skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Among the ones you mentioned, Singapore.

If you're happy to relocate / create substance (director, offices, employees, board meetings) in another country so that the tax man in your countries of residence won't pursue you, then I'd go with Dubai or some zero tax Caribbean island if you don't care about Anti Money Laundering regulations (aka you don't care about investing the profits in European / American banks).
Malta at 5% if you care about accessing European markets (even better if you have residence somewhere with little or no dividend tax like Portugal with NHR or Cyprus at 2.5% extra).

Company formation / bureaucracy is generally not a big concern, just avoid Germany, Italy, Spain, France (no reason to pick them to do business anyway) and get an accountant to deal with the pain.
Isn't my "cheap home machine" equivalent to your "most consumer and desktop computers"?

As for embedded, I'd be surprised if there's ECC at all, never mind on the bus (with the exception of high reliability stuff like spacecraft and factory controllers. Clocks, cookers, microwaves, etc don't count).
Can you elaborate on this? I was working on few expensive, proprietary software for the apnea & ECG analysis and they had rather simple method for exporting to the EDF format.
In my view the trick in this question is to think about adding up numbers not how you add them up.Since this was a programming question you don't need to know the formula you can add up the numbers in a loop. It wouldn't even be much slower since you need a loop of size N anyway for the purpose of adding up numbers in the input.

Xor solution and adding solutions are the same solution it's just a matter of what binary function you use for calculating sum. You can use any commutative, associative binary function which has inverse. You can use addition, xor or even multiplication.
Not sure heat-of-the-moment violence yields to rational decision-making.

Also, throwing around the term 'gun crime' seems arguing-to-a-point. Is it 'car crime' when somebody hits a bicyclist? Maybe 'Toyota crime'?
who?

Meta (which includes all the other companies) seems to be doing quite well under Zuckerberg and have been still profitable for years and can afford to bet on developing their own hardware (Especially AR and VR).

Unlike the other major companies doing layoffs, I don't see Meta doing any layoffs (yet) even when they just froze hiring.

With that amount of ownership of Meta, I'm sorry to report that Zuckerberg is going to be Chairman and CEO of Meta for another decade.
Wise is not very business friendly yet (they're probably busy planning their next rename), better to use Airwallex
Spotify clearly has set internal goals around podcast adoption and has been pushing them on users for a while (I assume because of the extra margin of playing ads to “ad free” premium subscribers), so it makes sense they’d get some kind of a boost in the results.
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If I'm reading 100Gb/sec correctly as Gigabits, a Skylake core can also reach such bandwidth usage. The issue is that the system can only sustain that for roughly 8 cores. It would be very interesting to see bench_parallel results for an M1 Max, if anyone would like to give that a try? I suspect it will be comparable to Skylake-X, because 8 (performance) cores are not quite enough to utilize all the M1 Max bandwidth in this app. M1 may be more power efficient, though. It is also great to see more bandwidth per core. A hypothetical M2 with say 256-bit SVE vectors and 16 cores could be very interesting.

L2 caches are typically partitioned and private to a core. If that also applies to the M1 Max, then each core would only access 3 MB, thus the working set is larger than cache as intended.

I do believe NEON is the limiting factor here. I haven't looked into how many IPC we should expect, but even if it is 4 (the number of 128-bit NEON units), Skylake is often reaching 2 (with 512-bit vectors), so the measurement that an M1 core is about half as fast as SKX for this use case seems plausible.
Compared to NYC?
That’s true of pit and slots games, but there are people who make a living playing poker in casinos. (It’s a player-vs-player hosted game with the casino taking a rake or seat charge rather than a player-vs-house game.)
The whole transatlantic thing is BS, you really want to be writing code all the way? Anyway, most flights going East over the Atlantic are overnight and you want to be sleeping.
Yes, its unfortunate. But at least its just constrained to their mobile phone games for now.
After reversing the third credit card charge because the seller sent me a counterfeit and did not reply after that, yeah confidence was definitely lost, and this was hardly recently. I remove Amazon results from all searches when I’m trying to buy something. I completely ignore that website altogether for everything. The only thing I do use it for is Kindle content. Even physical books often arrive to me damaged, despite being bought new. Sometimes they don’t even pack it with any padding in the box and it’s just sitting there moving all over the place in transit, arriving with a bent cover.
> Residential districts in China and many former Soviet countries. Big concrete blocks, with the bottom floor lined with small stores. They're absolutely delightful places to live.

That really isn’t true. At least in China, the most common living arrangement in big cities is the gated apartment complex, their might be some retail on floor one, but it is usually on the other side of the gate, and the gate you can enter or exit from is often not conveniently located to access that retail easily (given my experiences living in Beijing). If they did away with the fences/gates, things would be much more convenient.
The Internet does make a country's regulations of such services weaker, yet does provide some barrier. Businesses will weigh the risks of being discovered and banned if they don't comply.
By definition a white noise podcast cannot play ads. So these have to purely paid podcasts. It’s interesting to learn that there are quite a few people that want a different sound or a variety of sounds every night to sleep. That is because I am guessing that is what the podcast provides of value.
I think we just aren't the intended customer for a lot of games. I mean, the casino style is used because it works for casinos as well. I'd rather just drink while watching sports in the comfortable leather chairs than playing slots and waiting forever for a drink on the casino floor, personally.

Which ones did you return? I think there are a decent number of single a developer games out there that have good progression systems. Hades, Dicey Dungeons, Golf Story...
Yeah I mean the game is intentionally confusing.

You have these things called eternal crests which cost 160 “gems” (the real money currency). These let you run a special dungeon that guarantees a drop of a legendary gem rated between 1 and 5 stars. In fact if you fail the dungeon somehow it’ll refund the crest and let you try again.

Apparently the drop rate for the 5 star gems is 4.5%, so my napkin math works out to around $50 per 5 star legendary gem.

I can’t go back and check my math because I uninstalled the game.
Maybe this is a silly question, but: Does this support the GeoWorks version of AOL?
Or if you have any device with a web browser, since there are a zillion free sites for generating white noise. Here's an arbitrary top search result which appears to be a highly configurable noise generator: https://mynoise.net/NoiseMachines/whiteNoiseGenerator.php
Regulation would create an incentive to region lock out the areas that regulate it. Now you have people from the regulating country use VPNs to play the game in another region instead.
I thought you meant to imply that rationalists believe they're perfectly rational. Lots of people do so.
The thing is that Xerox mgmt themselves refused to consider downsizing the ideas developed internally towards commodity hardware that people could afford. They were interested only in high margin office systems. So other people did it. Not a bad thing for the industry, but bad for Xerox.

Most famously, the team @ Apple around the Lisa and the Mac. But also Lee Lorenzen was an employee at Xerox in Texas. In 1982 he tried to pitch management on a port of their Star concepts to 8080 CP/M class hardware, to get it into people's hands. Demo footage here, remember this is before the Mac came out [0]. He was rebuffed, and left Xerox to join Gary Kildall @ Digital Research, where they created the GEM GUI (which became the OS for the Atari ST and the basis of Lorenzen's next venture, the successful DTP program, Ventura Publisher) [1]. Xerox was never able to penetrate the consumer level DTP market, but this was a big emerging business in the 80s which Xerox would have been a natural fit for.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMBGRZftS30

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EeOanSInjo
agree, whatever that kid did, it is not as bad as the first commenter there spamming everyone knowingly. which is not as bad as the second commenter who is even less original yet still seeking attention, ad infinitum. the last commenter is the biggest jerk IMO.
My guess would be that ads are incompatible with white noise use cases. If the white noise “podcast” inserted ads, I would guess that people would find a different place to get white noise.
> gas should provide no cost benefit

If that were true, there would be no need to ban gas stoves. So we can conclude that electric cooking is more expensive than gas.
"Car crime" is creative! Like! Careless and reckless driving that gets weaker participants killed is car crime!

Kids, protect yourselves from car crime - look to both sides of the road when you exit the school bus!

The pedestrian who was run over by a driver turning right died of car crime. Let's fight car crime together!
> But the opinions of random people are just that - opinions.

Yet the opinion of the US (UK?) Government is so final, and often without appeal.
The problem with Netflix, Disney+, HBO, etc etc is that a lot of people are going back to pirating video content or abusing their "family" accounts, all because each platform insists on having exclusive content. If this trend continues, I think we'll see a more and more dramatic loss for all video streaming services as piracy becomes mainstream again (as it was for decades).

I don't think that the music streaming platforms should follow their example, but instead should all offer as much content as possible and simply compete for listening experience, not content. I know that there is already a battle going on for exclusive music content, but I'd say about 90% of music can be found on all the major music streaming platforms right now.
Anti-gambling laws are not vidoe-game specific, at best they just have to be adjusted to cover them correctly. And these kind of laws are pretty obvious so I don't see why there shouldn't be sensible working laws.
There are several reasons for such laws. First of all, not everyone is good at self-control. Then, there is the big problem of this kind of games making so much money, that the alternatives are dying out. In my eyes, mobile gaming already is pretty much dead. There is too much money being made by games which coerce the user into spending more money. This limits the choices and drives more people into these games, even if they have some resistance.
About 5 years ago I was looking for a rural płot of land in southern Portugal (Algarve), but it was too expensive for me (I wasn't earning much back then though)

Now I'm starting to look again. Greece seems to have very cheap land, on various islands you could even get a płot for with a sea view for less than 50k€
Because I thought that was self-explanatory: part of their job is selling advertising. Cash is tight enough at the post office as is. Why let third party marketers sell advertisers public census data instead of just providing it directly?
Ask HN: Examples of good technical writing?
I wonder if HN could share their favorite pieces of technical writing?

Preferably openly available content so that everyone can access (blogs etc.)

Focus is on "overall" score: tone, presentation, etc. as opposed to "very technically advanced" (although advanced examples fully welcome)

EDIT: awesome suggestions so far - should add that it doesn't have to be programming or even computer related... cookbooks count!
That is an outrageous amount of money on a game, the article did also say it would take 10 years to amass all that, which is still almost $1k per month.

If that amount of gear were resellable in a marketplace then some of the moral arguments are empty. And I bet it wouldn’t be an astronomical amount because there is a random loot box/gambling/prize factor in acquiring gear in that game.

It doesn’t matter the technology behind a marketplace, SQL+CRUD and CC payments or blockchain+NFT, it’s tracking a receipt of purchase on digital items. Some would argue that blockchain is a stupid choice of technology but I would counter that the tech world has taken tech and bent it into a different purpose than intended with much success. For example, a documentation technology and protocol (HTML and HTTP) was intended for scientists to link documents to each other. We’ve taken that and bent it into complete client/server applications.
P2W is getting a lot of flak, but any game where you have to do not-fun grinding to get to the "good part" is effectively P2W. You are trading something of value, your time, not because the activity is fun, but because it gives you power to then enjoy the game. It's P2W, just not using currency.

And this trade is arguably worse overall for society than P2W using money. In that, you are producing something of value for society to get that money; in grind-to-win, you are producing nothing of value for society (and the game company gets no compensation as a result.)

The cost of a grindy game can be shockingly high, if you bother to compute the value of the time you are spending on it. That you find the grind tolerable doesn't reduce this cost.
The vast majority of your coworkers will have gone through a similar if not identical interview process. Do you prefer to work with people that pretend they've never seen a question before when they have? Then do that. Do you prefer to work with people that admit they have seen the question before but are not directly penalized for it? Then do that. If you somehow are penalized for it... you dodged a bullet.
Instead of government, an industry standard: total microtransaction purchases cannot exceed the full market price of the game. If the purchase limit is reached, every microtransaction item is unlocked unconditionally.

- DLCs are not microtransactions but they must add either new features or narratives.
> The cost of modular/factory vs. stick built construction is about a 10-20% savings. On a $500k home, that’s going to be less than $25k difference in price.

Isn't 10-20% of $500k actually $50k-$100k? (Could buy some really nice appliances...)
> You believe the 4th amendment is silent here, you believe the FBI is operating under authorization of the 4th amendment because a law was violated

Uh... yes? If a law was violated, that's probable cause. It's sort of a definitional thing. What legal regime do you desire that manages to pre-decide on which laws are OK to violate before the collection of evidence occurs?

This sounds like an argument against the whole idea of law enforcement, I guess? You don't think that police should have the power to seize evidence or arrest people at all? (Because before they do that, we need to decide whether the laws they're trying to enforce are acceptable to the target of the investigation, right?) I mean, that's a position. Libertarians and anarchists occasionally say stuff like that. But it's absolutely not the legal framework we live under, and I doubt you'll find much support for it among the broader electorate.

If you don't like the laws we have, then the remedy available to you is to elect a government to change the laws. You don't get to demand that we enforce them differently for the laws you don't like.
The funny part about that statement, is my understanding of the international release of Lost Ark is that it's actually a lot friendlier than the original Korean version. You should really look into how Asian MMOs (especially Korean ones, and I think I've heard Chinese ones can be pretty bad too) work with monetization. This stuff is hardly new, and what we see internationally is generally tame in comparison. I remember almost 2 decades ago playing an international version of a Korean MMO (Dungeon Fighter Online) that had blatant "Buy this loot box to get cosmetics which give large stat buffs".
There's something ironic in being surrounded by so much noise that you listen to "noiseless" noise.
The point is that those companies give millions of dollars to politicians per year, so they're seen as somewhat "untouchable"

https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/alphabet-inc/summary?id=D00...

https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/apple-inc/summary?id=D00002...
Sounds like a healthy economy!
Sure Gitea does a bit too much for a single individual, but you don't have to use the additional features. Honestly, the UX of gitweb is pretty bad so even if Gitea has too much, it's still better than gitweb. Who knows, maybe someone will clone a Gitea and rip out all the social features from it.
Warframe also used to have something similar, you can breed animals to act as companions and helpers during missions. If you didnt spend resources on them they would eventually degrade and die after 20 or so days
Thanks, sounds quite interesting!
agreed.

I dont make money with it currently
Exactly. It bothers me every day. It defines much of my self-image in being present in the US. I was confronted with that question in my citizenship interview, and more recently in my global entry interview. I know of many others who have been asked the same thing. I'm thinking "heck I drove 9% over the speed limit driving to this interview. They probably know that. When I parked the car, I jay-walked across the empty street into the building. They have that on video!". If I say no, if I say yes, either way I have committed perjury. All just because I wanted my slice of the American dream. I had a friend (deceased) who was a federal agent. He explained to me years ago that the US code is intentionally drafted so that EVERYONE is a criminal (sorry @ClumsyPilot, a "suspect"). If you are in compliance with one section of code you are automatically in violation of another. If the 3-letter agency wants to get you, they can ALWAYS get you. I'm not sure that I believe that. I'm not sure I want to believe that. But he certainly believed that.
> What do you mean with "understand"?

By "understand" I mean the knowledge that is missing to the agent in order to control the environment toward achieving its goal. Reinforcement learning is concerned with this sort of interaction, between an agent (a decision maker) and an (unknown) environment. The (only) goal of the agent is to maximize its cumulative sum of reward (cf the Reward hypothesis(.

> And why are you calling "knowledge" that which is predictive?

No, I do not think I am saying that, but if it comes across like that, let me be more precise.

I mean that most (but not all) of the world knowledge is predictive. An example of not-predictive knowledge is factual knowledge, like mathematics. Knowledge being predictive is important for an autonomous decision maker because the knowledge can be verified solely by the agent (not a teacher, as it is in the framework of supervised learning). One crucial thing to understand about the framework of reinforcement learning is that it makes the agent solely responsible for its way of behaving. As it should be. Then, an effective way to do that in a scalable way (to not rely on some oracle teacher or anything else) is to be able to verify any knowledge that the agent wants to acquire, in order to achieve its goals.
It sounds like you are saying the regulation would work (as intended)?
Doesn't the finite size imply that they are in fact repeating?
I really like "alpha" guys when it comes to decisions that they have to take responsibility later on.

Usually "alphaing" is about no stakes decisions which makes me super annoyed. Team could just make any decision and be done with it.
The Internet Encyclopedia of Memes
The financial district, esp north of market, and south going towards embarcadero (Google, ...), is basically exactly this.
MyNoise has a great app that I have used for years. Very good.
Is the answer to convert the letters to integers, then compare that list of integer strings before/after alphabetizing it? I haven’t studied leetcode (never needed to), but this is the first thing that occurred to me…
LOL, my only tablet is an iPad Air 2 and still gets some updates, runs most apps and is in a very good condition. Battery isn’t what it used to be, but I can’t complain keeping in mind that my trusty iPad has served me well all this years and has paid off its investment. Nowadays Apple is not making hardware like it used to.
Woodpecker CI is a fully open source fork of Drone CI. Drone changed their license so they forked it.
:) I'm curious why? But if so, you can have Compiler Explorer give you a starting point (assembly output) quickly.
Gas stoves are more hazardous than we’ve been led to believe (2020)
Google is in the same stage as Microsoft in the year 2000. It has a lot of cash cows, and is making piles of dollars from them. However, it's lost:

- the ability to engineer good products

- reputation

In the early '00s, most of the really competent people went to Google. Right now, most of the really competent people I know avoid Google, and it's sort of a second choice employer.

It has a lot of market power, but it's increasingly vulnerable.

The cost structure there doesn't help. High salaries+benefits / fewer employees was a good call. High salaries / 100+k employees is less competitive.

I can't predict the future, but I've been bearish on Google for a while.
Just want to point out that Atrial Fibrillation and Atrial Flutter are (usually) very benign, chronic conditions. Many people have for years without symptoms.

Ventricular fibrillation, ventricular tachycardia and torsades are acutely deadly. You have seconds to minutes to get a normal rhythm back.

The charts colors made me feel like they were implying a-fib was the worst rhythm listed. (Though they list the severity in the descriptions in small text)
Because these kinds of short-sighted policies waste fortunes on saving pennies. Even in your story building a desk yourself is not necessarily worth the time spent compared to focusing on your core business
FFmpeg has a colored noise generator.
http://www.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-filters.html#anoisesrc
I played a game called Kingdom Conquest then Kingdom Conquest 2 that I could see exceeding this. The game reset every few months and you’d have to spend the money all over again. I quit after my “kingdom” and all the other English speaking people got brutally subjugated by our Japanese counterparts. We just didn’t spend nearly as much money as them and totally lost.
If your friend’s Telegram account gets deleted you still have access to the whole chat history. Idk if it is possible to restore the deleted account though.
Podcasts are taking over one off content like daily radio programs, so the quantity is huge.

Audio book subtitles could be more useful if they highlighted what was just read instead of the whole page. Possibly with TTS alternative pronunciations or spelling aloud upon request.
Yes. I can detect repetition of ocean “white noise” if the length is too short. But a long enough track is just fine
It's kind of sad really, because the generation that's talking about this here are the same the people that had the best, and least adulterated versions of gaming growing up. So the grew up and ruined games going forward by making them only about money.