skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yea similar story. Had a partner and thought we would do a startup. Wanted to be all official so formed a LLC in CA. At the end of the year we had no revenue, and just some source code we had been plugging away at for the year. So our biggest two expenses were: $800 “standard fuck you” tax from California and about $400 to a CPA to write “$0” on a bunch of federal and state tax forms. After a couple of years of that we decided what we were working on was an expensive hobby rather than a startup and dissolved.
Plastic shouldn't be recycled. It should be burned. It's a compact store of energy, and that energy can be recovered and used, even if plastic cannot be easily reused as a material.

Waste handling should focus on making plastics cleanly combustible and keeping problematic materials (like, toxic heavy metals) from being mixed with them in the waste stream.
Have you maybe considered that your link is basically claiming a massive conspiracy? That's it's virtually the same stuff that Alex Jones and Infowars are pushing?

> We are an anonymous group of researchers. We are not affiliated with any company, nation state, or organization. We are not receiving funding from any sources, public or private.

So I'm going to straight up say that this site is politically motivated without a doubt. Here's some actual researchers from the West writing an open letter to the Lancet willing to put their actual names to their research saying it's natural in origin.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...

I can find you similar sites with psuedoscientific analyses of 5G research papers too. Should I share them here?
As a developer, I've found that the Agile methodology is great for weeding out bullshitters.

A decently run sprint planning session with a retrospective at the end will highlight who didn't actually do anything. The killer feature is that these people volunteered the amount of effort for the work and then have to explain why nothing got done.

They eventually leave the team once they realise they've been discovered.
There was recent Thread with lot of discussion over topic :)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24360310
Paypal in the US is not a bank. In Europe it is, because they give a shit about their citizens.
If they had analytics on, maybe they are just following public demand? Just like how junk food is popular because it is instant and tasty.
I thought you were joking, but holy shit it's true!

Made me curious if there are any "pre-revenue" startups (let's say revenue < .5% of expenses) that IPOed and didn't eventually collapse. After all, it is a particularly ballsy move to IPO without any actual revenue, never mind profits.
This is violence.
Knowing accountants, outstanding tickets are absolutely on the books as a liability.

But it sounds like they were using accounting practices where that liability was created when the tickets were manufactured, rather than when they were issued to customers.

And shredding the tickets now has removed some of that liability from their books.
Using Machine Vision to Decrease Ambiguity in Texting
NVidia buying ARM just make this point much more likely in the next 5-10 years.
My favorite is GPS. Not only below the noise floor, but significantly below it.. and all the satellites are on the same frequency. Gold codes are insane.
$150 Apple TV HD

$200 Apple Watch Series 3

So it's $350 + $10/mo. Do they plan to compete with Mirror ($1500 + $42/mo) and Peloton ($1900 + $13/mo)?
> Why is ADA not adopted more broadly?

The Ada specification is huge. You can learn 90% of C with K&R 2.
I hope you folks know what you are doing. If your screw it up you will have a lot of angry former customers, us including.

Maybe less aggressive rollout strategy?
Soon to be free for the first year: https://www.nolo.com/legal-updates/california-extends-first-...
Embedded systems, particularly small ones, often don't even have a means of being updated.
Ok, interesting. I would usually be willing to give much more benefit of the doubt, but given how unnecessary the comment seemed to the rest of the post, I guess the obvious conclusion is a dog whistle.
This is a fair line of reasoning. However, Stripe are one YC's darling businesses so there is a lot of pre-formed opinion around here.
The article claims as a second benefit of an LLC:

> 2. Tax benefits. You can deduct qualified business expenses from the total income of the business. Here’s a simple example: If you spent $1,000 on servers and your website made $10,000, then you’ll only pay taxes on the $9,000 in profit.

You don't need an LLC to deduct such expenses. Even sole proprietors can deduct business expenses against business profits.
The problem is that using C in practice is not covered by K&R.
> Honestly I really don't see the Geforce play. Nvidia tried it with Tegra and failed pretty miserably. Mali and Adreno pretty much cornered the market from that era

I want to be nice but I don't know what rock you've been sleeping under. TX2 is 3 years old & it's not just nvidia cornering the entire hapless AI/ML market with proprietary CUDA that keeps it & the jetson platform as the #1 most obvious go to for robotics, in spite of having a fairly trash terrible not very good ARM cpu: those couple of nv cores are way better than the rest of the arm offerings. Even outside ML, the nv gpu arm offerings radically outstrip everyone else. No one else has the ram bandwidth to begin to compete, much less the cores. 3 years have passed & the only one with the X2's 60GBps is the NV Xavier top end part with 137GBps. No one else is playing the league as NV has been playing with arm gpus. I don't know how you would call this massive raring colossal success a failure. Word nothing of the Nintendo Switch.
This is right, but misleading. Consideration isn't the big question in this thread. It's whether or not a verbal agreement can be binding.

In some cases it can be, but a mere agreement to agree is not binding.

The biggest takehome is 'consult with legal before making promises or representations to counterparties".

Edited this a few times to keep it as short as possible without being misleading.
Yes. The bottom of the post covers some of the things you can do with the number.
Ah, OK, I saw that. I am just very suspicious of the fact that they didn't use "fps" as the units, and instead chose "relative performance".
This is a neat idea. PSA currently shows a movement heat map over the course of each game but it isn’t interesting either - they are all just very similar looking blobs.

I would love to see slow-motion breakdowns, but that might only be interesting to fans who play seriously. Then again, maybe that’s most fans since it is a more obscure sport?

I’m just glad they finally figured out that dark blue courts and a white ball is the only combination that gives people a hope of seeing the ball on TV. High def viewing helps too, of course, but the old color schemes used before 8-10 years ago made it impossible to see the ball.
Sure, I agree that a person who spends his time trying to do good things for society is generally praiseworthy.

I praise people who do good things all the time.

But there's a massive difference between (a) praising someone and (b) having society revere per.

If we should revere anyone, it's certainly not the person whose great achievement was to spend lots more money than the next person.
I’m not sure if you’re too young or just don’t remember anymore but in the late nineties Microsoft literally tried to coopt the entire web. The embrace, extend and extinguish strategy wasn’t going to end with their domination of operating systems or office suites. The unholy combo of Internet Explorer and ActiveX were designed to ensure that the web would only properly function on a Microsoft platform. We literally squeaked through by the skin of our teeth thanks to the fiasco of ActiveX due to its myriad of security holes and a meteoric rise of Google who were strongly opposed to the shit Microsoft was trying to pull off. That said, in the 1997-2000 time frame things were looking incredibly bleak for the future of open web protocols. So much so that most companies were abandoning official support for any browser that wasn’t IE. We really got within a millimeter of a global, proprietary MSInternet. Count your lucky stars they failed in their most ambitious embrace and extend project.
Okay so you've made a pile of money, but the people that think they've got a god given right to wealth from birth still thumb their noses at you and don't want to be friends. My question is, why should anyone care if clearly shitty people don't want to know them?
I really appreciate this kind of mention, thank you. I want to know so much more but this history, it feels like it evaporates so quickly, only a few people have any idea.what happened.
Maya Gabeira Surfed the Biggest Wave of the Year
Bet you ChromeOS runs on Panfrost first. :)
Exactly this.

The whole point of semver is to address the issue of backward-incompatible changes breaking downstream dependencies (well, among important other things).

What Go is doing is forcing you to use Semver the way it is intended to be used; from the semver specification:

---

Given a version number MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH, increment the:

MAJOR version when you make incompatible API changes,
MINOR version when you add functionality in a backwards compatible manner, and
PATCH version when you make backwards compatible bug fixes.

Additional labels for pre-release and build metadata are available as extensions to the MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH format.

---

If you don't want to adhere to this, just cut PATCH versions and MINOR versions.

It's an absolute terrible idea though.

As annoying as it may seem, there's a lot of benefits to using semver the way it is intended to: it forces you, the developer, to think a little more about how you design your code.

The small amount of productivity you lose getting used to do the proper thing (i.e. cut MAJOR version, or spend more time designing your code so that it more forward thinking) will pay off in the long term.

The tiny amount of productivity you gain by not doing the right thing will come back to haunt you and make you wish you had been more rigorous.

His startup might be small right now, but if it becomes successful, their number of internal users might explode overnight and they'll suddenly wish they had used semver properly all along.
Ask HN: Why do people not use multi-model DBs and go for multiple different DBs?
I see that RDBMS DBs and single-purpose DBs such as MySQL, InfluxDB (for timeseries), or Neo4J(Graph) being used and preferred by large companies or large apps to power different use cases within their Apps. At the same time, I see Redis Labs, CouchDB etc., seem to have built and offer compelling multi-model DBs that simplifies having multiple systems. But I don't see many people talking much about these multi-model DBs in general. What do these multi-model DBs miss? Do you see these multi-model DBs gain more traction in the future?
iOS dev is already paid by selling the hardware. The AppStore is also profitable by itself.
Web Search, Link Analysis, PageRank Algorithm [pdf]
The paper only surveyed teenagers... Smells like BS to me
I think it anachronistic to construe signs and graffito from the ancient world to be equivalent to modern advertisement, marketing, or public relations, which belong to the world Edward Bernays (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Bernays) helped invent. It really is different in kind from the menu with prices someone painted on a wall around 79 CE.
I mean yes, libertarianism at its core is a terribly flawed ideology because it fails to account for the phenomenon of the tragedy of the commons. The market forces they believe in do not react quickly enough to avert environmental or health disasters. That said, I have a level of sympathy for the ideal of everyone having a full agency of their body and their actions. It’s just that it’s a utopian ideal that fails to work in practice if adopted to its conclusion.
Well, is it free or is it cheap?

The solution is called a water fountain and they should all be free.
Crap. I actually missed 1-2 years of paying the $800 franchise tax because like a lot of other people on this thread, it’s just used for hobbies, makes no money, and lies fallow 99% of the time. I’ve never gotten a fine in the mail for this though. Does anyone know if there’s some sort of online portal or phone number that is the best place for me to pay all the taxes and fines and make sure that in their records I am even?
The majority of the handsets Samsung sells is their own Exynos. I believe they only use Qualcomm in the US anyway. Is this referring to some US specific 5G band or something?
Can Apple Watch detect Covid early?
> If you properly honor semver, for any non-static library, major version changes will either be a modestly-frequent event, or you're really straightjacketing yourself with your first v1, or you're a genius who got everything right the first time and never have to make any changes.

IMO, someone tackling a problem for the first time shouldn't be writing public libraries. At the very least, people shouldn't be using it.

Quality, stable libraries tend to be written by people who already have at least 1 or 2 iterations under their belt. Maybe not complete iterations, and rarely public, but enough experience with the nuts & bolts of the problem, including the problem of balancing concerns between caller & callee, to have a good idea about what the proper interfaces should look like to ensure long-term stability. If someone doesn't have a strong sense that they could support the v1 interface in perpetuity, then maybe don't create a separate project. Not only does it save everybody else from the pain, it often saves the author the pain of constant churn, presuming the author even uses it in more than a handful of their own projects.

For many of my own open source projects, I often have years of abandoned false starts lying around, or various just-so solutions manually copied and hacked into various other projects. Only when I feel like things have finally congealed do I then bother to write a dedicated library, whether private or public, and migrate everything to it. One way to know things are looking good is when you realize you're no longer fiddling with the API, or maybe just vacillating between two equally decent alternatives.
That's a really good point, thanks for mentioning it.

Looking back on this, if it had been just an LLC it would have been no big deal at all. It would be a "disregarded entity" with ordinary 1099/Schedule C income, no different from any of my previous clients, with an easy tax return like the ones I'd done many times before.

It was the S Corp election which this client required that really messed everything up.

In hindsight, this truly was the proverbial "client from hell". It was an interesting project, albeit quite an experimental one. I got paid for only a week of work after spending a full month on it, and then I got the ongoing heartache of the S Corp nonsense to boot.

Thanks for pointing out the distinction between the LLC and the S Corp.
Both, and they coincide during business hours, at the least.
'We'????
Sonic Galactic, a fan made sonic game
If you write something for internal use and can enforce version upgrades could you not just keep the last, say, 3 versions in the repo HEAD and delete folders v1-v20? Between go.mod and go.sum, historical dependencies will still resolve fine because they point at the old commit. If you know you will never release another patch for a particular major version I think you could just drop the directory from the repo.
> also an option to fix the code to use the upgraded versions import path, are good ideas.

In theory this sounds good but in practice major versions can be drastically incompatible, and I wouldn't expect this to work very well at all in practice.

One of the excellent features Go's use of semantic versioning enables is for lower major versions to be updated to use the higher major version implementations, as a sort of backwards-compatible shim. In this case, no tools needed.
There is a chronic problem in audio/image processing where domain experts have developed their own notation and terminology and do a really poor job connecting it to the simple concepts they represent.

> Had he explained it in terms of pixels and loops instead of what was probably (for us) a Greek letter soup, I am sure we would have understood.

Unfortunately concretizing the math to realizations leaves you with a cookbook for implementing the least interesting bits of signal processing. Looking at some matrix multiplication as for loops doesn't teach you how a filter works.

Like just to give an example, I don't think it's possible to come up with an explanation of the Remez Exchange Algorithm in any physically meaningful context since it's fundamentally about recognizing the mathematical properties of a higher order abstraction of the system designed with it. But we can be a bit smarter about how we write, since "an iterative algorithm used to find simple approximations to functions, specifically, approximations by functions in a Chebyshev space that are the best in the uniform norm L∞ sense" is Wikipedia word soup that belies the concepts and connections that make it useful. It's just hard to do it in a sentence and not a semester.
Google has some pretty good introductory writing resources for developers: https://developers.google.com/tech-writing/one
I see what you mean. Indeed, more helpers would be ... helpful I guess, but for now I only implement what I really need and feel like is necessary.

For your specific example, what is wrong with `SELECT *`?
> the high bullshit scores of immigrants

I think that statement is far too broad: I can think of some fairly bullshit free cultures, like many Scandinavian countries.

I can also think of people from specific religions that I generally find to be bullshitty, versus people from the same country but a different religion that appear to me to be much more honest.

Also a lot of people I meet from the USA appear to me to be extremely bullshit oriented compared to New Zealanders... Perhaps that is due to my own selection bias because of the type of people that emigrate or travel to New Zealand, or because I tend to meet businessmen?
If You've Just Had Covid, Exercise Might Not Be Good for You
https://immigrationforum.org/article/mexicos-asylum-system-i...
Might be worth shooting them an email, in case dang doesn’t see this message
Improve Your Communication Skill
I'd say sensitive at the very least. Like social security numbers they shouldn't be, but when places use them for identification without checking authenticity and authorization...
Chinese Whistleblower Li-Meng Yan Gets Twitter Ban After Publishing Report
>complete misunderstanding and misrepresentation of landlord's motivations and interests...rents are generally set through market forces

Should their motivations and interests matter if market forces ultimately decide the outcome, which isn't "as little of their tenant's paycheck every month" as you contend for the average tenant?

>People shouldn't be able to use tools or implements of any kind to generate income?

This seems to conflate an apartment someone owns to, say, a laptop or another tool which they actively use to generate productive work. I don't agree with the comparison but I do agree that it is more grey than my parent comment portrayed it to be.

>than food or water, yet I don't see activists...

You haven't seen activists who protest the commoditization and sale of drinking water?

>And you wrap up with a statement that is solely based on some version of a landlord that easy for to you to hate, regardless of any relation to reality.

You're right, that was a strawman and bad form from myself. But I'm not sure the 17 million vacant homes versus the 200,000 or so recorded unsheltered homeless individuals per the 2019 American census[1] is that unrelated to reality. If you're suggesting that it is removed from reality in that the motivations for those properties remaining empty cannot be outright attributed to malice like I did, I would be open to that assertion but I'm not sure it matters as long as the disparity exists. I still feel it is fundamentally immoral.

I appreciate you engaging with the content of my argument in good faith and apologize if I have failed to return the favour.

1: https://checkyourfact.com/2019/12/24/fact-check-633000-homel...

I'll admit a primary source would have been better but this was easier to find on my phone.
Why don't they convert the PDF to image and convert back? This approach seems to be a lot more efficient, and less prone to other type of human errors (e.g. missing page). Is there still an attack vector?
Ottoman Empire 2.0?
A couple of cool things:

This was a cool idea. I first read about airborne wind power generators back during the great commodity price spike in 2005 - 2007.

(The technology/experience might be useful for setting up a base in Venus's upper atmosphere, one day.)

It's also cool that other wind generation and PV prices have fallen so far that this idea can't compete any more.
Ye Combinator
> and then there is the bundle which if you are in the ecosystem already essentially makes it a free service...

This is key. How many people would subscribe to Prime TV if they didn’t already have a Prime membership. My guess is not many. Luckily for Netflix people consume enough that it’s not really a killer. But with fitness you probably only need a single provider. That said, I’ve lost confidence in apple’s ability to execute, but this seems like a race they could easily dominate if done right.
I believe house Ordos was made specifically for the games
What made them to install this ?
Burn it, and spend a million on planting trees or some other form of carbon capture? Probably come out way on top in terms of both CO2 emissions and budget.
Did you read the paper? They literally measure this. I was quoting a stat from the paper.

The point of my comment was to think critically about how they interpret their findings, in light of their very own findings.
Show that middle-aged, middle class American woman a modern national flight with people packed like god-trusting sardines who refuse to wear masks and I'm sure she'll be thrilled to fly Pan American.
I’m interested in reading about this
This is a long read, but trust me, keep reading it's great.
Rarely is not never.

"For a well architect house, fires should occur very rarely. As such we should not install smoke alarms."

If it can happen it will happen and whatever you're designing should be built with that in mind. Say nothing of an entire language's package management semantics
It's a bit like point and speak checklists on aircraft - it takes a certain amount of energy to do so you can't skip it without doing it deliberately
> All financial crises are runs on deposits?

Interesting question. I'm thinking he means more than just folks withdrawing their cash at the teller when he says "run". I found this:

https://johnhcochrane.blogspot.com/2014/04/toward-run-free-f...

"At its core, our financial crisis was a systemic run. The run started in the shadow banking system of overnight repurchase agreements, asset-backed securities, broker-dealer relationships, and investment banks. Arguably, it was about to spread to the large commercial banks when the Treasury Department and the Federal Reserve Board stepped in with a blanket debt guarantee and TARP (Troubled Asset Relief Program) recapitalization. But the basic economic structure of our financial crisis was the same as that of the panics and runs on demand deposits that we have seen many times before.

"The run defines the event as a crisis. People lost a lot of money in the 2000 tech stock bust. But there was no run, there was no crisis, and only a mild recession. Our financial system and economy could easily have handled the decline in home values and mortgage-backed security (MBS) values—which might also have been a lot smaller—had there not been a run.