skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I did this for a while, but it starts to hurt around tax season. There are advantages to being incorporated and then hiring yourself as an employee for a minimal wage. With the way you're doing it, you're paying employment taxes on your entire income. With an LLC, you can pass the majority of it through without paying that.

I'm not exactly sure what you mean by this, but LLCs are pass through entities for tax purposes. That means your tax treatment is the same for an LLC as it would be if you were a sole proprietor without an LLC.

The reason to create an LLC is to separate your personal assets from your business assets and to protect you from liability for your employees actions. If your LLC signs the contract, in most cases the client can only go after the business, not you personally.

However, almost all lenders require a personal guarantee and an LLC doesn't protect you from your own negligence. Only from the negligence of your employees.

So basically - LLCs are unnecessary if you are the only employee.

See: https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/limited-liability-pr...
Ask HN: History of iTunes Development
I've become a habitual user of iTunes on the Mac, mostly for cataloguing and playing my collection of music and videos. When I was working at Apple in the 2000s, the iTunes team had a reputation as some of the best at writing Mac application software. Their job was incredibly complex and challenging, and all things considered they pulled it off brilliantly. This team was also very secretive and well protected, even by Apple standards. Has their story ever been told? Probably not. If anyone involved wants to share, let me know and I'll compile a list of correspondents. Maybe some tech writer will rise to the challenge. Thanks.
You are suffering "annoyance bias". You remember more the few videos that are annoying and you obviously don't want to see again, than the good recommendations (that are hopefully more usual).

For example I clicked a few months ago in a link in HN to a video of a moron that claims that can cure type I diabetes with a diet that avoid certain kind of food [1]. Now I get from time to time recommendations to see the videos of this moron and it's totally annoying, because it's clearly wrong.

I also get recommendations for music I don't like, food channels I don't like, news channel that I don't like, channels that are somewhat related to what I like but I don't like, ... Perhaps some new video appears in the recommendations for a few days. Anyway, they are not annoying enough to be remembered.

[1] It's not sugar, or HFCS or other food additive that is somewhat related to diabetes, or can cause type II diabetes. It just doesn't make sense.
Because 50% of very little isn't a big impact. Look into Asia and Africa for plastic pollution. At the rate they produce Europe could literally be plastic free and it would barely make an impact.
What percentage of billionaires actually use their wealth this way?
The old keyboard doesn't fit in their new thinner chassis
Really thought this was gonna be human-neural-activity-to-speech and I feel like a doofus.
Why? I see lots of jobs listing ads for remote positions.
You're wrong but I know you're too ignorant to look into it like I suggested. Enjoy not learning.
This does not mean that RE prices react suddenly; it takes years, usually, and you see markets not clearing and inventory sitting around rather than price corrections. Otherwise there would have been plenty of RE steals to snatch up in 2008; yet, outside of one or two ridiculous areas, there weren't.

Funny to be downvoted for noting sticky prices. I don't make the rules!
Could you expand a bit on what happens during "deja vous seizure"?

(I know what deja vous is like of course, I just have no idea how it fits in with any kind of seizure)
YouTube, Spotify, Snapchat, Google all have horrid recommendation systems. I mistakenly clicked a link to a YouTube clip of a TV show once and closed it immediately before even watching 2 seconds of it, but now my home page and the "watch next" bar are filled with clips from that show. I'm convinced that the dislike button and "I'm not interested in these" option in the hamburger menu are actually defunct because as far as I can tell they have absolutely no effect.

Spotify is just as bad. I once made the mistake of liking an instrumental track on one of the radio stations I listen to. Now a good 25-30% of the songs that come up are just the instrumental versions, not the songs themselves. No matter how many of them I dislike they keep appearing. The same goes for remixes.

There's no notion of "nuance" in these systems and it just makes me think that they were only ever evaluated internally. The models might perform well when they're tested on all 1 billion YouTube users, but on an individual level they're really awful.

As an aside, I've never given them any of my data so this is purely anecdotal, but I frequently hear (in both positive and negative contexts) about how great Facebook's recommendation systems are on both Facebook and Instagram. I think that's what investor confidence in them as an ad company has stayed so high even through their controversies. I honestly don't think I've ever heard anyone praise Google's recommendation systems, by contrast.
99% of the endpoints I write are two steps: load some data from the database, then use that to render HTML, JSON, CSV, etc. I really do not want to encounter any of the myriad of bugs that asynchronous execution makes possible. And the best way for that to happen is if nothing is async.
the music barely at all.

I suspect the reason that excerpt sounds so bad is because the music has several instruments playing at once. One doesn't generally design a vocoder to deal with more than one voice. As that except plays, you can hear that the most prominent instruments (eg: the bass at several moments) sound pleasing, albeit speech-like.

It would probably different from the original music, but pleasant, if one processed each track separately.
| professional capacity (including any employee employed in the capacity of academic administrative personnel or teacher in elementary or secondary schools),

Are computer professionals not.. professionals?
Yes, even certain odors can set off a seizure. Bleach being a common one for those triggered by smell.
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While that might sound like a consumer-friendly thing, the flip side is that it adds to the base price, and worse, returning items adds significantly to the environmental footprint (delivery and packaging). I've worked for large online retailers, and women returning more than half of their ordered cloth items is happening all the time.
None of the matches looked a ton like me, imo, but I tried five photos of myself from 2011-2018 and a couple matches kept reoccurring -- not as top match, but in the top few, so that was interesting.

I didn't trim my beard or mustache from 2009 - 2012, when I shaved it off entirely, and I didn't cut my hair from 1996 - 2017, so there's some good variation in these pictures.
Nvidia Is a Data Center Company Now
Mildly related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horseshoe_orbit
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16698167
Also not sending ICE to raid small shops who istall aftermarket parts would help too.
Love the picture, but I think it's the opposite: engineering's defence of the announce-o-tron went down for a moment, design pushed into the breach and gained a brief moment of unsupervised access. Now they face the consequences.
> The exotic curves are visually exquisite...

I would even say there is some sensual, if not sexual, feminine reminiscence.
You get my productive output for normal working hours, typically an 8-9 hour range, but I'm not tracking time spent on potty breaks, eating lunch, or taking a walk outside.
This is one way to look at it. Another, is that the capital contributions of these investors allowed Lyft to afford to pay very good salaries to a large number of employees to work on a societally important project despite the company continuously burning through a ton of their cash. These investors took a huge risk (and are still taking a huge risk given how unprofitable the company currently is) and it easily could have gone the other way and still could.

If these investors eventually exit profitably, some portion of their gain will be used to cover the losses of other bets they made that didn't work out while some will be given to society at large through taxes. These investors are a huge net positive for the world.

It's completely reasonable to hold the opinion that they'd be an even bigger net positive if we increased the capital gains tax or had an even more progressive tax system (and I'd agree with ya!). Don't get confused though, even with the system as is, having investors who are willing to spend their money on society changing bets that probably won't work out rather than using it on themselves to buy an island or whatever is a very good thing for us all (even if it results in them being a billionaire rather than a millionaire at the end of it).
Which lisp? Those numbers don't seem right from my experience with SBCL.
If it was an April 1 gag, they'd have included weight verification...
> What risk? They are slightly less rich?

Yes, that's financial risk.
That's an ignorant view on economics. You need money to make money, so obviously those with money (investors) are in a better place. Hard work doesn't go far when you can't afford to pay anyone.
Sounds like the rich women of silicon valley missed their opportunity. I don't see how that is men's fault.
'Everything I didn't realise I knew' :)
That last line caused me to do a double-take:

> Intel shares were trading up 0.9 percent Friday at $53.61. The stock is near its highest point since the dot-com era.

Sure enough, it hasn't recovered its pre-crash price (~ $75). That's 20 years in the red if you happened to invest at the top.

Many (most?) of the high fliers from back then that are still around did recover (e.g., AMZN, MSFT, AAPL). Even ORCL (but barely).
Seems like it wouldn't be too hard to just put a cover over the batteries entire range of motion.
Depicting "car" emoji as a toy car would be perfectly fine and within the artistic license of font makers. Just as depicting a toy gun is.
I guess that once total stealth has been maxed in the "reflective" research-area, the next effective defensive would be some wide-ground arrays pointing to at least 1 satellite (making satellite techno a must) => as soon as at least 1 of the emitting array does not reach the satellite (of course something more complicated to avoid man-in-the-middle-attack, interference, etc...) it would mean that something flew through it... .
Facebook? Slate? AFAIU, advertisement margins don't scale linearly with popularity, so viral content probably brings in more money even if the total number and exposure time of advertisement impressions remains constant in the aggregate.
So test it, and if it doesn't work then don't sell it?

As opposed to users of the last 3 years of Macs being beta testers for their current flavour of stupid keyboard of the month?
So, back to your original point. You seemed to be saying that in order to reduce inequality (a good thing), you must trample of the rights of people, specifically the wealthy (a bad thing). But then you admit that it's largely luck which determines whether or not a person is wealthy.

I don't think it would be a big problem to redistribute a small portion of their wealth. Or, similar to what you said in a nearby comment, if society as a whole decides to redistribute a portion of your wealth then "tough luck" (although remember that you are still better off than most when considering how "tough" your luck is). So the original problem with reducing inequality seems to have been solved. It is not a great trespass on the rights of the wealthy to redistribute some of their wealth.
It’s likely April fools, but Tinder being what it is, I wouldn’t be surprised.
New construction is generally considered to be crap nationwide. It's not unique to the bay area. Of course, you're also insisting the OLD housing stock is crappy, so..

"People who live in SF wake up at 5.30am/6am to commute to the Valley" .. well, there are people who make poor life choices the world over. Living in an urban area to commute 50 miles to a suburban area rarely makes much sense (other than the fact that it's a reverse commute). It has nothing to do with traffic being bad, frankly. The reverse commute is actually pretty fast. If you're commuting from the suburbs to the city, that's where your bad commute comes in.

I commute from the peninsula into SJ and do 85-90mph pretty much the whole way (EV+also carpooling), at 7:30. If I commute solo in the non-carpool lanes, it takes me a horrific 25 minutes to go 20 miles. Maybe 30 or 35, at the outside, on the way home. I didn't choose this commute; I used to bike commute until my company got acquired, but I'm still quite happy with my commute. Again, if you choose a crappy commute, you'll have a crappy commute. If you want to live in the city, you should probably choose to work in the city, which has only become much more viable in the past 10 years as many tech companies have moved north.
Cover it with a hard plastic skirt at the max range of motion.
Having a diversified portfolio on the magnitude of these investors is impossible for literally 99.99% of the US population.
In a free market, everyone has choices. And those choices have consequences for better or worse. It's not about "access to wealth". It's about creating wealth. For example, it's never been less expensive to create a major business. You can start an internet company with a $100 pawn shop laptop. Getting a business license is mostly just filing the paperwork. Accessing the internet is free (from the public library). Accessing a worldwide market is free. Training materials in any subject you care to learn is free. You can take MIT courses for free. Advertising is free. What's stopping you?

If you do really need startup capital, there's kickstarter.com, gofundme.com. (I've successfully used kickstarter.)

You can invest in the stock market for $0 in commissions, even buying just one share.

If you're an able-bodied adult in America, you can choose to get started creating wealth, or you can choose to complain about how unfair everything is and revel in your misery. YOU get to choose. And that's wonderful.
Doesn't really make sense to me that "cat <jpg>" should render the bitmap to the screen. 'cat' is a concatenation tool. 'cat'ing two JPEGs together isn't the same as 'cat'ing two text files. So why? Use another tool, don't break the idiom.
Usually limited scope IT functions for a legacy or snowflake system.

In a big company, you’ll find a little team in charge of Lexmark printers or something similar.

Jobs like that are an endangered species as cloud and even minimally useful automation root.
Same. Our funding started with SBIR and it’s always nice to run into others.
People who bend the rules like that are a problem to be fixed, not one to be accomodated. I would train the self driving cars to wait until the appropriate conditions are met, and if that means until that person stops waving and continues appropriately, all the better. Road rules are as much about predictability as they are about safety. As long as you can predict another road user will behave a certain way, you can ensure that you can navigate a situation safely without further communication. The moment they start to bend the rules, they introduce uncertainty into the system, which increases the need for communication and the likelihood of mistakes.
WeWork Wants to Build the ‘Future of Cities.’ What Does That Mean?
I think you made his point for him. Your contention is that MSNBC is not extremely left left wing. His contention is that the NRA and PragerU are as extremely right wing to the same degree that MSNBC is extremely left wing. So if MSNBC is not extremely left wing, then I think GP's point is the the NRA and PragerU are perhaps not so extremely right wing as GGP implied
As a millionaire, I still can't understand how people buy houses here. You are dumping all of your money into a vastly overpriced asset (vs the rest of the country), with the hopes that in 30 years the valley will be minting multi-millionaires to buy you out so you can retire.
Could be moving to the cloud where system administrators are really no longer needed. I'm seeing more and more companies doing that, they don't even own servers anymore.
> "I wouldn't store a book about scuba diving with or relate it to my vacation pictures of me scuba diving in any way in real life"

You don't put every single physical item you have relating to scuba into one big bucket because in the physical world, putting something into one bucket precludes it from being placed into another bucket. When you are organizing things you have to anticipate your most likely queries in advanced. So maybe you have one shelf for science fiction, and another for marine wildlife, and another for all your programming language books. For a while, this works well enough. One book can't go on two shelves, but with few enough books that's not a deal breaker.

However, when your personal library grows large enough, this system rapidly becomes impractical. At this point, the librarian resorts to creating a card catalogue, categorizing books by author, subject, etc. Books which have numerous topics have numerous cards in the card catalogue.

Since this is the 21st century, card catalogues are now digitized. The digitization of card catalogues saves space, but more importantly it facilitates more powerful queries. You can grab two different stacks of cards, relating to two separate topics, and instantly find the intersection between them. That is, the list of books which appear in both stacks. This greatly reduces the number of cards you must look through to find a book that you're quite certain is in both of the stacks. For instance each stack might have a thousand cards, but the intersection of those two stacks might only be 50 cards. That's 50 cards you have to search through to find your book, instead of a thousand.

A file tagging system is a digital card catalogue for your files. And as librarian of your library, you can decide which subjects warrant their own tags and which don't. What you don't have to do is decide ahead of time what sort of queries you want to facilitate. And it's no longer important to keep your collection of books and photographs separated. If you want a book, you intersect whatever you're looking for with the card stack of all books. If you want a photograph, you intersect it with the card stack of all photographs. If you have a book of photographs, it could even be in both, should you want it to be.
> Past returns don't guarantee future returns.

Yes. But that's essentially a platitude that doesn't help making a rational decision. You can apply the same slogan to the stock market.

Here's how I look at it: for the real estate market, how many periods were there were you'd end up having to sell lower than what you paid for it when you bought?
> wasteful consumption

People stupidly wasting their money means they run out of it. So what if they dissipate it on hookers and blow. Nothing for you to be concerned about.
Accidents happen, just because you find yourself in a situation that requires you to swerve does not mean you were driving unsafe. Why does swerving imply the driver is unsafe? Surely you can imagine a safe driver having to swerve in some situations, right?
So why announce something you can't deliver?
C and Haskell were about what I expected, but those Pascal results have me scratching my head, given that it performed about as well as C and used even less RAM.
It's not the end of the world if it slows down under multiple devices, and that trivially solves the heat problem.

Is it lack of satisfaction with those tradeoffs? Is there a more fundamental flaw somewhere else? It would be nice to know what actually caused this decision.
> All the more reason for tech companies and startups to look at other parts of the country. The midwest, south, northeast, are all so much more affordable.

They won't stay that way if tech companies offer a lot of jobs there.
Causal Reasoning from Meta-Reinforcement Learning
If you look closely I delineate that in my comment as that’s why some of those brackets are off.
https://www.amazon.com/Peasants-Are-Revolting-Wizard-ID/dp/0...
I work at Google but not on anything related to YouTube. This opinion is my own: that was very disappointing to read.

I use YouTube, I don't browse it. I search for what I want, and then I watch it. Yet YouTube seems absolutely determined to send me down rabbit holes for some reason. For instance my friend sent me a video by some cable news neo-philosopher (a Jordan Peterson type) and since then I can't get rid of low-quality vids in my recommendations that are trying to make me angry. "{Person} totally EVISCERATES {other person}" being the calmest of them.

The recommendation algorithm is also just not even good at its job. I am Jewish and the number of videos I have seen recommended to me that are thinly-veiled anti-semitism is pathetic. Do they really think I am going to watch those?

The one thing from the article I do believe is that these extremist videos (mostly) don't monetize. So why do they dominate? Honestly I think we just suck at building recommendation systems.

I am not a big fan of Facebook, but I applaud their recent ban of white supremacist content. Freedom of speech is one thing, freedom to use someone else's site to speak to millions is another thing. YouTube should just take a harder stance on all of this dangerous crap. The Sandy Hook deniers and the Antivaxxers will have a hard time finding a new home.

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I don't see why using mrustc to generate C code would make Rust drivers more upstream-able in the Linux kernel?
As far as I understand it, the main thing is that the team (Linus at least) does not want to maintain source code in multiple languages.

I do like the mrustc effort though.
Interesting results, but I think the farther you go down the list the more the fact that you're using the Computer Language Benchmark Game affects what you're seeing, as not all languages get the same attention.

For example, Javascript and Typescript. Theoretically, I would assume those to be very close, since one compiles to the other. And for memory usage, they are very close. But for running time, Typescript is an order of magnitude slower. That looks suspiciously like entirely different algorithms were used in each implementation (with one being obviously superior in terms of performance), and if that's happening in this specific case, where else is it also causing problems in the analysis?
Just getting back to follow up on my question now, and I have to agree, this was very thoughtful. If hacker news had the equivalent of reddit gold I would give you some.
Amen.

Growing up, I asked so often for guidance for how to learn to write essays. I got told “just do it” and “just write the damned essay” and “just buckle down” so much I concluded that there wasn’t a way to learn a better writing process. So, I practiced writing via my having an emotional breakdown, procrastinating heavily and doing something at the last minute. As a 29-year-old, I’m trying to unlearn this and figure out how to write a technical blog post in a calm this-is-merely-work sort of way. Its really hard.
Everyone I know who bought a 2018 MBA, me included, has returned it due to keyboard issues. Which is a shame because I loved the damn thing apart from that.
Savage animals (and I'm not talking about the bears).
These individuals were not punished enough for their crimes.
Sex Workers Say Decriminalization Makes Them Safer. It's Time to Listen to Them
Minor quibble, but they most certainly did add value to the router space. As anyone who owned a Linksys router can tell you.

And I’d buy a new Apple router on launch day if they re-entered the market. Frankly speaking, I do not trust any extant vendors to not somehow sell my browsing history to advertisers.
How to build a gallery with editable SVG illustrations