skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know. I stopped using Dropbox when their Linux client started telling me that my filesystem was not supported anymore; they dropped support for encrypted disks and asked me to do something about it (i.e: not encrypt my disk).

I also stopped using Box because it keeps sending mfa text messages to a phone number I do not control anymore, and trying to do something about it I get asked to ask my administrator for help or to ask support. Too much hassle. I may do it.

To change the old phone number the 2FA code is sent to, I have to be logged in, and to log in, I have to have access to the old phone number.

I had also lost control over that phone number, which I've had for fifteen years, because I had to send it airtime every three months. I was abroad and I missed sending airtime by one day and it was blocked and taken from me. I asked the telco to give it back to me, they said it's impossible and it will be assigned to someone else. I asked can that someone else be "me"; they said no; it's random. I asked if I can randomly buy it back; they said no.

So, from my perspective, Box and Dropbox are as useful now as the services they set out to replace in 2007 or something.
I hadn't thought of it that way. Trading verbosity for clarity was always COBOL's shtick. I had always thought of Java as this gen's COBOL, but maybe the reflection oriented frameworks in common use undercut that use case and Golang would do it better.
I find this map surprisingly accurate.

https://www.fitsnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/map11.jp...
My old flip phone actually survived three trips through the wash before giving up the ghost - each time with minimal damage.

There are ways to protect devices from water without making the whole things unserviceable.
So they’d ask for financial records or do a credit check?
My original comment[1] is responding to the notion that crypto's technical problems are better solved by non-blockchain alternatives. The most common alternative is placing trust in an Amazon or Google database, or another tech corporation like Namecheap or escrow.com (for domain exchanges, as in my example). Banks do not typically manage domain name exchanges.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31190423
Why is the federal taxpayer paying for removing PII from a Pfizer study? Shouldn't Pfizer pay for it? I'm confused.
"But a W-2 an employee gets payments into social security, unemployment insurance, various protections, so it’s the decent thing to do, even if it costs a bit more."

You can adjust for those costs and pay the contractor more, ie you say to the contractor "look we understand you have to pay for your health insurance, self employment tax, etc so we are going to cover those expenses with more pay."

Of course it doesn't feel like it - the contractor still has to pay those things on their taxes which never feels good. So there is the psychology behind it - a W2 employee being paid less might feel better about their tax situation because they don't as much in taxes. Well, they do pay, but that money never reaches their bank account.
"Cross platform handling is bad."

That's all I've had the energy to extract. Isn't cross-platform software always a nasty compromise between not being able to do anything useful and being too specific to some OS or another. IMO go write a library if it really annoys you.

There are much more unpleasant problems that I've had with the language but I've had more with C++ so ... it's a step up for me.
This sounds really cool. Do you have any recommended resources for this?
Biden is expected to expand student loan forgiveness in a few weeks, so it may be wise to ask for a different perk.
If you have renter's insurance, they'll likely cover thefts like this. Sorry for your trouble and best of luck!
It's not the point but I just thought it's useful to bring up. I disagree with you about your statement that civilizations must have this property (a pillar) you claim they have. All kind of civilizations didn't/don't care anywhere near the way it's done in judeo-christian derived civilizations, and they were/are still civilizations. If I were you, I'd be open to the idea that this is perhaps not an universal truth as you make it out to be. In fact this topic is specifically brought up quite early in "Our Oriental Heritage, The Story of Civilization, Volume 1" by Will Durant.
Anytime you see something mentioning web3, change the word web3 to blockchain, since that's generally what the thing being described is.
I used Go (didn’t choose it exactly) at an olds job of mine 4 or 5 years ago. I was definitely the most senior and very likely the best developer at the company. Organizationally, many of their backend services were Java-based using Spring Boot, although there were a few Python and NodeJS ones as well. My general observation was:

The people who called themselves Java programmers or Python programmers or JavaScript programmers complained a ton about Go. The people who weren’t committed to any particular language didn’t seem to mind at all.

(I am in the whatever-language-let’s-write-code camp myself)

We weren’t in love with it. I don’t use it for spare time projects (woo Common Lisp with SBCL). The only super positive feedback I really remember is “wow! It’s so easy to just walk through from when the program starts to knowing where all the endpoints are and where you can find the source!” which isn’t so much praise of Go but an indictment of Spring Boot.
A less complicated solution would be to build more housing. Governments weld a lot of power in this respect. They can use eminent domain to acquire land and they have the capability to finance projects on an unrivaled scale.

If we want low-cost housing, the government can provide that. Instead, we rely on a market that is designed to optimized for highest cost the market can bare.
yeah thats what I said. glad we agree.
Agreed.

Also OP posted a rant but doesn't seem to know what is going on or whether he actually needs to do anything. For all I know the demand from the CA FTB is mistaken and can safely be ignored.

For the record, I do have to deal with the FTB because I have a California LLC, and they are a major pain and cause of expense in that situation.
> ...feel like the solution to an open social network will look...

May i ask respectfully, have you even seen and/or used any applications within the fediverse? Forgive me, but i interpret your statement as if you have not actively seen, used apps on the fedi...If that is accurate, may i invite you to at least test things out by joining any number of instances, and try one of the many, many apps - mobile and web - which allow you to richly interact with others across the fediverse...and i think you'll see that the experience "looks" like many things, but certainly not restricted to RSS or mastodon, etc.

To pick any of the myriad apps and test things out, check out this collection of apps: https://fediverse.party/en/miscellaneous/

To learn a bit more behind the fediverse's history, feel free to review entries on the following page: https://fediverse.party/en/chronicles/

I certainly hope that your test run is an enjoyable one, or at least interesting and informative. While i'm a fan of the fediverse, it is not lost on me that much like other sorts of human behavior - like conventional social media silos - there is no *real* escape from trolls, jerks, awful people. Cheers!
`emacs --quick`?
I think better would be to have an exception for very small companies. Ie. If your revenue, assets, profits and expenses are all under $100k in the year, then you're allowed to just pay nothing and submit a 1 page form attesting to that fact.
Back in the 90s the joke was "Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping". 8mb is nothing now and I note that Nano, with no file open, is 6768kb virtual and 3620kb resident on my x86_64 Linux box.

(I use mg as my small emacs alternative; full emacs UI but tiny binary / memory. Unfortunately it doesn't support Unicode properly.)
"I didn't want to comply with the employment law in the only state in which I had employees" is not a good reason to write a blog post.
I read the comment as a tongue-in-cheek jab, not an insult. The author made no value judgements about French, and it’s hard to deny that part of French’s audience turned on him.

The reasons for that are not examined, and in the context of the reviewer’s opening, it serves as nothing more than a way to say “usually, trust can be built over time, David French’s situation notwithstanding”.

To conclude that the author hates French is a pretty enormous leap.

It strikes me that this comment is guilty of the same thing it complains about.
why do you live there though. Can't you ask your employer to match the deficit.
Show HN: I built Acrobox to help solo indie hackers ship early and often
Hello!

I often see Ask HN threads discussing how people are deploying their apps, specifically solo founders.[^1][^2] Solutions range from Heroku to AWS to niche products or even rolling your own VPS, each with their own set of tradeoffs. I'm not alone in seeing that web development is complex.[^3] What complexities are absolutely required? What complexities are worth it? What complexities are worth paying for a solution to, and how much are they worth?

The job I had just left was making good money running off of a single VPS. Some prolific solo indie hackers have shared their minimal hosting and deployment solutions that brought them to what many would define as success. Removing distributed systems and per-app/per-database/per-X costs is a huge weight off of a creative and experimental solo founders shoulders.

But even on a single VPS there are so many decisions to make and so much to configure. Non-root SSH access, network layer firewall, independently scalable block storage, automatic software updates, deduplicated incremental encrypted off-site backups are the absolute bare minimum standards I hold for customer facing applications and I can only hope the same of others. You probably want SSL/TLS certificates with HTTP/HTTPS and naked/www redirects. Where do you store local data? That's included in your backups, right? What about file permissions?

Acrobox provides guidance and structure to all of this. Not all complexity can be removed, but I've done my best to minimize complexities and maximize freedoms, carving a new niche in this space.

I value your constructive feedback. I'm here to answer questions or find my email on my website if you prefer.

Thanks,

Phil

P.S. I wrote more in depth about the history on my blog.[^4]

[^1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28838132

[^2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16472887

[^3]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28275873

[^4]: https://pnelson.ca/posts/gone-indie
NREL Calculates Lost Value of Landfilled Plastic in U.S.
Crystal's shards are like Ruby's gems.

https://crystal-lang.org/community/

https://shardbox.org

https://shards.info

https://crystalshards.org
Oh that’s neat. I’ll investigate how to help seed that (for lack of better word)

Main reason I haven’t done so yet is copyright concerns but this content is presumably safe in that regard
Lots of pissed of Californians in the thread because it reduces their value... but if you think from outside, it is very reasonable argument... and this article is a service to the people who would otherwise not have thought about this.

California wants to maximize benefit to their citizens as it should... and outsiders should take that into consideration when doing business with entities in California. Also this was probably not straightforward to find out... which is why the author thought spreading the word was important. I appreciate it.
no it's not. coal gives millions of people cancer, but it does so in ways that are hard to prove in court on an individual level.
The article specified the amount in absolute quantities as well instead of a ppb ratio.
> or implement the same function N times over to support the different numeric data types

Did you consider using a preprocessor or suchlike
this is basically all mountain towns now.
In my neck of the woods, there would need to be a serious new threat to motivate people back into school closings and lockdowns. Heck, we're still below 60% fully vaccinated and only 30% have received any boosters. My states's population is done with COVID, even if COVID isn't done with us.

That said, SARS-CoV-2 is endemic now, with known animal reservoirs. We're not going to stop it with NPIs anymore.
>There is not a single metric that decides if a programming language "wins" or not

Yes there is: it's the number of currently running processes described by that language. In practice this means counting every tab in every browser on every device on Earth. Even the largest DC operators in the world, Amazon, Google, Microsoft, NSA, etc who run sophisticated bespoke software distribution systems that support all kinds of runtimes, cannot compare in number to everything else. (Although it wouldn't surprise me if one or more of them attempts to maintain a stateful process for every man woman and child on Earth. That's still not enough.)
> As far I understand, Congress does not have the authority to override the states in this way.

Remote interstate hiring is obviously interstate commerce, and Congress has clear preemptive authority over that.
This is true of employment, remote or otherwise, all over the US. Wait until you start an LLC with partners in different states and incur personal state tax liabilities in states you've never set foot in. This is a complaint that more suggests the lack of experience this person has with employment than any problem with how tax law works.
California is unusually aggressive compared to other states. We had an employee with a home address in California who never set foot in California during the period he worked for us. We paid his withholding correctly to CA. Received a similar letter from the CA franchise tax board that our business also owed a CA return with a minimum $800 filing fee. They only accepted correspondence by fax, no email, no website. Since he was never in CA during his period of employment, we didn't legally owe the return, but CA said the onus was on us to somehow prove he never set foot in CA. Providing his personal credit card receipts showing daily charges for meals and such in DC (where we were located)over the entire period of employment was deemed not good enough. Ultimately we gave up and just paid the $800, it was costing more in time to argue. I've never had similar issues regarding employees in other states. If there were disputes, issues or mistakes related to tax filings, there was a reasonable process for communicating with the state tax board and resolving.
"They consume medical care" sounds a lot like the broken window fallacy: If you smash a bunch of windows, you're increasing GDP and creating jobs when they get repaired.

To a ruthless cold-blooded optimizer, deleting the elderly should be good for the economy because you save on their maintenance costs and their resources get redistributed to more active investors. This might decrease GDP, but that only reflects on GDP being a problematic metric.

I guess it's true that smashing windows or providing medical care to the elderly would increase the "size of the economy", because it adds entries to the implicit "market's bid/ask order book". And you could measure the size of the economy by the size of that data structure.
As the interviewee, you can pretty much ask anything you want. You may also talk yourself out of the job in the process.

I haven't seen companies offer to pay off loans before (there's no geography here, YMMV), but hiring bonuses and equity compensation are pretty standard depending on your seniority and skillset. (e.g. We'll give you $X in restricted stock over 4 years, with 25% coming at the end of year 1 and then in quarterly drops.)

At the end of the day, you're a budget line-item for the company and they care about what you cost, not what you spend the money on.
I think you can add this to your original post.
hi Taravangian!
If only congress had that power, but the United States of American really are the "united states" of America, not "the country of America", and even folks who live in the US often forget that the federal government really doesn't have a lot of power in regulating how states run their affairs.

Congress literally can't pass the laws the article proposes: it does not have that power. Would be nice if it did, would certainly make the country a better place for the vast majority of people, but as it stands: each state is basically equivalent to a country, with a formal agreement to collaborate as part of a federation, but with express limitations on how much the federation as a whole gets to "interfere".
> So now they’ve lied to me about my income and demanded information that is none of their business.

I mean, not to be too harsh, but... Welcome to inter-state business operations. It's really up to the state what is "their business" when you are employing one of their citizens; that's the consequences of a system made of a federation of states, each state can set its own rules above-and-beyond federal rules in a pretty wide latitude.

There's a reason people hire lawyers to handle this stuff.
I hadn't thought of that. Very elegant. One study found that the uranium absorption was much faster in warm/hot water. The reaction was 2x faster in 40C water than in 10C water. RO desal brine is usually warm, but steam distillation desal brine would be quite hot. To reduce its negative environmental impact, the hot brine is usually diluted and cooled in retention ponds before discharge. These ponds would be perfect for this uranium extraction process.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5706215/figure/...
If they are paying tech company wages, then $800 to be able to hire as many employees as you want in California is a drop in the bucket.
We've increased the atmosphere's CO2 concentration by 50%. A few grams of tritium won't significantly change its concentration in the ocean.
I mean you seem to have this idea that your business is “you” but your business is “you and your employees”.

50% of your business (and to be frank probably 80%+ of the value add based on your write up) was done in California but you act like it’s crazy for California to make the above claim.
Right about that same time fresh water will be like gold, and eventually the lakes will either be dry or drain into the sea.
I was introduced to nano when I did a `crontab -e` for the first time, and it had an ASCII arrow pointing at nano, saying 'easiest'. I tried it and realized it was perfect for quickly editing a file and getting out. I use it when guiding people unfamiliar with the CLI and they seem more comfortable with its shortcuts, as opposed to vi.

My Ubuntu is a bit behind, is this the official PPA for nano, or good enough? https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nano
Is actor system same as event based systems or event driven architecture?
Also your conclusion (“don’t hire remote workers in CA”) doesn’t necessarily follow from your specific situation. If you had 9 existing employees outside California, then hired your 10th from California, you wouldn’t have had this issue and you’d be focusing on your business instead of ranting on a blog post.
This is less a California issue than a US remote business issue. Any number of states have labyrinthine regulations regarding who must file corporate income taxes, who owes state sales taxes, how you must acquire unemployment and disability insurance, etc.

And you're just getting started with the states. If you happen to employ someone in a bureaucratic or tax-ridden municipality (e.g. Philadelphia, Seattle, NYC, tons of others), then you are going to have processes to file fees and paperwork with obscure offices and locally sanctioned accountants (looking at your Pittsburgh) and insurance companies.
Care to elaborate? What makes you so sure that won't happen in the US?
Takasago Army is great both musically and lyrically. It is a fictional story with historical (World War II) background. You really have to dig into the translations of the lyrics to understand it though - they are in native Taiwanese dialect.
Clearly not so many that it’s profitable to build that kind of phone. The reality is that a phone like the Fairphone, which is a fine phone, does show that down that road you end up with a pretty expensive phone that looks bulky, is not waterproof (even though it’s a great achievement it is water resistant) and uses suboptimal components.
It looks like they support other package ecosystems as well:
https://docs.github.com/en/code-security/supply-chain-securi...

That said, the article does indeed seem to focus entirely on dependencies.
Nearly all Apple stuff can be summed up that way!
> My income is none of California's damn business

Literally your income is California’s business. You are doing business in California.

How are they supposed to know you’re not selling anything there… if you don’t report it?
If you derive income from some states you need to file with them even if nobody from your company works there. That may be hard to enforce but that is the case for many states. I agree that it is a total pain for business owners though, it is difficult to understand the patchwork of state laws that apply or don't apply to you _and_ find the right people (accountants/lawyers) to deal with it.
Your average person wasn't being crushed by their rent in '08 and wasn't over leveraged on consumer debt in the 70s and 80s. Those are just two factors that are different this time around.

The information and media landscape is also very different now in ways that make disseminating "be a good little boy and everything will be all right" messages far less effective and the institutions such messages would come are more reputationally bankrupt than ever.
Unfortunately this doesn't feel like a good fit for this list, it's hard to put it into words but I'm looking for more lightweight, minimal and immediate games.

Thank you for sending the link anyway, the game still looks very fun, I may download the mobile version later.
If an $800 minimum franchise tax is a lot of money to a rookie business owner, you're in for a rude awakening.

Also:

"I have better things to do that deal with idiots in California who think they have the right to impose obligations on my Illinois business."

LMAO.....This does not read like a successful business owner, let alone one who gives reassuring advice.
States Rights is why this is not organized among the states or even uniform, except for what you owe to the Federal Government.
I think the rate of change is pretty slow right now but number of births per woman has gone down. If these lower levels stay or goes down further then the population will start to shrink faster in many countries. Some countries may be able to delay this by taking in more immigrants.
I've found Go's compromises help good programmers too over the long run.

It isn't lowering the variance by slowing down the quick, it does it by shrinking the space of possible solutions. Bad programmers and good programmers wind up making similar "good enough" design choices. You don't wind up with over engineered frameworks for every bit of logic in you backend.
Just closed financing on a home. Rocket had a comparable rate but the real no-go for us was their very-limited rate-lock option. With interest rate trends what they are right now, we really needed a 200 day + rate lock with a float-down in case things changed. Other lenders (builder, ownup options, local banks) offered those and the option to buy points and apply them if we were able to float down. Rocket seemed very slow to adjust to the market forces with competitive options.
AB-5 added exemptions allowing more employees to be contractors to the pre-existing rule articulated, based on prior statute law, by the California Supreme Court.