skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An "S corp" isn't really a kind of corporation... declaring as an "S Corp" is just an IRS thing, and either a "corporation" or an "LLC" can declare for "S corp" tax status. For small businesses run by solo founders, which don't intend to take on many (or any) additional owners, don't expect to try and raise venture capital, etc., it's a pretty popular combination to go with an LLC with the "S" declaration.

So the real question is "LLC or corporation"? There are good reasons for both, but some of the key factors are:

1. There's an upper limit to how many owners (members) an LLC can have, whereas a corporation can have an unlimited number of owners (shareholders). So if you're envisioning being a Unicorn one day, going public, having your stock traded on the NYSE, etc., then you want to be a corporation.

2. Venture capitalists will not invest in an LLC. There are technical / legal / structural reasons for this that I don't know all the details of, but take it as a given. VC's simply don't invest in LLC's. Now, if you start an LLC and then decide to try and raise money, does that mean you're screwed? No, as it's always possible to convert from one form to the other. But doing that is going to cost you time, money, attention, etc., and generally complicate your life. So it's probably better to pick the right option up front.

3. It's usually the case that forming an LLC is faster, cheaper, and simpler, and the annual reporting / paperwork requirements are likewise less burdensome. This is another argument in favor of the LLC if you're planning to stay solo or very small, as it's less b.s. you have to deal with as far as filling out and submitting reports and paying fees.

Both an LLC and a corporation provide a measure of protection from liability for you as the founder (the "LL" in LLC stands for "Limited Liability" after all), but neither is absolute.
https://github.com/adsharma/fquery/
https://adsharma.github.io/fquery/

Uses python expressions and generates SQL.

Also does static typing, so you can run a type checker on the code
Any good experiences with solar chargers, for phones?

I had a great 7W one (ALDI, Bosch panel, before they exited) years ago - full current even on a late afternoon winter's day, provided the sun was normal to the mono-crystaline panel.

Mine was stolen 7 years ago when camping. Panels have supposedly improved since then, but I've not seen it in this form factor.
Hey HN, OP here. Ink isn't really anywhere near in a shape for any kind of "public" or "production" use. It was a toy programming language I built to (1) learn how interpreters worked and (2) build some side projects of mine, back in 2019. Since then it's grown steadily to allow me to build more complex full-stack apps, like Monocle[0]. But the truth is many parts of the language are still rough and mostly meant for personal use. So I guess what I'm saying is — please be gentle, and hopefully there are some interesting ideas in there, or at the very least, it inspires someone else to go build toy languages of their own.

If you're curious about the personal history of the project, Ink was the subject of a recent talk I gave at GopherCon EU[1]

[0] https://github.com/thesephist/monocle

[1] https://youtu.be/nNQHw_RdXvg

EDIT: If any mod is reading, the language is called "Ink" not "dot ink", though the domain is confusing. If the title could be modified that would be... swell.
And how is this not political?
Calculating rooftop solar shading using shadows and azimuth
Pylon solar design software calculates the height of trees around a house using the length of shadows and the angle of the sun when the image was taken.
I think it looks more like The Shopping Channel than SkyMall. Although there’s definitely an overlap.
Why does the government and Big Pharma give away the mRNA vaccine in order to save lives when my diabetic wife has to pay $1000 per vial of insulin?
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As you might expect, generate email marketing copy is exactly what it sounds like. When someone wants to generate marketing content for their eCommerce brand all they have to input is the brand name and the product they sell. The AI then works its magic in the back end to come up with few versions of marketing copy to choose from and you can edit further if required.
It’s a great way to come up with email content and avoid hours of time & struggle to write it from scratch.
Commodity window-mount heat pumps which run off household power outlets can be had for a few hundred dollars, and are good for a minimum of a couple kilowatts of heat output.

Any computing solution which dumps a couple kilowatts of heat and didn’t fall off a truck would probably cost more than that.

Computers are fairly efficient heaters, but they’re a lot more expensive than heaters.
How do you handle multitasking? Do you shut down what you're doing and then switch to something else? I feel this creates a lot of friction. It could be good in a way b/c you don't get easily distracted :)

I remember in earlier KDE5 version you could suspend activities (in the KDE world this is sorta similar to a desktop - or a group of running applications). This would free up a lot of resources and could mean you can have a lot of applications "open" at once, but they're all in a frozen state. At some point this features was removed. I'm guessing it didn't play nice with a lot of applications. But I haven't been able to find anything equivalent.

You can sorta accomplish something similar by going into the task managed and suspending a task, but it's not ergonomic. Maybe someone has a good alternative?
We're on battery-backed solar. We still have a connection to the grid, but also have a PowerWall and enough panels to generate about 10% over annual power consumption (this is the max that PG&E will let you install if you keep a grid connection).

PG&E still plays rate-plan shenanigans. Besides the retail/wholesale stuff, they charge $10/month just for the grid connection. They're currently lobbying CPUC to raise that to $60/month.

Also the "time-of-use optimized" setting in the Tesla app isn't actually that optimized. It's unaware of the retail/wholesale issue, and hence simply tries to maximize the amount you ship back to the grid in peak hours when it'd be better off minimizing total consumption. It also sometimes doesn't discharge the PowerWall as much as it could (leaving solar energy on the table), and it charges it with grid power when it could easily use solar energy. I've found it's better to just use the "Self-powered" setting, where it charges the PowerWall as soon as you have excess energy over the home consumption, starts discharging as soon as there's a shortfall, and continues until the PowerWall reaches the reserve level you set.

Note that solar generation is incredibly seasonal. I'm currently generating about 25 kWh/day. In January, this is more like 4 kWh/day. So depending on your shade levels, you might have to put on 6x as many panels to be entirely grid-independent vs. grid-connected with battery backup. We're sized so that we can power a full normal workload from about Apr - Oct, which at least covers fire season, but would have to conserve significantly (i.e. forego loads of laundry and electric appliances) if we had an extended outage in winter.
Thanks, my bad. Or they could contact an analogous authority where they or the (suspected) Freenode is based.
But with insulin you have an audience that will literally die without it. It's an older drug and the companies who make it are colluding to artificially increase the price.

I remember a time when the government would have intervened, be very interesting if someone traced these company's political contributions.
If you think dams are bad, wait till you see natural lakes.
Adani recently commissioned a new mine in Australia, much to the chagrin of many. So that backs up your comment about imports.
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How does this compare with Vocaloid?[1]

[1] http://www.vocaloid.com/en/
Tesla delivers ‘Full Self-Driving’ beta version 9
What a nightmare! Spoiler: it's not a merge, there is no way to merge, only a thousand things to copy and reconfigure
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How do you know the punishment doesn't fit the crime when the case is a thought experiment at most? Or are you saying that because it would be a criminal case it is too much no matter what? It makes no sense to me that it is too much just because it isn't US style justice. Criminal doesn't mean prison time. It's not like the US justice system is much better (clearly not working at all in this case). Compared to those countries justice systems the US should be compared to it's broken, corrupt and unfair (to the extreme for minorities).
Again, there are numerous definitions of "right". Most usages in this thread seem to fall under the OED's 9th definition, of "a legal, equitable, or moral title or claim to the possession of property or authority, the enjoyment of privileges or immunities, etc."

Whist legal rights might have some enforcement mechanism, equitable or moral rights (divorced of legal aspects) typically would not. The right is recognised or might be asserted or defended, but by other-than-legal means.

Black's Law Dictionary gives a number of definitions, though as these are (largely) specifically in the context of law, their narrowness is somewhat expected. Fundamental right however has as its first definition "a right derived from natural or fundamental law", which might be construed as at least partially exceeding legal enforcement.

The whole notion of rights can become complicated, and whilst I often agree with the sentiments or goals of those advocating for certain rights, I find the specific rationale, logic, and/or empirical grounds often weak, leaning far more on rhetoric than some basis in reality. At the extreme, for any given right, based on "natural" or "fundamental" law, it's virtually always possible to construct a competing right which negates or countermands that.

The rights of speech vs. privacy, of bearing arms vs. freedom from coercion or fear, of access to healthcare vs. freedom from supporting another, of the national right to defence vs. the right to refrain from violence (including supporting it monetarily through taxes), etc.

There's a school of thought which dismisses the notion of rights, probably most famously Jeremy Bentham. I'm not sure I fully subscribe to his views (I've only read brief summaries, and don't substantially know them), though I'm inclined that way myself.

What I see are competing sets of freedoms, privileges, responsibilities, and obligations, most of which exist, as you suggest, based on the ability to assert or defend them as a practical matter, and to that degree I think we are in some agreement. I'd be more willing generally to suggests rights in a moral sense that should be aspired to. These might be your unenforceable, but not meaningless, rights.

There's a tremendous amount of historical reletivism and present-bias in discussion of rights. There've been incredibly durable and arguably thriving societies whose rights and values systems differ sharply with those of most present-day countries. There's been a considerable movement in questions of ethics, morality, and rights within my own lifetime, within my own homeland, and those developments are far less than those experienced elsewhere over the same period.

Absolutist declarations of rights tend to end poorly.
You might want to look into what the following cli options do for you:

perl -F':' -anE 'say $F[0]'
"impressive" is not a relevant criterion for prototypes
If they invested in building new plants what happens in a few years? Is covid still an issue? Would they need to close the plant because of a lack of need?
Yes, exactly. There are/have been various small scale projects along those lines. Hydrogen and CO2 to methane, to longer-chain hydrocarbons that can be put into existing engines. As you say, the synthetic fuel is just an energy (and carbon) carrier, you have to put all of that energy into the system somewhere — ideally from solar or wind or nukes or something.
What state are you in? Pretty northerly to have such a big drop over winter?
This is correlation, but it is very unlikely to be causation.

Having a bad health will certainly cause a person to have all kinds of problems. For example, if your food does not contain enough vitamin C, you are likely to get some form of scurvy[0], which might lead to loss of your teeth, but it will also lead to a lot of other problems.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scurvy
It seems like the city should assist with housing insofar as they live in, and have a stake in, the precinct/community they serve as an officer.
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Interesting point that there are different forms of memory. A certain smell can take me back to a kindergarten memory.

Music seems to be another form of memory that resists memory loss even amongst Alzheimer patients.*

* https://www.dementiauk.org/music-therapy/
It also has to make the networking part of Bitcoin fit within physics. From eyeballing the difficulty graph it looks like if you fixed the network difficulty in January 2010 then a new block would be mined every few picoseconds at the peak hash rate this year.
Consider: why wouldn't a Mars colony be an Elon company town?
I am from a town called Kothagudem, where a coal mining company from south India is headquartered. Growing up (2o years ago) there was naxal activity around the coal mines but now it is a thing of the past. I can confidently say there is no mafia but corrpution is still big.

Also, most underground mines are converted to above ground open cast mines, so there are associated health problems for us. Also, the temperatures in summer routinely hit 50 degree celsius, but most houses have no airconditioning. We just curse and exist in those temperatures.
I mean, if a part of the experiment wasn't "inspect the childrens' genitals" I think it would me more accurate to call the split a gender split rather than a sex split even if it results in the same groups.
Wouldn't you rather the police focus on security rather than try to tacke every societal ill? One doesn't need to be a part of any labeled movement to agree with that.
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I don't use Instagram much, but I am on Facebook too often. The limitations of the advertising algorithms are very interesting to me. For example: I participate in ex-evangelical groups because of my childhood experiences. Also follow pages which discuss American Christianity from a secular or journalistic perspective, and in Christian groups which interpret their beliefs from a left-ish ideology. "Liking" any post from those groups will trigger an onslaught of ads almost exclusively for conservative churches and conservative organizations.

The algorithms can't differentiate between "pro", "anti", and "observer" on a particular topic. Nor does it seem to have any awareness of ideology. It's very rare when I see progressive churches advertise.

I understand that the algorithms are going to have difficulty with subtleties. But I'd think they'd still have some rough awareness about "anti" vs. "pro". And thus not flood people who dislike a thing with ads promoting the thing.

At any rate, I suppose it's oddly reassuring Facebook is so inaccurate. Judging by the high number of critical comments on the religious ads, there are many uninterested people being targeted.
Raspberry Pi is a great form factor with popular, documented hardware support for doing weird IO while consuming very little power.

Browsing the web in 2021, on the other hand, requires Watts.

> Using noscript to disable javascript in Firefox has also helped tremendously

It’s this kind of thing that made me switch to a Lenovo M93p for my desktop. It’s a great form factor with perfect Linux hardware support. You can also feel good about recycling someone else’s unwanted hardware.

I really wanted the pi to work out but it just couldn’t handle the JS heavy stuff I use in the day job (webmail, task-tracking, information management / CRM.)
The fork issue is solved by adding swap. Making sure you have plenty of swap solves these issues, and I'd like to argue that it is more reliable than using overcommit.
“In my opinion, it just automated the below 3 steps we already doing into one. searching the bug on StackOverflow copy the most upvoted snippet paste it“

Sounds useful
It's all about the background. For HLL and even basic programmers grasping SQL poses little-to-no challenges. Some are even falling in love with SQL despite some minor inconsistencies and prolix wordy verbosity and asking for writing more SQL.

In contrast, users of, for example, the lingo where object minus object equals NaN are terrified when suddenly exposed to type zoo like https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.5/datatype.html (Disclaimer: a relatively randomly chosen example, neither endorsement nor preference of particular RDBMS/dialect). And let's keep in mind what types above form a structures and these structures getting manipulated en mass as intrinsically unordered sets (which are data types too!). That is, a leap from barely existing concept of data types to circa 30% of DDL/DML keeps scripters out of SQL.

So the reason behind that endless «SQL bad» teeth gnashing turns out to be very simple.
I have some public code with non-free licenses on GitHub and I'm really hoping copilot can reproduce some of my functions without changes. If they do I'll see what they do about DMCA requests for those. But... still waiting for access.
To me hiring an investigator to find dirt on a guy who bruised your ego by pointing out correctly that the sub sucks, is already crossing a lot of lines for me.
I don't think there can be a baseline. They would have had to scan a couple of hundred people 60 years ago to establish it.

Plus, the results are on a very small group. It's difficult for me to imagine that fMRI can reliably show differences. And it's also noticeable that they couch the effect in very vague terms: "similar pattern", "more youthful". That's a lot of freedom to interpret a few so much data.

That they've found a bio-marker sounds implausible to me: all they've found is a correlation with a memory task that can't be measured without applying that task.
Nope, still sounds artificial to me. Inflections are all over the map on the 2 naration samples and make it sound like bad editing. The pacing is just odd in the VocalID ad samples.

Sorry, I might be a bit biased as I know several voice actors, and have routinely work with vocal tracks in the edit bay. We would be having a field day with the jokes if asked to use any of this.
I think perhaps some decide not to add a helpful message to a project on GitHub when archiving it because it would update the last commit date. I think perhaps GitHub should provide a way to add a markdown note to an archived project in another repository - perhaps the same one that adds a markdown note to a GitHub profile.
It is also possible that some which are rejected can actually help people, but that the study targeted the wrong outcomes or included subjects with the wrong disease. Alzheimer's is especially difficult because there are many dementias with the same symptoms and different causes.
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Why do you need someone who worked with him to attast it? Engineer is something you go to school to become, not something you become because you have money or workers. Either he have an education as an engineer or he isn't an engineer. Giving yourself a title in your own company doesn't make it so.
Let me know when you figure out who is ethical and who is not
Tell HN: Germany's Lifetime Ban from a Field of Study
You are always 2-3 exams away to ban yourself from a field of study in Germany for a lifetime.
Imagine having succeeded in all other courses in your study, but 1 course (or 1 notorious professor) could get you banned for life from further studying.
Nullifying all your effort and progress in an instant. Never mind even a near 96% completion. You are out forever!

You may also get yourself banned for a lifetime, if you study longer than 10 semesters.

In Austria, it is different. They won't ban you like Germany does.

Why do you have such destructive educational policies, Germany?
Oh no! I had goldfish as pets I can imagine that must have been sad. At least they died for "natural" causes.
It really isn't that simple. Of course, the various construction companies which make large donations to the major parties would have you think it was.

In actual fact, a number of studies have shown that the primary factor is cheap credit and foreign money. If we built more houses they'd instantly be bought as an investment.

This is the way things are working at the moment. Friends of mine in the property sector describe how Chinese or Russian investors will turn up and buy entire developments before private buyers have a chance. Meanwhile, private buy-to-let landlords are beating regular buyers out by making cash purchases which are more attractive to sellers. Either that or they can afford to offer more for the same properties.

And people are getting sick of the constant house-building. The recent shock Conservative defeat in the Chesham and Amersham by-election was not just down to the HS2 train line being built through the countryside, but by the huge amount of destabilising housing development which is taking place in the area and changing its character.
Yes, I know a person who is an adept computer scientist and well regarded author, yet they are quite frustrated that they have such a hard time remembering people by their voice and face that only people they are constantly close with are familiar.
Mindcrowd is one organization exploring memory "to advance Alzheimer's research". Older participants with high scores on its online memory test are sent a blood sample kit for DNA profiling. https://mindcrowd.org
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>if other engineers said he's an engineer

Nonsense! Engineer is an education, not a job title. It's no different than Musk calling himself Doctor. He either went to school for years to become an engineer or he isn't one.
Not really surprising if you consider their likely motivations.

Google isn't in the business of selling things to end users, they're in the business of selling ads. The only thing GCP gives them (outside of getting wall streeters off their backs a few years ago when everyone and their brother was starting a cloud service) is a credit to their own infrastructure cost by selling excess to random joes.

Therefore I'm not surprised that AWS continues to be the defacto, they do sell things to end users. I'm not surprised that Azure is growing quickly, either, since MS also sells things to end users and they needed a way to transition their on-premise stuff to the wires.
There arguably aren't truly wild horses anymore. The closest, Przewalski's horse, only exist in the wild as a population reintroduced from captivity. The captive population that they were reintroduced from very might well have been a more docile subset of the subspecies, making your question difficult to answer.
Sure, but having engineering knowledge doesn't make you an engineer just like having medical knowledge doesn't make you a doctor.
The would you think of the children?!? Argument is so destructive for anything privacy or freedom related, it is politicians silver bullet for any issues. When anyone makes that point now I completely ignore it, as you can use it for anything to do whatever you want, specially curtail freedoms.

Educate your children if you are so worried about them, that’s the best thing you can do.
Can a few lines of technical code hold a copyright for that long?