skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're very right in that the third rail here is federalism. Mostly that, at a certain scale and with certain kinds of heterogeneity, it stops working, and you start getting bizarre situations where the have-nots are not angry that they have not, but rather that the haves have. As one of those haves, I am very in-favor of spreading that around. The solution, however, is to not discourage the having, but to actually spread it around. That spread is not created by punitively punishing those who, as one of those "civic society" things, decide that it's a good idea to do things to help the people who live in it.

I mean, let's be real for a sec (and I have a feeling you know this, I'm not trying to lecture, it's just a convenient jumping-off point): the only impact of the pseudopolicy proposed here is to damage states with the temerity to have a functioning economy and social safety net and to damage their implementations thereof, not to provide better implementations in places that currently lack. After all--the federal appetite for tax cuts and military spending seems to know few bounds.

As such, framing it as either equity or equality for the poor, benighted Kansases of the world and their Sam Brownbacks rings more than a little hollow.
Right now one of the problems is that if the two parties, the Democrats are pro-pension and pro-equalization but anti-housing. Meanwhile the republicans are pro-housing and mostly anti wealth tax. I think that’s one of the fundamental reasons we’re in this mess.
Living in SF, the very real phenomenon I've noticed is friends who hit late 20s/early 30s, get married, and then leave with varying intentions but many to move closer to their parents (presumably in a cheaper area) so that they can get help raising kids while both continue to work.

This article doesn't really capture the fact that this only works if the 30-somethings move out of SF, NY, LA, etc. to move closer to home (unless those are the places where the parents are already living), which may be an area outside of a major urban job center.
Why are so many NYtimes posted on this site?
Can you name some companies you've had good experiences with? I'd like to do this for my next move but all I read is horror stories of people's stuff getting held hostage or just lost in the desert.
That parent comment is amazing in it’s own sense: how delusional do you have to be to think that what you have there is the norm?

I had a friend how is still paying off his mother’s and brother’s living.

The kind of thinking that usually comes with the thinking of the parent is along the lines of “he does not have supporting parents then he must be some sort of a badly socialised monster who never had a life”.

Well, or maybe it’s you who is a useless child who never grew up on the first place?
>> I know it's stupid to go into it knowing it'll be hard,

It would be stupid going into it thinking it would not be hard. Raising kids is always hard, unless you don't care. And it is always hard in different ways. Kids can see what you can do, and what you can't do; what you can provide and what you can't provide. And as long as you are really trying they will ultimately accept what you have to offer with love.
There are two separate arguments I can think of for deducting state taxes.

First, the federal tax rates are heavily graduated on the grounds that it's less burdensome to tax people that make more money. But in states with high (also graduated) income taxes, high taxpayers aren't personally making that money (in any meaningful way), nor are they generally getting it back from a proportionally higher amount of government services. States are essentially redistributing income from high-income taxpayers to beneficiaries of social insurance programs and state residents overall.

From that perspective, it might make more sense to tax the increased level of state services as income to those who receive it. With a flat federal tax it would make no difference in total collections, but with the graduated federal income tax this would be a much lower on average tax rate.

Second is much simpler: most of the state government spending is on education, social services etc... things that are in line with tax-deductible charities. So it's not inconsistent to have state taxes be deductible too (of course getting rid of both deductions is also an option).
> Now its impossible to email many companies I find. You click on "Contact" and get Twitter, Instagram, Facebook... but not email :(

I did the website for a nonprofit I set up recently.

From past experience leaving a catchall "contact" email address around, we decided to omit a public email address this time because we didn't want it to be harvested and subscribed to random newsletters.
Thanks, that's awesome. Really gonna try it next time then.
Aside: static analysis is a great initial effort but to really get confidence you should use techniques like sanitizers (MSan in this case) or valgrind. (This is general advice, not always applicable to kernels).
Well, I meant this in the "practice what you preach" sense. I actually nuked my laptop and went all-in with React for a couple days each time. "Using" is more vague and could just mean I tried running it in a VM for ten minutes.
Why are so many NYtimes articles posted on hacker news?
The "big switch statement" approach is for each bytecode instruction to complete by jumping to a centralized dispatch location (i.e. the switch statement).

The "threaded" approach is for each bytecode instruction to complete by decoding and jumping to the handler for the next instruction.

Basically instead of "break" you have `goto handlers[nextIp->opcode].`

The advantages of threading are fewer jumps and better branch prediction (since branch prediction is tied to IP). The disadvantages are slightly larger code and compilers struggle to optimize it, since the control flow is not structured.
Does he have any other hobbies?

Based on my hobbies, I know I plan on writing plugins for DAWs and writing more experimental electronic music, and to keep on playing guitar and bass until I can't for some reason like bad arthritis.
If you limit it to highway speeds, definitely more than 2% of people will do that.
I'd like to see you tell my wife, 48 hours after her C-section, that it was time to go back to work.
When did everyone become a socialist?
> For starters, that’s a much more space efficient way of growing something than in plants.

You have to account for the land use by the sugarcane (no idea how things would net out).
Look up David Reich. The actual finding is that many Jātis show genetic evidence that interbreeding with other Jātis has been negligible over the past 2000 years. It's not necessarily a statement of the social relations between the Jātis, let alone the varnas.
But without easy access to heavier minerals it would be essentially a dead end

People who have been thinking about this are way ahead of you. There are plenty of minerals on the surface. We should be able to build remotely piloted mining equipment using phase change materials (like water) to shed heat. To cool the equipment off, we just haul it back to the high altitude base before the phase change material tank runs dry.
Then negotiate a higher salary which is the statistically correct course of action.
Many of my colleagues are 10+ years stuck waiting for an IPO that may never come.
the (US) government doesn't actually care about setting reasonable speed limits. they knowingly set the limit lower than most people will drive. this generates a lot of revenue for fines and gives police officers yet another justification to pull people over at any time.
> “more than 50% of the world population might have microplastics in their stools”

> “The smallest microplastic particles are capable of entering the bloodstream, the lymphatic system, and may even reach the liver,”

Sometimes I wonder what will kill us first - climate change or toxins.
I suspect some serious first-sale violations will occur with this new system.
That’s not a rational way to evaluate compensation. Would a reasonable person rather take a guaranteed $1000 or a 10% chance of a $1 million? Obviously the latter, even if it has a large chance of being worthless. The not-stupid way of assessing a compensation package would be to conservatively estimate the expected value of the options and apply a substantial risk penalty in your objective function, not to round all volatile compensation down to zero.
You punish the accountable parties appropriately.

When Twilio gets a $100k fine for abuse of the $1/mo number, they'll govern the behavior of their customer better and probably eliminate 80% of the bad actors in hours. You could also modify the regulation of interstate carriers to make it expensive to spam entire exchanges with junk calls, or even require licensing to utilize the PSTN. (Which allows you to punish licensees for bad behavior.)

These are all solvable problems, big companies respond quickly to sticks and over time to carrots.
The point I wanted to make here is mostly this: https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/09/10/society-is-fixed-biolo...

IMHO, it doesn’t make sense to blame “society” for being pre schoolers, any more than it makes sense to blame individual humans for becoming mentally ill. Both are just failure modes of our mental hardware (our tribal-status instincts in the societal case.) The only solution to either that would “stick”—what I would interpret “growing up” to mean—is to remake ourselves without those failure modes.

Anything less might help individual humans who get some sort of maintenance treatment for their failure modes; but our society as a whole will still be a function of interactions between both people who have treated those failure modes in themselves, and those who have not yet (because e.g. they aren’t aware yet that they have a problem; or don’t see it as a problem; etc.)
Great. Now just make an automatic transmission that's not a pile of junk.
More control is, as usual, less ability for automatic optimisations. For example, Rust uses knowledge of tag + data combinations for niche-filling enums where possible (and more similar optimisations to come), while LLVM can use this information to more easily deduce which branches are unreachable.

As for alignment - you can control it in Rust enums too, if you wish, by putting custom aligned structures as variant payloads.

In general, I'm sure it would be possible to achieve same (or, who knows, maybe even slightly better) performance than AST interpretation with manual tweaking, but the closure-based approach proved to give significant wins out of the box, while being more elegant to maintain and extend over time.
I'm pretty sure initially they said the number was only used for two-factor authentication.

Who in their right mind wouldn't want two-factor authentication?

Particularly as other sites were offering it (and haven't changed their terms), and a significant portion of the tech press were saying it's a good idea — and it plainly is a good idea, of course.
I'm not convinced how many tracks will run into this limit, at least on the "lower end" Volvos. My understanding is that tracking is not about high speed, but instead handling.
> In a related matter, ebooks have made the concept of works going out-of-print largely obsolete.

I'd argue the opposite:

With DRM and other reasons/issues - it's made the possibility of a book going out of print - forever and permanently - a very real and possible thing.

For instance, you could purchase an ebook with DRM from the publisher and/or author where - should the author or publisher change their mind - they could pull the "publishing" of it (no longer available to purchase), and revoke the license of the work from all people who purchased it, and effectively remove it from your collection!

Imagine if you owned a physical book and then one day - p00f - it disappears off your shelf! Off of everyone's shelf - plus all library shelves!

That could easily happen with an ebook; it could never happen with a physical book. With a physical book, while it might disappear from publication and sale, it could still be purchased secondhand, and possibly sometime in the future scanned or otherwise re-published (see the number of out-of-copyright and out-of-print books on archive.org and Project Gutenberg). With an ebook, this could be made impossible.

We already see this with music - I know I've had tracks on spotify "disappear" off of playlists; I'm sure entire albums or playlists could also "disappear". I haven't seen it yet, but I am certain it is possible.

Or what about the efforts of Nintendo which has largely made it virtually impossible to get ROM images of "out of print" video games for emulation or backup purposes? Not only of Nintendo titles, but other consoles as well...

I'm not saying that Nintendo doesn't have the right to do this, but rather to make the point that if they can do it - then so can ebook publishers, effectively making books disappear, never to be found again.

Book burning couldn't get any easier than with digital books.
I'm not a designer, but:

On the file page, the links at the top (git, builds, todo, etc) have a hover effect, the links to ~sircmpwn and git.sr.ht do as well. The links to summary, tree, log, refs and contributors do not. From context, it's easy to guess that they're links, but they should share a hover effect with one of the other links.
What is says to me is that we are past "peak smartphone" and regular people don't need to upgrade all the time like they used to. As a result, Apple and Samsung are doubling-down on super expensive phones with very few differences or merely gimmicks, like folding -- still trying to capture that last bit of revenue from the cult crowd that wants whatever they put out this quarter.

Knowing what we know now about rampant surveillance and invasive advertising, I'm more interested in something like a Punkt, the anti-smartphone.
they should base it on the value 6 months after IPO, ie after the typical lockout period.
Block unknown callers is a whitelist though. It's literally "block everyone not in my contact list".
Housing development is one of the highest on the ripe-for-disruption list, maybe second after higher education. Virtually none of the money these people are going into debt to spend on houses generates real value in their lives, they're doing it because they think they're supposed to. If you can figure out how to build cheap housing on cheap land that offers good living standards (doable now that you don't need access to the power grid) then you'll unlock literally trillions in value.
It wasn't so easy for all the boomers. I remember my dad losing his business after he lost a loan during the S&L crisis, and I remember my parents struggling to afford a 3-bedroom house in 1983 at something like a 16% interest rate on the mortgage. And I'm sure they remember gas lines during the 1979 oil crisis, as well, even though I don't.
So shift the burden of calling to literally everyone who is acting well? Why would I want to remember a unique PIN for everyone I know?

Also, isn't that just taking the 9 digit phone number and turning it into a 12 digit?
Palantir is known to do lots of government contracting for US defense/anti-terrorism intelligence, so working there is viewed much like working for Lockheed Martin/Boeing/etc. where it is known the work you are doing could very well be involved in wars/military agendas.

Your role in your job there could cross the line of what some people would as ethical to some people, and Facebook's malicious behavior is making employees who work there to be viewed in a similar light.
Is Lazy Evaluation Required for Do-Notation?
B is kinda true a priori. It's easier to negotiate A should be negotiated in relationship to ownership and responsibility. You should get into the head the hiring manager in question and figure out what's the max/min range to motivate a candidate to do the job properly. That could be anything for single digit percentages for senior ICs at an early stage company to 50% for a pre funding cofounder to a couple bips for an IC at a series D medium sized company to a sizable fraction of a percent for an executive at a series B. Trying to value illiquid options as if they were fungible in cash is a fool's bargain. Reject it. They have value, but they're different.
So, I'm on macOS, 64bit, trying to compile with clang, and I get some errors concerning comparisons between size_t and u64 values. I was able to progress a bit by changing some size_t to u64, or the opposite, but I'm quite sure that I'm breaking a bunch of things at the same time :)

I will continue a bit then open an issue with details.
Thanks for bringing that up, I came to the comments section to see if some other details were outdated. Any other insights?
> Australia and USA have so many differences that any comparisons are moot. It saddens me to see people trying to compare what happens on that island to what is going on in the states.

The US is different but not a special snowflake. The US is not Australia. The US is not the UK. The US is not Germany. The US is not..... The same reasoning means no country can learn from any other country unless they are virtually identical.

But how about Canada? Being similar to the US in many ways, why are their rates of gun violence much lower comparatively?

> I understand there may be less guns there, but from the stories I've seen about violence at bars in parts of Australia leading the gov to shut down parts of the cities earlier just shows that the strong violent abusive people are comfortable engaging in criminal behaviors including assaults and battery, they are not being controlled by gun laws.

And they have much fewer guns to use when acting on impulses, limiting the amount of harm they can cause. Do you think America is less violent? Remember when a single person killed 59 people and wounded 500+ more from a hotel room?
Oh, right, I see. Thanks :)
I think one of the ways working at a startup benefited me the most was having to cover the support lines when our support guy was out. I got to interact directly with many customers and learn how they _really_ used the product, what was confusing, what wasn't, etc.
> For whitelist systems to work you need to be able to enforce identity or have a significant cost to sending messages.

s/whitelist/blacklist ?
All of these were written by different people, and languages are quite different as well, so not sure that particular aspect played a role.
Zoho Mafia: 16 Companies Founded by Former Zoho Employees
This piece reads as a rationalization for ignoring UX research. I mean, by all means, forget the fads of web design but at least consider the pitfalls of others who've tried (and failed)

It strikes such a weird and defensive tone.
This tool isn't really helpful. What you really want to know, as an employee, is what the expected value of your options are -- not what they will be worth if company IPO's for $xxb. This expected value is strongly correlated to your company's valuation which isn't an input into the posted model.

As a general rule of thumb, I'd recommend taking the valuation of the company's last financing round and halve it. Then, multiple this valuation by your projected vested ownership percentage (and subtract any impact from exercise price).

The biggest reasons you want to discount the company's last private valuation are liquid preference and risk intolerance.

This rule of thumb is most effective if the last private valuation was recent and completed on standard terms.

Edit: I see a lot of people recommending that people value their options at $0. Imo, this is an irrational approach for most tech employees who have a non-zero tolerance to risk. Yes, options are like a lottery ticket but that doesn't make the ticket worthless, and you need to know how to properly value the ticket when a company offers you an option between shares and salary.
If make it less so means reducing personal freedom to the point of regulating how much time a grandmother can take care of it's grandchildren, I really strongly disagree with that vision.
Seconded. A user-friendly display of intermediate steps would be great for educational purposes.
My understanding is that you're doing subroutine threaded code[0] instead of bytecode, which isn't a common choice. Maybe this has something to do with Rust's particular performance profile.

Did you profile your bytecode implementation to see where the time is going?

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threaded_code#Subroutine_threa...
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/ > New Bug > Report an issue with a website that I use

Seemed like the most appropriate place to put it.
I like ThorCon's approach - the entire facility is intended to be 100 feet underground, secure from most anything including jet airliner crash.

As another poster stated, the emergency storage tank can be made arbitrarily durable.
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https://www.crosscomm.com/careers AR/VR Developer The immediate need is for a an AR/VR Developer who can come in and be a strength in their preferred platform (Unity or Unreal) and we desire a candidate motivated to continue learning new skills and be able to develop in multiple platforms. We want someone who is an excellent learner, highly intelligent and excels when given an opportunity to grow.
Uhaul and a local company to pack/unpack if needed. Nobody will be more careful with your stuff than you will.

edit: Why is this down-voted?
In some ways, for some reasons, yes. For other reasons, and for some reasons, no.
If people aren't going to be given the reward they deserve for all the work they put in, why should any of them help United? It isn't a free service.
> That parent comment is amazing in it’s own sense: how delusional do you have to be to think that what you have there is the norm?

It is the norm. Not having multi-generational family support is a major handicap, but that predicament is not the norm, even among less advantaged people generally.
I agree, and actually I cancelled my subscription and wrote the NYT a letter to the editor over this. I ran an analysis on how many of the front page main headlines were about Trump in the year after his election, versus being about Obama, and it was ridiculous. I don’t have the exact numbers handy but something like 2-3x as many articles written about Trump vs. Obama and basically all negative. I get it, the guy is a clown show, but at a certain point not all of his antics aren’t newsworthy anymore and the media just comes across as obsessed. If anything they’re just playing into the opposition narrative that somehow he’s a good guy who is unfairly being persecuted by the media and that you can’t trust them.
memcpy != memmove , $#$@#@

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12518
People who believe in socialism fall into two groups: Those who have never lived under it and those who want to use it to control other people. Socialist governments always have an elite tier which lives differently from the plebiscite, so if you're going to be in that elite group you have no problem with socialism. This is why tech billionaires are into it.

Anyone who lived in Cuba, Vietnam, North Korea, Venezuela, Poland, or socialist Nazi Germany would not have the "stars in their eyes" views that young Americans have today about socialism.
I'm also colour blind (red-green), and can't tell ripe bananas from unripe based on the green/yellow colour. But as they ripen, they tend to develop more black patterns on them, and they're softer when you give them a little squeeze.

It's an interesting project, nonetheless, and sounds like just the sort of thing I'd like to replicate to get started in ML.
I'm not sure why the discussion is heading towards making companies value genders equally. Is "women get pregnant" a real concern from an employers perspective? Anecdotally I have not seen that be the case, and if it were a corporate truth I expect some discrimination lawsuits to emerge.