skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> COBRA is actually a terrible deal if you had a nice plan. You could pay a third to get a decent marketplace plan in most places

Unless you qualify for marketplace subsidies, marketplace plans aren't a better deal like for like, than the best deals on employer group plans. If you had a good employer plan, a minimal marketplace plan will be far cheaper, but switching insurers can have a nonfinancial transitional cost associated with networks changes that you may not want to deal with when transitioning to job hunting, and while for the average consumer a cheaper plan will usually also be lower cost, you may not be the average consumer; a cheaper plan that covers less may, as well as being a transitional headache, increase your total insurance + out of pocket cost.
The story is abstract in the sense that it might go over a child's head, but there's definitely a deep story in it about coping with loss
I would call that buggy
"looking for millions of VC money" = "I don't have money"
How is that inconsistent with wanting to avoid paying money for regulatory requirements that get in the way of solving your customer's problem?

The point is not that startups shouldn't follow regulations, it's that startups are a uniquely weak type of venture, but with the potential to be tremendously valuable to society. So designing a set of regulations for startups that balances the benefits to society of the regulation with the benefits to society of the potential startups is likely to lead to better outcomes for society.

As an analogy - in the city I live in, no-one is allowed to do any digging around a tree without prior permission from the city tree specialist. That regulation is designed to prevent large construction companies from damaging old and valued trees in the community. But in theory, a child planting an apple seed or small tree without permission would be breaking the regulation - can you see how that might reduce the number of trees being planted? The answer is not to remove the regulation, but to have exemptions or light-weight versions of the regulations for those use cases, and then apply more stringent regulations as the company (or tree) grows and becomes more robust and healthy.
> calling this a sin tax is stupid

"Sin tax" is the name for a targeted excise tax to discourage consumption. The name goes back to the 1500s when the Catholic Church used such a tactic (or at least justification) to tax certain activities.

Whether we current use a moral framework to distinguish what goods to tax, it's become an accepted term.
Yes, but besides Cayman I don’t think investors would really be happy to invest in tax havens. Also you normally run into issues with substance requirements, opening bank accounts, bad reputation of the jurisdictions and of course tax authorities that will immediately question and investigate your setup.

From doing a lot of research I get that the general recommendation is to avoid tax havens (at least the obvious, shady ones - US, Ireland, Netherlands etc. are of course fine).
Something like this?

NDepend Dependency Graph
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23fBxM2v22k
At least on Intel, AVX has its own functional units and register file, so I would say it's not a major concern. It's possible that running some AVX instructions could be almost or completely free if you weren't using execution port 5 anyway, to the extent that instruction-level parallelism can be considered "free".

If you're really taking a microscope to performance, the main hazards would be intermittently using AVX for only a few instructions, because that might lead to the CPU stopping for a few microseconds to turn the power on and off on the functional units. If you're using them heavily the overall thermal situation might cause a core or package-wide clock rate degradation, but if you have a use case for sustained AVX-512 usage this is likely to be a good tradeoff.
> ”Anecdotally there is a high correlation between firms that tell me they're freezing hiring, etc and algorithm interviews.”

Both are signs of companies that treat employees as ammunition rather than assets.
the "current state" of quantum computing is dependent on the observer.
I will play devil's advocate and defend some parts of the German system. Although my actual personal opinion of some of those institutions may vary, I will try very hard to keep this simple and just take the opposing side.

- IHK: Not bad, see German apprenticeship system

- GEZ: Not bad, see American media landscape (e.g. Fox News vs. CNN)

- Paying 25.000 € for your own GmbH shares: (1) These are not shares. (2) There are other options. (3) Your company keeps the money, you are not paying anyone. (4) It is only 12500 € up front, you can guarantee for the other 12500 € (5) You get rid of personal liability, so it is fair for everyone to know, there is at least some money within the newly created entitiy.

- Notary, having registers with names etc.: Not bad, see tax havens

- (Seemlingly) not having to pay taxes when your company is sold by a holding company: It is not the same thing. While a holding company selling shares is taxed a miniscule amount, it is actually taxed as soon as the money is paid out to you personally, making you effectively pay more taxes overall in addition to the operating costs of the holding company. The holding gets the benefit of being able to reinvest the gross amounts.
The Thief series. It technically has violence... but I play the game on the hardest settings and the most you can do is sneak up and knock someone out.
3 months ago the stock market was at or near an all time high, I don't see how they could anticipate the current economic downturn.
yes | not
How do you find the better-quality companies you apply to? Are you able to decline to answer algorithm questions when they're asked, and instead convince companies to accept code samples?

There is https://github.com/poteto/hiring-without-whiteboards , but there aren't many larger companies on the list
Nowhere did I suggest investing in crypto (indeed, I have a track record of the opposite, and I was mostly agreeing with someone who was suggesting the opposite), so your comment is unhelpful.
> What happens this time?

Unless you're deep in the financial industry you couldn't have possibly known the details of what was coming in 2008 in 2007. However you easily could tell, if you were paying attention, that something wasn't right in 2007.

Plenty of analysts and economists much smarter and more informed than me have been worried about the massive credit bubble we're in and the consequences of that popping.

While I agree, it would be far more interesting to know exactly what is going to cause the system to snap, it doesn't mean that observations that something is deeply wrong and we are very likely in for a lot of trouble are invalid "doomerism".

Additionally, what's your evidence that this will be less severe than 2008?
> "I find I have much more interesting and intellectual conversations with people outside of tech."

No truer words have ever been written...
I refused to use Spotify from early on because it is so anti-album. The interface just sucks for playing albums, and its ridiculous that they haven't fixed it. Playlists are fine for parties or when you want to discover new music, but if you are doing more focused listening albums are the way to go.

I use Apple Music for streaming / high quality downloads while on the go or airplaying around the house, and Roon (https://roonlabs.com) for dedicated in-home album listening. Its definitely a more expensive combo than Spotify, but worth it.
SIMD based sorting isn't new, e.g. djbsort: https://sorting.cr.yp.to/. I find it strange the paper doesn't cite it or compare to it at all.

EDIT: to be fair it does seem that Bramas' first published work on SIMD sorting (that I could find) predates djbsort, https://arxiv.org/abs/1704.08579. A comparison would still be nice though.
The original title mentions the new name. I don't think anyone is expected to be using it immediately though as people will struggle to get what it means. It's more amusing that this is what is of concern to the government at this time.
Pushing them out of the CPU, I don't know, but some SIMD instruction sets on some CPUs have side effects that can negatively affect the performance of other operations. For example, the use of AVX2 / AVX-512 can cause some Intel CPUs to lower their base frequency, thus reducing the performance of simultaneous operations that are not using SIMD.
> [the lawyer] told me that he was sometimes involved in international arms deals. [...] The lawyer seemed to be an adrenaline junkie, someone who had found a home on the dark side of international intelligence. [...] While the FBI knows who the lawyer is, I will not name him, even though he betrayed me.)

Why protect this asshole? Because he got cold feet and gave warning? This guy seems like 'quite a character' and the story unresolved without knowing who it was.
> But, there is a lot of corruption and there's about ~30% of the population which is exteremely uneducated and/or under Stockholm Syndrome and still supporting him.

Sorry, while I'm far (very far) from being a fan of Erdogan. I take a distance quickly when I read someone talking like this about their own people. From experience (from another 3rd world country) we have people that say the exact same words, and they're the most ignorant people on the local politics but they think they are superior and they know better because they are "liberal" and they follow the foreign (usually western) press but they keep loosing most of their political fights because they only see from very narrow angle. I'm not implying you're like that, I just want to say that this is dangerous way of thinking on the local politics of most countries.
The cryptocurrency pyramid scam bubble popping is not indicative of a recession.
I really don't think that's productive. Nitpicking like this only makes it seem like the argument is mostly correct except for minor details.
A 'Print 1/0' is the People's Breakpoint

(it may also be the best choice if you're debugging a language that you hardly know, so you just want to throw an error and halt)
Not really the same thing. With diagram generation, the code is still the source of truth. There would just be a way to automatically visualize it.

With code generation, you would program by diagramming up front and then the code would be generated from that.
I'd think so, I get dozens of recruiters reaching out every week. My current position I started a few months ago from a recruiter show reached out to me through LinkedIn as well.
>Several stores track your phone inside the store

phones made in the last few years have mac address randomization to thwart this type of stuff. It's not perfect, but it suffices to prevent them from building a profile of your purchases between visits.

>Some also use facial recognition.

good thing covid made face masks socially acceptable ;)
Quote: "Today we're sharing open source code that can sort arrays of numbers about ten times as fast as the C++ std::sort...." and proceeds to explain about SIMD instructions.

Well, to me sounds that C++ std::sort is simply lacking an optimization which can very easy be implemented in next iteration of the compiler/linker. I had high hopes this would be a really breakthrough algorithm, not lack of a simple optimization using some instruction set that compiler/linker didn't implement. If they want, CPU vendors would make an even more awesome and faster instruction set, let's say SIMD2, which would leave this one in the dust.
A decade and a half of easy money leads to a lot of bullshit. I imagine many of those firms are your typical SV startup or wannabe SV startup that only exists due to easy money and doesn't yet have to make actual profit to survive. So they can tell themselves leetcode performance matters and get high on their own supply.

In my experience the higher quality non-FAANG firms who aren't wildly popular places to work and also need to turn a profit to survive tend to be more appreciative of qualified applicants and waste less time getting them started
what makes it worse than others with algo feeds?
> heads-up angle may suffer from being double-edged; it may indicate
someone who suffers from excess self-esteem. From experience, these
types are harder to deal with because many times one has to help
them relieve themselves of their ego first, before anything

Sure, there's a definite line between heads-up and a cocky
nose-in-the-air. As another commenter said, it's more than just head
angle, you need to consider face expression and eye position too.

The expression "looking down at people" is probably captured in
precisely that ratio of head-eye angle that gives off haughtiness, and
the "chad" comic posted above sums up the excess of other body
language that makes one send out "I'm a dick" signals.
In addition to bad management, the contrast of the CEO buying a $133 million compound in Bel Air while throwing employees out on the street is just too stark.

https://therealdeal.com/la/2022/01/03/pawson-designed-bel-ai...
Seeing your edit: Then please consider dropping a kind word to the dev: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inbox/-/issues/7050
> Maybe the system pre-allocates memory to speed up later tasks

I don't think so. But part of the problem is that DrRacket includes the equivalent of the compiler and linker and perhaps also the standard library of C# or whatever you are using in VS.

I don't think that explains all the difference, because Racket use untyped variables and lot of lambdas for "callbacks" and other functional tuff. Another problem is that macros make syntax highlighting and other stuff more complicated.

Some people (like me) think these features make programing easier. Try Racket until you don't see the parens, and make your own opinion.

(Anyway, I suggest to disable the extensions of DrRacket that you are not using. That decreases the loading time a lot.)
I don't know, I have started to think we shouldn't sell any type of hard drugs, like alcohol and tobacco, in grocery stores. Why not sell these products in separate specialized stores, like we already do with Vinmonopolet?
Looks like his real problem was that a US VC wanted the company incorporated in Delaware for their convenience, but wasn't willing to pay the costs of doing that.
There’s a lot of talk in N about the “people health” and how people need to eat less sugar etc. And how things like sugar should be taxed more. But you can still buy as much candy and whatever at the grocery store. And it doesn’t seem terribly expensive, either. (Alcohol is, though.)

There should be some opt-in assistance for making better lifestyle choices, I think. More walk, less talk. There are already self-help ideas that center around promising other people that you won’t do X, or that you will do Y, and then having to pay them money or something if you do/don’t. Why couldn’t the government help you do the same thing? As a not-for-profit alternative.

EDIT: I don’t mean that the disincentive should be that you give the government money if you fail. That would be a bad incentive for the government.
The worst thing about Apple Music on macOS are the "smart" playlists. They can't be disabled, they keep coming back no matter how many times I delete them, and they're always at the top, so they push my playlists out of sight. Just absolutely terrible UX.
Also stereotyping of individuals based on group trends, positive or not...
And yet there is no successful German internet company on the scale of Amazon, Facebook, Netflix, Apple, Google. I claim the regulatory environment is a factor preventing such businesses being successful - why are are you so sure it couldn't be?
Depending on which installment you played:

https://www.gog.com/game/thief_gold

https://www.gog.com/game/thief_2_the_metal_age

There were also later installments in the series but I've understood that they didn't quite stand up to the originals.

It might not be young kids' material (due to the patience it requires, and a bit of a dark story or at least ambience). There's also some violence, as it's probably hard to finish without resorting to absolutely any, and the various enemies can attack you regardless, but it's kind of in the spirit of the game that you can opt for avoidance of combat or non-lethal means.
In the same week we see one government (Canadian) fining a company for unnecessarily storing data on users, and another government obtaining masses of data just for the hell of it.

EDIT

> SSB claims they want a less time-consuming way of collecting and analysing household consumption statistics in order to inform tax policy, social assistance and child allowance.

That does seem plausible. Inflation statistics, for example, are notoriously vulnerable to arbitrary changes in the "basket of goods" economists define. If economists could access the entire shopping list, including volumes, then there'd be no need to try to guess what a representative basket looks like.
Ominous, grandiose, hard to object to, impossible to act upon.
> Elon works a lot. Show me one pic of him on vacation.

You literally used this as an argument.

Also, I don't think the problem is how much Musk works. If you ask me at the CEO level working "so hard" shows you don't really understand basic delegation techniques. He does work really hard to project the image he's working hard - I'll give you that.

Also, no matter how hard you work you will never make billions off solely just your work. Ain't gonna happen. At some point you need to start exploiting people.
> WhatsApp more secure than Telegram

Why is that? With WhatsApp client being closed source, we simply don't know if it really is doing E2EE at all.
Yes, because you've consulted a map (google maps) and created your list. My comment was not addressing situations like yours. The original poster specifically said "without checking any maps in advance and without any maps in my car."
In a word, no. It's not concrete at all. How exactly would web3 technology solve all the issues these platforms are solving (including hosting, moderation, monetisation, dispute settling, software development etc.) we'll enough not only to be competitive, but to replace them ?
Any specific links?
Is this related to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31611456 ?
IIRc, 23-bit ints are a subset of float32, and up to 50-something-bit ints are a subset of float64s, so on most architectures, int (32) is a subset of double (64).
Meta did not really rescind in general. It was only a couple of very specific cases, such as not winning the H1B lottery they did rescind the offer.
You completely forgot that those data can and will be sold to anybody interested, anywhere.

Much more worrisome image rather than taxing ie chronic junkfood eaters who will inevitably cost health system easily 100x compared to healthy persons.
I wonder how fast it is compared to djbsort https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/blob/master/libc/nexgen... and longsort https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/blob/e011973593407f576d... djbsort is outrageously fast for 32-bit ints with avx2 (which unlike avx512 it's the avx we can reliably use in open source). But there's never been a clear instruction set to use on Intel / AMD for sorting 64-bit ints that's reliably fast. So if this thing can actually sort 64-bit integers 10x faster on avx2 I'd be so thrilled.
The corruption is deep and wide within our government (deep state?) and it doesn't matter which political faction is in power. The attack on the dissemination of information and transparency seems to be accelerating every day. It's almost as if there is something to hide... as if the only way to maintain a position of power is to obfuscate, lie and and deflect at every point a question is asked.
I'm in Belgium and a colleague of mine just bought a house and moved to Italy, near Bergamo whilst staying employed with us. I'm sure she's doing more than fine financially, even without a SV wage.

So the trick's to be Western/Northern European, and move to Southern Europe. /s

There's still plenty of remote opportunities with good pay in Europe that could sustain this kind of living.
In a civilized country with decent labor laws, this would be unthinkable
> Death Stranding is an interesting one to consider as well. There is some violence and extremely dark themes, but aside from the boss battles it’s really minimal on guns and violence.

Seconded. This "walking simulator" - as they say - unexpectedly turned out to be one of my favorite games of all time. The story is just magnificent.
There are posts pretty much every day. Past week:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastWeek&page=0&prefix=tru...

In particular, this post from 4 days ago looks relevant: "Quantum Computers: A Brief Assessment of Progress in the Past Decade" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31565627 (I have not read it.)
> Honest question because I don’t understand most of the comments on this submission: what’s supposed to be the issue with cooperating with law enforcement?

Depends on the laws they are enforcing. There is a very thin line between law enforcement and outright spying and authoritarian opression.
In case it helps to hear it from someone else: you are confused and the statistics are sound and not a trick.
Economy shows resilience despite mounting recession fears
> where land was stolen from productive white farmers

Pray tell us, how did white farmers come to own land in Zimbabwe?
I feel the UI at least is better than Spotify. And you don’t have to suffer from podcast advertisement with Apple Music.

In the end for all of these services you are exposed to the whims of their dev/management team. The only way around this problem is probably a regulation from the government to force services to offer a consistent unchanging api so that third party clients can be build and fix all of these problems.
I'm definitely becoming one of the tin foil hat lot but since the redesign I've gone from perhaps 40 hours listening per week to almost zero but am too lazy to cancel the subscription.

By that metric I think the redesign has succeeded, I've soft churned but they get the subscription and pay out no royalties.

Never assign to malice yadda yadda yadda... but there's no way such an atrocious redesign doesn't have an ulterior motive. The designers have done their job well it's just optimizing for something else.
>I'm sure it has, it's just done in a subtle manner you don't notice.

How do you figure? In all grocery stores I’ve visited, loyalty card discounts are clearly noted on the item's price tag. I've never seen any hidden discounts (or surcharges) that pop up only at checkout.

>Just swipe your "tax setting" card before you swipe anything else.

Very true, but decentralizing progressive sales tax collection is rife for fraud. Without centrally tracking everyone's cumulative tax burden, there would be no way to prevent people from using hacked Tax Setting cards that grossly underreport their income or cumulative meat consumption. Hacking notwithstanding, this would also be a lot more expensive that centrally tracking everything, since each Tax Setting card would have to maintain its own memory of cumulative purchases (otherwise, just ring up your massive meat order one steak at a time).
As of February 2022, GitHub supports Mermaid diagrams directly: https://github.blog/2022-02-14-include-diagrams-markdown-fil...

This may help with adoption.
Can I please have a link?
My wife and I bought a farm in the Pacific Northwest where we’ve placed over 12 acres of prairie and oak woodland into conservation with the help of the local Natural Resource Conservation Service. We’re in the process of applying for organic certification for 40 acres or agricultural fields that were conventionally farmed before we took over.

I still do iOS development professionally — but now fully remote from the farm.

Climate was our biggest consideration in choosing the region. I don’t know that any place will completely escape the challenges of climate change — fire is something we have to plan for an adapt to for instance.

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