skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most payroll processors handle this for you. HR and Payroll for teams under 50 should never be done in house, there are so many pitfalls. IMHO, until you can hire a full time HR person, use a company to process/collect taxes, handle on boarding paperwork, and your employee handbook. ADP, Zenefits, etc.. can provide what you need to get started. You can always go internal later on once you are setup and learn the risks. Payroll is like dental work, its best to trust a professional that isn't you.
First of all thanks for all the interest and a good question! While obviously it would be possible to compile directly to Erlang, or even to Core Erlang it would just add a lot of additional work to do. Elixir adds a phenomenal amount of functionality that made making Elchemy easier. And thanks to building it on such a high level we can leverage most of the Elm tooling goodness as well as Elixir's.
Another very important factor is familiarity. People much rather like an environment they already know and it would be silly to try to recreate things like Mix or ExUnit yet again.
Another important aspect is the familiarity of the output. Elchemy's priority is producing fully readable Elixir code, which not only adds another layer for learning the language's characteristics as well as a 'belt and braces' for experimenting with it in existing projects - the time cost of removing Elchemy from a project written in it is way smaller than rewriting the logic from scratch
Growth in demand for compute will continue to drive sales for the foreseeable future.

In the "old days", there was also demand from upgrades, but we're seeing that tapering off. And that should be a big concern for the investors.
Can there be a “very good dog?” Philosophy has an answer
> Side note: I don't know why England sucks. The people love it, god awful amounts of money are spent on soccer/football. But thank god they haven't figured it because the world would not hear the end of it...

I wonder if it just comes down to how they practise it and the level of dedication - similar to how this feature alludes in the case of cricket: http://www.espncricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/653673.ht...
Beyond the complications you raise in management, it is just a straight major legal risk.

How can you argue or prove any relationship between boss and subordinate is consensual?
If you are manufacturing something then the profit margins can be much higher. However, for retail 2% is fairly solid and likely above average when you include people losing money, but not outstanding.
Just give it time for the market to digest it organically. It will be a slow process but it is the best then to shred it. Afterall Nvidia is in no hurry for new GPU introduction, as Vega doesn't seems to be competitive.
We've asked you a number of times to please make your comments thoughtful and informative. If you won't, we'll ban the account.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
You don't, and I do agree the personal callout was pretty fresh, especially on a public mailing list. It doesn't dismiss the point though that you have to write everything like a HoA letter complaining about the color of your mailbox
If I were a lawyer, I'd be able to tell you with great certainty and precision what all the reasons are why you shouldn't look for an answer to that question here.
Yeah, part of becoming a better coder, is learning to scan through the 'chaff' to get to the good stuff. I'll usually open 5 different articles at once, scan em, see what applies to my situation the best, which one seems to 'know' their stuff better, etc...

One reason I hate video tutorials -- I don't want to sit through 30 minutes to figure out the 20 second tidbit I need to know, I don't even read 50% of blog posts I just scan it for what I want and go... lol
You are 100% correct. For not single line comments, "//" in the datastructure, and everything else there are already well tested solutions for the problem. https://github.com/sindresorhus/strip-json-comments

My point is only that this isn't a big issue. I don't understand why so many see it as a large issue. Instead, projects use non-standard YAML or other problematic solutions only because "JSON doesn't have comments".
I would love to know how companies can grant equity (vesting over time) to remote contractors (i.e., without establishing a legal entity in the remote country.)
"Among sheep, one leader can change the direction of things, at least to an extent."

Well, I am skeptical that people are that easily led... I feel that it's more the case that they respond to what they need and so if what you're providing doesn't line up with their (possibly dysfunctional) view of the world your ideas will fall on deaf ears. It's not like these ideas in their functional forms have ever been widespread beyond artists using them as a post hoc justification for why their work resonates with the popular mood.

As to your first point about "experts in their own domain"...

I believe that most of the folks who care about these ideas are probably neither in academia nor have much access to popular discourse.

There are plenty of threads to pickup in this world where the intellectual work is still ongoing, but the people in academia mostly don't consider these ideas useful because (among many reasons) they destabilize their already unstable position in the economy.

My dissertation director was way more interested in a very conservative approach to history than in unpacking language, and he was, I think, fairly representative of the people in the field: if you're interested in theoretical concerns, then you're almost definitely going to be either unemployed or become unemployable as an academic or an intellectual.

It's really tough for my cohort to afford to write while paying off student loans working at Barnes and Nobles or adjuncting a 5/5 at some JC. At the same time, I personally have the time to write, but I'd rather focus on playing music because it's a lot more relatable for most people.

You might consider someone like Mark Fisher (kpunk) to be the kind of person I am thinking of when I say that theory in the university is a rough endevor. I'm in the middle of reading his "Capitalist Realism: Is there no alternative?" and I think it addresses this, so maybe pull the PDF and take a skim. His personal mode of addressing the issue (he eventually killed himself) is probably not super healthy, but at the same time I am not sure that there really is much else that is actionable here.
The trend towards urbanization is unbroken. Most young people want to live in the city - and not just because of jobs
Poverty in the city has lessened somewhat in the past few years, but in 2016 the official poverty rate was still 19.5 percent, or nearly one in every five New Yorkers... By comparison, the city’s poverty rate in 1970—in the wake of Lyndon Johnson’s war on poverty—was just 11.5 percent

There are an estimated 550,000 or so illegal immigrants out of a population of a little over 8.5 million. Wonder how many there were in 1970
> Companies whose values cannot really be calculated by the assets they hold

Assets have value for the cash flows they promise. Facebook is a dead simple valuation exercise on a PEG basis.
Is there a packaging option for Electron where I can point it to a bunch of html files, and I get a 1MB installer, capable of dowloading and installing the runtime on the target system, if not already present?

It seems like such an obvious solution used by all languages that require a runtime.
One reason old buildings seem generally better than new buildings is survivorship bias. We only see the exceptional old buildings that were worth preserving. The franken-buildings in the article won't survive many generations to be laughed at.

In general, the prediction "future generations will laugh at X" rarely comes to pass. Better laugh while you can.
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How far is your drive? How long does it take you?

I have a 3 mile commute that takes me roughly 10-15 minutes during morning rush hour and maybe another 5 in the evening. According to Google Maps walking takes an hour and public transit take 45 minutes.
Reorganizing can fix it. For now bus and train are optimized for for source and destination.

We would need to start ( especially in cities) to optimize for range.
It’s all relative. But to say the flatiron neighborhood is a thriving cultural scene is a stretch. Is a ballet school for rich kids part of a creative scene? Is Eataly, a food court for tourists?

A better measure of the neighborhood’s creative DNA is the number of cultural events in Madison Square Park, where just yesterday there was an LL Bean promotional event taking place next to a Brooks Brothers promotional event (you can’t make this stuff up).

In this New Yorker’s opinion the last time your neighborhood had a creative pulse was when artists and photographers lived there in order to be within walking distance of the (now long-dead) photo district, where all the labs and darkrooms were. How many musicians and ballet dancers live there now, when a take-out salad in a plastic bowl is easily $20?

The linked article is maddening to me b/c it’s so damn accurate.
Microsoft had HTML apps as a standard feature of windows in the 90s iirc

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML_Application
One of my favorite articles on investing, and a sobering read any time I get tempted to try active investing.

Does anybody know if there are any online tools that generates these RTM charts? For a while that's been my go-to toy project when testing out a new language/framework, but it'd be nice if there was something online integrated into legit data feeds for stock/fund performance.
I lack any citations, but I remember when I was young and there was a decent amount of talk of ethics on the news in Canada about Dolly the sheep.
I doubt it. The military-industrial complex is so deeply engrained in the country that I think it's literally impossible to budge. There's so many pockets of defense industry around the country that Congressmen have secured with pork barrel spending over the past ~70 years that downsizing any one part is electoral suicide. And we all know government agencies aren't famous for wanting to ever downsize their budgets, lest they don't fight for their "fuck you, got mine" part of the annual budget.

It's fucked, it really is. I don't see it ever changing.
I'm saying that the webapp also gives him what he wants but without some serious disadvantages. If you really don't want to run any extensions on Slack, you can do that too: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/extension-automati...
Still, tested correctness is different from guaranteed correctness. Either the taxation is unambiguously defined in law (howver scattered within the law) or it is not and we have void for vagueness.

The people who define the taxation are payed by taxes, so why not require the deliverable to include a cryptographically signed algorithm? Then all the shops can have free peace of mind:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17367669
The smallness issue is pretty straightforward. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compactification_(physics)

Assuming that the universe is closed like the surface of a sphere, heading off in any direction will eventually bring you back to where you started. Compactified dimensions are roughly like directions in which, for example, that trip is very much shorter, maybe too short to observe. It gets complicated and I'm not a physicist, but the idea that the size of the universe is different on different dimensions is the key one.

As far as in-between dimensions goes, I don't know. Maybe it was a reference to fractal dimension.
If it is automated, there is no reason the fee couldn’t be progressive.
Public transit works if large amounts of people move along predictable routes at predictable times, and the immense cost of infrastructure and operation is spread among a large pool. People desiring additional control and comfort can use personal vehicles, and use publicly-subsidized roadways, but fuel taxes, licensing fees, and tolls recoup a small portion of this cost from the operator.

As the article points out, newer car-hire services mount the most unfortunate competition, because they take advantage of the low costs of private vehicles' road use, and then turn around to collect a fare from each user, which, depending on market conditions, may or may not even result in an operating profit. While these are comfortable for their occupants, they clog up the streets more so than personal-use vehicles, which don't need to patrol the town when their driver is occupied. The fact that the likes of Uber notoriously ignore local regulations hurts even more. These car hire services pay the same way as private vehicles do, but the marginal difference between their usage goes not to the government's coffers, but to private operators.
I had other offers, so it wasn't a big deal in the end. But I've worked as a 1099 contractor before, and I'm not doing that again.

You say there's lots of ways to get health insurance in this country, but in my experience that's not the case. Not only is it vastly more expensive, but (not to get too political) I can't really rely on my ability to buy insurance as a single person at a reasonable rate to stay around.
it is like moonwalk but more autistic /s
Why don't people like Wix?
There is a reason why even consensual relationships aren't allowed between workers in the same management chain at Intel. If you are in a relationship where you have power over the other person's livelihood, it can create a dynamic that can be coercive and predatory. I think it makes sense for them to mention the #MeToo movement in regards to this situation.

Secondly, BK is married and presumably this was a hidden affair, which adds another layer of complexity to this situation.
> So what do people eat now instead of 'cod and chips'? This amuses me as there is no problem for them. They get some other fish shaped object - 'battered' - and make judgements of how tasty or otherwise it is. Maybe this fish comes from another hemisphere, perhaps it has some unusual name, maybe it tastes 'different'. Marketing conquers all though, this mystery fish caught somewhere off Antarctica will have a fancy name as if it is some deluxe, exotic variety.

This reminds me "Chilean seabass" [0]. I always chuckle to myself when I see it on a menu, usually for some outrageous price. Marketing conquers all, indeed.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patagonian_toothfish
When as a NYC renter it is impossible to live in near half of the rental housing stock at any price due to de facto permanent tenancy, this only pushes up the price of the housing that is possible to rent (the exempt buildings). Instead you get people in their 20s, 30s and 40s living in market rate apartments carved into multiple illegal bedrooms, places without a certificate of occupancy, illegal conversions and other shady situations.

Rent regulation help defines the price point of the new buildings, and many of the same tenants living in rent regulation are the constituency fighting for downzoning and against new construction. Rent regulation also contributes to mansionization and other reduction of housing stock.

At least we have as-of-right development of some kind unlike SF, albeit to ludicrously low zoning limits in many places. Instead, hundreds of thousands of people spend hours every week commuting under neighborhoods in Manhattan that are full of 4- or 6-story buildings when they should really be 20- or 30-story buildings that the commuters can live in instead (the Villages, I'm looking at you). It's impossible to tear down a building with permanent rent regulated tenants and build a higher one without massive buyouts; the buyouts raise the price for any new housing that gets constructed in its stead. Instead, you only get sufficient new construction in places like Williamsburg, LIC, Jamaica and the far west side is because there isn't as much political pushback from such permanent tenants in place.
Hire as long-term contractors - they send invoices at the end of the month, you transfer the funds through regular wire transfer.
Manifold Blogcast 001: Should designers learn container orchestration?
No industry likes wasting money which you insist it should do, by duplicating work pointlessly.

> Khronos keeps trying to advocate game developers to adopt Vulkan

And you don't like that, since you are a big fan of lock-in apparently.
Dennett aims to solve this using heterophenemenology:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heterophenomenology

In this framework, utterances can be studied without taking their truth value at face value.
As far as I know, that's correct. Furthermore, the TX-2 it ran on was a one-off machine, and was changed over time, so the same instruction might do different things before and after hardware changes. I don't know of a description of the TX-2 at any point in time sufficiently complete to write a simulator, much less at the particular time SKETCHPAD was being built.

Presumably it would be somewhat simpler than the PDP-1 simulator, and perhaps could even use the same scope simulation code — Norbert Landsteiner tells me that simulating the visual effects of the scope tube was the hardest part of writing the PDP-1 simulator.
> "Everybody is on PS4, so I need to get a PS4 to play with them"

To be honest that is why a few friends and myself got PS4s. We had quite a few friends on the platform and I already had an xbox, but I wanted to play with them so I got a PS4.

What's interesting is that you can cross play with PC and Mobile on PS4 though. It sounds like they just don't want to work with Microsoft or Nintendo.
And Jeff Bezos

https://www.cheatsheet.com/health-fitness/scandalous-office-...
Essentially all psychological differences vary from a behavioral quirk to a disabling disorder. The distinguishing line between psychological difference and psychological disorder can (probably) vary from person to person: the only valid distinction is if the psychological difference causes problems for the person.
>ballet, jazz, classical

To the author’s point, these are the default tastes of shallow wealth. You will find services of these genres/motifs anywhere you find wealth. Your point does not imply “creativity” but production and performance. It does not imply enlightenment but rather the very essence of decadence.

Are some of these participants creative? Naturally. These forms are plenty important/respected in culture and the arts, but that is not the perspective which underwrites their survival in NYC. This survival is based on their compatibility with wealthy patrons.

Realize that 1940s modern art, which is most associated with NYC becoming the center of the world’s art scene, was entirely a product of the working class.
Looks so.

> 21e800 trailing the first 18 digits. 21e8 is important because it signifies an exceptionally simple theory of everything. Often referred to as "E8 Theory"

The wiki pages[1] for E8 theory don't say anything about 21. So ...18zeroes...21e800 is linked to 21e8, then linked to e8, which itself is an acronym/pseudonym and not a real number or anything.

Ouch.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Exceptionally_Simple_Theory...
Nintendo is definitely the undisputed king of exclusive content.

Pokemon is the highest grossing media franchise in the world, higher than Star Wars. Mario comes in at number five, putting it above the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Batman, and Call of Duty.

We'll see how things shake out, but I would bet money that Nintendo will still be selling Pokemon, Mario, and Zelda games thirty years from now. I have no faith that Sony will even be making video game consoles at that point.
I'm hoping that we'll see innovations such as Mill Computing's CPU get to the market, and it should provide a dramatic improvement in efficiency / performance for a given die area.

And that's great. But that'll also be a one-time thing in a sense. After it has moved to the latest process node, it will be on the same trajectory as other architectures.
This.
There's no need to rebuild everything from scratch and fail due to too much to do.
If the project grows more we can think about going low level. However, right now we can use everything that Erlang has, everything that Elixir has and most of what Elm has. It's a huge time and effort saver
Then they wise up and leave to go somewhere they can afford and have some privacy, raise their kids, and the cycle starts anew.
The way you put this really resonates with me. Often when I'm procrastinating it's because a task seems/feels/sounds really daunting, but the "daunting" feeling is because I'm imagining just how damn hard it's going to be to do the task perfectly. It creates this mental barrier to getting started because completing it perfectly (or, to my expectations) seems too hard.

Breaking out of this by realizing that "perfect" is not the goal, and setting more attainable sub-goals for myself is key, but hard.
As someone who writes Erlang for a living, I highly recommend rust as a well typed alternative to Erlang, that still keeps all of the things that make Erlang great. I do love Erlang, but working on a large codebase can be frustrating when nothing is speced or commented, and even when it is speced it’s usually part of a gradually typed codebase with very non descriptive types.
Possibly! But trickier than it seems at first.

For types to help with optimization, those types have to be correct and reliable (i.e. sound). If every line of your app and all of its dependencies are sound, then you should expect a speedup. If there is any unsound code, then you'll have to generate runtime checks to preserve the soundness properties that your optimizer assumes, and those can actually result in _slower_ code.

Even Flow has made compromises that are good for a type checker, but likely unacceptable if an optimizer is relying on them. Quoting https://flow.org/en/docs/lang/types-and-expressions/

> Soundness is fine as long as Flow isn’t being too noisy and preventing you from being productive. Sometimes when soundness would get in your way too much, Flow will favor completeness instead. There’s only a handful of cases where Flow does this.
> Is a ballet school for rich kids part of a creative scene?

Yes? And it isn’t a school, it’s a repertory. With performers—not kids—from a variety of backgrounds.

Next to the promotional events (which aren’t always horrible) you will find publicly-funded music performances in the park (I never go to these), lectures at NYU and the New School, and random local performers at several bars in the neighbourhood. (Though I personally prefer the West Village for jazz.)
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That analogy is not perfect, if you restrict your web app to only serve people within the same single tax jurisdiction as the brick and mortar store, then there is no need to worry about every single tax jurisdiction.

But I fully agree with you regarding the need for the federal government standardizing.

See my comment at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17367669
Yes but they don't have enough life experience to be an elected representative.
Didn't the ACA take care of that?

Most of the startups I know were pushing people into the state exchanges for their healthcare needs to try and limit their overhead for providing health insurance.
Money. QED.
It's not going to take over the world.

What this is a form of testing, and applying boring old requirements to operations. The whole idea of "chaos" is just a really sad tell about the state of planning for some places.

You should be able to articulate your reliability requirements in certain situations and the verify your stack meets them before a release. And if it's cost prohibitive to do that in a non-prod environment then planning around testing in production in your pre-release planning.

It's silly, it's like classifying a test engineer as an "exploratory tester", which would clearly be a mistake. That is just a type of activity of an engineer, not an engineer role. This is just exploratory load and scalability testing, and falls under the responsibility of a test or devops team.