skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah, thanks, that helped locate some relevant search results!

For those following along at home, the accounting term seems to be [[ Rollovers as Business Startups (ROBS) ]]. The IRS website has some unusually direct guidance[1][2] on tax compliance risks associated with ROBS.

[1] https://www.irs.gov/retirement-plans/rollovers-as-business-s...

[2] https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-tege/robs_guidelines.pdf
The Case for Story-Focused Standups
I don't think anyone here is disputing that climate change plays a role, but we live in a world where, if we simply stopped shipping almonds overseas, California would have enough water for three more cities the size of LA.[0] That's just one example of the ridiculous agricultural inefficiencies we're dealing with: 80% of California's water goes to agriculture.[1]

Climate change is hurting things for sure, but it's still agriculture that needs to adapt if we stand any chance. Marginal improvements in residential usage will not solve the problem.

[0] https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2015/04/real-problem...

[1] https://water.ca.gov/Programs/Water-Use-And-Efficiency/Agric...
Sure, so let’s just not give feedback on apps ever again, because the same big companies we demonize at every turn for being advantageous capitalists can do whatever they want - courtesy of ToC and other such legalese. Pack it in, folks!
Liquidation preferences advantage you compared to common stockholders in any situation that isn't an IPO. In a slightly disappointing acquisition (the most common outcome for a "successful" startup), it saves your butt. If you have double-dipping shares or a higher liquidation preference, you are going to make a lot of money in a bad acquisition situation.

Liquidation preferences are cheap insurance against bad outcomes. Most startups have bad outcomes. However, people getting common stock are hurt by every share with a liquidation preference. It is in your interest, as a startup investor (or employee), to get a liquidation preference if you can.
It is unreasonable to expect any one source to be consistently reliable. The "trustworthy resource" is multiple sources with diverse views. Combine your LMG diet with some Rene Ritchie, Hoeg Law, etc.
The state is doing just that, with project HomeKey.
> If you want senior devs to apply post that your total comp is somewhere in the 300k-400k range.

Even that's too low for senior folks with the skillset that OP is looking for, particularly if he wants the senior engineer to be mentoring and uplifting the rest of the team. Those skills can easily get $500k+ TC.
They do require water (some lawns are watered in the form of irrigation; some aren't). But if you look at the water usage statistics, agriculture uses far more than homes (including their lawns). So if you want to do something about water use, it makes more sense to go after agriculture, because that's where the most use is.
Water rights are a good example of how, in practice, property rights are entirely artificial. The system of water rights needs reform.
For instance, my Rift 2’s left controller died for unknown reasons and Meta has been “out of stock” for a year on this part and the Rift 1 controller is “discontinued”. You can’t even find it on ebay. $500 out the window.
If we were talking about math theorems, yes. In real world situations like this though it is customary to equate "extremely rare" with "not existent"
I responded to the problem of "detachment of cause and effect, and deniability for anyone's responsibly to act".

I think it's clear who is responsible for what water in the current system.

That who owns what and with very uneven conditions is a disaster is to me a separate problem. But I might be splitting hairs here.
I may be in my own here, but allowing 40 tabs to live indefinitely in my browser, executing javascript whenever they want makes me incredibly anxious.

I am a huge fan of Firefox with treestyle tabs and the auto tab suspend extension.
Without looking it up, what’s “honor” in Japanese?

You won’t know because they don’t actually talk about it because this idea was made up by a white guy. (Similarly, most ideas about Bushido being cool and honorable were made up by a Japanese pop historian who was actually educated in the West.)

A funny consequence of this is that every time a fantasy novel series has a fake-Asian culture that talks about honor or face all the time, they have to make up a fake word for it, because they don’t know what the real word is. Like in Wheel of Time it’s “toh”.

They do know what shame is though (haji).

> And if it will have a spirit, you want to respect that spirit, as all spirits are connected in musubi.

Did you get that from Your Name?

(It’s “kizuna”. Though I don’t think they’d explain it that way either. “Musubi” is a nonmetaphorical knot or a kind of Hawaiian food.)
Turns out my dad represented Zeidler in his suit against Lund!
@jbreckmckye. Agreed. It is complicated. I have created stand alone static sites on Digital ocean using nothing more than rSync and some shell commands.

In larger firms, where you're locked into a vendor and need to add a static site as part of your suite of apps, this might come handy.

Good point on Github too.
More than likely you’d need to write your own plug-in and start filtering things, have bots scan front pages of top news sites and their political sections and help guide the ML that way.

It’s not easy, but I’m sure it’s doable as the big G and others have done much more sophisticated analysis.
https://www.rtings.com/ It’s really good at what they cover.
DAI is a decentralized US dollar that has existed for over 5 years now.

Many people want a government authorized dollar backed by the government and are ok with the controls on it.

You're free to choose the digital dollar you want. That's what this is about - freedom of choice in holding and spending your wealth in any currency or form you like.
Seriously? Talk to me privately if you have any actual demonstrable problems with me. It's not like I don't know who you are, but I'm not directly calling you out here for your desire to remain anonymous.
Microsoft Premonition
The owners hold the management responsible. If targets are not met then they dig deeper, see staff turnover, find causes, and fix them. It’s capitalism at work. If the owners are not savvy enough then the company should fail or be sold and the capital should be allocated elsewhere.

If workers have a say it distorts these forces. And by say you mean the ability to force the hand of management. Because they already can have a say and modern companies measure everything and listen to feedback.
In almost all cases where a company is fighting for survival, leadership has failed, often quite visibly.

It's one of the few moments where rank-and-file folk realize they do need a say in where things are heading - because you start seeing that the leaders aren't somehow magic beings with perfect decision making qualities. And, at the same point, you get strong reminders that your livelihood is coupled to the company's livelihood - which is making bad decisions right now.

That's why "fight for survival" is a common inflection point for unionization.
To me, this is just the difference between packing for an occasional trip versus going full road warrior. For the former, yep why not just use something disposable. But for the latter, anything that avoids a visit to the dentist has to be prioritized. That little difference between manual and electric seems a very false economy indeed (begging the question that electric toothbrushes are genuinely better of course).
You still fail to define what a "class" is simply because you didn't and don't understand it still.

https://math.stackexchange.com/a/173002 here read up. Also read on Russell's Paradox. I'm not objectively wrong you're just uneducated and your ego is too large. The irony is I was saying the exact same thing you were in my very first comment, except with more precision.

And I still would want you to think about what exactly "output" is.
Invalid argument. Anyone should be able to make apps. I think Tumblr needs apps than most websites.
These are done on a much smaller scale. It’s fun to blame people in a way that shames them, but it doesn’t always match reality. There is a whole lot of foolish water allocation to agriculture which should never have been done in the first place that just needs to stop. The sector needs to shrink to manageable levels.

Agricultural water use is something like 4x urban water use in California. There just needs to be less of it, and exporting heavy water using crops needs to be carefully considered.
Both constantly censor and delete data they don't want on their platform.
You can do whatever you want just know that the market will decide if you can do this. In a few ways:

A. Capital - Investors will be highly skeptical of this approach. Is there a CEO they can invest who does not give people 2 months off? If so, they’ll probably send their money that way.

B. Competition - Your competitors will be delighted to learn that your workforce is 10-15% less active than they are.

C. Recruiting - yes, many will be excited about the prospect of so much time off. But experienced employees will be skeptical of this approach and may see it as a risk. There are also people who gasp do not want to take 2 months off and enjoy working throughout the year.

Again, as leader you are free to do what you want but for every major decision you can ask yourself a simple question - does this help accelerate or slow our revenue?
Forging one (unpowered?) typewriter in many decades vs forging and powering all the computers you'd end up replacing over those decades to stay current? All the chemicals involved in making the electronics? The e-waste? A discarded typewriter would also leave very little behind aside from rust.

While one option is not zero impact, it is still many orders of magnitude lower impact. They aren't equivalent, he wasn't fooling himself.
Yeah, they may be competitors in the department :=/
Well, there are two people: one named Bob, and one named Alice...
Wirecutter seems to make a big deal of the fact that the IKEA purifier doesn't use a "true HEPA" filter. As far as I can tell, neither does the Blueair purifier that is one of their top picks. Blueair claims to use "HEPASilent Ultra," while carefully avoiding claiming that their filter meets HEPA standards.

> HealthProtect™ is equipped with HEPASilent Ultra™, our most advanced filtration technology ever. Every component is uniquely designed in Sweden to provide the maximum performance and energy efficiency. This patent-pending technology combines electrostatic and mechanical filtration to remove 99%⁴ of bacteria and remove dust, pollen, dander, mold, VOCs, and odors. HEPASilent Ultra™ delivers 50% more clean air⁵, uses 55% less energy and has a 10% lower noise than traditional true HEPA filtration⁶.

https://www.blueair.com/sg/healthprotect-family-page.html

As an aside, for air purifiers and some other items I've found the energy star site useful:

https://www.energystar.gov/productfinder/product/certified-r...

There are actual measurements and you can sort by several categories. The manufacturers submit the measurements themselves, but the tests are at least supposed to be standardized. And they actually display the wattage used by each purifier. The electricity running costs can make up a large portion of the total cost of ownership of an air purifier if you have it running consistently.
Why does (in your view) capitalism mandate that only owners hold management responsible, and that workers having a say would distort that process? Are you suggesting that class warfare is inevitable? (That's a Marxist concept.) Otherwise, why keep workers out of the decision-making process?

Also, if in most tech companies workers are given equity, are they not owners also?
They specifically wrote “a lot more likely” so they clearly do not believe ONLY poor people live in apartments.
I'm not a true senior (<5YOE) but I refused to do take home assignments. It's too open ended and there's really no way to tell exactly what will please the hiring manager.

Do you simply try to rush through the code to make it work within the allotted time limit?

Do you put more effort into the design and structure of the code to make it production ready?

What do you do when making the code nice and the 4 hours are up? Do you stop and turn in an incomplete assignment or do you put in more hours of work?

Even if by chance, you killed it and built awesome code in the 4 hours, there's no guarantee that the hiring manager will like the patterns.

I'm all of my online interviews I have never once received specific feedback on what I "failed" to do "right".

So no, I will not waste my time on take home tests unless I get paid for it.

As much as I also dislike algorithms, I can at least research what I did wrong and patch up that weakness. Can't really do that with take home assignments because there are too many variables.
We can solve it. The Great Depression measurably delayed the impact of climate change, and with advances in fusion and solar technology carbon capture is rapidly becoming a reality.

That we so far haven't bothered trying because it would cost rich people some money is unconscionable, but that doesn't mean it is impossible. The science of environmental repair will need a broad base of support, but it is our best hope to still be able to exist as a species.
Yeah, the hassle of having to put it on and store it somewhere is gonna be hard to get over. The thing with a tv and video games is you just plop yourself on the couch and go. You don’t have to grab the tv from the closet and put it on.

The other issue is even if people are open to the VR device itself, I think you absolutely have to nail the experience for them the first time or else people will treat it like a fad and then never give it a go again. You don’t have a second chance to make a good impression.
It's a dam, just hold back water. Oh, and figure out how to efficiently turn ocean water into fresh water. It ain't hard. Unless you want to draw this out for 100+ years like every other crisis.
The problem of having legal institutions in place to regulate river usage is solved.

The problem of having those legal institutions do so in a reasonable manner is not, but will be soon enough as large public water shortages will really motivate the electorate to force the issue.
Yes, that’s it. It’s a really good idea to use a company that specializes in this stuff. They take care of all the accounting and legal stuff. My own accountant won’t touch that stuff.
Sometimes it does come in handy, case in point, Sophia Tolstaya (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophia_Tolstaya):

“ Sophia acted as copyist of War and Peace, copying and editing the manuscript seven times from beginning to end at home at night by candlelight after the children and servants had gone to bed, using an inkwell pen and sometimes requiring a magnifying glass to read her husband's notes.”

Stop and think about that: WaP in Russian is 1225 pages. Seven times!
I looked her up. She worked with the National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis recently.

I wonder what she was doing back then... :D
Explain to me exactly what a "fair price" is? Value is simple.

Let's use a simple example:

AcmeCo makes a widget and sells it for $50

WorldCo buys widget for $50 and uses it create $75 worth of services, thereby profiting $25.

AcmeCo has an opportunity to make up to charge up to $74.99 if they want, because WorldCo still profits. That, in its simplest terms, is what pricing on. value means.

Europe, Asia, or otherwise don't magically say "well that's not fair, you don't deserve higher profits". That's silly, so stop pretending thats the case outside of the US.
I like the one from 1968 more than the one from 2014, should've let it unchanged
In the USSR it wasn't enough to have art that was apolitical, it was seen as vital that art acted to actively support the creation of a socialist society, and those seeking to create art in a neutral space were viewed as being reactionary. Defining apolitical spaces out of existence denies people the space to come to their own conclusions
Just wanted to share that I’ve been using OpenPhone for dealing with text spam, and I really like it so far: https://www.openphone.com/

The only trouble is that some services can verify that the number isn’t a “real” number (how do they do this?!) but it works most of the time.

I’ve slowly been transitioning as much as possible to it. Phone calls even work great, and you can take them right through your laptop.

It doesn’t solve the problem of push notifications, but it’s semi related to the problem of being spammed. (I set my phone to permanent “do not disturb” mode long ago.)
Depends on the use case. SMB auth is more robust and easier to integrate with AD, but NFS is simpler and typically faster for file access and transfer speeds. SMB is good for shares used by end users, NFS is good for shares used by services.
> seems pretty hypocritical if you ask me.

That's going to be true of everyone else's morality. Even your own is not 100% consistent. You can't let perfect be the enemy of good.

The difference between crypto and Amazon (as I said elsewhere) is that Amazon has ostensibly a good product: they sell people things. Their business is abusive of workers, but most people don't really know that. "We" (the people on HN) know about it because we're very-online people, but it's not common knowledge. So I'm willing to believe that someone is well-intentioned, takes a job at Amazon without knowing how abusive they are, and has good values in the end.

I believe that many crypto employees are good, moral people, but they don't really understand how the industry works. That's fine -- I don't want to hire them because they don't understand the space, which tells me they aren't very smart. I'm hiring very few people, and I want to hire ones that understand systems very well (if I can!), including social and financial systems.

The people who know it's a Ponzi scheme and still work there are the ones I would call immoral and refuse to hire on moral grounds.
Don’t Be Afraid to DIY
Oh, you mean VMWare... one of their CSR's they did that to me.
I think that most people would find it hard to schedule two months of continuous vacation, since their spouses/partners would not be able to take vacations on the same schedule. Also, many people care for children or elders, and their schedules are constrained by these responsibilities.

As someone's employer, you shouldn't presume to know what vacation schedule is best for their mental health or productivity. Some people may be happier if they can take shorter breaks more often. If you want to give your employees two months of vacation time, that's fine, but let them decide how and when to make use of those days rather than imposing your own preferences on them.
I don't think your premise is accurate because you don't have insight into how much, if any, time the company invests in reviewing take homes.

As a reviewer, I sure spent considerable time reviewing take homes. As an applicant I got extremely thoughtful and detailed reviews.

Conversely, I've interviewed at least as many times in code challenges with unhelpful, absent-minded interviewers.

To me it boils down to sync VS async. I default to async always. Take home is async, code challenge is sync.
A lot of California’s wealth comes from its vast natural resources, including some of the most desirable weather and topography in the world. This will, on its own, attract investment from richer entities. It is also a prime beneficiary of imports from Asian due to its ports in prime location on the Pacific Ocean.

Water supply issues notwithstanding, which could easily change California’s intrinsic desirability.
Starrett and Mitutoyo are good enough to build planes and rockets on a professional level.
sorry, I didn't realize this was a text editor. I was initially looking at the time-travel screen (the black box), and thought that is where to type things to be able to use it.

Lexical is awesome!
If he wants upside, consider paying him commissions for growing the business. This way he can make more money and you can benefit from the growth. He should be happier with this than holding illiquid stock. Sometimes people just want to be able to tell their family that they are owners of the business. It seems like he already has an inflated title so he doesn’t have much else to ask for to show or feel progression in his career. It sounds like a role that would be attractive to many people.
It is possible, albeit with a significant simplification of the capabilities of the models (i.e. all of the SSML stuff will be left out).

Also ONNX boasts native quantization that just works.

But we are not currently actively working on this. Most likely ONNX will only be available only for commercial customers for special buds, but we are not decided on this yet.
It’s not really that at all.

There is a broad sector of people making their living off of inappropriately inexpensive water and governments unwilling to bankrupt a sizable fraction of them.
To people accusing him of having a huge carbon footprint, it's not like they built the airplane specifically for him. If the plane can hold 200+ passengers, how much does one additional passenger contribute vs. the seat being empty?
They did. They have classifieds (competing with Craigslist) and Groups. Every neighborhood in my city has a Facebook Group that's more active than NextDoor.
A fun article with good explanations. It’s a phenomenon I suspect many noisy music dabblers have heard before, it’s pretty easy to accidentally or uh, improvisationally create when playing with audio circuits, or mixer feedback, or delays or loopers.

I wish I could follow the Rythym slightly further as it transitions to pitch. I loose it a little early, all Rhythms start to sound the same, just the “fundamental” pulse and then a wash. It seems to me there is something there. Some intuitive understanding that the author has a little better grasp of than I.
Patron has a similar issue. Subscribing to a creator by default opts you into all types of notifications from them, and notifications are configured on a per-creator basis with no global override.

Worse, if I remember right, the page’s entire state (for all the creators) was represented in a single, slow HTTP request that was fired off when any checkbox was changed. Unchecking checkboxes quickly (faster than 1/second) would lead to undefined behaviour as requests get processed out of order and earlier requests would override some of the latter ones, silently undoing your work (since the earlier request has more remaining checkboxes - remember that every request represents the entire state of the page).

Absolutely dumb design on so many levels.
I think it’s fallen off a little, but it’s common for shop cashiers to calculate how much you owe on an actual calculator and just show the screen to you. In a way this is surprisingly practical, but I think the assumption is that elderly customers don’t trust cash registers and want to see the workers actually adding up some numbers.

Also, the real lesson from the food pic is that Starbucks Japan has way better limited drinks. And the real mystery is why Starbucks US had app ordering and a point card for years before Japan did.
I've found it convenient (once setup...) to run internal package mirrors.

These with even relatively dated 'netinstall' media can provide you with current installations. Then provide you with super fast updates.

I'm more familiar with doing this with RPM based distributions -- CentOS, Fedora, etc. It's basically a web server and rsync behind a [parameterized] systemd timer so you can centrally control existing/new mirrors

The results can admittedly be a little funny. If the netinstall is so far behind that RPM doesn't know what to do with the new packages, then yea - time to get a new one :)