skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe their plan is to have all the workers on big-city mega wages, currently working remotely, quit, and then hire replacement workers in remote locations at much lower local labour market rates.
Yes, it is also difficult to work with people in person who aren’t native speakers, although over the phone is especially challenging.
If you're building these in large quantities doing it on site would be way cheaper. You can achieve similar economies of scale, and you don't have to design the houses to be mobile and you don't have to actually move them
Andrej Karpathy (Tesla): CVPR 2021 Workshop on Autonomous Vehicles
Pen and paper. I've been doing it for the past several years.
Is WFH layoff-proof somehow?
GCP charges the same now (though your first one is free). I don't think it's an unreasonable cost, but it's certainly not competitive with places like Digital Ocean which are still free.
Except selling Klein bottles is a hobby, his actual business is teaching.
I absolutely loved DOOR games like Exitilus and Legend of the Red Dragon.
> It's important to remember, no company has stayed at the top of the S&P500 for very long.

this has been true historically, but nothing makes it inherently so if you think in the context of a human's lifespan.

100 years ago, the world wasn't a continuously connected marked. If a company got "too large" for comfort, a government could intervene and force a split.
This is no longer a viable action, as companies cater to literally the whole world at the same time, so splitting them in one jurisdiction would just end up making that particular market less attractive to companies... effectively harming the government economically.

There is only so much you can deduct from our history considering that the base premises is so different nowadays, especially if you constrain it to the time we've got to experience this world. Microsoft and Apple at least have been around since before the 90th, so they're already 30yrs in... thats almost a full professional life of the average employee before they retire.
Also consider that FAANGs (and other firms) likely receive considerable tax incentives from the local or State government for having offices in particular locations and the resulting high-paying jobs it brings. If you suddenly let everyone work from wherever, the government isn't generating the income taxes they bargained for.
It has already spun off. Square currently operates it under the "Credit Karma Tax" brand but it's probably going to move under the Cash App branding eventually.
AFAIK DTCC provides zero coverage, that's handled by SIPC and is limited to 500k
Nice. This brings back a very fuzzy memory. I think I found at one point the 'software developer switch' a physical trigger for the NMI, was still in the software in the form of flower G, and would pop you into a debugger. I think.. the memory is very fuzzy, as it's been 30+ years since high school.
It's not literally impossible to delete a cluster, I do this many times daily fully automated with no issues, and an EKS cluster is not tied to a VPC or subnets, you can spin them up independently, and you can delete your clusters without affecting the VPC or subnets in any way.

An Ingress or a service of type LoadBalancer will create a load balancer in AWS that's tied to your cluster, but that's the whole point of Kubernetes, it'll spin up the equivalent resources in Azure or GCP or DigitalOcean.
Hi I hope its okay to ask you here.

I am looking at supabase because someone recommended to me that it uses postgres.

My current backend uses postgres and postgis and I was looking for real time geospatial service. I'm wondering does supabase make it easy for me to do real time geospatial querying, something like open a listener for radius(10km) around the user and have it continually update the results around me? I see that you have postgis extension available, so can I do that thing I mentioned?

I'm using firebase currently, with geofire, for the real time aspect of my app. It have limitations like can't do ordering or additional filtering because of the geofire approach.

Please let me know, and good luck with Supabase !
It doesn't really work though, thanks to "move fast and break things". Losing a team member on an important old system is a big loss.
Now you're just getting hung up on semantics, when the posters actual intended meaning was clear to several others here.

If you want to go down that road, however, grant dollars are already allocated and could thus be considered already spent.

Do you really want to be having an argument about what spend means?
Beware that Robinhood also miscalculates wash sales, which they've admitted to me. I typically don't care about customer support, as I don't do a lot of trades, but messing up tax forms is a huge no-no for me.
Reading one of the BBC's technical articles, a cyber security news item, they had 3 errors in the first paragraph. I didn't bother reading to the end of the article.

I'm glad I no longer pay for a TV license.
Which is what the infringers hope - and the major engine driving much of Amazon's profits.

Fraud.

I remember when people used to (heck still do) get worked up about Walmart but those same people not only order from Amazon all the time, they even join B mans private club (Prime).
I assumed that the LateX-formatted PDF was to give the impression that it's a paper, since the document also follows the norm of how paper are written (abstract, we, references, etc).
Of the FAANG companies, aren't Facebook and Netflix saying that people can work from home forever if they like?
Ah yes, I had forgotten about this. Routers and access points weren't yet a consumer item.
> requiring that everyone come into the office is an inferior choice

For many, going into the office is their preference because everyone is required to go into the office.

For a while I may be the only person going into the office on my team, which defeats the whole point. I want to be in the office because I work better when my team is around in person.
My advice is to join a large company (50,000+ employees) as they offer considerably more room for growth. Your career will go in unexpected directions thanks to all the options you’ll have. And you’ll make more money.
>So I ask again, will the IRS make a painless tool? If the answer is yes, but Intuit is lobbying them not to, then I understand your point.

Yes, IRS would have made a painless tool, but for that lobbying.

https://www.nbcnews.com/business/taxes/turbotax-h-r-block-sp...
I think it's ironic that you're saying he has to pay to run his business safely, when Amazon's set things up this way specifically because they don't want to pay to run their business safely.

It's a little outrageous that a 3rd party can come take over your storefront without any avenue to challenge.
As far as I know Michael Abrash doesn't have 8+ years of experience in machine learning either.
"Alternative headline: Man worth $10.2 billion who pays lower tax rate than you gets $150 million tax break to aid institution that has a $31 billion endowment" -- Dan Price

https://twitter.com/DanPriceSeattle/status/14102679448154030...
The work isn't what makes Bitcoins valuable though. I could create a new PoW cryptocurrency with twice the mining difficulty of Bitcoin, and it wouldn't be worth as much as Bitcoin, let alone twice as much. The labor theory of value doesn't hold up.

The only thing that makes Bitcoin, PoS coins, gold, or anything else valuable is a market of willing buyers. There seems to be no rule stopping that market from developing for practically any asset no matter how absurd.
I took that to mean refactoring the code, not throwing it away and start over.
It's frightening what you can find just searching.

I was looking somebody up the other day and found out exactly what their salary was a few years ago -- right in plain view!
Integrity, honesty and humility?
For what it's worth, if you're using Pandoc, you can set the HTML output to be "standalone" based on a simple template.[0] You can also include a standard header and footer to be automatically inserted for each generated page.

pandoc \
--standalone \
--css=/style.css \
--highlight-style=code-highlight.theme \
--variable=lang:en \
--include-before-body=navbar.html \
--include-after-body=footer.html \
--template=template.html \
$MD -o $HTML

I use a variation of this command in a bash script to generate my entire static site.[1] A friend improved upon my script with a Go implementation that does some more advanced stuff, but still compiles Markdown to HTML using this command under the hood.[2]

0: https://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html#option--standalone

1: https://github.com/jstrieb/personal-site/blob/master/compile...

2: https://github.com/lsnow99/dudu
One Month of Libera Chat
>Many of the people eligible for CTC don't file tax returns

There is a level of pragmatism that calls for better communication of programs and help with tax filings ... but ... as a citizen, you do have a responsibility to file tax returns. Why is it always hard to make the argument from both sides, namely: we should make tax filing as easy as possible AND the citizen has a responsibility to file their taxes regardless. It seems we, as a society, have a hard time with the latter part.
Well, I'm French and I find this smiley or the corresponding emoji mildly displeasing for similar reasons. I would not have used such strong words, but I do fine without it.

I do like it if used by someone being sarcastic / playful with me, or is teasing me. It surprised me the first time someone used it with me in this context, but I now find it appropriate for this. The smiley form is way better than the emoji form though, maybe out of habit or because the emoji renders things too… tangible, I don't know. (edit: the upside-down emoji is fine, however - it does not have quite the same feel though)

I was not aware this is a American vs European thing. Is it? Or is it just that different kinds of personality would approach this smiley differently?
Many of your points were being lauded as good things just a year ago. "Robinhood made advanced financial instruments accessible to the average Joe" now that the average joe has continuously shot himself in the foot, people are realizing it might not have been the best idea.
Liberal Crime Squad is based on Oubliette and I believe some forks are still in active development.

http://www.bay12games.com/lcs/
http://lcs.wikidot.com/
> It means that we’d rather just replace a “sick” instance by a new healthy one than taking it to a doctor.

This analogy really bothers me. Cattle are expensive. They are an investment. You don't put down an investment just because it got sick.

If you have a sick cow you will in-fact call your local large animal vet to come and treat it.
Hmm, mess them up in whose favor? Robinhood messing it up seems like plenty of plausible deniability to not pay a penalty if you get audited..
The rest of the post seemed to indicate they didn't deserve the benefit of the doubt there.
Recently an old text adventure game 'Castlequest' from 1980 was recovered (https://quuxplusone.github.io/blog/2021/03/09/castlequest/ ), and there are even some efforts to modernize it (https://gitlab.com/apthorpe/Castlequest).
A very plausible scenario: Alice creates GPL project. Bob forks it and uploads to github. Bob does not have a right to relicense Alices' parts.
There are many supported and distinct Linux distributions, not so for Windows versions. I wouldn't want to run Windows 2000 in 2021 because it's the last one without telemetry.
>I always find surprising that Robinhood was able to build such a large business with such mediocre customer support.

This is the standard people have become trained to expect. Google does the same thing. The idea is basically that a certain level of scale, you can completely ignore customer support. There's always new users signing up, and placating any single one is no longer worth your time.

Anyone who does serious trading knows the value of actual 24/7 human customer support, and uses a platform like Schwab or Fidelity. But Robinhood is arbitraging the naivety of the millions of people who've never invested.
At least with UI code, the tests / code don't really express the experience for the user. (But it's getting better with time!)

In that practice, it's better to run it locally! For each UI file / function, try to get it to execute from a user's POV.
Whilst I absolutely agree that writing code fast enough isn't the bottleneck, it's always nice to have tools that reduce repeat code writing.

I use the React plugin for Webstorm to avoid having to write the boilerplate for FCs. Maybe in the future Copilot will replace that usage.
Some research has been done about this. THe gains, if any, are minimal. Expecting to quickly recall lists of seemingly unrelated words using this method, is wishful thinking. Maybe it can help, but the problem is you still have to remember the associations.
Thanks for posting this! I’m European and for
some reason always felt uneasy when someone used „;)”. Now I can explain it.
Cliff frequently posts here on HN. I know him from the amazing book of how he worked with the FBI to track KGB hackers in the 80s when he noticed an simple accounting error that didn't add up "Cuckoo's Egg".
Hackers use zero-day to mass-wipe My Book Live devices
> So a perfect world model is enough to win at reinforcement learning. Can you show that if you maximized reward in some RL problem, it means you necessarily built a perfect world-model?

No? Because maximizing reward for a specific problem may mean avoiding some states entirely, so your model has no need of understanding transitions out of those states, only how to avoid landing in them.

E.g. if you have a medical application about interventions to improve outcomes for patients with disease X, it's unnecessary to refine the part of your model which would predict how fast a patient would die after you administer a toxic dose of A followed by a toxic dose of B. Your model only need to know that administering a toxic dose of A always leads to lower value states than some other action.

I think a "perfect" world model is required by a "universal" AI in the sense that the range of problems it can handle must be solved by optimal policies which together "cover" all state transitions (in some universe of states).
If you talk to people outside of tech circles and you bring up Turbotax into the conversation, you will notice that people have a relatively positive view of it.
Most people think of TurboTax as something that’s helping them to comply with their tax duties and navigate a complex tax system. They think of it as a helping hand when it comes to dealing with government bs.

Not surprisingly, most people think the complete opposite about the government.

So where Intuit is diabolically good, it’s at arbitraging those colloquial narratives and embedding itself in the middle as the savior. The good guy who is here to help.

They screw you, so they can later come and help you. As I said before, a sinister business model.
I tried this a few months ago. Many features were missing then. I couldn't set up backups, and connect directly to `psql`. It was such a pain. I don't know if they've addressed those issues yet. It'd be a hard sell for me to store a database system for a production app in a Docker image.
Ebay still works very well. While not far from perfect, it's amazing how much better they appear in contrast to pretty much everyone else right now!

How sad - they didn't have to get better, everyone else just got a lot worse by comparison.
There's still a big jump in cost between, for example TurboTax Premier tier ($90 federal + $50 state = $140) and a CPA (where I've been quoted $400-$600). I don't think the level of service justifies the cost. I tried a professional once in my life, and he basically just asked me all the same questions the software would have asked me, and typed them in to his system for me. 3X-4X the cost for the services of a typist doesn't seem like a good deal.
Depends on how close to the C-suite you are
Don't forget your family's lungs. I don't really order the right sorts of things, but my wife often orders things that arrive smelling like they were dipped in benzene before leaving the factory.

Kind of a good metaphor for how toxic Amazon as a whole is, actually.
> The original SARS was contained and brought to zero

That is because it caused severe symptoms which required hospitalization within a short time and thus could be quickly contained whereas with Covid symptoms are milder if any at all, and can be spread by both symptomatic and symptomatic infected.is
Why is stock such a big portion of compensation for the big tech companies?
Interesting. I'm wondering if I'd be able to drop the Amazon Prime then as well. Outside of Subscribe and Save, all of our purchases could be bunched until we hit the minimum order $. We hardly ever watch Amazon Prime video, we used to use the Photo storage but now pay for Google Photos (or Google One... whatever they call it now). Not sure what other benefits it provides?
The second woman he unfreezes offs him.

I was disappointed when this wasn't the ending to Passengers.
From https://docs.github.com/en/github/copilot/research-recitatio...: "Once, GitHub Copilot suggested starting an empty file with something it had even seen more than a whopping 700,000 different times during training -- that was the GNU General Public License."

On the same page is an image showing copilot in real-time adding the text of the famous python poem, The Zen of Python. See https://docs.github.com/assets/images/help/copilot/resources... for a link directly to copilot doing this.

You are making arguments about what you read instead of objectively observing how copilot operates. Just because GH wrote that copilot synthesizes new code doesn't mean that it writes new code in the way that a human writes code. That is not what is happening here. It is replicating code. Even in the best case copilot is creating derivative works from code where GH is not the copyright owner.
I installed the preview the other day and yes it works just fine under VirtualBox
>Once people stopped making potato gun websites, the internet really stopped blossoming into an amazingly vibrant space.

Entire new genres of creative output - music, fiction, fandom, films, cosplay, hobbyist and enthusiast communities have been spawned by the modern web. It's never been more vibrant.

I'll never understand why people on Hacker News seem to believe the internet stopped evolving as an expressive space just because services replaced the need to design websites by hand. That's like believing literature ended once scribes were replaced by the printing press.
I'd like to see the author's quantified track record of giving accurate estimates before I take their advice.

In my experience, software project estimation is the thing that everyone thinks someone else must be able to do well, and that they could do it if only they had more discipline. Then we get the tired old advice about breaking the project up into smaller chunks. But all the studies I've read of actual estimation methodologies show something like 300-600% error rate.

People think this must be doable because they want it to work, and they want an estimate. It's the same way that people thought one witch doctor was better at curing disease than another, when in reality none of it really does what's claimed.

I'm convinced that elaborating the spec in enough detail is the work of software engineering, and once you've done that fully you've done the whole project.
Bret Weinstein on Lex Fridman: Truth, Science, Censorship During a Pandemic
Sorry I am late on replying to this. I am checking both of the suggested books, will start looking into `The field to Human Error`, nothing like 'personal attack on my character' which makes you related to the book.
Oh wow. As soon as I read the opening text I remembered playing that game. Also did not realize it had sprung forth from RPI.
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I backed him on Kickstarter. Not the craziest or most dishonest failed project I backed. It was a coin flip on whether you'd actually get a finished product back in the day. No idea how it is now.
Apple is a hardware company, and you can't WFH using giant anechoic chambers, laser cutting machines, electronics labs, and who knows what else. The products may be manufactured overseas, but there is a lot of expensive hardware needed for designing, prototyping and testing.

I get that Apple does a lot of software these days, but one of the things they are also known for is tight integration between the hardware and software, which doesn't happen without them working side by side.

There may be a significant fraction of employees that can work remotely, but it would significantly change the culture of the company to split the workforce like that.
I like TaxAct
Most every other country has the government send a tax sheet to you. If you disagree you go to appeal. If you do nothing your done.

So much easier.
This isn’t true. I’ve provisioned 53 EKS clusters this week, and every one of them has been up in under 11 minutes with all of the accoutrements. I understand it has been substantially slower in the past.
If you are an american, things are more complex in that you continue to file US taxes while working/living in Canada. Not sure how this influences the departure tax, but as taxes here are slightly higher than the US (and there's Form 2555 or 1116) you won't pay unless you win the lottery... Overall, might actually be cheaper than California.

You can start here: https://www.canada.ca/en/revenue-agency/services/tax/interna...

There might be differences based on your visa/residency status (many US-ians get a NAFTA visa at the border upon entry with a job offer). If some company is offering, they have some understanding of this stuff I would think.
My guess is that it lets companies pay higher salaries without affecting their cash flow (instead of paying cash, they dilute the stock).
I'm not saying they were less evil, I'm saying they were less dangerous.
It's not really realistic. Remote workers would often have no intention to relocate. If a company changes its policy later, the majority of those people will just quit. It would also create a ton of bad will and so there is no real advantage for a company to self-immolate like that. Hiring is hard, but a mass exodus of your best employees is harder.
In software engineering, the smallest behaviors interact to cause more complex ones.

In most teams, it's hard to point to those small behaviors because they have become habitual and you may have forgotten what they are. Forgotten the "why".

What I see in teams that don't work well, is teams don't have that guidance or don't share similar mental models to allow them to work effectively together. So you end up arguing at a higher level than the actual problem because you can't put your finger on what you believe.

Principles build capability. Take Redux, it has just three core principles: https://redux.js.org/understanding/thinking-in-redux/three-p... and from those core principles you can almost build the whole framework.

But more importantly it provides capability and confidence to people using the framework to extend if needed in a "redux" way. Instead of looking at the documentation, they know the authors intent. The "Why"

That said, the site is really in it's earlist phase and the principles will be improved over time with more in depth information as more people contribute. Eventually, a voting system will be in place so the best principles will come to the top.
No need to even get a cheap VPS. You can just serve up static content in an S3 bucket or similar.
Assuming archive.org isn't shut down and deleted by court order in some future lawsuit.
And they handed the cashier money and then got to do whatever they want with those things. Now they want to sell their painting to the cashier AND control what the cashier does with it for the rest of the cashier's life. They want to make a slave out of the cashier by a million masters.