skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is a pension. In the UK they're called Self Invested Personal Pension and basically all companies do them now.

But I agree they pretty much only have upsides - no risk of the pension fund going bankrupt (would be good right about now in the UK!) and no way for previous generations to steal from the current one, which is basically what all defined benefit pensions are doing now.
Ask HN: How do you speak about people who have left the company?
A strong contributor recently left our team and I was pleasantly surprised by the appreciation the team lead had for their work and how they took a moment to mention the individuals contributions even though they weren’t present.

In contrast, in a startup that I worked at, the team lead would make it a point to trivialize anything the person who left had worked on even if they were an exceptionally strong contributor.

Just curious what everyone’s experience is
You can fire people pretty easily in Europe. There’s rules around layoffs but they are also common. All the companies I’ve worked for have hired and fired relatively freely.
Could you elaborate the difference ?
How about: Mental illness is a complex thing, that involves multiple parts of the body, and probably also the environment.
For a new personal best you can even skip going to the in-store computer. The IKEA website can tell you where your item is, if you select the store you’re going to.
That is the theory, but not how the web works in reality.

SaaS projects usually service the whole world. I have not found a single solo founder who does that in a way that is compatible with the GDPR.

If the EU would try to enforce the GDPR worldwide, it would mean the EU gets cut off from 99% of the internet. Then Europeans can only use giants like Google and Facebook. Because smaller players can not duplicate all of their infrastructure using tools based in the EU.

It won't happen. It would be as if the EU sanctions itself into stone age. Imagine the physical industry would be told that it can only use parts made in the EU from now on.
Airgap it, remove all apps, install Navit [1] and mount the phone on your bicycle to turn it into a sleek, hackable, premium(-ish) offline GPS.

[1]: https://www.navit-project.org/
> Why could we come to such a sensible consensus on this topic but fail to do so on so many others?

I would argue that it took thousands of years of history and one of the darkest episodes of humanity in the 20th century to truly realize this.
>>Europe is 27 countries

No, Europe is 44 countries the subset of Europe that is EU have 27 members
success and progress is about favorable contexts and resources
You don't need fully at-will employment for that. But I do agree with your overall point. If it was literally impossible to fire anyone - rather than just quite difficult - then interviews would be insane. Probation would last years.
Ukraine’s Starlink problems show the dangers of digital dependency
https://archive.ph/jRgJv
Could you explain the difference between the "semiconductor design" and "implementing the signal processing requirements" - not sure I followed the difference between these. The standard in question (e.g., HSPDA) defines the signal processing techniques a chip needs to be able perform. You must then design a chip that implements the standard's signal processing techniques. So those two phrases seem identical to me in this context? Of course, there is a segmentation between the RF Front End (often made by a separate manufacturer) and the digital baseband ASIC (which implements the DSP techniques specifically).
How much nudging do you need before it's eugenics? Would it be eugenics if you were to take young men and women, separate them roughly by area of interest and level of intellectual achievement, remove them from the chaperoning influence of their families, and put them in an institution for four years at the perfect time of their life to form pair bonds? What if you additionally supplied them with easy access to alcohol?
Some how firing/laying-off has been trivialised.

I don't think it has been. I don't think you can generalize the sentiment of people at a company from the HN post about a PR announcement for how they're cutting staff. When a company announces layoffs they're telling the markets, investors, and the public that they need to make a significant change. That doesn't tell you anything about how the founders, board, HR team, or anyone else feel about the layoffs.

FWIW the people I know who work in HR are usually gutted when they have to make jobs redundant. Founders and boards are less so, but usually because they believe it's a choice between jobs cuts and company collapse. Both these things are from very limited exposure to companies making cuts though.

Perhaps there are companies and people out there who think it's trivial. That would be sad.
It made me think: As humans, we are a very lonely species. There are no living beings of the same intellectual capacity as us other than ourselves. Chimps and gorillas have comparable intellectual capacities.

We can bond with cats, dogs, and other pets but they have much lower intellect than us. Imagine how cool it would be to have friends from different species with similar intellectual capacities to ours.
It is just an example and BB&B itself does not matter. You don't need to be an American or a British to understand BB&B is an alternative shop (and OP is not really suggesting that specific shop)
Give a go to R.

You don't need any fancy library to play with data.frames. And Rstudio makes very pleasant to work with.
One Weird Trick that IKEA does is also paying almost no corporate taxes, as all IKEA is owned by several non-profits across Europe.

I think Lidl does the same trick too.
nope, it's just happening a lot recently, more than usual.
> (when most people would be using Ryzen with non-ECC RAM)

Is this true for servers? If I had a Ryzen based server, I’d use ECC RAM.
I think this is the right answer. Even without pushing out the start date, it can easily be 1-2 months or more between applying and a start date, with various online tests, multiple rounds of interviews, background checks, etc, etc.

That being the case, I'd be applying now, and moving through the pipeline with a few possibilities, so there is something ready to go/push out in 2 months.
It's easy to hire anywhere. But is it easy to get hired? How much rigmarole does a company put you through to ensure they're not going to get stuck with dead weight? I'm guessing quite a bit, and the harder it is to fire you the harder they'll work to make sure you're worth hiring.
Show HN: Doge.hair – Elon's dream – Decentralized social network on Dogecoin
https://doge.hair/
So I made what Elon has been talking about - a decentralized social network with all the posts stored on the Dogecoin blockchain.

*HN doesn't seem to be able to handle the .hair tld, so submitted as a discussion instead
Even after 6 months, typical compensation for being fired is 2 weeks of salary for every year worked. For most startup employees, this won't be a huge amount, given they have often only worked a few years.
https://doge.hair/
It doesn't actually go through a "real network" at all, the VM speaks 9p to the host via a virtio pipe (not sure what the technically correct term for this is) so there's none of the overhead that you'd have with emulating a network device and encapsulating it all in Ethernet/IP/TCP.
Great job, me. I fixed it in the source but didn't deploy it to the site. Thanks for pointing it out!
Not jet. I'm working with a friend. Even though the code is in github, is still private, until we have a first working version.

What I'm doing is an extremely simple evaluator, which can do what is required for PDDL: basic arithmetic, logic operators and IF.
"They are relying on me. If I mess up, I affect lives of 400 to 600 people. That keeps me awake."

This is something I heard many times. And the most of the time, companies with this motto are underpaying and don't give a proper wage to employees to make any passive income or any investment to become less depended on the job. And this motto becomes an excuse for overtime and workload in bad times. A professional work should not be responsible/aware of any daughter's wedding or personal loans. Developed countries have massive taxes to support you on unemployment. Risk of layoff must be part of your salary expectation. Young Startups always pay more than stable companies.
Two great resources are:

- https://www.gingerbill.org/series/memory-allocation-strategi...

- https://www.rfleury.com/p/untangling-lifetimes-the-arena-all...
"A Post-It’s easy unstickability is its biggest feature and its downfall.

When you yank a note from the bottom, it curls. That curling is just enough force to lift the note off the paper, the whiteboard, or whatever it’s stuck to."

What do the properties of the adhesive have to do with this? Nothing.
> Some how firing/laying-off has been trivialised.

Yup. Just like we have trivialized climate change, consumerism, mass wastage :-( Ah, capitalism. The devil is in the details.
I use it for my personal projects and really like it because of how quick and responsive it is plus the overall design aesthetic is pleasing to me. At the end of the day though it's an issue tracker and there are quite a few out there. Of the ones I've tried Linear is the best so I hope that they keep improving their product without bloating it too much. That's what I'm worried about most.
My access got revoked for MyT app and then few days later I was able to bind my vehicle again to profile I wonder if that was caused by this
Can someone explain how such a simple and easily-testable bug existed in a seemingly-important system like this?

I don't know much about Swiss e-voting, but seems even the most brain-dead unit test of the IsProbablePrime function should have caught this.
I agree that the tooling is very underrated! It’s strange that programmers spend so much effort choosing their code writing environment (IDE, etc) but just take what they’re given when it comes to code reviewing (mostly GitHub PRs)

If you’re missing Critique, allow me to shamelessly plug CodeApprove: https://codeapprove.com

Just like Critique, it’s a code review tool for power users that really lets you focus on resolving every discussion.
Should be repeated with other LLMs for confirmation.
> The question was: which DIMM should we replace?

On server-class machines, ECC errors often also show up in the system event log, so one can run "ipmitool sel list" and inspect the most recent messages, and they often point to the failing DIMM in a nomenclature that corresponds to how the slots are labelled on the mainboard or in its manual.

In this case, they are using a "gaming" mainboard, so this strategy probably doesn't work (no nice system event log).
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My impression (from across the pond) is that the quality of public schools can vary quite a bit, because they're funded by local property taxes, which means schools in rich neighbourhoods have better funding than those in poor neighbourhoods.

And I have no idea how much freedom Americans have to choose which public school to send their kids to.

By comparison, all Dutch schools receive the same funding, whether public or private, have roughly the same quality and are subject to the same standards, and people are mostly free to choose which school to send their kids to. (I think in Amsterdam, some primary schools have a certain postal code area from which they accept students, and for secondary schools there's a massive ranked lottery system where a small percentage of kids do not end up in one of their top-3 preferred schools.)
This is neat, but.. HN is already a really snazzy looking website in elinks and the other terminal browsers :)
> Also look at heat pump clothes dryers

I live in a country that loves heatpumps, just about every home has one, but heat pump dryers have a bad rep. While they are energy efficient they are very slow to dry clothes, about 2 hours longer than a resistance electric dryer for a small-medium load (1.5 hours vs 3.5 hours).
Most industries would deserve less barriers of entry and less legal protections, it would favor the little ones.

Of course employment is an exchange of promises between employer and employees to bring stability for less money and less risks. But if the exchange benefits both sides, there is no reason to forbid both parties to negotiate whatever they prefer. In Europe there are too many legal hurdles (called "protection" of course they're going to choose a positive word !)

If there is an economic crisis and you forbid firing, the only solution is to close companies. Societe re organizes itself at each crisis, so the people laid off need to find new ways
> If it's easy to fire you won't have to be as thorough when hiring because if the new employee doesn't fit - just waste him/her.

That's super bad for morale and companies generally don't do it unless high churn is normal (retail).

US companies have hiring processes which are HARDER to go through, not easier, on average, than European companies. For example background checks almost never happen, as well as reference requests.
You need to do both questions and observations, IMO, and iterate between the two. Answers give you hypotheses that can then be verified by observation; if just observing, small things can slip by if you don't know to watch for them in advance.
> The most important things for immersion are the visuals, then sound, and then your ability to interact with the environment (more on this later)

I mean agree to strongly disagree I guess.
No I meant the geographical area. The EU is called the EU, the two should never be confused.

Good for Denmark ! Generalizations are never true. Specialized descriptions with all the cases covered on the other hand, are never read.
> If you can be fired easily, you will find a job easily.

If there is another economic crisis and nobody is hiring, preventing companies to fire people will make the crisis even worse.

> It is called "job security"

An outdated concept of the XX century. No such thing in the post-industrial society.

> Unless you count all the mom and pop cafes all over the Mediterranean?

They are closing by thousands now, like in every other economic crisis. And Scandinavian startups — what Scandinavian startups? (Finland and Estonia are not Scandinavian countries, they have somewhat more business-friendly environment).
If you looking for something more substantive I highly recommend Ideas by Peter Watson: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/408204.Ideas
Default settings on Monterey:

$ grep -i HIST /etc/zshrc
# Save command history
HISTFILE=${ZDOTDIR:-$HOME}/.zsh_history
HISTSIZE=2000
SAVEHIST=1000
The nim runtime overhead is very small. In my tests it was very easy to out perform the latest Node and Java runtimes with shorter, and still type safe, code.
I haven't tried MBRT. But I'm more a BA/PM contractor.

Totally agree with you that the process is broken. In my experience more during the early stages. What I have seen over the decades (yeah that long) is that the knowledge level of consultants has plummeted. Used to be that the consultant knew the candidate personally and was a true matchmaker on behalf of both parties. These days, it seems that consultants are just hammering away trying to reach their KPIs. More like off-shored call centers.
Sometimes decision are not reflection of the merits of the individual options, but of the fundamentals of the challenge. Changing a business platform is an incredibly invasive/disruptive move, with huge costs (money and opportunity) and meager gains. Does not mean that say, Dynamics, is not any good.
It is like the author never went to any other stores...
Wonderful! I may offer a tweet2chain.com option to mirror on the dogecoin chain now.
/me sings: I'm riding in the rain, la la laaa. All the powers of my smartie are washed away, by the showers from above. Hey! Laa la la.
> IKEA is the McDonald’s of housewares

That's pretty far out. McDonald's is not fit for any home, heck even any human. IKEA sells good stuff . They are functional and look OK. It's disgraceful to compare it to McDonald's food.
Absolutely agree.

In fact, I think it is deeply ingrained colonialist thinking that nature would need guidance from humans.

Rather, it's the other way around: as long as we don't see ourselves as part of the ecosystem and take our assigned role instead of constantly trying to patronize everyone else in the ecosystem - we would actually have a chance of survival.

The best strategy is to adapt. We are part of something bigger - but just a part and not the CEO of it.
I think Apple probably got it right with supporting Rosetta 2 on Linux. As long as your x86 apps run properly, you probably don't have much of a reason to care that they're running in translation with an ARM CPU and OS kernel.

The thing I wonder about, which I haven't tried, is: is it possible to run x86 containers (such as docker images) with Rosetta 2 on an ARM kernel?

It seems to me like it should be possible; perhaps it already works?
This is perfectly acceptable and should be universially encouraged. True good old fashioned self-hosting, the way god intended.

It'd ditch the wifi and run cable, but that's only because it's better.
Fair enough, when I say "all your worldly possessions" I'm assuming you have less than the outstanding value of the lease (or loan, or whatever you are signing surety for.)

I was speaking from the perspective of someone who considers $1.7m to be more than just pocket-change.

>> In my case, I run a profitable enterprise SaaS business with enough cash balance (from retained earnings) to pay the entire lease term upfront without a significant impact. I demonstrated this to every landlord, and none changed their requirements.

Then clearly one option you have is to pay the lease upfront, and presumably if you did that you don't need to sign a personal surety since then there's nothing to sign for.

Of course the landlord doesn't really care what your cash status is _now_ - they care what your business cash status may be 4 years from now. The risk to them is not at the moment they take on the lease, it's in all the moments from now to the end of the lease. And risk can change dramatically over that period.

If I was a landlord, and you came to me showing that you had the entire lease in cash lying around, and you didn't want to sign surety, then I'm sure we could do a deal for a single up-front payment - probably with very generous terms to you to allow for the future value of money.
> "you can be hired easily"

Little bureaucracy/paperwork/barriers to starting work if a company wants to hire you

> "you will find a job easily"

There are actually companies that want to hire you
Well I guess if there is some nice scenery worth looking onto, they put windows there. But if given Ikea shop is in some industrial district full of other warehouses, they won't degrade viewing experience by ugly views from windows onto grey metallic walls of nearby buildings.

I wouldn't expect this to be in law, other big shops sometimes don't have a lot of windows neither.
Again, different countries, different laws. It is objectively NOT easy to fire people in Germany, for example.
> do they consider the memory is faulty when there are correctable errors?

It depends on the frequency. Occasional CEs are somewhat expected (on a large enough scale) and one can live with them, after all that's what ECC is for. When CEs start happening frequently on one machine, most likely a DIMM is going bad and will worsen over time, so one should replace it.
> We have normalised firing of people. I don't know about the "developed" countries where people have social security, but for countries like India where there is no social security and stigma is associated with being laid off, it is a very difficult situation.

Not to sound crass here but it seems like you're fishing for virtue. Hiring and firing are normal. A company of 20,000 firing 20% of it's workforce sounds major but that's the industry. It's normalized because it is normal. The field of software engineering is so fungible 20% of employees losing their job is nearly meaningless in the current job market because you can throw and rock and find another seat to warm the next day. It's not like Ford closing a factory.

In other words, you need to relax and get out of your head a little. This industry is nothing like the factories. When 20% of factory workers lose their jobs everyone rightfully panics because it's not as easy to get another factory job (at least anymore...here in the west). 20% of tech employees getting laid off from a company is a nothingburger. 99% of these people will be able to take two weeks of free time and find another job for the same (or often better) pay. This is the definition of trivial.
Absolutely not true in Denmark. A good reason can be something like "we are eliminating this position for strategic reasons", and the only money it will cost you is the three-six months (depending on how long they've been at the company) that you have to keep paying them, during which they are required to work as normal and act loyally.
IKEA product quality is abysmal. Like the food quality of McDonald’s.
I think it's pretty clear they were referring to the EU. No need for semantics wars.
I've been planning to implement NixOS tests based on virtiofs instead of 9p for a while, but haven't got it working yet (at the time I tried, the available uid mapping strategies didn't cover what was needed for NixOS tests; there's a patch which I haven't got around to trying out yet though.) and this big improvement takes the pain away a bit so my motivation to finish that off is lower. I'll be sure to write about it if I do though!
I'm on the same boat. Evernote works just fine. :-) 20 k notes and couting.
> The UK has a very strange educational system, curiosity isn’t encouraged, you learn like a good little peg in a round hole.

That was the feeling I had after one week in a UK school through an exchange program. Because my original exchange partner quit on me after seeing my picture, I got assigned a different one who was 2 grades higher. I was pretty average in math back in Germany, but in that class, 2 years above mine (11th while I was 9th), their math riddle that was supposed to take them the whole week was solved by me in one lesson.

This was around 20 years ago, though.
Im not sure if really the simplest test would catch it. You would need to go over n primes and check them, but you might always finish too early.

There is also a question of impact - i think that 19 does not really cause any harm there.
I'm from western Europe :)
Almost as though the human body is one integrated system, rather than a set of individual components connected through well defined interfaces.
I jumped ship quite often in Europe myself, without any problems - 8 or 9 employers in the last 15 years. I think being able to switch between jobs like this is a sign of a competitive job market and not necessarily a by-product of normalized firing
I'm using it every day. I have analyzed all alternatives and all of them fail with something, especialy since the Tasks feature was introduced. So, no, it has not been destroyed. I has been tough, but I think a lot of people use it and are happy with it.