skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that people suggesting their own variants on cold-treatments is a way for them to show they care.

"Drink a lot of water!" "Put on socks before you go to bed!" "Netty pot!" "Drink lots of tea!" All of these are kind of common knowledge. I think the act of encouraging people to rest up and take care of themselves is just a generic way to show you hope they get better. And maybe, if they really are so sick that they aren't thinking clearly, it'll then serve as a reminder to get some tea.
those lunches/coffees are critical
That's one of the reasons I built Last10K (https://last10k.com). If the company is publicly traded, they are required to file reports that contains transparent information on a their operations, financial condition and much more. In other words, know how a company actually makes (or doesn't make) money before joining.
That fully depends on what the losses are. I haven't read their financials, but if the losses are from expansion and other investment but their unit profitability is good, then it's not a problem. They can always pull back on investing in growth just to reap profits.
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Yes, that is possible. Part of MeToo, as interpreted by liberals, was establishing a sort of quorum of those who had been victimized. The fact that other survivors were coming out with their experiences made it seem safer for each person to feel like they could reveal their own experiences. If liberals were disproportionately likely to notice the quorum, then they would be disproportionately likely to contribute their own stories, resulting in a positive feedback loop. That may be an even better explanation for the discrepancies than algorithmic balkanization.

In either case, for the people that I observed posting about it, MeToo was not symbolic; it was explicitly grounded in personal experience. But it's possible that the messages propagated differently in different areas of the social network, such that some others viewed it as symbolic.
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Yes, you are. The water is the economy.
This desire for a HUD frequently comes up. Yet, many of the owners I talked to both in person and in forums or have posted video reviews all say that it a non-issue.

After driving it for a few weeks, they said that they actually appreciated the overall spartan interior experience.
Facebook repeatedly lies and faces no consequences. No wonder it keeps happening.
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It's a joke character trait from The Office, in bot form.

Or https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/191/035/135... in bot form.

I get the noble cause to combat false information right at the roots, especially when people are too polite to do it themselves, but making a bot to be rude and obnoxious for you is still rude and obnoxious.
Uber hosts its own infrastructure, so does Google, so does Facebook. All three of those companies have no problems remaining focused on their business models without turning into a "datacenter company."

I strongly dislike the notion that on-prem hosting is somehow a bad thing, or too cumbersome, or otherwise totally solved by cloud providers. AWS specifically is hugely convenient in a number of ways, but it doesn't come close to the cost savings from running your own infrastructure. You need a pretty large amount of capital and engineering talent, but it really is worth it even in the short term (~3-5 years).

I think people would be shocked at what the money comes out to be if they saw costs from companies doing their own physical infrastructure. AWS makes you pay through the nose, seeing the difference would change a lot of minds I'm sure.
I have never seen an "architect" that didn't code anymore but still was useful.
A friend of ours has a condo that was built in the 60s, and there’s a foot of concrete between every floor and unit. I envy that.
Watch The armored vehicle that carries Trump-the monster car of The US President
Thanks! Yes, we organize sub-comments and allow comments to be exported to Asana, Jira, Trello etc.
Lawns are ridiculous wastes of water.
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Most of the other comments here cover the majority of useful tips/techniques.

However for me, one thing I really like doing is reaching out to employees who quit/left. Ask them for honest information about why they quit and what the existing problems are.
Yes they freak out because it's not money going into their pocket but someone elses. And they don't think it's fair.

You get a similar outrage for a different reason against the last mile and cable companies. Why should they control the 'final mile'. Why can't everyone have access to the lines which they dug? Why? Because they got there first and spent the money to gamble when there was no guarantee of success which is obvious now. That is capitalism and business.
There's the Crescent Dunes Solar Plant outside of Tonopah, NV which is also on the way to Las Vegas. It's further away from the road I believe but it's equally as blinding. The first time I drove past it I was shocked.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crescent_Dunes_Solar_Energy_Pr...
But at the same time there are modern general purpose systems (Alpine in particular, and Debian when it comes to GNU documentation) that wouldn't even install documentation together with software. Priorities seem to vary quite a bit.
Yes, I think it basically reduces to the problem of using the tool's ACTUAL parser. There are enough variations in flag syntax that it's not possible to be 100% correct without running arbitrary code. And if you're going to do that, you might as well run the code that's already written (with some caveats).

That could be solved by my proposal for a "Shellac protocol", akin to Microsoft's Language Server Protocol (e.g. for VSCode):

http://www.oilshell.org/blog/2018/12/05.html

Summary:

1. The protocol was mainly motivated by the problem of bootstrapping a corpus of shell completions. Every shell has to "boil the ocean" itself, i.e. provide completions for many popular commands. git's completion is thousands of lines in each of bash, zsh, and fish. Upstream only maintains bash.

2. What I noticed in implementing completion for Oil is that bash fundamentally CONFLATES two problems:

a) The problem of completing the shell language itself, e.g. ${H -> ${HOSTNAME, or ~a -> ~andy

b) The problem of completing command line flag syntax.

This is a huge mistake from the POV of implementation complexity. And obviously if you want shell-agnostic auto-completions, (b) needs to be separate from (a), which is shell-specific.

Luckily the authors of bash-completion tried to separate these two problems a bit, and I was able to salvage most code.

Since I wrote that post, and implemented a compatible completion API in OSH, it's become a lot clearer to me how the protocol should work.

3) The invariant you mention would be a third benefit of having a more principled completion API that can run arbitrary code (in arbitrary languages).

Now, I'm not saying that EVERY command needs to use this. There are some engineering problems with this approach too. But I think you should have the POSSIBILITY of doing something correct if you want. Heuristics may be OK in the simple cases.

But overall what I discovered is that the system is a huge mess. The bash-completion project tries to parse bash in bash, and unsurprisingly does a poor job. My upcoming blog posts will explain this.
I followed a similar protocol, but then I ran into a situation where good discipline kind of went out the window during "the great outsourcing". So when recently updated code had problems, because my info was the last actually properly recorded in the source code (even though I hadn't touched that code in years), someone might come gunning for me to fix the problems with "my" code. Not fun, especially when I might actually take a look at that code and see how badly the outsourced folks had mangled it!
Well we just had a presidential election if not decided, certainly influenced by this same group, I can't think of a better thing to spend taxpayer money on than ensuring that elections are free from interference.
There is more to class than just income. A plumber can out earn a journalist for instance. If you look at the education numbers you can see that the highly educated greatly favored Clinton. You can also look at media influence, technology influence...

This is a more in depth look at the numbers:

http://www.people-press.org/2018/08/09/an-examination-of-the...
The argument doesn't lead there. You started it there. Your initial premise is that wage work is akin to slavery. I disagree, and your response is "well, that's where the argument leads". No, not at all.

I'm a bit confused by your statement that "it [exploitation] follows naturally for such relationships to work at scale". If this is how it naturally works, then is there a viable alternative? I also don't agree that this is (necessarily) exploitative. Perhaps we have differing opinions of what "exploitation" means. If we have a business partnership that is mutually beneficial, but you profit from it more than me, is that exploitative?
In those cases, it probably mostly washes out. The commuters are paying taxes for the road use (gasoline taxes) and are also contributing to the tax base of the 'subsidizing' urban areas with local/city taxes on their income earned in the city.
Mazel tov! About time :)
Congrats to John, Logan, and the entire Lyft family!
Yeah if you dig you'd find this: https://github.com/gordol/ld_preload-sounds/issues/4#issueco... ;)
They probably weren't ever operating at a loss. There were some stories speculating about YouTube's costs a few years back, but they were based on market prices for hosting which would be much, much higher than Google's internal costs.
Has nothing been learned from the current package/module ecosystems that were built around modern programming languages? I mean, has boost taught nothing?
Underrated comment.

To add on to your point: Amazon told Jassy in 2003/2004 to take 55 engineers and build out some cloud services they could sell to customers. ~6 years later, Microsoft decides to enter the market.

That is an epic first-to-market timeline.
I have a feeling that China is in the process of creating a huge unintended consequence...

China has a middle class of roughly 450 million people. [0] My guess is that most of those blocked are people from the middle class. (Why bother blocking access to someone who can't afford it anyway?)

If that assumption is anywhere near correct (and it could be wrong), then roughly 5% of the middle class were blocked from significant economic activity.

If this continues, and grows (I'm thinking of that episode of The Orville, where people had social credit scores on their name-tag [1]), then they could easily be blocking 10% or more of their middle class.

This has to have negative economic consequences that impact the GDP of the country at some point. An ironic outcome is that it could cause people to become overly concerned about debt, and stop consuming. If that happened at a large scale, China would face innumerable problems.

[0] - https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/02/01/chinas-middle-class-is-...
[1] - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6845666/
I am among that 'many'. But I also disagree with adopting a slave-coping philosophy.
Clarification: TS team is aware of this feature desire and has a plan to support it (their plan is hinged on an existing standard that is still being locked down for JS; details in https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/issues/16).

No real benefit in voting on it now, other than to express your added desire for a thing the TS team already knows people want.
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Hi HN,

We are Keeper Tax (https://keepertax.com). We help US contract workers automatically find tax write offs in bank statements. We do this by monitoring their purchases for tax deductible expenses -- like phone expenses, insurance payments, and home office expenses -- using a team of accountants aided by fancy computer stuff.

The company is born out of frustration with how many people doing 1099 gig work -- rideshare, taskrabbit, online tutoring, and so on -- are overpaying on taxes. By our estimates, the average gig worker overpays on taxes by 21% (for context, that’s around $2,000 if you earn 40k) [1]. A fancy accountant could prevent, but fancy accounts are expensive. That’s why we’re building Keeper.

But it’s more than just a low price. We want to make something accessible to people who don’t actually know much about taxes, or care to (i.e. most of us). That’s why we think the solution is to tell, not ask, when it comes to tax deductions.

Your monthly phone bill is a great example. Many gig workers wouldn’t think their phone bill is a tax deductible expense. However, it’s partially deductible since you undoubtedly use your phone for work. But that sword cuts both ways -- many people will eagerly try to deduct haircuts, clothes, and other personal effects. The IRS is very strict that these are not tax write offs, so these folks risk getting themselves in trouble for an understandable mistake.

The user experience is: we text you yes / no questions a few times a week. Examples include “Hey, was today’s lunch at McDonald’s shared with clients / coworkers?”, or “Do you use your Spotify account to play music for your rideshare passengers?”. The text messages are partially automated, but we hire an accountant to monitor things and jump in when needed. At the end of the year, you can export your write offs seamlessly into TurboTax, H&R Block, etc to file.

We’re currently piloting the service with +100 paying users. We charge $10 per month because it’s simple, but eventually want to move to a model where we charge a small percent of the tax write offs we find for you. Aligned incentives :)

Thank you HN! Looking forward to hearing your ideas and feedback!

[1] 21% stat is based on comparing a sample of eleven 1099 contractor’s 2017 tax returns against what we found when digging through their bank statements. Biggest sources of this discrepancy is missing the home office deduction, forgetting to claim car insurance payments and other non-obvious transportation expenses, and forgetting to track business meals.
thats only shares owned though.

page 169 shows that Logan Green also has 3.5M in vested (unexercised) options and about 2M in unvested options.
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That't not unlike how the dynamic adaptive local traffic routing works in the procedural Distributed City Generation rule for the Moveable Feast Machine.

Robust-first Computing: Distributed City Generation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkSXERxucPc

>A rough video demo of Trent R. Small's procedural city generation dynamics in the Movable Feast Machine simulator. See http://nm8.us/q for more information. Apologies for the poor audio!

Here's the fascinating paper that describes exactly how that works:

Local Routing in a new Indefinitely Scalable Architecture, by Trent Small.

https://www.cs.unm.edu/~ackley/papers/paper_tsmall1_11_24.pd...

>Abstract: Local routing is a problem which most of us face on a daily basis as we move around the cities we live in. This study proposes several routing methods based on road signs in a procedurally generated city which does not assume knowledge of global city structure and shows its overall efficiency in a variety of dense city environments. We show that techniques such as Intersection-Canalization allow for this method to be feasible for routing information arbitrarily on an architecture with limited resources.
Whats even more brilliant is that someone could potentially influence massive amounts of people with this. If you hear something on the TV you're be pretty skeptical, but when it comes from someone you love then it gets interesting...

very interesting..

They could make people believe that WW2 never happened or some other garbage. It all depends on who'll be verifying whats true and whats not.
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Crisis story can be looked at as advertising or setting the table. You leave your old company with a reason and everyone feels better. Your image is safe and your backstory.

If anyone feels like this is dishonest what do you tell your new employer about why you are truly leaving the old position. Do you tell them the owner was rude and you told him off or do you say you left because of a bad personality fit? You are not lying but perhaps a little dishonest. You can have a personal crisis and that could be the new job.
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Declaring war on Russia. Not a smart idea. I prefer a violation of the Constitution and everyone looks away than a war declaration on a nuclear power.
PG&E can't plausibly claim they were unaware California is dry.
I use re2c a lot. It's a great tool for safely working with text in C programs, without any runtime dependencies. It's a secret sauce in many of my programs.

For example, my JSON parser that doesn't use intermediate object tree and works directly on strings: https://megous.com/git/sjson/tree/sjson.c
This too is "the media's" fault?

>will require difficult zoning changes

Communities are now too blinded by greed to make these decisions honestly. Zoning decisions need to move to the state level.
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This does not, in any way, provide an answer to the concern you're replying to.

Allowing electronic warfare to exist outside of US law and doctrine is not a good idea. That's how things escalate suddenly and unpredictably. Maybe you feel that, because we're being attacked, we must respond offensively. Fine. We should still have rules for how those operations are targeted, conducted and limited.