skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are many fields that can be left blank when filing an S1. They get filled in as time moves on, but need to be complete before the IPO takes place.
Who exactly pays an average income tax rate of 50% in the United States? You'd have to be making hundreds of millions of dollars a year, at which point you don't get it as a check, you get it as a wire transfer from your investment bank, because with the exception of certain athletes, nobody makes that much money in salary.
I listened to Off The Hook for years. Is that true about Emmanuel? Dude used to own an old Bell van, super creepy if he was a phreak creep.
Fellow NC native here, and my take on Waffle House is similar. The main appeal is that they're open pretty much all the time, which is nice at 3:00 in the morning when the bars are closed and you're looking for something to do other than go home. Pile in the car and head to Waffle House to eat and talk shit until everybody is too tired to do anything else. Good times.
Right, so that is a latency test because each result feeds back into the next call (through seed). A typical throughput test would be like:

total = 0;
for (;;) {
total += hash( val, seed );
}

Note that the hash value is consumed, but doesn't feed into the next result so multiple hashes can run in parallel. If that wasn't the case, it is lucky the loop wasn't compiled away entirely (probably because the hash functions and the test loop are in different compilation units and LTO is not turned on).
Yeah, Germans did something similar in the past, right? And those in jail, or something similar, their opinions didn't actually matter, did they? /s
New ‘k’ language trial available
I did make some slides here for my university's ICPC seminar: http://www.cs.cornell.edu/courses/cs5199/2019sp/

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1c1YUdhXOCLSVhH6Jn4TB...

It's partially targeted for competitive programming, though, so be warned that things like Tree DP/subset DP/convex hull optimization will likely not show up in interview questions (although they are pretty cool!)
I’m a big coffee fan, but my routine leaves me buying whatever is fresh from Counter Culture at Whole Foods. I don’t make regular trips to a coffee shop, because it doesn’t fit my schedule. If many of those roasters are decent, this would give me more variety. And today I definitely end up running out of beans at inconvenient times.

Price: I brew at home, and buy roughly two bags a month, typically $11-14/bag.

So I’d at least consider this.
I stayed for a week on a dairy farm in the Netherlands (Fluitenberg, outside Hoogeveen) last year and it was completely unlike your description. The 100ish cows lived on a grass pasture and came in only for milking.

It was operated very similarly to a dairy farm in Ireland 20 years ago, which is all I'm familiar with.
I definitely believe in both but not because God is omniscience. We experience time because that's how God designed our universe and we progress along or timeline exercising free will. God on the other hand is outside our universe and can see our entire timeline. So he hasn't predestined us to make one decision or the other but is rather able to see every decision we've made in or future.
For 'big bet' things it might make a lot of sense. I can see why Uber, AirBnB, and especially OpenAI are going to be there.

But for other, slightly niche businesses, wherein you're competing in a vertical/horizontal that may not be specifically tech, it might make sense to be elsewhere.

Fashion heavy, Mining & Materials, Manufacturing, Fintech, Agriculture etc. I suggest it might be ok to be somewhere else.

As a very crude rule of thumb, if you need 'good engineers' but not 'world class engineers' i.e. the problem space is more or less 'domain' and not 'tech' ... well you can get good engineers in a lot of places, and domain knowledge is not inherently in the Valley.
It's exclusionary zoning laws that make it difficult for actual middle-class people to live in middle-class neighborhoods. The cost of very respectable new construction is approximately $120/sq. ft. in most regions of the country thanks to modular building technologies, but when the local zoning code prohibits the construction of new multi-family housing, it artificially inflates the cost of existing real-estate to potential middle-class home buyers, much to the benefit of the existing landowners who collectively passed the restrictive zoning ordinances.
If you believe organic foods are not sprayed with pesticides you have been wildly misled. They typically require higher quantities of pesticides than non-organic crops, due to the lesser effectiveness of organic pesticides. And those pesticides are often effective for significantly longer than their non-organic counterparts.
Here is what I don’t get, and never did as a physics undergrad: why is the information transfer important here?

Let’s modify the thought experiment: Wigner’s friend measures the photon’s polarization and determines that it is horizontal. He then calls Wigner on the phone and tells him the result. Does this affect the result that Wigner sees when he verifies superposition? What if the friend lies? The post you linked seems to specifically call out that the friend cannot reveal the result of his measurement, lest the experiment get spoiled.

This all seems to point to some philosophical/theological Mumbai jumbo with regard to consciousness being a necessary ingredient here, which doesn’t hold water. Yet with every thought experiment like this that I have seen, this kind of clause is included. Can anyone explain it like I am 25?
As someone that is self-employed, and gets to pay that otherwise invisible bit I mentioned earlier myself... do I know about it? yes (I did as a hiring manager back in the day, too); do I think about it? yes... but there's an extra "implied" tax here because my time doing tax prep related work is also a cost in addition to the taxes.

So I now get to spend hours that I could otherwise be productive with, or spend on leisure activities, on the problem of understanding what is being taken from me. As I said, I agree with you that people should be conscious of what is taken from them. People should make conscious informed decisions in many, many areas of their life. But to take that half their earnings and then insist that they spend hours of their own time (true even if they hire tax preparation services) just to be sure they don't lose more than they're legally required to is kinda rubbing salt in the wound isn't it? Of course you could hire accountants to deal with those issues, but now you're just changing that cost in time to cost in money.
Well, there are two at least partly orthogonal points here - the teleological discussion over what computer programming actually is and the practical point regarding which mindset is more likely to lead to better software. I don't know that I can express my position on the former issue better than I already have in the form of a short comment suitable for this format (though I do recommend the talk I linked), so I'll leave that aside for now.

On the latter point, however - and to answer your question regarding bad software - all other factors being equal, I think the answer is "probably, yes". The fundamental reason is that someone who is used to regarding memory management (which is really just one example among many) as incidental complexity to be outsourced away by default is less likely to reason carefully and intelligently about the actual implications of that decision. Just to pick a trivial example, someone who has internalized the RAII pattern in C++ without really understanding its implications may find it difficult to solve (or even find) memory fragmentation issues leading to bad performance - not something easily found in current profilers if you don't know what you're looking for already. There's a lot of issues like that which may seem either obvious or subtle depending on whether your mindset is to properly understand how the solution you've chosen actually works or regard it as incidental until proven otherwise.

In the modern computer programming industry you can go a long way without really dealing with any of the issues I've mentioned. However, the fact that much of modern software is unbelievably bloated and slow for no good technical reason is indicative that perhaps it would be better if more programmers took direct responsibility not just for the code they actually write, but for the code they outsource to others, often without truly grappling with the implications of those decisions.
You know, there was one line in there that gave me pause:

> Intuit argues that allowing the IRS to act as a tax preparer could result in taxpayers paying more money.

Self-serving Intuit aside, I can't help but think this would be true.

It would just continue what was started with automatic withholding, where the general population is psychologically disconnected with how much they actually pay in taxes.

They got used to not having their money and being able to beg some of it back makes them happy when they get some.

Too bad people thought Ron Paul was crazy when he talked about abolishing personal income ta.
Also remember the drivers are sharing location constantly even when not currently driving a client. And I would guess your transactions per ride is off by at least one order of magnitude, especially if you count a transaction between services (e.g. gps to push, payment to user table, whatever)
By that logic the IRS would never be able to prove that you paid them the wrong amount.
Brooklyn+Bedding+Savings+Awesome+Night+Sleep
Don’t feel bad that there isn’t many comments.

This is really well done.
> It make me wonder if compilers are better of using old-school byte-by-byte hashes rather than new ones optmised for parallelism.

Probably not.

Good hashes optimized for small sizes would probably still use wider loads and operations, perhaps overlapping them: e.g., for a 7 byte hash you might do two 4-byte hashes on the first and second half meaning one byte would get done twice, which isn't a problem. High speed small memory copies follow the same approach.

One problem with byte-at-a-time hashes are that byte operations aren't really any faster than wider operations (at least up to 64-bits), so you'll do 7 byte mixing operations in the example above rather than 2.

The other problem is that wider chunks tend to "quantize" the number of loops in the algorithm, which is very helpful for branch prediction. A byte-at-a-time hash that uses a loop or some kind of jump into inline code will necessarily mispredict unless the exact length is predictable: but if it varies by even 1 byte, the branching is different. Hashes with larger chunks may take the same path for a range of lengths, so may have fewer mispredictions even if the size varies. For example, a hash that uses two possibly overlapping 4-byte reads may handle sizes from 5-8 (or even 4-8) bytes with the same path, so random variation within that range doesn't cause a mispredict.

I think the era of the byte-at-a-time hash is really over, except perhaps if gets some special hardware support.
It's hard to implement in a way that makes sense in the constraints of the world as it is (people asking for ANY when they have some meaning in mind other than the nonsensical specs) and especially in a way that doesn't enable DNS reflection attacks. In an ideal world, sure, you could enable ANY provided nobody either good or evil ever used it. And in fact Cloudflare says they did previously implement it just fine, by littering if statements everywhere.
The problem is,the ideas of the Chinese people are actually backlash against the Western hostility. Why do the Chinese people care about backlash when the Westerners don't care about it at all?

Are the Chinese people less equal than the Westerners because their government is more dictating?
I'm really confused by what you're suggesting (probably because water availability isn't really an issue here in Iowa).

Are you suggesting there should be some sort of sliding scale rate per gallon of water? Kind of like how income tax has tax brackets?

So the first bit of water you use is cheap and after that it gets expensive?

Or do you literally mean that you paid one flat fee per month for water?

My water bill is something along the lines of:
Flat fee + X $/gallon * gallons used.

Usually my water bill (includes water delivery and waste treatment) runs about $100/month.

Edit: We use roughly 5500 gallons / month btw
Piggybacking on my similarly basic understanding of wave-particle duality: it is literally both, and the mode of measurement is what causes the superposition to collapse into one state or another. In other words, you can “force” a superpositioned particle into the desired state simply by measuring it appropriately. We infer from this odd arrangement that the particle contains both states at once.

Pardon any incorrectly used terminology above, but I believe my explanation is conceptually sound.
Outside the box thinking!
So you'd end up with loads of scales all over the kitchen?

I don't understand how this sort of thing would work with many food types. Looking at the product as is, I already don't want a random scale laying around. Never mind 10 scales for 10 different products. Then if you forget to put something on a scale, the product isn't ordered. It all seems quite annoying and chaotic. Also the scale is large and ugly, and something I don't want to maintain. I.e. what if it loses battery or wifi etc. Then imagine multiple of these scales lying around. I like my kitchen looking super clean and tidy and the idea of tons of these scales around the place immediately turns me off the idea.
No one is asking whether the overall population of the Bay Area is holding steady. They're asking whether the number of entrepreneurs is holding steady.

You don't need new construction for a Facebook developer-drone to move out of the Bay Area and an entrepreneur from Kansas to move into their apartment.

So there's no reason to assume is is anywhere close to 1 entrepreneur leaving for each 1 arriving. And we're back at the original point: without any numbers who knows what is actually happening?

What's more, even small differences become big when you compound them across the total population and several years. Say the ratio is 1.02 arriving for each entrepreneur leaving. And 1,000 leave every year. After just five years you've got 40 new companies. Many cities would kill to have 40 new companies founded (relative to their baseline formation rate).
Earlier discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19400691
> One can imagine modifying the compiler to output llvm bitcode. You now can throw plenty of optimisation at it for free (but you are now slower to compile).

If you look at the FAQ, you'll see they can do exactly that but using gcc/Clang, not LLVM.
Yeah it was one of the disks, I always installed them in tandem.
The scale seems way too big and ugly to fit into my kitchen, never mind multiple of them.
As a Floridian, I have to say it sucks sitting in the humidity for a week with no power so I’m sure most of their workers are happy go in and help get people a meal.
A great analogy. Apple have done all the work building the city—maintaining the water and power, keeping the roads repaired, building ample car parking and sidewalks, keeping out the criminals, watering the plants, ensuring that none of the vendors are scammers, and generally making the city a really nice place. They even provide all the construction equipment for anyone who wants to build their store. Then they spent a lot of money marketing this city and over time have built a strong reputation for the city as a great place to be, the result being the city is full of customers.

Not only that, they're renting store space to the vendors for free, in exchange for a flat and non-discriminatory sales tax. Seems fair.

Despite all that convenience, Spotify still doesn't have to sell you their service from within stores in Apple City. They could have put a store just outside the city limits in the wild, wild west (aka the WWW). In return for making it slightly more inconvenient for their customers, they wouldn't have to pay the city's sales taxes, even when their customers enjoy the product inside Apple City.

But if Spotify want to sell within Apple City, they benefit from the immense conveniences that Apple have put in place, from the marketing and reputation that Apple has cultivated. And it's not like Apple deceived anyone—the 30% sales tax was never concealed.
You have a point, but I am not sure that this is a complete analysis of the situation, because it does not consider the changing moments as the centers of pressure of the wing and stabilizer move in response to the changing airspeed. Furthermore, when one moves the elevator of a subsonic airplane, it does not just change the force generated by the elevator, but also the force generated by the stabilizer it is attached to (by affecting the airflow over it), so that is another potential source of changing moments.

Perhaps the phrase "aerodynamically relieve the air loads" means to minimize the aerodynamic force generated by the stabilizer? The stabilizer of a conventional airplane will invariably generate a downwards force when the aircraft is in pitch equilibrium at high speed, but it may be upwards at low speed, even with the C of G within limits. In such cases, the speed at which it has no load will be an intermediate one, and therefore could be either above or below the speed to which the airplane is currently (mis-)trimmed.

The quoted passage says it is referring to correcting what it calls a mis-trim, so if your interpretation is correct, then where it says "in-trim speed", it actually means "the speed to which the airplane is mis-trimmed", while the general usage of the term "in trim" means trimmed to fly at the intended speed, and I would take the phrase "in-trim speed" to refer to that speed - the speed that the pilots intend to fly at, or, in other words, the speed that this out-of-trim airplane would tend to fly at when put back in trim.

Furthermore, if things are as you describe, then the rule could have been more simply and clearly phrased as "reduce your pressure on the control yoke". Maybe your interpretation is correct, but if so, it seems to me to be an unnecessarily confusing way to describe it.
Always a classic. I keep this one bookmarked.
In 1987, I was staying in Albuquerque, NM learning how to run an optics factory to be established in CA. I was very thrifty, my Motel was $6 a night. I ate in the nearby Waffle House on Central Ave. Once.
> You're advocating that we ...

I am? When did I do that? It is none of my business what happens. I'm not advocating anything to do with pensions.

I'm just pointing out that printing money is a tax, not an immediate death sentence to the currency.

> After the bailout, the banks swallowed new regulatory burdens, new capitalization requirements, effective caps on their size and interdependence.

So we've got a class of people who were trusted with vast amounts of power, and they mucked it up and destroyed a bunch of wealth.

The solution is to keep those people in the hot seat, and put in a couple of new rules?

That isn't a sensible response. When people muck up at that magnitude, they should go broke and be ejected from positions of financial power. Let someone else step up and try being in charge. Cushion the blow on households, sure, but the institutions should not be propped up. Change the rules too if that makes sense, but the important thing is to try out new people.
This rain season has get like the La Nina winter of 1996. Glad we have it.
Take a look at this:

https://www.wired.com/2009/12/audis-electric-e-tron-is-real-...

That article is from 2009, a full decade ago. It's a prime example why people are very weary when it comes to VAG announcing concept EVs. It's not a contender until I can actually purchase one.

Any car manufacturer can create a concept EV with relative ease. That's the easy part. Taking it to production (especially at scale) is the hardest part.
Not really. Desalination plant built & proposed locations have largely been adjacent to power plants or wastewater facilities.

The main reason we don't have desalination plants is that the water is more expensive than other sources, they're expensive to run, consume a lot of power, and you have to deal with the brine effluent.

Imported water and even purified recycled wastewater(potable reuse) are cheaper. In the case of the desalination plant in Carlsbad, desalinated water is about $2.1-2.4k per acre-foot whereas imported water is ~$1k and potable reuse had an estimate of $1.7-1.9k per acre-foot for the San Diego region(OC's potable reuse is cheaper at ~$800 per acre-foot, but trying to keep similar comparisons).

Power comprises most of the cost of desalination for the high pressures required for the membranes to work. I think it's 5 megawatt hours per acre-foot, but those were somewhat dated figures.
While one could deal with blending the brine with wastewater treatment plant effluent or power plant cooling water, the greater reclamation of wastewater and the California Coastal Commission cracking down harder on the discharge of power plant cooling water is complicating things.

Desalination is an expensive commitment that produces at a slower rate than other sources. If you have a wet year, you're still stuck with the production commitment. It's great for water security though.
Those are generally average costs, not marginal ones.

I don’t mean overall profit is 100%. I mean profit on a single extra sale is genrally between 80-100%.
I've come to believe that the only good code is code with no actual requirements.
If you're only looking at federal income taxes, sure. But now add in state income taxes, local taxes, property taxes, sales and use taxes, special fees and assessments, and other mandatory charges and that bar starts to move down the great chain of being rather rapidly. I assure you, I'm not making hundreds of millions of dollars and I'm pretty sure that I'm in that 50% range of dollars consumed by government takings per dollar earned.
Nice to see HN finally has a semi-active moderator. As you can see I’ve taken quite the hiatus from HN because the noise to signal ratio got really bad.

I don’t care about downvotes, if I did I wouldn’t post my actual opinions here, I just found it silly that people were trying to bury a comment that wasn’t the standard doom and gloom and ignorance I see around the crash.

Interestingly as soon as I edited my post the downvotes stopped and I started getting upvotes so some people found the edit interesting. :thinking emoji:

If you care to hear from someone who has been part of this community since early days, too many people are able to vote on comments. They don’t lurk, they are attracted here from a controversial link and stick around, reflexively treating upvotes/downvotes as a disagree/agree button instead of interesting/not-interesting like it used to be. Maybe the eternal September has finally arrived for good, or perhaps I’ve drifted from the core values of your typical HNer while this site stayed the same or drifted in a different direction. Only you would have the traffic and usage stats to know. I’m curious what percent of active HNers have an account created within a standard deviation of mine.

-posted from my phone so forgive typos
quite the assumption there.
Tremendous idea. I really like the cool analysis!
That's pretty much how our brains develop. Neurons are vastly overproduced, during fetal development through the first few years. Ones that make useful connections, and do useful stuff, survive. And the rest die.

Also, as in evolution, ~random variations occur during neuronal proliferation, so there's also selection on epigenetic differences. The same sort of process occurs in the immune system.

In this way, organisms can transcend limitations of their genetic sequences. There's learning at levels of both structure and function.
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