skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My travel PC is a Raspberry pi4 - when home it's my home server. I run it off an SSD but that's recent because I bought one of those adorable NES cases. I carry it around with a Logitech keyboard/trackpad combo and an HDMI cable or two (USB power cables are already part of my travel kit) and, while not the most powerful thing, it's light and rugged enough for how I travel.

It runs what I need on the go (browsing, youtube and video/photo editing, not to mention SSH and VPN software in case I need to hop back into my work's network), it fits nicely in my carry-on luggage with my tshirts and socks.

I also have a chromebook that I use for basically the same things - it's not great but it's also enough for me when I travel.
> Instead, companies become obsessed with "coding culture," and "process" (which can mean many different things).

Many companies must build out rigorous standards, and checks and balances in order to deal with regression to the mean.

If what you're saying is true you're multiple standard deviations above the normal engineer, and scaling you is non-trivial. Bob martin has said the population of coders doubles every 5 yrs meaning at any given time 1/2 of the engineers have less than 5 years experience. When you need something that would take 1000 of you, which might not even exist on the planet, they instead have to build a system that takes 10k of those 5yr and less engineers -- and have the highest quality outliers leveraged though standards, automation, building engineering culture etc.
> Nexus should only be created in the traditional way: by selling something in the state, or by having a physical office there. Without this law greedy state governments can send companies nasty surprises, as they did to me.

I mean, you had an office in their state, it just happened to be a home office, so...
It is saying that the purpose of trying to understand what Lacan had to say is not to achieve empirically proven therapeutic effects, either as a patient or as a therapist, yes.
"Montreal Argonauts"
GNU Nano is GPLv3 which Apple boycots (its v3 since 2007 according to Wikipedia). Tells us GPLv3 works :-) not sure what the license of Pico is. My first text editor was Q&A on MSDOS, it relied on F-keys, and on Windows 9x I got used to ctrl as modifier. Pico/Pine and later Nano was a natural successor, easy to learn. I use Vim and ST now.
>But a W-2 an employee gets payments into social security, unemployment insurance, various protections

I’m pretty sure a 1099 also gets you those things, but the contractor covers the full employment tax. So you just pay them more.
Seconded, what a fascinating comment.
I'd argue what you ultimately get is a handful of near axiom As and Bs that you can prove in the smaller logics and for any sufficiently interesting statement you end up in combined logics that lose all the nice properties you were hoping to have. The involved proofs won't be justifiable because they lose the properties that gave the justifiability that came from the smaller non-union logics.

It's not a promising approach if the only statements of the prover you can justify are the simplest and most basic ones.
My cognitive ability started bouncing between near genius to hillbilly. (Medical issue)

Was learning an instrument at the time.
Was going really well. Then on bad weeks twinkle twinkle was a foreign concept.

I had to wait for good weeks to make any progress.
If the skill difference among your devs is really high, it may be preferable to have the best programmer leave, or at least change roles (architect, team lead, trainer), as this may increase productivity of the median workers. At least the skill difference should be treated as a risk and properly mitigated.
So you do business in California and are somehow surprised when California regulations apply to you?

$800 of fees in order to be able to hire a software engineer remote from California shouldn't really be a major factor for any tech company looking to hire remotely.
>and they have the cashflow now to easily afford to pursue it in a big way

Musk is in the process of tying most of his free cash up in a web app instead of investing it in his businesses which might cause those larger companies to have issues.
Nobody seems to be checking out religious figures or those tied to a countries sense of identity. Easy, no risk to disprove Bigfoot, but what’s the point?
The mix of beautiful syntax and fast compiled binaries is theoretically compelling. Swift is probably the biggest competitor aesthetics wise with this combination. Compiled to wasm (very early days), crystal apps are an order of magnitude smaller than swiftwasm's 4.4-7.5 MB. Both feel incomplete in their ecosystem, fear of future abandonment is real. Something like rails with server and client code in crystal would be a banger, similar to (bloated) Blazor. It would be nice if they could find a way to serialize compilation intermediates to allow incremental compilation!
At least California is generous enough to require at least 25% of payroll. Most states, if you have even a single employee in that state you need to register as a business in that state (and pay associated filing fees and taxes).

This isn't really news. 15 minutes of reading about staring an LLC in Deleware and you'll find you have to register in the state you live as well - so it shouldn't be a shock you have to file in places you have employees.

1099 is definitely the way to go for as long as you can - people still get social security credit.

IANAL, this isn't legal advice, blah blah blah
Jon Bois is remarkable. I never would have imagined that my wife could watch 20m youtube videos on sports statistics trivia but she would get excited when a new Jon Bois video was uploaded! I never knew he wrote fiction too.
25% of more of your payroll is what the article said, so I wouldn’t assume so, but IANAL
Ask HN: Can anything stop Elon Musk from purchasing Twitter now?
From what I understand, the purchase hasn’t been technically done yet. Is there anything that could stop the purchase?

Like if the Tesla stock falls too low, someone comes in with a better offer, etc. Anything like that on the horizon?
It's an absurd article, capitalizing on predominant anti-California sentiment that has become popular to talk about in the last ~5 years or so.
17776 was also my first thought once the author revealed he was talking about Bois. 17776 is incredible... and also about football of course (I mean, sort of)
Because humans have an incredibly limited perspective. We can say we understand that, or that we understand the perspective of others, but most people actually can't understand different perspectives or it's just incredibly difficult to do so.

Minor changes in neural regulation can provide substantial differences in perception. That's saying nothing about trying to understand the perspective of a completely different species, which the differences are even greater

On top of this, all of our definitions are generally based on human experience
This is the textbook example for "hire an accountant".
Well, then you've leveraged too highly. Estate agents here take a fairly small percentage of the rent to manage all of this, so it takes a fairly small deposit before your rental income less management fees can't cover the remaining mortgage.
Will developers burn down Coinbase?
That will just make Lake Erie and Lake Ontario merge, more or less. Why would it drain Michigan at all?

This is old, but it's also possible that niagara falls just stops being falls and stops moving upstream:
https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/gsabulletin/article-abs...
Maybe, and he eludes a bit to the employee originally being 1099, but California has made 1099 all but extinct with AB-5
An easier way to teach robots new skills
Sounds exactly like a Nokia product from early 2000s when they were at the top. Tiny, cheap, invisible software.
this is a bit part of it for me. Most of the tools you need for average development, triage, perf analysis, etc... are included out of the box.
1099 isn't payroll. It's paying a sub-contractor which is completely different.
Thought one was their names and the other their attributes?
Internet shutdowns in 2021: the return of digital authoritarianism
So OP wanted to become an employer but had no idea what being an employer actually entailed or did any basic research into things like the fee to do business in California. Got it.

Not that Cali’s system is awesome but give me a break, OP jumps into having W2s yet complains that Congress needs to pass laws and no one should hire in CA?
Parkinson’s patient first-ever to receive brain implant that reverses symptoms
eh, the consequences guide the compliance

I wouldn't worry about it, but your counsel or reading comprehension skills might lead you to a different conclusion
Except when it comes time to tax them then homes are taxed each year, in most of the US, on what they are currently valued at on the tax rolls.
Well it depends a bit, in my low latency application where we cant afford GC pauses, we tolerate them from 5am to 5:30 am. We do everything preallocated and if we must tolerate new heap allocation we simply never release (so we have a lot of object pools).

I felt it was hard and exotic at first but now I feel it's quite logical: never free, and have a proper monitoring of your size per unit of information to size the heap right and you're done.

But then it also depends why you dont want GC, us it's because clients cannot tolerate a pause (we had a socket manager creating and releasing garbage that triggered one 50ms GC pause during the last 3 seconds of trading of a particularly crazy trading day and the client threatened to leave), but often they re tolerable if you just stay reasonable with your garbage.

The problem is not the collection in non critical applications, it's the garbage generation getting completely out of hand. In a C# application my team had to micro optimize because of covid-related explosive trading volume, we simply bought gigantic amount of RAM for our 200 users, only allowed GC if CPU was in low usage and run with 80GB memory usage at the end of the day for an order grid that could run with 5GB collected. That s another way: I wish Java 8 had an easier way to simply deactivate GC for us to run with hardware money.
Nope, just project.el.
Freeware Tools and System Utilities for Windows
What It's Like to Camp Out with 15,000 Sandhill Cranes
COVID is endemic, which is functionally equivalent to 'over'. Just as there are bad flu seasons, there will likely be bad COVID seasons, but overall Africa has blessed the whole world with a relatively benign and incredibly infectious variant that keeps immune systems attuned without crashing. We have overwhelming returned to normal behavior around illness, which preferentially propagates mild pathogens by only stranding really sick people at home (where they don't spread things), while the rest of us go around unknowingly sharing our mildly inconvenient Omicron and omicron++ with one another.
He’s fortunate he didn’t hire a second employee in NY.
A super fast CSS engine: Quantum CSS (a.k.a. Stylo)
I think it's the last one, the two proven applications are book readers and price labels (and a few niche applications like readable displays for long-life battery-operated devices, Remarkable).
There's not many potential users clamouring for a dumb terminal "laptop" (the battery life advantage would disappear real quick if you tried to compile large code projects) with E-Ink screen. Not that many people would buy a laptop that can't play YouTube videos or go on Facebook.
Even I wouldn't want to write code on a laptop with the display latency of e-ink...
Don't forget about corporations price gouging their customers. There is a little bit of that too. And too much "money printing."

There can be a lot of reasons for inflation.
I started to generall disagree with this post, having had similar experiences with many other states harassing me to make sure I didn't need a return there because of some information that tripped up their systems. I know from experience at least two other states would have bothered him (CT and NY). The California franchise fee is high, but it's really not high compared to the cost of a single W2 employee.

However I can strongly agree that their needs to be tax simplification and the current state of affairs is a mess. For businesses under a certain revenue it should be file-able by one person in their spare time and anything else is a waste of even the state's reasources to go through. This absolutely should have either federal or California regulation to correct.
> A closed system has fixed energy in classical.

Wrong again!

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

"In thermodynamics, a closed system can exchange energy (as heat or work) but not matter, with its surroundings."

Maybe you meant "isolated" instead of "closed" - but then I don't know what we have been talking about. (When I say "we" I mean "you".)

> It doesn't make sense to count the microstates for a volume of gas at some pressure and temperature.

A volume of gas at some pressure and temperature is a closed system but not an isolated system.

> I can have a container with 1l of some gas at room temperature T1 and proceed to heat the room - and the container - to temperature T2.

The containers in that example are closed systems but not isolated systems.

> the microstates of that sample of gas at some fixed temperature don't have all the same energy

That sample of gas at some fixed temperature is a closed system but not an isolated system.

Hopefully you'll agree with everything I wrote with the understanding that we were not talking about isolated systems.

[ have _you_ tried reading a physics book? :-) ]
You could also just do:

> pancakes site:reddit.com/r/memes
Humans: almost impossible to study.
Deepset announces SaaS platform for NLP and $14mn from GV
I miss Perl. It has everything I like in a language. Mystic runes that do really complex things with just 1 extra character of code. Switch between procedural, OO, and functional programming anywhere. Rewrite the language itself if you feel like it. C/ASM extensions for speed. Reusable, inheritable, extendable modules rather than quirkily-named modules that nobody can build on top of. Extremely thorough warnings, errors, debugging, and documentation. Hybrid and duck typing. First-class regex support. One-liner conveniences.

But an entire generation never really learned the language, and subsequently churned out dog vomit that looked like Perl syntax, so the whole language became a pariah. But I have at least 10x the productivity with Perl compared to any other language.
That's just a rookie business owner mistake. He should have used something like Justworks to handle the "employee" part of the business until he grew enough to have a dedicated HR person.
Inversely, virtually all languages with "easy FFI" end up being even more hostile in that a significant chunk of the ecosystem depends on C build tooling which is almost always fragile: C build systems have implicit dependency management, so you don't know what dependencies you need to have installed on your system or where they need to be installed. This means that something which builds on one machine may fail to build on another machine (in the case of build-time dependencies) or that it may run on one machine but not another (in the case of run-time dependencies). It's also opaque to the host build system, so cross compilation becomes dramatically more difficult. Lastly, C is inherently unsafe and insecure in ways that most host languages are not.

In practice, whether by accident or design, the Go ecosystem is really, really nice because it avoids FFI to a high degree. An overwhelming majority of programs can be cross compiled into a truly static binary (it may not even depend on libc unless--as is the case with Windows and MacOS--the host platform requires it). It also means that there are very few "C-shaped libraries", by which I mean thin bindings around some C library which exposes idiomatic C semantics rather than idiomatic Go semantics. Moreover, your programs aren't running a bunch of inherently unsafe code under the hood, and are consequently more likely to be secure as a result.

It's kind of nice that C FFI is possible such that libraries which are unlikely to be ported to Go (e.g., ffmpeg) or which cannot be ported to Go (e.g., opengl) are still available, but not so easy that people pull in C libraries for every little convenience.
Wait. Doesn't overheating produce exactly the same result? Supplies get constrained because demand went up. So now, demand stays stable and supplies are reduced. The gap is the same, isn't it?
> Crypto currencies being volatile is not inherent in the technology

How so? It has no control mechanism to prevent it. I get that the brakes (central banks) don't always work perfectly, but removing them entirely is an odd choice.

> Having a currency that jumps up and down by a factor of 2 like bitcoin in the last year is still better than one that melts away

To whom? When?

> You can easily imagine [...], that's not inherent in the concept of a crypto currency

It's easy to win an argument when you compare a real world system to one that doesn't exist.
Very cool, thanks for making this!
from the article on its release:

http://blog.bioware.com/2015/03/30/launching-into-orbit/

(HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9300672)

> The last-generation of Orbit powered some of the key technology behind the Dragon Age Keep and Dragon Age: Inquisition. Our plans for the next-generation framework are even more ambitious.

So at least it was used for some of Bioware's games
You don't need to sell off stocks to invest in more real estate. Even small-time investors can get margin loans (or use them as collateral) to finance mortgages while avoiding the tax implications of liquidating investments.
Ok so...what are the usual suspects?
> Yes, all assets are priced relative to the risk free rate.

Based on your name I bet you work in research at a hedge fund.

I hate to break it to you but ask most people who are price setters what their discount is and they’ll say 10% regardless of 10Y treasury yields (since you know, TINA)

As a result securities are increasingly priced on liquidity more than cash flows and that’s a function of the credit cycle way more than it’s a function of productivity.

It’s a weird post modern approach to the economy, but hey that’s showbiz baby.
An entire extension to append a string?
Ask HN: Would it be legal in job interview to ask if they’d repay student loan?
I'm from the mountain west, and I'd say anti-California sentiment has been around my whole life (born right after the Wall fell). Even from my Appalachian migrant parents.
Yeah, starting a business takes capital, one of many reasons why is hiring pros to help you sort stuff like this out.
>>> The inflation we're seeing isn't a result of a hot economy needing to be kept in check, it's the fact that 40% of China's production …

Isn't inflation mostly a necessity of printing extraordinary amounts of dollars and euros during covid?
Original press release (phys_org goes nuts with Javascript disabled for some reason)

https://news.stanford.edu/2022/04/28/runners-prefer-pace-reg...

The full report is also available, the main point of interest to the casual exerciser hoping to lose weight is this:

> "Overall, when we go for a run, although a goal may be to burn calories, we move at a speed to minimize them. This is consistent with free-living preferences of other, nonhuman, animals for energy-optimal locomotion, be it walking, flying, or swimming."

One conclusion might be that if weight loss is the goal, when out exercising it's a good idea to occassionally push the pace well beyond the comfort level (although this in turn increases the risk of injury, so keep that in mind, i.e. warm-up first).
> Yeah I would never look at reddit for troubleshooting: That's what the various stack-exchange/overflow sites are for

You've hit one of my big beefs with the site. There was a window of a couple of months where it seemed like the ENTIRE first page of results for my programming searches were links to Reddit, which are WORSE than useless. It was clear to me that Reddit was spending INORDINATE amounts of money to have their results pushed to the top. I can't imagine what that had to be to beat out StackOverflow, but that's beside the point. I was already mad about their consumer product "review" cargo culting, but this experience put a chip on my shoulder about ALL of their results now.
DigitalOcean: To retire FreeBSD versions through the UI starting June 2022
And it would take 75 years to build software to do that automatically? We went to the moon in 9 years. I don't think it would take 75 years to figure out how to clear up some PII in PDFs.
My reality is that nobody smart and wealthy that bothers to read or hire a CPA and lawyer actually is encumbered by California's "high taxes and onerous compliance".

So yeah, sure an obvious counter example is of W-2 employees at a FAANG are smart and wealthy, but many of them don't bother to look and have few ways of lowering their taxes, but people playing around with capital have plenty of ways.

This leaves a poorer class of people (in California and all across the country) that make too little to actually be encumbered by California taxes and also are not doing anything to trigger compliance measures on themselves while merely imagining its high taxes, and a richer class of people that can route around it like always and enjoy everything attractive about California.