skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some of this could be trickle down effects no?

If inflation is 8.5 percent and the seed company raises prices by 9 percent (rounding up cause they arent really sure what inflation actually is), the fertilizer company goes up 9 percent, the tractor parts goes up even more (cause supply chain shortages), and the harvest contractors rates have to go up 9 percent, and the distribution that gets the harvest to the producer goes up 9 percent, what does the final price look like? Has there been analysis like that?
Because the business engagement not meaningfully in that state, if the only interaction is with a an employee with a computer screen in the state.

I get, from a legal perspective, that that's not fully aligned with all court precedent, but it's OK to call it dumb that CA has any say over this situation.
> 1099 is definitely the way to go for as long as you can - people still get social security credit.

Dirty secret of remote work is that lots of companies are abusing the 1099 system to make it happen. The workers definitely don't meet rules for being 1099, but tax compliance (not to mention sorting out benefits) across a whole bunch of states and even countries is crazy overhead, so the realistic options are to make everyone 1099, or to only hire from one state.

... then again, a bunch of bigcos abuse 1099 for non-remote employees all the time and have for years, so, not like this is unique to smaller all-remote or remote-friendly companies.
It's like using a mid-range phone as your computer, because, well, that's basically what it is. Everything moves slower than one is used to. By far the biggest annoyance is the hugely bloated web. Although video plays fine due to hardware decoding, loading normal web pages is measured in seconds.

Overall I don't recommend it. Might be better with a slightly higher-powered NUC (Intel Gold and above) or a mid-range laptop - they both will consume more than the Pi but less than a normal desktop, though at a greater price.
I feel the OP pain because if you are small with less than $1m of funding, you are unable to do anything if you want to stay compliant. And compliance seems to be an un-ending stream where every other organization is trying to impose its rules, taxes, fees and licenses.

I have also had first hand experience with simplification: Medium businesses will aggressively optimize over these simplifications. Big businesses will try too if they can apply. The government then starts reverting these simplifications with amendments that make the situation worse than when it started.
At the idea stage he just needs fomo. But it’s gonna be hard to generate fomo on an undisclosed soln without a track record…
And it will probably stay a leak, even if it grows. People keep expecting another collapse like 2008 but that does not seem likely to me. People need houses to live in, so demand will always be there. And unlike 2008, banks aren't handing out sketchy loans en masse to people who cannot reasonably afford them.
I can't speak for the direct OP, however outside of exceedingly large companies, rarely do you get to just be a major contributor and still climb past a certain point. Microsoft and Google have things like distinguished engineers but most people never reach these levels, because you have to be truly outstanding to attain them, and often, they too are really good at managing their sphere of influence.

As a Staff Engineer I'm just a really engineering focused manager "lite" if you will, (in so many ways, maybe I'm not doing enough justice here, but its how it feels day to day).

I like it, because I'm managing the architecture side of things and still involved in engineering decisions I care about, but I have both direct people working with me that I'm accountable for, as well as a 2nd level of accountability for the entire organization. I still get to commit code and do exploratory research, which is nice, but its not the highest percentage of work I do. So much of it is overseeing the implementation details of other engineers, providing guidance to both engineering as an org, or individual engineers, or being involved in product roadmap so that our architecture evolves flexibly enough to meet where we want to go, writing documentation and diagrams, giving technical presentations etc.

All told, at some point, you have to be a manager, even if its not a direct "manager" role, per se.
> Not everyone wants a dedicated book-reading device when a multipurpose device can, besides everything else, also read books.

Someone definitely flunked the messaging on this one, and I find it very disappointing :( The key advantage to an e-ink style of display is less eye strain, because you aren't staring into a bright light source that refreshes 60 times a second. (And battery life, of course; you can put your book down and forget about it until later). And that this limits the device is fine: a lot of people do a lot of reading! People like reading! Alas, as more and more people grow up reading all sorts of things on LCDs, so the inconvenience and the discomfort is just a normal part of reading for them, that becomes a much harder sell.
It's probably sufficient for this conversation to just understand it as try-catch. A function is invoked; if it "signals" (throws) then control moves to a handler that matches the signal (exception); the handler runs and resolves the situation. Of course, Lisp being Lisp, the system is extended to announcer voice FULL. GENERALITY. but in its simplest form it's basically equivalent to exception throwing.
McCartney says in an interview about the early days of the Beatles that they used to compose and rehearse new songs in hotel rooms with no recording device or paper, and the goal was to be able to play the new songs the day after.

He says (quoting from memory): "if we couldn't remember our own songs how could we expect audiences to remember them?"

If a song is hard to remember it may have a hard time becoming a hit.
Because it’s untenable.
That's fair:) I would say that you should automate it by using ansible or something like that, but I've done that and there's still a very jarring few minutes while you're running the initial install and getting enough of a system for ansible to run on.
I haven’t seen any chain that went fully eink, but I’m not from the US and the labor is not so expensive here, so the alternative (paying people to print labels and attach them) looks cheaper here.
Uh, Justworks is for employment and payroll, not income taxes or Secretary of State filings. The blog post is about the latter.

As it happens, I did use a payroll service, Gusto.
Can you open an issue on the GitHub repo and set label "question" ? Thx
Bill Gates gives Ted talk proposing new global team to quickly prevent epidemics
For sure some are super bright but if you do anything for hours every single day you are going to get pretty damn good at it
Right, HN tends to be very bitter and depressive about dysfunction. Of course it's selection bias too, we talk more about our complaints than our joys. But it's a very gloomy view to think that anyone who rises in an organization does so through psychopathic manipulation and passing on the hot potato then through pure bullshitting, woos the higher ups and catapults up the ladder via promotion.

And that any value is always created by some last-in-line loser who got the hot potato passed on, and his work is never noticed or credited.

If this were true, you wouldn't see anything get done. Yet, widgets roll off conveyor belts and products are shipped.

The system is never perfect, and there is always some misjudgment of who contributes usefully and who is a pure talker.

To solve large-scale problems, we have to join forces with other humans. But we can't see into each other's head, so there will be mistakes and opportunities to exploit mistakes. At the end of the day, boundaries must be drawn. There will be conflict of interests. There is conflict between the aggregate interest of the group and interests of the participants. There are ways to coordinate these, but the effect can't be fully eliminated. Inside any harmony on a large scale, you find conflict on a smaller scale. Even a mother and her fetus are in some senses competing for resources and the mother must biologically protect herself from exploitative behavior of the fetus (this objectively happens in biology).

These things are more like laws of "nature" than something to be "angry" about.

It's like game theory. The behavior of individual people may be up for judgment but the collective is predictable. You can't ascribe it to individual moral failure when you consistently observe it across organizations.

There is a certain amount of alertness that is necessary. You can exercise it at multiple points, including when deciding which company to join. It would be better if we could let down or guards and relax the alertness but ultimately it's needed.
> The plain text of the Constitution often does not mean what laypeople think it means.

"We the people" does not seem to be written for Ivy League lawyers to understand and translate to laypeople. A Constitution written in a way that only a small percent of people are "trained" or "authorized" to understand or apply is a big time failure. Just sayin'
Yep. But looking at it as a shareholder, I don't think this should have been a negative.

Spending a lot of time to work with an individual client in order to make $1k-$2k or whatever they make ushering a loan over to fannie or freddie is not good business- especially during the recent market.
I think you might misunderstand Georgism, or maybe I did a poor job explaining it. Georgism does not propose taxing improvements (buildings etc), only the actual land. So many peoples tax burden would be decreased, and if the bank owns the land as in a mortgage, they are the ones paying the tax, not the people taking out the mortgages.
Too many people are coming down on OP unnecessorily. He started 1 person business which never took off, had no revenue and ended up having to do massive paper work 3 years later that seems akin to colonoscopy. I would have never imagined that hiring a remote worker in California for a tiny little startup means this level of trouble. OP is absolutely right that CA does not allow for enterprenuership spirit and it is currently surviving on wave that was created by pioneers in much more condusive environment 50 years ago.
Yeah, big mistake. I consider California and New York as hostile nations when hiring.
VR headset market is currently so tiny that being market leader means nothing.
He states he didn't make any revenue.
I wish back in the day people coming from windows were shown nano/pico instead of vi. If they had known there was something very analogous to dos edit I would think more windows people wouldn't have the experience with Unix they seem to have had.

Even today I am not a vim purist. I tell people to try nano out at first and work their way up to emacs or vim cause in the real world most people are just changing a line in etc that broke something.
I maintain that "being utter horseshit" should be added to the reasons to flag a submission.
Your general point is correct, however both U238 and U235 are are consumed by commercial reactors right now.

U238 > U239 decay into neptunium-239 which then decays into Plutonium-239. Essentially there is so much U238 in the reactor and so many neutrons flying around the above just happens.
My Dad does. Mostly because he's 88 and I just needed a way to send him a computer every time something goes wrong with it.

He doesn't use it for anything other than web browsing. He did write a few books on it using Google Docs, but there's nothing stored locally.

It's mostly fine for basic needs. Every so often someone will send some kind of attachment in an email that doesn't open cleanly with Google Drive and I'll have to help him out.

It's probably less work than his old PC was to maintain. But like... that's sort of by design. Dad doesn't have admin privileges, and it's set up to auto-update nightly.
I've seen them at many retailers in the EU, from Sweden, Norway, Germany, France all the way to Romania, so I'm curious where you're from that you haven't seen any. Ironically, I've never seen them in the US at all during my trips there.
Lack of physical presence should exempt you from prosecution from a states laws.

They are of course free to capture anything that crosses their border, which in this case ought to mean that your company won’t be able to send money to the state.
How can WE get Dave fired so he stops pushing code
Thanks for the link, this is an amazing list! I especially like the "Map", though I haven't checked all of them yet; I'll make sure to do that later. Unfortunately these not always work on mobile; I'll have to add a "desktop only" section one day.
I use a Pi 400 at home as a terminal to connect to several remote servers on which I work (write code) in VIM. I connect via ssh or mosh to a usually-existing tmux session on a server. When not at home I connect to the same servers using an android tablet running Termux. When I need to use other programmes, like Excel, I connnect via VNC to a paperspace Windows server I rent.
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I have asked to myself and answer seems yes. I wrote a tool many years ago in Go. It has saved me at least 100 times the hours I put in to code it. And I put in couple of weeks at max. The point here is I created a tool (my application) using another tool (Go) and I care quite a bit more about my tool, features, usability and so on. Programing language provided few features like single binary so I can install on VMs, desktop and not downloading whole internet to build that project. Its been working fine for half a decade or so.

So it does its job and saved time is spent somewhere else like reading interesting books, cooking or watching documentaries etc.

I can understand people who sweat on perfect error handling, sum type and what not will be eternally unhappy with Go. Hopefully they find whatever suits their taste, considering we are in a new PL boom nowadays.
Yes, but at scale and in a lawsuit, the court will look at the totality of the situation.

Many companies hire through staffing companies, rather than hiring 1099s directly. But when the contracting company only provides a service to you, and their 1099s are only contracted to your offices, you may find that the employees of this other company are considered to be employees of your company instead. Courts can decide to pierce these abstractions. The most notable example is the Microsoft permatemp lawsuit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permatemp

If your company has so much piping that the local plumber hires staff dedicated to you for years on end, then it's conceivable that a court would decide that the plumbing company's employees are actually your employees.

Personally, I've always wondered whether government contractors could win a lawsuit to be considered government employees. The US government is by far the biggest "permatemp" employer and seems to itself regularly flout these kinds of laws.
Reread the post. I did comply with employment law, fully. The blog post is about income tax filings.
Just to revisit this 2 weeks later, even the European Commission President is now saying Russia is trying to blackmail the EU by cutting off energy supplies:

https://youtu.be/W-601_tkKyk

But you’re right this will ultimately hurt Russia more than the EU. EU will find other sources of energy, and Russia will lose a major revenue stream that they really can’t afford to lose.
Does the employee pay tax to California? Then they're employed in California. That doesn't seem complicated.
One-way ticket from Australia to Europe. Traveling around for 1-2 years.

My tech gear:

Backpack: Osprey Porter 46

Laptop: M1 Macbook Air w/ charger

USB-C Hub (HDMI, USB-A, Ethernet)

2 socket powerboard with plug adapter

And that's it!
Clock's ticking for Disney buying Meta buying Microsoft buying votes
The most painful thing was that it took several seconds to render a website when it's normally instantaneous

A ton of that went away for me on my Rpi4 when I switched from sdcard to using a USB NVMe adapter[0] with a decent M.2 SSD in it. And I was using an sdcard recommended for its performance!

Try it. It's astonishing how badly that sdcard holds a Pi back in interactive use.

[0] https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B08G14NBCS This one supports trim, which is nice, not all USB M.2 adapters do. I've forgotten a lot of the details from when I researched it, but IIRC if your adapter supports UASP, that's a pretty good indicator of trim support.
Apple, Microsoft, Disney, etc. Some complete newcomer can come and take it all away.
> They only accepted correspondence by fax, no email, no website.

FWIW, I've never had a problem reaching the FTB or CDTFA by phone. They also have field offices all over the state, though I realize that would not have been useful in your case.
Random story time:

My dad put above average pressure on me to learn piano as a kid. I got somewhere between decent to quite good but never a prodigy or anything (could read almost any piece of moderately difficult sheet music and play on sight, never really got into writing my own music).

When I was in early high school I made an argument that I wanted to quit and he said it would be up to me but that I would regret it later in life. I ignored him, gave up piano, and now 100% without a doubt wish I could go back in time and stick with it.

Still, I'm grateful I got the opportunity to learn music, as now it's a huge part of my life (tinker on guitar, always on the hunt for new artists to listen to, etc).

I have my own kids now, and it's fun watching them get interested in the instruments we've got around the house, but I'm also trying to figure out how to navigate the right amount of influence I should try and put on them to focus on music themselves.
> Do not update dependencies (because updating to the latest version just because is silly)

That's quite the straw man; I seriously doubt that anybody is saying you shouldn't update because it's "silly". Blindly pulling updates is how you get compromised by supply chain attacks.
This is incredible. I almost closed the tab when the text grew out of control, I thought it was a bug.
I've had two Pi 400s, and I've wanted to use them similarly as you do. But each of them have had the space bar break. Such a disaster of a device.
Weird scrolljacking, just made that page feel a bit sluggish.
> That would be great if Go provided better performance. With its awful FFI, you have no recourse when you hit its limits other than to rewrite the entire codebase in something else.

I wouldn't know. I've never run into an issue where Go's performance was a real bottleneck, and anyway every mainstream language with easy FFI still has significant FFI overhead (so much so that many programs actually run slower with FFI). This isn't really true for Rust (Rust makes it easy to define types which are essentially C structs and thus require little/no marshaling), but performance also isn't the reason you FFI out of Rust.

> As with many things, there's nothing stopping you from just sticking with pure Go if you don't like C toolchains.

Right, that's my point. You viably can stick with pure Go because such a large share of the Go ecosystem is pure because FFI is rarely worth the hassle.

> While C build issues are a valid theoretical concern, in practice I've never had any Python package fail to install because of a C dependency problem that wasn't trivially resolved

Try building a significant Python project on anything except a recent version of RHEL, Debian, MacOS, or Windows. For example, try getting your Python project running on something like a scratch Docker container. Or try packaging a Python package (which depends even transitively on a C library, especially one which isn't already packaged for Nix) with Nix.
> Namecheap: 10% commission, only works with Namecheap-registered domains, the exchange may take up to 96 hours, and then 5 days later you can withdraw these funds to PayPal (which will incur additional fees).

> Compare this to, say, Tezos domains: exchange and transfer of funds settled in ~30 seconds, without any need for currency conversion, across any ".tez" domain in the network, 2.5% commission (or 0% via custom contract), no private data shared with registrar, and very low transaction fees.

You're not comparing the same products. Namecheap probably doesn't sell .tez, and you probably cannot buy a .com via Tezos. There are big differences between TLDs, I didn't even know about .tez websites until today. If I receive a .xyz link I tend to think it's a scam. If I had received a .tez link before today, I would have thought it was just a weird typo.

Beyond this, assuming equivalent products, there's no technical reason for the Tezos solution to be superior. Consider this: whatever Tezos is doing, Namecheap could do the same using the same technology (they don't have tougher requirements, maybe short of regulations, but I don't think you're talking about regulation arbitrage here anyway). They could just use a blockchain but be the sole entity allowed to interact with it.

Namecheap can get away with higher prices, so they do (it's a business). On the other hand many blockchain-based systems are highly subsidized (I don't know if that's the case for the Tezos domain system), making direct comparisons difficult.
"Zero Covid" was a great strategy during the wild / Alpha / Delta phases of the pandemic, if the population tolerated it.

In this Omicron phase, however, health outcomes from infection have been mild, and most susceptible individuals have had the opportunity to vaccinate. The extreme transmissibility of this evolution has resulted in its general circulation globally.

Therefore, "Zero Covid" is not a sustainable strategy moving forward - its health benefit has decreased, while its societal costs have increased as viral containment has gotten more difficult. There's also no winning condition in sight for this strategy - it'll need to remain in place in perpetuity to be effective.

Taiwan, the best country I've seen handle COVID globally, understood this shift and has gradually loosened restrictions as Omicron has found a foothold on the island. From my perspective, it's a result of medical and public health professionals making decisions, instead of politicians.
It's not insane. It's perhaps not perfect, but definitely not insane. Considering:

* We have 50 states

* ... and if you're doing business online, add 50 countries to that...

* ... with their own sub-regions which may have their own laws (see the comment about Quebec above)

* Each of these local jurisdictions tends to have a LOT of laws on the books;

* Many of which are poorly written and unclear

* Many of which have been inconsistently, infrequently or unclearly applied as the internet has grown (you can very easily find examples of even giant companies, with corporate legal teams, running into unexpected issues)

Finally, there's the kicker:

* Even lawyers will end up telling you that, due to lack of clarity around laws applying to the internet and their enforcement, you might engage in a practice now only to find out later that it was more risky than you thought

Granted, OP's case is not the most complicated out there. It has a fairly clear answer: California is extremely aggressive about taxation and will grab any money it can. Hence the nickname "Taxifornia". And, be aware that employment is a particularly risky area.

But interstate commerce is really not as simple an issue as you're making it out to be. I've asked my accountant about issues where the answer was "well, you could technically be fined $50,000 and nobody really knows whether the state could successfully apply the fine, but right now they're not doing it sooooo..."
Of course, there are benefits of GC: less development time, fewer null pointer exceptions, double free's and other other mistakes, etc
The same company that uses HTML5 supercomputers?
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