skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> For example, a Model 3 is built in 10 hours, more than 3 times as fast as a VW ID.3 in Zwickau.

That would explain the panel gaps.

On a more serious note, where I think Tesla is way above the other (old) manufacturers is in software, the Germans especially have treated the software as something extrinsic to building a car until now (for good reason, given the circumstances) but this has changed once EVs came into play, you have to have top-notch software developers and top-notch software execution in order to get everything out of a car battery.
We’ve hired people in remote states with Gusto (I think they do most of the setup with payroll/unemployment tax), and we have a small business United Healthcare PPO plan that seems to work everywhere, even though we setup the plan and LLC in AZ (and I’m in CA, myself).

But I’m there with you. It should be as easy as “1099-ing,” and frankly that is the easiest option for us if they’re willing to accept that arrangement (many won’t, because they don’t want to hire a CPA or track their own write offs).
Probably is actually quite hard. Plastics have specific mechanical properties to do their job, some of which go directly against breakdown (don’t want that soft drink to leak out or lose all its co2). Then plastics like dissolvable sutures which we do allow to dissolve in the body still produce by products which can impair healing. So even breakdown products can be harmful. Therefore, I suspect such a thing would be quite tricky.
WFH doesn't mean you need to hire in geographically disparate areas

edit: spelling
I've submitted this[0] to HN a few times but it's never caught on. Unlike this, it isn't a publicity stunt and it's in your pocket. It's pretty neat to be able to short circuit most of the nation state tinfoil hat concerns by rolling your own private key. However, if you're going this far then you likely think most every internet connected, commercially available device is compromised. In that case then generating a private key on such a device would be pointless.

0. https://medium.com/vault12/how-to-get-true-randomness-from-y...
You are right, I’ve read a quarter’s numbers as the numbers for the year in the naturalisation source. Multiply my estimates for lawful naturalisation by 4 and get to between 400,000 and 800,000 (backed up by 2017-2019 data https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/publications/immigra... ). That’s still a long way short of the population of Canada (and you have overshot by a bit).
Sounds like the auto-makers play down on the talent they have and prefer to push the work outside, probably fearing they are not able to execute.

This reminds me of being a 3rd party selling service to some company and they constantly ask for us to implement features that they could easily add - but can't. They don't say that flat out but we all understand what's happening..
I am not downvoting you but you need to check this. There is something called "nexus" and you can google it. You can get away with it but if you have employees working more than a certain number of days in a state, you need to register your business there even if you don't conduct actual business there. This is what my CPA has told me and google confirms it.
Others can see you.
This is a discussion about helmet-wearing, which is voluntary. The entire discussion is about whether a victim deserves blame. Don't retreat into easy clichés.
Precisely. It turns out many of us were working to cover the expenses of working! Without commuting, day care, eating out, and so forth we're saving an enormous chunk of money.

Asking us to return to the office is asking us to effectively take a pay cut and reduce the hours we enjoy with our families.
Actually, "wolf interval".

Pythagorean comma is the difference between enharmonic notes in Pythagorean tuning, e.g., difference between Ab and G#. Not what I was talking about.

With any 12-tone system, you might have eleven fifths which are 700-x cents wide, on average... and then a diminished sixth (rather than a fifth), which is necessarily 700+11x cents wide as a result. The "wolf interval" is the diminished sixth (commonly G# to Eb, or C# to Ab). In equal temperament, the diminished sixth is equal to a fifth. You might also call something other than a fifth a wolf interval. Basically, an interval which normally sounds good, except you chose an enharmonic version of it, which sounds bad.

"The" wolf interval is the quarter-comma meantone diminished sixth, which is 2^7 / 5^(11/4) = 1.5312. The Pythagorean wolf interval is 2^7 / (3/2)^11 = 1.4798. It's equal to a perfect fifth, minus the Pythagorean comma.
Office 2021 launches on October 5th
> CEOs are at their wits' end to figure out how to get their employees back to the office as high levels of Covid infections persist 18 months into the pandemic.

Gee, i wonder why!

My employer asked in a survey what would make you feel OK to return to the office and my reply was "3 months of <5/100k cases in the metro area, 80%+ vaccination rate in the metro area, and vaccinations approved for children", all of which are both true answers and externalities they cannot control at all.
So the same talking points from 7 months ago.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25960229
> Tons of businesses are registered in Delaware without them having any but token employees or owners there.

That's the opposite. Yes, you can register someplace like Delaware and not have any employees there. But you can't have employees living in Delaware and not be registered there.
I’m pretty sure even when the PRC calls them a “renegade” it’s because even they admit it’s a separatist government, even if they consider the separatists illegitimate. Nothing in my comment is insensitive to either government.
Any woman with an instagram account could have told you this. Doesn’t matter how confident or healthy you are at a baseline, spend enough time on IG and you will start to feel like shit about yourself. I refuse to use these godforsaken products and it’s painful to watch my beautiful, smart friends (even in their 30s) worry so much about how every facet of their lives appears on social media.
Indeed:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Column_88 (1970s)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_88 (1990s)

I also advise against using the fylfot or swastika, even though it has centuries of positive associations

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

and then came the Nazis, who ruined it permanently.
When you hire an employee in a new state, you usually have to do these things differently:

1. State income and payroll taxes

2. State unemployment insurance

3. Workers compensation insurance

For each of #1 and #2, you have to:

- calculate how much you owe

- calculate how much the employee owes

- pay the money

- file regular returns

Of course, before you can file a return, you have to register your company with the state tax bureau and the unemployment insurance agency in that state.
This is a great not-so-subtle look at the direction we're heading - the only thing that was missed is continuously and invisibly reloading the page so that I can't use my browser history to get back to HN.
I don't disagree but turning this thread into a snide echo chamber isn't great. Please don't do this here.
Do you really believe there is no such thing as a lie?

I don’t want to trust Facebook as an arbiter of anything because their motivations do not align with anything other than personal profit, but people do completely fabricate things and present them as true.
Instead of trying to get people back in the office, why not try harder to figure out how to better manage a remote workforce?
Again, I don't think we do. Manipulation of the masses via information is a very easy thing to do. You put someone in a positon of "authority", and people will just fall in line with their views. The vast percentage of people do not want to think about certain things and will just believe what the person in a position of authority says, especially if it is already in the direction of some of their other core beliefs.
Taxes and the availability of Obamacare aside, if you try to hire me into a full-time professional position with no benefits, the conversation is over. Let's save both of us some time.
Exactly , people are treating this as a Facebook problem when it’s really an industry problem. The elimination of Facebook does not fix the root cause of why all of this has happened and doesn’t stop a competitor from coming in and doing the Exact.Same.Thing.
I thought this was going to be a deep learning AI that took the history of a website like Apple.com, and tried to predict what it would look like in the future. Like, would it figure out to put out an iPhone 14 announcement right around when Apple would releases such a thing? And would it have new features, like being thinner and having a longer battery than predecessors? Would be pretty neat.
Its a lot harder for your government to become authoritarian when your citizens can shoot back
They have to deposit unemployment premiums and payroll taxes to the state of the person they hired. Those rates vary depending on the legislation and regulations in each state.
Showing my ignorance here, if I'm giving them $100 for $100 worth of GME, why does collateral come into the picture? I don't see where there's any debt to collateralize in a straight trade like that.
And yet second-hand smoking is only 100% preventable if you isolate yourself from any known smokers. That's why people who care will use a modern tracker blocker and/or firefox containers.
the memory capacity of society is astonishingly low
Don't worry about downvotes, they're just a "I don't agree with you/don't like what you say but I don't bother to explain why"-type message.

Back to the topic: maybe it could be a combination of the two. Still, it would be interesting to know what exactly - in both genetics and culture - made the Budapest Martians so successful.
The food chain is immoral. Got it.
Bike helmets are mainly for falling off a bike by yourself, not being hit by a car, generally.

it's why bicyclists don't wear the same helmets as motorcycle riders.

The risk remains the same
For starters, employees are taxed based on where they live. To pay those taxes, you need to set up withholdings with a state tax ID.
How does this tell us something about the last 1000 years? You want to call him the smartest man of the 20th century sure go ahead, but you hardly have any idea about the other 9 centuries.
I may have had the cached version, because it does look good now.

Thanks for keeping the ship in tip top shape!
Yeah I thought it was going to be that too. They certainly have the data for it. Although that model would probably predict that almost every site just disappears in its future. Speaking of which, to imagine a world where information is inaccessible, I don't need to imagine a dystopian authoritarian future, just the shitty haphazard one we have now, where things just disappear from the internet - which was the original battle archive.org was fighting.
pretty interesting that nowhere in the article does it mention that any of these CEOs have tried, say, offering higher compensation/better benefits compared to similar remote-friendly jobs.

when i see "at their wits' end" i take that to mean "we've tried nothing and we're all out of ideas"
Gusto is very helpful but it doesn't do everything for you. You still have to setup the company on the state's websites (sometimes very shitty) and then connect with Gusto. We use Gusto as well so I know what you are talking about.
> You cannot 1099 everyone especially if they are only working for you as a full time employee (IRS won't like that)

One way smaller companies do accomplish this is with "professional employer organizations." A PEO is the legal employer of the full-time staff, provides their insurance, processes their W-2s, etc. An executive at the company is the actual day-to-day manager of the staff, and the company pays the PEO to cover all the staffing expenses. Not as relevant when you also want to pay staff with equity, but it's a fine option for paying staff with cash and benefits in multiple states or countries.
I've also had a similar experience and definitely support giving users the ability to tell genuine parts from knockoffs. Howewer this has to be done to empower users, to help get us closer to a perfect market by giving buyers accurate information. Right now, it's just an extension of Apple's "it's our iPhone" mindset.
I can't get Twisted Eye to install, anyone have any luck?
Worse: they all want botox and filler because it’s so heavily promoted on IG. A f@*king travesty.
They are still operating under an FTC order that they effectively ignore.

They were fined and they deliberately took a bigger fine to protect their CEO.

They ignored calls for their CEO to appear before parliament in the UK and Canada. Ignored.

I am not fully aware of the state of legislative action in the UK from the Cambridge/Brexit issue but that hasn't gone anywhere.

They are far too large to be legislated. They have too much money to fine. What possible options other than shutting the company down exist that Facebook wouldn't either pay with their 'spare change' fund or bury with lobbyists?
Unusual Generics: Collection of unusual generics use cases
Quite a few lisp implementations allow you to drop into inline assembly. That makes them theoretically per close to maximum efficiency.
Exactly , it’s extremely disingenuous to say Facebook is the game. No, they just really fucking good at the game. Removing them does not stop the game from being played.
and so is a bullet, instant pain relief /s
Big difference! I have personal experience of Coinbase emailing me (in writing!) that I’d get a bank overdraft fee refunded from their system-wide mistake of double-charging cryptocurrency orders. This happened right before their IPO.

Long story short, I was never refunded despite raising two support tickets. :(
It’s not worth trying to get really high grades or be top of the class.

Focus on understanding the material and getting “good enough” marks.

This will be really obvious once you’re out of school 3+ years.

I now look back and think “why the hell was I trying so hard, that shit means nothing now”

It’s hard to understand that though if your identity is based on being “the smart one”.

You’re much better off putting that time into LeetCode or side projects or just having fun.

The second thing is it’s much much easier to get into a specific area of software development as an intern.

So if you’re interested in something specific that isn’t web dev like ML/graphics/compilers try to intern in that area.

It’s a lot harder to switch areas once you’re not a new grad because you’re expected to be able to just deliver without months of ramp up.
That is actually the definition of bad, inneffective advertising. Good advertising comes from a deep understanding of what people want to do, and then presents them with an opportunity to do just that. This is literally why Google is so valuable. Their ad business is largely based on understanding “intent.” As any decent advertiser knows, you can’t create intent, but you can harness it.
I worked for a fully remote startup who used Trinet (PEO) and was issued equity, didn’t seem to be an issue. There are challenges if you want to hire and issue equity across international borders, I believe you have to incorporate a related entity in the country you’re issuing equity in to support such compensation issuance.
Can't all of these problems be solved by only hiring remote workers in-state?
> Standard Oil split into a bunch of companies, many of which still exist today (eg Chevron, Exxon-Mobil). This break up actually made Rockefeller (even more) fantastically wealthy.

This looks like an argument for antitrust. The component companies' political influence was reduced. Consumers saw better prices [1]. And apparently, shareholders also won.

[1] David I. Rosenbaum, Market Dominance: How Firms Gain, Hold, or Lose it and the Impact on Economic Performance
Except that types are not a "new concept". The earliest programming languages already had them. To be sure, early type systems were horrible hacks and many improvements have been made, but I really don't see how knowing that "one may construct functors between the category of linear type systems and the category of closed symmetric monoidal categories" enables anyone to write code more effectively than knowing that types are (at least conceptually) subsets of data, and that some conclusions about them can be made at compile-time.

Now, I don't discount the possibility that I might be missing something, maybe even something very cool and powerful. But I have been coding for over 40 years and I have a Ph.D. in computer science, so I'm not a complete idiot. But so far no one has been able to explain to me what that thing is that I'm missing in terms that I can understand. That is what I am complaining about.
Guinea swears in junta leader, Doumbouya as interim president
Legally the corporation may be a registered entity in Delaware, but they must register with each state they have any employees in for tax reporting and collection purposes. Employers also generally pay an employment tax in addition to your salary, but you don’t see it because it comes out of their pocket, not yours. That tax is what funds state unemployment insurance programs, and in some states every time you fire someone, in some cases no matter the reason, that tax liability goes up. It’s a disincentive toward bad behavior on frequently firing people.

That said, I agree that this needs to change and it needs to change now. I’d write my senators, but I live in Texas. Unless I was an insane conspiracy theorist nut job with 50000 Facebook “friends”, they don’t give a shit. Fucking sociopaths, man…
Well, I was reading the comments to find out. But there are only jokes, people celebrating the happening, and a somewhat interesting thread from people that didn't know that crooks explode ATMs everywhere.

And now it's out of the frontpage already. So, no, I don't think I was lacking imagination.
Come on, let's say they get the STM32 for a quarter for a really high volume. There are tens if not hundreds of them in a car. 25k car would give you 100k stm32. 1k-10k cars is hardly decades.
Indeed, before 2019 I would see masks most commonly on bicyclists. UK city roads are polluted.

They wouldn't have been wearing the 2 ply medical masks though if I recall correctly
> What is not a white male? Will this be a self declared sort of thing?

Except for Native Americans, where active tribal affiliation is sometimes required, racial/ethnic identity in the US is generally purely self-identification, despite having legal significance for various purpose (e.g., government contracting and minority-owned business incentives/requirements.)
This is very interesting. I might use this. What is a good and reputable one that you’ve heard people using successfully? And also not too costly?
That's known as hindsight bias and if anything, you're naively glossing over. The 2008 fiscal stimulus dwarfs COVID printing machine. Here is the actual data:

https://www.mckinsey.com/featured-insights/coronavirus-leadi...

https://www.economist.com/briefing/2021/07/10/surprising-lev...

https://www.economist.com/img/b/600/653/90/sites/default/fil...
I used to work for a B2B advertising agency, we did a campaign for the largest teleco in the US targeted at C-level executives to by their enterprise products. Our engagement team said (privately) that they had spent 20k per click. And had no idea if any of those targeted VERY expensive clicks resulted in leads let alone sales.
Wouldn't really make any difference. The last company I worked for did pretty much everything with MCU's based on ARM Cortex-M.

All that shit's still not in stock anywhere. And remember that ARM, x86, etc. only defines the processor architecture. The I/O is far more important in a control application and I/O is anything but standard across platforms.

For one product we ended up buying a vendors entire supply and redesigning the product to use it, crossing our fingers that the supply chain would have unwound itself by the time we ran out of inventory.
That sounds very unattractive to me as a potential employees. So I'm not really being hired and I have to deal with this PEO if I have issues with insurance of any sort.

Small companies do hire employees in multiple states. I've been in that position myself and know many other small distributed companies. But it is paperwork and cost.

[ADDED: Maybe it's fine but it would be a red flag for me.]
Tangential: I love the stylesheet. A whole 4 lines to make a very readable website.

https://pubby.games/style.css
I am interviewing for a Staff Software Engineer, SRE role and I expect leetcode to come up as part of the interviewing process.
Google isn't really a monopoly though. They out-compete others for their market share, Chrome is open source, they abide by and push open standards, etc... They don't abuse their position like Microsoft did.

> Those waging the browser-wars and evangelising the "push the web forward" propaganda

Really? Thanks to this 'propaganda' the vast majority of software (ie. web apps) runs on every platform there is; Linux, BSD, Windows, OSX, Android, and iOS, kinda on the last one as Apple is dragging their feet with Safari.
The biggest difference between various N95s is fit, but that's going to rely on your specific facial characteristics. The respirator needs to seal well to your face otherwise the polluted air will take the path of least resistance, through the gaps between your face and the mask. Some respirators come in small sizes and different shapes may fit differently.

Once you achieve a decent fit, a secondary characteristic is inhalation/exhalation resistance. Good N95 filter material can achieve the required 95%+ filtration but also achieve very low breathing resistance. The N95 requirements for inhalation resistance are quite easy to achieve, being less than 35 mmH2O. Good respirators test at less than 10 mmH20.

If you are going to use an N95 frequently, it probably makes more sense to invest in an elastomeric respirator, which is made out of a softer thermoplastic or silicone material. They use separate detachable filters which are more durable than the simple folded filter material of a disposable, and do not degrade due to exhaled moisture or sweat.
You're thinking of first class screening, which is not precheck. It's just a dedicated lane with a shorter line. You're subject to exactly the same checks as regular passengers.
Yes but then you are restricting your candidate pool AND then you will piss people off who are looking for remote anywhere jobs and get flak for not posting a "true WFH job" :)
Businesses could solve the insurance problem by lobbying the government to institute universal health care.
You should really check the responses to your comment, and you should be a bit concerned if you DO have employees in multiple states.

Many states have labor departments whose rules and laws apply to you if you have even just 1 employee in their state. There has recently been a lot of discussion on HN regarding Colorado's law around requiring salary ranges be posted for job openings. If you have even a single employee in CO, your business is covered by this legal requirement.
I am a small business owner with employees in multiple states.

We use the Qualified Small Employer Reimbursement program which lets us reimburse our employees for the health insurance premiums and other health-related expenses they pay as we don’t qualify for a traditional group plan.