skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Yep, I think we're all sick and tired of the "5 things..." posts. The point I am trying to make in this article is that founders of early-stage startups are able to - and should - go above and beyond that. Far, far, far beyond that. Essentially, give it all you have, and put it all in your first post rather than splitting it over many different articles.

It may be a contrarian strategy, but as a startup you don't really have many other options other than to publish insanely high quality content, even if it means you won't get to publish very frequently. Once you get some traction, you can then start scaling by lowering the amount of effort you put into each and every article.
The idea of "employment" is actually an aberration in history. For most of time, we had peasants and landlords. The peasants would work the land and would maybe get some food and a place to sleep.

Then industrialization came, and those who were skilled were contractors. They would do work for someone and get paid for the work they did. Then they would hustle for more work.

Even in factories, you would show up at the door each day and hope they had enough work for you, and then get paid as you left.

It was only very recently that factory owners thought about offering steady pay in exchange for not having to hire a staff every morning.
Climate change brings the UK’s hidden past to the surface
Not quite, the top comment here is about Google's don't be evil motto and that thread has 45 out of the currently 64 comments here. Along the way someone mentioned this depends on what the reader thinks is evil, so yeah, mostly pointless discussion.
This "solution" seems like a combination of regulatory capture by local restaurants that want to avoid competing, and the usual SF Supervisor cravenness / refusal to deal with the root cause of the issue. The restaurants mentioned in the article (Udon place under 1455 Market and The Market) are both expensive and mediocre, which is no recipe for success. Instead of attracting customers through serving a better product, they are trying to eliminate competition.

Around my office in SoMa by Montgomery, there are numerous thriving lunch places. The Bird, an affordable fried chicken sandwich spot, has 40 people lined up outside every weekday, because it is delicious, cheap, and fast. There are plenty of other examples.

The quantity of open air drug use, sales, and other low-level criminality around Civic Center is shocking - it's not an area where you want to spend more time than absolutely necessary. The same group of heroin & crack dealers do business at the top of the BART steps every single day, and the police do nothing about it. The city needs to deal with that first. Perhaps they can spend some of the tremendous tax revenues coming from tech companies, tech workers, and local restaurants on solving that issue.
If all cafeterias were immediately closed I imagine the lines would be insufferable.
Don't make it sounds like they didn't see this coming. They just simply don't care.
I bought a Huawei Honor 7x two months ago, and was happy with it until a software update went out that bricked mobile data on my device.

Factory resetting the device doesn't fix it (nor messing with APN settings), so I looked into flashing a ROM onto it to see if that'd do it, only to discover that Huawei has taken down the service which allowed customers to unlock their devices's bootloader. Now you have to contact support and wait for them to email you an unlock code. This is clearly a user hostile move: it makes it harder to load your own software on a device you purchased and, in my case, fix my own device.

I won't be buying from Huawei again.
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The Future Role of Artificial Intelligence in Fact Checking
Universal Dividend, the idea being that we all are investors in the world around us, particularly in the act of creating the next generation and staying alive to be the workers, consumers, etc. So everyone gets a cut of the general profits.

If one is against this idea, then ask why any investor of money into a company should get money back from it when they did no explicit work for it? If you reject the universal dividend idea, then one, to be consistent, should really reject the idea of investment. Good luck with such an economy.

So instead of the demeaning UBI narrative that people need money to survive, it suggests an uplifting narrative that we are all valuable and that we all get a bit of something back to reflect our useful existence as well as a little something in order to "invest" it into the next act of creating something. It captures the idea that our society is built not just economically and bureaucratically, but also socially. That having neighbors, coworkers, customers is important for economies and governments. These are hard things to support with metrics, etc, so we just decide on a basic level and give it out.

What that level is would be debatable, just as how much an investor makes from dividends or buybacks, is debatable. Since I think the ability to walk away is the most important aspect of freedom and that freedom is an important value, I would want a higher amount than you suggest. But a lower amount would work as well with that label.

Spit ball: What is a mediocre growth return rate? Maybe 4%? So tax wealth at 4% and distribute it across all the citizens. Anyone who can use their wealth to generate more than 4% will see it grow (these are the successful people) while those who cannot will see their wealth dwindle and would be the typical case. This also addresses the wealth inequality issue. Incidentally, at 100 trillion dollars of wealth, this leads to 4 trillion to distribute across the population of say about 330 million leading to about 12,000 dollars a year or so.

This also suggests that the dividend should be applied equally to all people which includes, especially so, children. This is an investment in human existence and a celebration of all of us. Note that this also addresses the concern of a single mother of 3 who would get 12k for herself, 12k for each of her children leading to 48k to take care of her kids, keep them out of poverty, keep them nourished, loved, protected, not abused, etc. It also makes even an unemployed spouse economically useful to have around, but it also enables one to economically walk away from an abusive spouse. This would also lead to the ability to eliminate forced public schooling and much more organic growth of true individuals, free of labels, bullies, adult abuse, and indoctrination.

One might view it as almost a Universal Investment for the young, Universal Income for the middle aged, and a Universal Dividend for the old.
This always works with small examples, but platforms can be quite tricky, expecting you to adhere to complex timing requirements, optimize for strange memory layouts or barely hide some almost "dsl" scripted drivers below.

Which means, instead of adapting a existing code-base on demand, you will have to rewrite a lot of driver code - on demand. So the work stays the same, if you respect the HAL.

Its a very good idea to force people to respect the HAL encapsulation.

Problem there is that most professional embedded development is burdened with that "Can you make it on a cheaper chip?" - which results in optimization- and before you know it, you have a overlapping objects union of nearly everything in a algorithm, to reuse constant cached space .. and everyone hates you..

We have the C and the assembler, because these controlled "violations" and journeys into UD, are often the destination at the end of commercial projects. Its the same reasons, why game-engines final builds often cant be reused.

This should be- however the language of choice to teach beginners good habits.
In mid-market? There is no where near the capacity in local restaurants to support Uber/Twitter/etc dumping all their employees out. There is the Burger King that plays classical music I suppose...
Sounds reasonable, but the question is whether building the elegant and user-oriented solution is really such a hard problem if you can do engineering very well. Any case studies or historical examples?
> In all the tech companies I've visited in the Bay Area (all <1000 employees, not the big campuses) they've only ever had kitchen areas and not cafeterias anyway.

There's no point having a cafeteria (or even space to spare for it!) if it will only serve a couple hundred people.
Kids going to School A from School B means that School A doesn't need to pay anything for that student. Plus public charter schools typically run less overhead and are more efficient per student.[0]

[0] http://www.uaedreform.org/downloads/2014/07/the-productivity...
Thanks! Pushing a fix
I'd say if you're interested in performance to this level, it is useful to know both at&t inline asm syntax on top of the simpler microsoft inline asm syntax.
Yes. In the middle of a shopping area https://goo.gl/maps/5AC7tTfhNvs surrounded by lots of food choices with a Safeway, Trader Joe's, Milk Pail and Walmart all within a 3 minute walk!
I mostly feel the same. I don't like to customize my editor too much because:

1. That adds a lot of friction if you want to try out another editor
2. When it breaks, fixing things is not always easy. There are millions of git CLI users; you are probably the only one with your particular editor setup.
3. When I'm pairing with another developer, I don't want to be helpless when using their machine because they don't have the same intricate editor setup as me (or vice-versa)

There are a few things I use a Git GUI for, like staging/discarding chunks, or getting a nice graphical diff.
The anecdotal example of a local restaurant seeing a big uptick in business on the day a cafeteria is closed seems to suggest you might be wrong!

Every workplace I've had in SV where we had catered lunches, people were pretty likely to walk a few blocks for a meal instead. It wasn't like working at a place with a cafeteria since you were being offered a choice of 1-2 catered items instead of a huge cafeteria menu.
First, if cat is slower than redirection from file (<file) - then I'd say something is amiss. But more to the point - I think it's really a bug that tools like gzip, grep, awk etc work on files at all. We do need a tool to feed files to pipes (I think cat is a fine candidate for that - also when we only con-cat-enate one file (the identity cat, if you will).

Maybe there are cases where a long string of awk|something|other|sort|uniq is not the problem, but forking an extra process for cat is.

And maybe there's a mismatch between pipes, files and mmap today. Splice seems like a reasonable fix (if we splice all the things, awk, grep etc).

Finally, I just think:

cat input.txt \
| filter1 args \
| filter2 args \
| reduction \
| ouput-formater

Reads better than having to tack on an <input.txt at the end, or special-case the first filter to be (... And also open a file).
The Right, particularly the "Freedom" Caucus goons, are specifically opposed to successfully running a country. They resent the very existence of government intervening on behalf of people at the expense of their donors. It is impossible to successfully run a country if you give those people veto power over the legislative process. They are here to engage in sabotage, not progress.
Workers are not going home to eat lunch with their family.
I predict that at some point some of these highly outsourced companies will face competition from a former internal "contracting" company (or sets of them) that have been doing substantial portions of the direct work.

If a company has fewer and fewer essential "walls" separating what they do at the core vs a possible competitor the risk goes up. If one categorizes a peripheral competency as something that should have been in-house then the company becomes at risk of getting quickly subsumed by a competition hiring contractors that the prime company originally trained. And it might not show up for a while unless some assumption shifts - in the meantime the short term profits might look pretty good.

Another risk might be the collapse or disruption at a contracted company where you have less control.
That's a valid point and I do not recall doing the same with uTorrent. However I eventually grew to not trust the older version I was running after a number of security notices about the App. I eventually just gave up on it entirely because I couldn't trust the old one and didn't want the new one.

I'm not advocating that Apps be available exclusively in the store, just that I enjoy the convenience of the store for maintaining updates and would like them to be there. To your point I would also like to be able to install them outside of the store.

I think the reality is that doing autoupdates the way Firefox and Chrome handle them is hard. Most small projects can't be bothered to even implement it. That's where the store shines because it can implement and manage the autoupdate functionality independently.
A large amount of company provided free food is catered from local restaurants. I suspect this will cause a decrease in net business because many people will just bring their own lunch instead of eating the free food that the company paid for.

For most food-service workers, working in a cafeteria preparing food is generally much better than doing the same job in a restaurant.

Other than virtue signaling about how much they love local business and small business (this happens on both sides of the isle) what does this accomplish?
And some are just really bad at managing their personal economy.

There is a popular edutainment show here in Sweden about people in difficult economic situations, and at least half of them have taken 15-20 % interest loans for luxury consumption, like vacations and hand bags.

It's a freak show.
Not sure what FastMail has to do with anything, that wasn't the point, but ...

I don't care if FastMail employees can read my email for support reasons. I actually expect FastMail employees to be able to read my email, since we aren't talking about end to end encryption. Unless end to end encryption is involved, then the stories of Google's encryption at rest are nothing more than bed time stories, since obviously their systems are not available to me for review.

And that's not what my privacy concerns are about for Google. I don't care about random Google employees, because that's not the biggest threat. The biggest threat is me and my family being profiled and I've seen evidence of this time and time again. It's also a big and real threat due to Google's size and reach.

FastMail is a better alternative first of all because FastMail is not Google, period. You may want security, but I want privacy and yes there's a difference.

I don't need a better reason than that, but if I ever discover that FastMail is a problem (which I doubt, since they are awesome), I'll pick the next email provider in line that's not Google.
Those demos were amazing. Makes me want to learn C++ instead of Go. :)
The rational provided for these measures is very indirect, and, as such, it almost ensures the interpretation that it is retaliatory. If the concern were truly "integrating" tech workers into the community, perhaps the city would move to provide building permits for large urban housing complexes. Employer owned cafeterias create service industry jobs and are likely more sustainable than catering (with take-out waste). The goal seems more to punish tech workers and compromise a significant benefit to their employment.
The latest Kenwood AA units use Linux (no surprise) and Qt. Their UI is wonky af though.
I think that the original synthetic control paper is this paper by Abadie and colleagues[1].

Figure 1 and 2 give you the intuition behind the need of using the a synthetic control rather than compare California to the rest of the US.

You can notice figure 1 that California’s sales of tobacco products was decreasing before the prop 99 and that this trend is different than the rest of the US. This violates the required parallel trends assumption that is required to have an unbiased estimate in a DD model.

Abadie et al. reweight the results from the other states to create a synthetic comparison group. This gives them a synthetic California sample that is similar to pre-prop 99 California. You can see that in figure 2.

They claim that any deviation from this synthetic group is due to the effects of prop 99 on tobacco sales (Do you believe them? This paper’s conclusion rests on your answer to this question.).

Bonus: Figure 3 shows the normalized results. I always appreciate Econ papers that put their results in a graph. Tables are hard to read sometimes.

[1]: https://economics.mit.edu/files/11859
Your analogy only mentions factories. Employment covers far more than factories.
Sorry, I think I'm missing something: did those employees bring family to the company cafeteria to eat with them?
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I think 1 is more of the prime motivator rather than driving business to the nearby shops.

This gives existing companies that extra perk because if you work for them, you won't have to deal with 2.
How would you say a rod to notch ratio of 22/7 compares? How much information would you say that has?
That depends on what it is you don't like about those two. I presume phone number identification and non-standard encryption?
Nice try 中华人民共和国国家安全部.
You are right, the solution is broken. I can't make it work, so I take back what I said.

I learnt something valuable, thank you for that.
Uber and Doordash are both headquartered in San Francisco, are they not?
Great idea. Good job!
People who have more experience navigating SF politics than I do:

What's the most effective thing readers of this thread can do to make sure this doesn't pass?
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Virtue signaling on non issues is much easier than dealing with the sea of shit and needles on the sidewalks.
It's a little naive to suggest that techies are all going to make lunches at home and bring them to work because of some needles on the street. Many techies don't even cook on a regular basis when they're at home.
Well, they noticed dwindling class sizes. If their discipline problems included murders during recess, that would likely be lost in the noise from vampires and other supernatural hazards.
Exactly this. Apple is laughing all the way to the bank.
What about groupchat?
Has reddit been live for 13 years? Jeez. I thought my 11 year account was old.
Was it a subscription? I thought it was $1 to purchase(iOS).