skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How much would form 5471 cost in the following scenario?
The plan:

1) I will live in California from now until at least December 31, 2030.

2) In 2021, I will find a CPA who has experience filing form 5471, ask him what bookkeeping software will keep the cost of form 5471 low for the scenario described here, and use such software.

3) I will form a Puerto Rico Single Member LLC in January 2022, fund it with $10,000 cash plus a promissory note made by me to the LLC (resulting in me transferring $20,000 a year to the LLC), and register it to do business in Califonia. Let's call the LLC "Initech LLC".

4) I will elect for Initech LLC to be treated by the IRS as a corporation.

5) I will start developing software in April 2022 for Initech LLC (which will therefore own the IP), in exchange for California minimum wage pay, and the potential for increase in the value of my membership interest in the LLC. I will start in my spare time at 10 hours a week, eventually gradually ramping up to 20 to 40 hours a week.

6) Initech will have no revenue before December 31, 2029.

7) Initech's only expenses from 2022 through 2029, inclusive, will be paying me minimum California wage for 10 to 20 or 40 hours a week, paying a part time virtual assistant located abroad using Paypal, paying accounting expenses (I will do the bookkeping myself), and paying small expenses such as computers, etc.

8) If and when Initech LLC manages to gross $100,000 in a single year and net $50,000 the same year (through a combination of consulting services that rely on the software and/or the licensing of the software), I will relocate to Puerto Rico.

It's my understanding that once I relocate to Puerto Rico, assuming no change in tax laws between now and then, I will no longer need to file form 5471 for Initech LLC. But that, as long as I live in California, I will have to file form 5471 each year.

In the above scenario, what's your best guess about how much it would cost each year to have form 5471 prepared by the CPA ?
Competent sites, like Patreon sometimes, will let you support multiple creators off one transaction fee.

Also if you deliberately set up for small payments, there's things like paypal micropayments offering a fee of 5 cents plus 5%.
I will freely admit that I fell for a phishing campaign. I’d just bought something on eBay (this was a while ago). I got an email about something in my account later that day that made it through my spam filters. I clicked on it, signed in, and then realized I’d done the deed. Nothing happened or was lost, but yes - it just takes one quick mistake.
All companies employ people who are vulnerable to social engineering tactics.

All of them.
open source argument is valid -- most software enterprise vendors do provide source code access (under NDA.) The rest of the arguments stand though: as it is right now, it way more developer/operator friendly to use Envoy in our production.
As a swede I am guessing this is like how we joke about there always being an IKEA/Biltema catalog in all bathrooms.
I don't know what Linux has to do with this and I won't litigate the open source dogma, but on this point:

> you are also arguing all servers and consumer pcs should be made by microsoft, since they run windows.

That's not really what I'm saying at all; this isn't like e.g. expecting to get Windows updates through Dell, it's more like expecting that Dell will continue to deliver compatible drivers for their hardware that enable the updates I get from Microsoft to keep working.

That's a basic expectation when we buy PC hardware, in part thanks to the relative standardization of PC components - if I couldn't update Windows ~2 years after I bought a laptop and Dell's answer was "maybe someone in the community can help you", I'd be incensed.

In the smartphone/tablet market, that's just business as usual.
I don't know. Personally I very much like subscriptions. As long as they're $5 a month, I can support an awfully large amount of people

To be fair, unless I would give someone 25$ a month for the same thing I generally do not bother subscribing.
AFIK, in a Zero Trust Architecture a VPN is considered a perimeter and therefore it becomes a vector of attack to access systems of authoritative decision.

Many security researchers have already established that the benefits of a VPN especially in the modern distributed world are marginal at best.

Basically, yes a VPN makes you a tiny bit safer but it also adds a lot of networking complexity and adds more friction to the job of your employees. It also becomes an attack vector for malicious parties, since once they get VPN access they can theoretically access at least the first layer of protected resources.

So in layman's terms an attacker just needs to phish for VPN credentials, maybe steal an OTP token and they will have access to a non-trivial amount of network protected resources.

On the other hand if every service you use has its own authentication then the attacker needs to target each service and to know what services to attack they need knowledge that is possibly contained in another system that also requires authentication and is definitely not guaranteed for the attacker that all the systems will have the same password and/or have 2FA disabled.

Honestly, in my opinion VPNs are just an excuse to monitor traffic. This is a bit of cynical take, but I'm convinced that companies that use VPNs are more interested in seeing what goes in and out their network than in protecting their resources.
Xfinity Mobile as an example:

$200 off the list price of the $399 iPhone SE.
$8.33/month, with 0% APR for 24 months.

It has similar specs of a $1000 iPhone from a few years ago and is faster than any Android device you could buy for the same price.

Most carriers have the same deal.
Damn Cool Illusion
Here in Finland Verified By VISA and Mastercard 3D Secure will just present the same 2-factor bank authentication you already use for your non-card online payments and bank transfers. There are no separate credentials or sign-up steps.

Practically all domestic online retailers here have used those over 10 years now, and AFAIK there is no opt-out (at least for regular bank-issued consumer VISA/MC cards).
Training that is notorious for being ineffective in practise and usually more about box ticking.

Assuming that none of your employees fall for phising, much less targeted phising, is woefully unrealistic. Especially at twitter's scale.

Assuming humans won't do stupid things 100% of the time is never an effective security control.
$5 adds up quickly but $1 adds up a lot slower. So far I haven't hit my budget for $1/month support, and over a big group it's enough to fund a lot.
> Facebook was the last Silicon Valley company to create something that literally has disrupted the way we live and interact. All the other ones that supposedly were on that road are barely alive (e.g: Uber).

I don't know...

* Apple disrupted the way we live and interact more recently (iPhone).

* Uber & Lyft may be barely alive currently, but mostly/only because of Covid - they were doing decently enough before then. Same for AirBnb, though IMHO they're not as disruptive.

* If Facebook counts despite poorly executed earlier companies attempting the same idea, then Netflix probably counts for this list too - crappy cable TV on-demand existed before them, but widespread changes in how we consume video didn't occur until the rise of Netflix streaming.

* Amazon didn't really take over all of online shopping until around the same time Facebook was exploding, if I remember.

* Widespread consumer access to GPS - starting with Garmins in cars, then later smartphones - didn't really happen until well into the Facebook era as well.

* The dominance of the SaaS model mostly came after Facebook too.
And printer drivers often have a "fit on page" feature enabled.

... not that A4 vs US letter would be a huge percentual difference, for this image.
What if the attackers phish the VPN credentials too? Does Zero Trust imply phishing-resistant credentials? What Twitter needed was phishing-resistant credentials (security keys, aka U2F).
Dongles are rare here in the US. But I know that bloomberg uses them. I was shocked when I learned that retail banks in Singapore give everyone dongles to log in. In the US that's tyranny Lol
oh one thing! did you mean people will feel awkward to share the link to the platform, or a link to their forms? (the forms themselves can be embedded in any website/domain).
Thanks for your feedback btw. it's valuable.
You can even get it to maintain it's own 'memory': First start off like normal, and after it's written a bit, rewrite it so that it's repeating a summary critical topics between each paragraph.

Then let it go, it'll continue carrying through and even sometimes updating its 'memory'. (not updating as much as I'd like: it's extremely efficient at just copying text from recent history).

I think it would be interesting to train GPT3 specifically to work this way: First train GPT3. Then, run back over the training data and use GPT3 to generate running summaries: At each paragraph break add some text that says something like "The most important things about the above text is:" and let it complete that prompt).

Then use those running summaries to augment the training data with special symbols that occur nowhere in the input marking the self-commentary parts, omitting the prefix you used to get gpt3 to output it, and train a new network (GPT3') on the augmented data.

Then you could make an interface that uses GPT3' and hides the self-commentary from the users. As GPT3 writes it will have a persistent memory that can last as long as the document goes on, updated by itself. Effectively it gives it sparse access to the entire history, but the network itself controls the shape of the access.

[Plus a nice thing about GPT generated text is that you can store its confidence too, and use that to weigh the training so that you penalize it less for mispredicting stuff it was unsure of.]

You wouldn't have to do anything special to teach it to write this commentary because we already write commentary in English and GPT3 already knows how to do it.

Maybe a little more engineering would be useful to guarantee that it will write commentary blocks often enough, but it could be as simple as making sampling prefer emitting an internal monologue block with an increasing bias as the last one approaches falling out of the window.
Hey there!

Fellow founder in the same space here. I deeply understand what you are trying to solve cause I am doing the same. I am sure you are trying to differentiate from Jet Admin which is also in YC. ReTool is more mature (also YC). Then there is Forest Admin and Macro is coming out soon.

On top of this, in my early customer validation talks, people ask me if my product is like Metabase or Chartio etc. So yeah it is a crowded space, but I feel this space is huge. Like every business wishes not to invest money in internal tools but they have to. I am still trying to figure out my MVP. I am currently working on complex (JOIN and aggregates) queries without any SQL knowledge. That is what I am going to launch as MVP soon. 2 levels of tables and people really struggle to get out what they want.

An example query I am throwing around is "Show me Orders from Red Shoes". This already means Order, Product and Product Category table. This is a real pain for non-technical people and I believe solving this is becoming critical to encourage and enable every business to be able to ask questions about their Business without needing Engineering.

I am going to go the UI/UX approach to solve this in my MVP and then go for an NLP based approach if things go well. Like if you could type that in a search box and get data, without knowing anything about databases or without needing any Engineering help, that would be real solution to Businesses.

Cheers, and best of luck!

Sumit from dwata.com
Look up 'Samsung earbuds s9' Every single wired pair sold by 3rd parties with the samsung/akg branding is fake, even when they claim to be 'oem' or 'original'. And theres tons of legit looking results.
Was fine? It still is old.reddit.com. You can set your profile to use it by default. Just don't accidentally click the "Get New Reddit" link in the top left else you have to edit your settings again.
id software, primarily Carmack, wrote the Atari Jaguar port of Doom.
And a $399 iPhone SE that's $200 off is even better: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24005628
Interesting. Thanks for pointing this out!
Rakuten is shuttering the online shop
It's like watching people who dont care destroy what's left of the unknown on our planet for selfish ends. There is knowledge that humans will never access because of need and greed.
I think you might start seeing netflix-like consolidation into content packages.

We're already kind of seeing that with podcast networks, and I think something like that may be coming for other content creators.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flock_(web_browser)
If you're living that close to using all your salary every month, there are probably better things you can do to save more than cancel Netflix. I think that's what the OP is trying to say.

Netflix is really good value for money. If you want to cancel something, cancel your cable.
> Fine, but why are they so bad at weighing it against long term trust?

I want to remind the loss aversion and status quo bias. We tend to evaluate losses more important than they are, which is why for example it is hard to throw seldom used things away.

That said, why should feature removal mean automatic loss of trust? Because this feature is not important to me personally, it actually increases my trust that they can reorient their focus instead of churning man-hours on a feature just because it existed. Now I get it, it was an important feature for some people, and next day they might remove a feature that I find important, but in aggregate they clearly weighed its usage/perceived importance against removal decision.
Note that not all hardware security devices are safe. U2F security devices are safe against phishing; OTP security devices are not safe against phishing.
Citation needed, and specifically that so many libraries are capable of doing "controlled digital lending" of their idle hardcopy books.
Don't forget about Nexmo, which was purchased by Vonage.
We have been using all of those companies (and others) for years at https://www.engagespark.com , and they all have pros and cons / strengths and weaknesses. Infobip excels in some areas and stinks in others; same with Twilio and Plivo and Nexmo and MessageBird. That said (and this is no plug, just based on experience), Nexmo has been the most reliable by far and has consistently offered the best support across the industry.
^ This, especially if you want to get somewhere near Ycomb in the future!
Ah yes, YouTube, that product that Google made and that doesn't bring them any revenue. Two things that are definitely true.
A Beginner’s Guide to Note-Taking (For Your Life)
But the real cost is not 11 month. Db Dev were not 100% working in this project, just monitor from time to time that everything is ok.
When you get hired as a regulation enforcer in any other scenario, it’s not your opinion but the actual regulations that determine your recourse. If it’s up to the opinions of the enforcement regime, that’s because the rules are unclear or opaque.
“Segregation” means “forced separation,” but you seem to be using it to mean “recognizition of any distinction.”
> We can just replace "UBI" with "job".

I don't agree. Jobs are much more than just income. They provide purpose, skills (possibly for life and future work), experience (in general and for acquiring future work), possible medical or investment benefits, connections (social and for future work) etc. All these things mean that there are many situations where earning less or having to move would be outweighed by the benefits.

This is not the case in my example - UBI is JUST income. If the providing of UBI creates more problems and negates the income, then it loses its benefit and purpose (not saying this would be a guaranteed problem inherent to UBI, but that was the premise of the OP)
I've seen it in Arizona, Nevada, and New Mexico. California should get on board.
I care, if people misunderstand what I wrote and downvote me, it makes me sad. If I get downvoted for talking crap, it's ok.
Everybody has their preference. FYI, you might consider checking out the AeroPress[1] if you're a french press user. I find that it delivers some of the best coffee I've ever had, while providing a similar coffee making experience. Since it uses a paper filter, you won't get as much cafestol and kahweol in your cup (it's the bad kind of cholesterol [2]). Not to bag on french press; I find it pleasing.

Edit: Neglected to mention for anyone seeing this that Pete's Nespresso pods[3] include a paper filter under the aluminum foil, so if you're concerned about filtering out the less desirable compounds, those are the pods to look for.

[1]: https://aeropress.com/

[2]: https://voltagecoffee.com/is-french-press-coffee-bad-for-you...

[3]: https://www.peets.com/coffee/espresso-capsules
If possible, I will always go with cheap servers on digital ocean/linode. Don't buy any cost-saving marketing gig from cloud vendors. Serverless could work for you if your workload is unpredictable. But it makes everything complicated (plus vendor-lock-in). (One more thing, the framework you mentioned can be used with serverless)
I totally understand what you are talking about, having spend years building Django, Yii, Laravel based Business logic and validation and Admins. The way I am tackling this are two:

- My product is on-premise by choice so teams have more confidence about giving 100% access to everything internal

- It will connect directly with your existing logic through APIs (REST) or RPC (I will be going gRPC way)

This means developers will be able to re-use and attach existing logic to the Business dashboard/Admin application which is running separately.

What do you think of that approach?
Were the spear fishing attacked also used to get 2FA, or did these accounts not have 2FA? Would hardware based 2FA not have stopped this?
It is a great choice for a general purpose proxy. (That's kind of the point.)
I don’t sleep well in cars either. I wonder what it would take to be comfortable.

Sleeping on a train on a bed sounds doable. I think it all comes down to smoothness.
Will Google buy Shopify to compete with Amazon?
>fuck you, deaf people
t. parody of an evil corporation
In my experiments, it seems just as likely to say that it is not conscious.

It does give a very interesting description of consciousness here, one that closely agrees with my own.
How to talk to conspiracy theorists–and still be kind
I didn't see anyone discussions banning crypto users from Haskell - it's certainly not in the original article. The point was about which actors have the most influence on the community. Apparently the author is also very concerned about companies like Facebook which you might call more respectable.
Hey, thanks for insightful feedback (blog post author here)!

I fully agree with you about temp-to-hire or work-for-a-day models. And I think if the company has such a process in place, it is the sign of a well-developed culture. It is exactly the point of the blogpost -- evaluate using the right metric for the job. However, this is rare in practice, and I would say for the same reason the well-established culture is rare: it requires a lot of work to be done by the very same great people in advance. It is a chicken and egg problem. I saw countless times in multiple companies the signs of immaturity that prevent them from giving people access to their production: secrets in git, shared accounts, lack of established onboarding and offboarding processes, no processes for credential rotation, absence of audit logs, legal issues, you name it. The majority of companies can not afford a work-for-a-day option.

Maintaining the dedicated challenge is another option for them, but it has its downsides, too. In our experience, the main one is that you either invest in creating the grading infrastructure upfront or spend a lot of time manually grading the submissions. Checking the correctness of the code is a hard task unless one can actually run it and see how it performs under a barrage of tests. I'm not saying there should not be a code review, of course. I am saying that the automated assessment of the code should be done before you start spending human time. Machines are cheap, your engineers are not. And at this point, one doesn't need AutoIterative, but has effectively reinvented it :)

We walked this path ourselves over the years. We did fizzbuzz style interviews, that was suboptimal. We graded challenges manually for a long time, which was tedious and error-prone. We made all the mistakes and tried to fix them. We were using the wrong metric.

Qualitative improvement was when we started using the right metric, and automating its assessment was the next logical step.
I have recently begun calling self-described "anti-<X>s" co-<X>s. Co-racists are almost exactly the same as racists, just with slightly different vocabulary that depends on the existence of classic racists. Co-facists are essentially the same thing (any outgroup must be oppressed and overcome at all costs, is simultaneously weak and super-powerful, etc). Marxist regimes are almost always co-capitalist and co-imperialist (such as the largest explicitly Marxist regime today).

The idea is that the relationship between <X> and "co-<X>" is sort of like "domain/codomain," "sine/cosine," "product/co-product," "vector/co-vector," etc. in math, or "dependency/co-dependency" in psychology. "Co-<X>" cannot exist without <X>, but behaves almost exactly the same.
I think my average magazine subscription has been 80% off cover price. $5 a month is an extremely easy bar to clear.

Right now I can go out and get Wired for $20 a year and Time for $30 a year with only a couple seconds of searching, and those are probably not the best offers available.
Team Structures and Operating Models
Related:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coherer

>"The coherer was a primitive form of radio signal detector used in the first radio receivers during the wireless telegraphy era at the beginning of the 20th century. Its use in radio was based on the 1890 findings of French physicist Édouard Branly and adapted by other physicists and inventors over the next ten years. The device consists of a tube or capsule containing two electrodes spaced a small distance apart with loose metal filings in the space between. When a radio frequency signal is applied [PDS: Correction, should read "in the vicinity"] to the device, the metal particles would cling together or "cohere",

reducing the initial high resistance of the device,

thereby allowing a much greater direct current to flow through it [PDS: Or some at all, as the video shows]. In a receiver, the current would activate a bell, or a Morse paper tape recorder to make a record of the received signal. The metal filings in the coherer remained conductive [PDS: In a low resistance to DC state] after the signal (pulse) ended so that the coherer had to be "decohered" by tapping it with a clapper actuated by an electromagnet, each time a signal was received, thereby restoring the coherer to its original state."

Anyone see a pattern with coherers?

Don't they seem similar, patternwise, to N-P-N transistors, or P-N-P transistors?

Except for the following things:

1) Control gate (base) acts on RF, not voltage.

2) Coherer remains conductive even after the RF source is switched off.

It would be interesting if a transistor could be constructed in a similar manner to a Coherer, that is, if metal filings (well, "metal oxide filings", because the metal filings are typically exposed to oxygen!) between two other metals in some configuration -- would yield a working transistor...

Now, I don't know that this could actually be done -- I'm only speculating aloud... <g>