in my life. There have been times where renting was a better choice for me, for a variety of reasons. I am glad that renting is an option.
What’s the use case here, a single web app with inproc db?

More complex use cases?

I remember I could do this on azure at one point in time with app services, not Sure if it’s still a thing.. but heavy writes and scaling of those types of apps would lead to to rethink this approach right?
No doubt it was some combination of lower power, physically larger or simply more prone to failure. Do you suppose the designers go to the trouble of a cool-down timer just for the hell of it?
I'd love to get you to listen in to a phone call where I try to get an appointment with my doctor. You'd have to be up at 0800 on the dot, while I desperately try to get into the phone queue. Then you'll hear me beg with the world's rudest receptionist for an appointment, which I won't get.

There's no incentive for these people to be helpful or polite, because they get paid anyway and there's no market, so they aren't.

My American colleagues see a doctor every year for a checkup to catch things like cancer before they're fatal. The NHS would laugh in my face if I said I wanted to see a doctor for a checkup, unless I literally had an arm falling off.
> It was income redistribution.

And in the end it was redistribution from the lower to the upper class. The last two years were the biggest wealth transfer in history. And "wealth" is so much more than just money... we absolutely screwed our kids in a way that will impact them for quite some time.
What fraction of your income goes to the third world?
Yeah broken here too
The Church Turing thesis basically states that any systematic procedure can be encoded into math. Software can be encoded as math, yes, but music can be encoded as math. Life can encoded as math (which is what your DNA is).

I really don't understand how the parent commenter fails to see that this makes "X is math" basically a meaningless statement because it is always trivially true and makes their position "math shouldn't be patented" completely untenable.
If we go by data, the US healthcare system is the most expensive (not arguable) and is not even in the top 5 among developed countries in the most important measures. Also a doc, though that is not really relevant for this discussion.

one of these references is from an US insurance company who you would think would be biased for US healthcare

https://www.cignaglobal.com/blog/healthcare/top-10-countries...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/08/05/global-healt...

https://www.internationalinsurance.com/health/systems/
Yes - agreed. This is one of the best ways to shrink the file size of a PDF: and if it’s not shrinking it enough create your own quartz filter with lower res/quality JPG or DPI settings.
I meant free in that you don’t pay a premium, but fair point.
Quote from the article:

> By introducing so many versions of design, it forbids a pattern to be established and recognized by the users. Essentially, the users look at the design, get confused about if there is going to be a “Skip Ad” button or not, get tired of trying to figure it out, and finally pay less attention to it which increases the chance of them ending up watching ads that could have been skipped.

Honestly, this does not match (at least) my usage pattern: I am so annoyed by the ads that I always look for the skip button - sometimes successfully, sometimes in vain.

(by the way: I see strong evidence that Google's (and thus YouTube's) ad network has a lot of difficulties finding ads that are of interest for me - likely because I have quite different interests from the typical citizen; perhaps this is the reasons why YouTube's ads are so annoying for me that I always look for the skip button on YouTube).
A Quick Update on Browsers
Yes, broadly speaking the concern is about being able to bill for that work. I realize that this is more an issue of terribly worded contracts, but "agile" expectations seem to encourage these.
Posts on this specific topic should raise our curiosity in more active ways than just the technologists vs luddites talking points it usually devolves into. First, we should admit that we dont actually know what the effects of this technology is on our minds and how it shapes the way we perceive. There are niche fields of academia such as Media studies, specifically, Media ecology, that study these subjects. That being said, we should experiment, find out, by taking a break from your device(s) of choice for some set amount of time, and observe how your mind reacts. This will be varying degrees of absurd based on your location. If you work in tech and live in sfba for example, its likely not even conceivable let alone feasible. The takeaway, for both people who agree with the OPs insight or for those who think the point is overblown or out of context, being that it is our own responsibility to understand the effects of our environment.
The cooling fan isn't supposed to be an audible "microwave is on" alert. That's not its design function.

Perhaps the actual audible alert on yours should be louder.
A significant portion is not. Clinical trials are unbelievably expensive, see https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/drugs-come-compreh....
Good question. I think the folks at Fly realize that they get a lot of benefit from enabling open source projects that work well on their platform. They have a somewhat similar approach with the Phoenix project in that they hired Chris McCord to work on it full-time.

Litestream has a lot of potential in being a lightweight, fast, globally-distributed database and that aligns really well with Fly. Continuing to release it as open source means more folks can benefit from it and give feedback -- even if they don't use it on Fly.
It's fine. We needed a sensitive intervention, not a specific one. And given the time constraints, those two were definitely in opposition. The administration made the right choice.
"Could you please elaborate? I think the way the US did it's COVID stimulus was outstanding and very close to the ideal way to actually address people's potential needs."

Many of the people who got the stimulus checks didn't need them. Same with the advanced child tax credits (increases spending when it looks like you have more money). This was true for myself and many coworkers. There were others who needed it. It was far from perfect though.

"What's exactly the problem? Aren't people free to spend their own money any way they feel like it?"

Yes they are free to do that. It causes problems when there's a disconnect between value and price. Many of the activities were trading or gambling, which are not beneficial. That gambling affects prices and the market, thus affecting others.

Think about what happens when's there's a rush on a bank. A bunch of people acting stupidly in large numbers can create a negative environment for everyone else.
The difference is that we need to eat -- you don't need to take 10 minute showers or water your lawn. It IS the over-consuming citizen (i.e. you) causing these problems at the end of the day, whether that fact makes you uncomfortable or not.
Unless they're in a legally protected class or live in Montana, his or her employer can fire them for whatever reason they want (and the employee can leave for whatever reason they want as well).
> The amount paid per capita and whether you would pay more taxes are not exclusive things.

You're already paying for health care coverage via monthly/annual premiums and via reduced salaries where your employer's portion is part of the 'total compensation' you get (but doesn't show up in your pay check).

Even if the amount at the end stays exactly the same it may be an improvement because (a) there are no "in network" worries about going to the "wrong" hospital or getting the "wrong" doctor", and (b) it is universal coverage so (i) you may not have to worry about losing your job and losing coverage as well as (ii) you can change jobs and have the same (universal) coverage.

It'd be a deal even if it costs exactly the same.
Bikeable, yes. Walkable.. arguable. If you include public transport with walkable, sure. I haven't found other cities to be particularly less "walkable" than Dutch cities when you take away public transport and bikes.

It really depends on what one considers "walkable" if anything.
Holding onto losing stocks gets worse after every 5% drop, you will think every time:bounce. By the 3-4th drop you’d be down like 40%. By this time you’d think it’s down 40% it will bounce which it does 10% but then the 5% drops are back and the cycle continues till what’s called capitulation.
Why are you assuming he lives in NYC?
Let me clarify - if you are operating a fleet of rigids you are probably not operating those long haul (if you are, you probably shouldn’t be!). This replaces rigid vehicles which already operate in this manor - it’s not a totally different class of vehicle.

This doesn’t also mean that you wouldn’t operate a large articulated vehicle on a short-haul basis, it depends on the load characteristics. You don’t always want the biggest possible vehicle, which is why rigids exist (in cases where a driver day caps out on time or miles before vehicle capacity).

But you probably aren’t operating a rigid long haul, because that load can just be mixed onto the back of a larger trunk.
Inflation is hitting most countries aggressively now. The US may actually be on the conservative end of inflation which may have been buffered using government subsidies/influence, but the net takeaway is the rapid expansion in the world can't be explained by simply looking at the US's free-money-keep-buying scheme.
mrkurt specifically mentioned that a solution for that is in the works. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31319544
I believe - someone more financially literate (and far richer!) correct me if I'm wrong - that you can convert some of those wages into various different vehicles and get paid in non-wage forms in certain cases. Correlation != causation of course, but if you're making $500k/year chances are pretty good a large chunk of that is non-wage income such as capital gains, corporate bonuses, trust funds, etc. And even if it was all wage-derived, over time you could easily realize major capital gains on it if you're lucky enough to (a) make a huge chunk 'o change, (b) have low-enough cost of living to be able to move it into investments and then (c) have enough life stability to be able to continue this pattern for several years or decades (or better yet, have grandparents and parents who did then passed the wealth down to you). Even after taxes as high as 50%, with enough raw wage income you can definitely pivot your "margin" into vehicles that yield serious ROI over time, and can even leverage the highly disparate cost of living to your advantage: use NYC's housing market to justify a ridiculous salary, then live super cheap out there somehow (insert hand-waving magic reference here), and use the difference to buy housing out in, say, rural Texas or Kansas before the pandemic, rent it out via property company, reap profit month-after-month.

From there you follow the directions on your shampoo bottle:

1. Lather

2. Rinse

3. Repeat
Right, but my point is that to keep the relative advantage they’d have to pay.

For example imagine a company attracts talent by paying median + healthcare, and another that just paid median. For the latter they would have more costs, no?

The savings aren’t offset unless they were already offering the incentive.
> Adrian Frutiger has designed the avatar’s structure with average strokes.

Sure sure, and storyboards were probably done by Picasso.
If we go by data, the US healthcare system is the most expensive (not arguable) and is not even in the top 5 among developed countries in the most important measures. These kind of experiments are welcome (if they come to pass). People deserve better for what they pay currently.

one of these references is from an US insurance company who you would think would be biased for US healthcare

https://www.cignaglobal.com/blog/healthcare/top-10-countries...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/08/05/global-healt...

https://www.internationalinsurance.com/health/systems/
remix.run, a replacement for next.js, is react framework with vannilla js like abilities, a simple and powerful CSS setup (that makes sense!), a "just html5" escape hatch (or html5 first and react second), and official tailswind support.

It's almost exactly what the author is describing to want!
I said “if you have private insurance,” which I think is the key qualifier. One of the other commenters expanded upon it well below.

I’m not making an argument for cost-effectiveness either.

We can get private insurance to pay for elective surgeries, new medications, etc. that are either not covered in other countries or have extremely long wait periods. And the higher reimbursement I think is helpful for providing staffing and paying for equipment that they (in my admittedly n of 1 experience) simply didn’t have for me. I suppose it is a tradeoff.
Graphs for things that keep going up and graphs for things that crash and die always look the same until that key divergence. "Past performance is no guarantee of future results" is a standard warning in real investments for a reason.
And don’t forget your healthcare costs.
Dude... farms make food lol. You don't need an extra cup of water without asking, but farms need water to grow food. This is the type of delusional entitlement that is ruining the planet.
Genuine question, why not? The Bash shell is one of those things that people love to hate on, and yet -- it's still here. What makes this approach inferior?
> - Covid stimulus going to people who didn't need it

From the stimulus the worst of the offenses by far happend in the PPP for small business. It was absoutely shameful.

While there was of course waste in the direct treasury payments to citizens, they get way overrepresented compared to what happened in the PPP. It's the same human nature of: If a big company gets 100M of our taxes for no reason, people grumble a bit, but if their next door neighboor gets an extra $100 and they don't, you never hear the end of it.

The PPP was rife with waste, but by design you'll hear way more media and people complain about the co-worker they know of or cousin that spent $1000 on trading cards.

Edit: And skipping my rant that it was by design that the PPP had no transparency and the adminstration fired the inspectors general that would oversee the program for waste to avoid transparency.

Edit: And to be clear it's fine to have untargeted stimulus for people to cover day to day expenses, and also fine to have loans to businesses to keep things afloat. But to intentionally do so with blocking transparency, and removing oversite officials is just creating a cesspool for waste.
> It’s still a tax hike, regardless of your rationalizing

You're already paying for health care coverage via monthly/annual premiums and via reduced salaries where your employer's portion is part of the 'total compensation' you get (but doesn't show up in your pay check).

Even if the amount at the end stays exactly the same it may be an improvement because (a) there are no "in network" worries about going to the "wrong" hospital or getting the "wrong" doctor", and (b) it is universal coverage so (i) you may not have to worry about losing your job and losing coverage as well as (ii) you can change jobs and have the same (universal) coverage.
I’m in Quebec so I paid 29% on everything over 66k to federal and my provincial rates were 20% (over 50k), 26% (over 100k), and 29% (over 150k).

We also have a 15% sales tax. I paid more than a 50% effective rate last year. This is the cost of our social safety net. It feels like too much too me and I’ll be relocating next year.
Here's the video that likely got them the Pulitzer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibWJO02nNsY
> It kinda is voluntary. If you don't like it, you can leave the country which wants you to pay.

Voluntary would be staying where you are and still not being forced to pay. When a mugger presents their victim with a choice like "your money or your life" they're not paying voluntarily just because there was another option. You don't have the right to evict people from their homes any more than you have the right to take their money.

> It sounds to me like some anti-social behaviour pattern.

The attempt to normalize theft is the only "anti-social behaviour pattern" here.
> I think most Android phones come with HEVC support. Mine did, anyway; I suppose it's up to the vendor to choose if they want to support it.

The official requirements for Android phones can be found on the Android CDD (https://source.android.com/compatibility/cdd). From a quick look at the CDD for Android 12, section 2.2.2 says that the required codecs for encoding are "H.264 AVC" and "VP8", and for decoding are "H.264 AVC", "H.265 HEVC, "MPEG-4 SP", "VP8", and "VP9". So it seems that all Android 12 phones will come with HEVC decoding support, but not necessarily encoding support. Looking at past CDDs, it seems that "H.263" was required for encoding and decoding before Android 7.0, and "H.265 HEVC" was required for decoding starting with Android 5.0.
It is not the price of a gallon that is being paid, but the right to use a gallon for all time. There are indeed high frictions, mostly in the form of upfront capital costs.

If you want to buy a farmers water, they want to be compensated for sunk capital and future earnings. They bought land, planted it, drilled wells, and have 30+ years of future earnings, after which, they could sell their rights.

In short, the relevant market is for the water rights, not the water itself.
Please don't cross into personal attack, no matter how strongly someone feels about a font.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I paid 38% of my total income in taxes in New York City.
This is a good take. Single payer might work in the USA using HMO plans funded by taxes, income/asset linked tiers of coinsurance, tax increases, major efficiency corrections, reduced barriers to entry, and mix of deregulation and regulation to increase competition.

Also, the US healthcare system is the excellent and one of the world's best if :

A) you have good insurance or medicaid/medicare in the right place.

B) you have transport to potentially drive some distance to deal with occasional wait times or to find in-network providers

C) you can navigate the sometimes byzantine billing nightmares that can occur where your coverage is denied on medically necessary or contractually covered care; or your enrollment in a subsidized program is denied, late; or you are indigent, incapacitated or elderly need an advocate to assure you get enrolled in correct coverage.
What do you think the animals that you eat eat? Just because you don't directly consume alfalfa doesn't make it a wasteful crop.