skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Moron here. I did pay employment-related taxes. I don't owe income taxes, because I had no income there.

This blog post is about excessive paperwork, surprises, unnecessary income tax filings, and the franchise fee. And the fact that California is uniquely aggressive among states in pursuing this stuff against a startup.
> California has laws in place to recoup those losses.

Except this was done across state lines. There's a term for that: interstate commerce. The federal government has the sole power to regulate interstate commerce. California should pound sand here.
Yeah, we hire remote, as long as you live in one of the two states we’ve established a presence. The cost and overhead is way too much otherwise (and we do use a PEO, that doesn’t remove the business license and taxation requirements).

It sucks for small companies.
Reading your comment I remembered a story I heard about Jimmy Reed. Who knows if it's true, but the story was that he wasn't sharp enough to remember the words to his own songs, and his wife had to stand behind him on stage and whisper to him to remind him. Hell of a blues player though

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9xXchxodYg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Reed
Taiwan has had a great response, but I do want to correct one thing:

> It was initially difficult due to lack of vaccines and interference from mainland China.

This was more a political decision from the Taiwanese government that it would not buy the BioNTech vaccine through the licensed distributor, because that distributor is a mainland Chinese company. Taiwan insisted on bypassing the Chinese distributor and buying directly from BioNTech, which would have been a violation of BioNTech's contract with the Chinese company. The reason the Chinese company had the license was that it invested in the development of the BioNTech vaccine very early on.

The Taiwanese government then blamed the PRC for supposedly blocking Taiwan from buying the BioNTech vaccine. The real issue was that given its politics, the DPP did not want to be seen to be relying on the mainland for vaccines.
What would you have suggested instead? Adding a caveat doubling the length of the title? It’s the name of the linked post, all in line with the HN guidelines.

Calling it ”clickbait” when it is exactly what it says on the tin with no deception involved seems silly.
it wouldn’t be so cute if you spend all your savings developing a piece of software, you open source it hoping to make money of it somehow, and then someone with more money or better connections takes your work and profits from it without ever having to pay you.
I would listen to all of Evoken's work while I was programming lol. One day the earbuds had accidentally unplugged and people were looking at me like "HOW CAN THIS MAN FOCUS?!?!?"
Pfizer isn't subject to FOIA - the government is.

To get approval for the vaccine to be sold, Pfizer submits a massive amount of documentation to the FDA. They run studies with tens of thousands of patients and then do the typical statistics work to assess whether the vaccines were safe and effective (they were). They submit these studies along with all of the patient data collected during the trials and the FDA reviews the info to make their decision whether or not to approve the sale of the vaccine.

These antivaxxers have decided that there must be something hidden in the patient files, so they filed a FOIA/lawsuit to have the FDA release all of these patient files. Those are the docs that would need to be scrubbed/anonymized. 450k pages of "Patient was administered vaccine, patient was fine".
Virginia newspaper removed article criticizing central bank digital currencies
It's all about the feedback loops between the brain, instrument and fingers.

Musical training is an amazingly fast way to shape your brain if you know what you are doing. It's one of the few engaging activities that offer that quick feedback and covers so many areas of the brain.

You can find hundreds of studies linking music and cognitive ability.
> How often has Google responded to your medical question with putrid, SEO-optimized landfill? Google has found 29,100,000 results for my query, but it's like an all-you-can-eat breakfast buffet that serves nothing but reconstituted eggs and Yoplait. You know there’s a gourmet, peer-reviewed omelet station around here somewhere, but you won't find it by wandering around the main rotunda of Google's sad smorgasbord.

This expresses a lot of my feelings with the modern web experience really well. I feel like I'm constantly in "avoid" mode and it's becoming more and more difficult to get to content of actual substance and you are constantly being bombarded by garbage that is becoming more and more AI generated, making the volume higher and quality/relevancy even worse.
Hiring in California is expensive and burdensome. Further, I think California is pretty sophisticated in its remote-business tax-hunting capability. That does make it a relatively bad target for hiring remote employees in a global-competitive environment.

So perhaps you can hire people elsewhere and avoid tax obligations more easily. If so, this is smart business. States and nation-states that let employers get away with such behavior are losing out on reasonable tax opportunities.

Disclaimer: I live in California, and I am not pissed off nor do I find my value threatened by this thread.
It depends how you use it.

I've used it to pre-screen candidates with very basic code questions. It filters out a lot of people who are either lying or just don't believe they will have to ever write any code.

This allows me to consider a much wider range of candidates outside top tier schools and employers.
I recall statically compiling Rust to be a big pain (like, actually statically compiling, no dynamic dependencies on libc in Linux). I assume this is all the more true with arbitrary C dependencies?
Counting set bits in an interesting way
Out of interest, where were you?

Just to flesh out my experience. In the UK we defiantly had some things missing from shelves, but it would be running out of strawberry cereal bars and having to have raspberry ones instead. Aside from some short term (about 2 weeks) issues with everyone buying all the loo roll, there wasn't anything that couldn't be replaced.
Some random local context: Menver was a running joke 10/15 years ago, probably even before that too.
I do find the thesis in the ending quite weak:

> For a longer time before the gritty period, we all dedicated ourselves to the idea that anything we’d acknowledge as very good had to be both serious and artsy. People really liked Good Will Hunting (see: very serious); it was also a good movie, so it won an Oscar. Zillions of people love movies like The Princess Bride and Happy Gilmore; it’s incredibly likely both dwarf Good Will Hunting in terms of total views, but you can’t even imagine a world where either could have possibly won an Oscar.

[...]

> This is a short article by my standards, but it does have me thinking: What kind of world could we actually live in, if we were willing to treat works of art made with the goal of making us happy as if they were important? What if we were willing to make them? We’ve seen what happens in a world where all the Oscars go to movies that make you cry, or that we pretend make us think even though they generally don't

There are plenty of widely acclaimed movies that can not be considered "very serious", picking some recent Oscar winners as examples with categorizations from wikipedia:

* Parasite ("black comedy thriller")

* Green Book ("comedy-drama")

* The Shape of Water ("romantic fantasy")

* Birdman ("black comedy drama")

* CODA ("comedy-drama")

* La La Land ("comedy-drama")

* Life Of Pie ("adventure-drama")

Are all those completely feel-good movies intended to make you happy? Maybe not, but still its not like happy/humorous/feel-good is completely disregarded category even among grumpy art critics.
For what it's worth, I found in the comments to this article a discussion by the author of why he doesn't like David French: https://www.residentcontrarian.com/p/nobody-will-admit-the-b...

So I don't know about "hates", but he really does dislike the man.
What I'd really like to see is some way to important some giant list of them, like duckduckgos list of bangs.
I do wonder how OQLF will deal with WFH now. They once inspected my former employer's office and we had to silly things like ensure every computer had a French keyboard, even if the employee was English speaking. Just in case a French employee were to use it one day? Now, working remotely, what will they do? Come to my house? Inspect my basement? Hah!
My friend, who was trying to raise a startup, didn't get payments for the product (too early), didn't have VC funding (yet), had to close the California presence because of such expenses.
I would love to hear some of the spine tingling moments these researchers experience when developing and interacting with large models.
It might lead to more salary polarization. The average salary for the average developer will likely go down. For companies that only hire the cream of the crop, salaries will likely keep increasing as competition increases (a European company can more easily compete with top US companies and hire top US developers, for example)
Back in the days of Gates, Microsoft knew that people run Windows because they want to run Windows application.

They keep forgetting that the Windows Store is dead and that nobody wants "Windows" if can only run apps from the dead Windows Store.
My favorite is TPAI https://www.youtube.com/c/ThePostApocalypticInventor

He has a very interesting series of videos on repairing a wide variety of things he buys from scrapyards in Germany.
Nah, concert singers have teleprompts to remind them of the words. They never show the chords though. Curious divide.
Companies will occasionally also buy IP such as patents. But in this space it's tough to sell just a patent as an idea with no evidence that it can succeed in the real world.
> females in western societies can indulge in casual sex

So you think only western women indulge in casual sex? that is quite a myopic and old fashioned view. How old are you? When was the last time you took a trip?
I think there is more than one reason for the current inflation. The supply crunch is one factor. The stimulus is another. In particular the Biden stimulus is considerably different than the Trump stimulus in that it gave the money to people who would spend it on goods and services instead of people who would just stuff it into their market accounts. This caused a demand spike right at a time when supply was unusually constrained.

Unfortunately as the stimulus was known to be a short term thing this did not lead to people starting factories to make products to sell. By the time they got it running the stimulus would run out and they would be left holding the bag.
You joke but they will say it is nothing new. :-)

"Musicians as Programmers" : https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/musicians-programmers-michael...

"... IBM preferred to recruit and train programmers from two different groups: musicians and accountants..."

...Now after this Quicksort implementation...Can you please do a "All the Things You Are" transposition into D Major using Java and without triggering java garbage collection? Let me know if the task is not clear. You have 30 minutes.
house ownership is just a legal construct. you don't really own the house, even when it's paid off. even if you own, and pay off the entire house, you'll still have to pay "rent" in the form of property taxes, an unfortunate reality.
Where your employees are based has obvious relevance as to where you are doing business. This is not a California-thing.
Not in any meaningful way.

I think this would be true if "the sort of work that can be outsourced like this" were extremely essential, but I don't think it is (i.e. it's more "speculative and perhaps redundant") B.S. jobs and all.
If you’re hiring a tech worker in California, $800 is likely a day or two of reasonable cost for that one employee.

Even a minimum wage employee working full time will cost that much in a week or two.
Or whether musical training was recent or long past. Or whether performance was solo vs ensemble. Or what level of performance was achieved (occasional vs regular, personal vs serious avocational vs professional). There are a great many musical variables that need normalization given only 148 subjects. Even the variable they chose -- musical memory -- wasn't quantified in any recognized way that allowed meaningful comparison among subjects. Being able to recall a sequence of notes and their durations in a single-line melody is only one aspect of musical memory.

It's a bit like assessing one's memory of a dance routine by asking how many steps were taken.
Hey, Worm gets pretty good after the first half-million words :P
> My income is none of California's damn business if I don't sell anything there and have no other nexus with the state.

Is that what the law actually says, as stated by someone with some expertise about your situation (including the cross-jurisdiction aspects)? Because you don't really get to be your own judge an jury.

I perceive civil business law to be a big pile of known and unknown unknowns (to me), and I certainly wouldn't trust my interpretations of it for anything important.
Steel is amazing, but nowadays I find even more amazing that we can replace it by wood in many circumstances. Skyscrapers in wood? Checked.

And wood can often replace concrete.

Building using wood sequesters carbon from the atmosphere and, as an ever bigger importance, avoid the CO2 emissions due to drilling, melting, refining etc, e.g. all operations needed to produce steel and concrete.

However, we need to "grow" wood in a truly sustainable way. Plantations of tree for timber are not forests from an ecological point of view: monoculture (and even cloning of a single tree), many pesticides, home to very little biodiversity and far less carbon sequestered in the soil (only 25% AFAIK).
Totally off topic, but I loved JustWorks sooooooo much. When we got big enough to hire an actual dedicated HR department, people were unhappier in comparison, though JW is pretty expensive past a certain scale so it makes sense. It's like Heroku for the employee part of the biz: use it starting out and until you scale and then switch to something less expensive but more time consuming.
oh I didn't say it wasn't solvable, just that it catches me off guard every time I install a fresh new OS.
Activision Blizzard shareholders approve Microsoft acquisition
> The "danger" with a 1099 isn't that you don't get social security credit

What do you mean? You still pay in but you have to pay 100% yourself instead of having the company pay half.
Give Lichess some love. Absolutely my favorite.
your friend was somehow hiring engineers in California and an $800 expense was the blocker? sure.
tldr: Main focus this release is on performance/optimization.

Multiline regexes, and colorization improvements (including NO_COLOR env var to disable). Support added for xsel (although it seems like most distros aren't using x anymore but better late than never!).
I can see companies that allow WFH or Remote Work clarifying

My employer did just this. Nothing crazy restrictive (or at least nothing unexpectedly so, given the nature of local taxation etc). IIRC, it's basically "if you're going to work somewhere for more than 2 weeks, you need approval from your management chain (who has to submit requests to HR/payroll)."

There was additional language about international travel. We have many Indian (and other immigrant) teammates living in the US who travel home for extended periods.

I did just shy of 2 weeks in Florida earlier this month, all that required was a heads-up to my direct manager, no approval required.
Gowers seems to be arguing that brute-force-searching for proofs at the highest levels of abstraction might be okay, so long as the proofs themselves don't use brute force, even indirectly. (This means that a proof step such as: "pick n=42 and the proof goes through. QED." would somehow have to be disallowed.)
Russian aggressiveness was only tolerated because of its army. Now we know all this military might was just a bluff. There is no point, from the western point of view, to get back to previous state of affairs - especially so given the only important thing Russia provides, the fossil fuels, is being gradually phased out.

Also, it’s highly improbable that Russia, as a state, can survive this defeat.
I concur. I was used to a professional tone, then joined discord-go. Showed some of my online code to receive a "shit structure" response by some anime girl avatar youngling.
When I started explaining how I don't think docker is the way to go I was met with passive aggressive behavior and plain false responses trying to justify its use.
But Go's discord server wasn't to only bad experience. Angular might as well have been called Heil Angular. I worked with it for 2 years and found vue to be more productive. But they didn't want to hear cross worlds experience. Instead they insisted that I had no clue and after a while of back n forth played the "we're the moderators so we're right" card.
Then big daddy server owner later stepped up and in the end I was banned, because despite the truth that vue was more productive only their agenda mattered.
I have also met hostility in discord's vue server. Insults by by an official name there for saying that it wasn't a good move to require me or anyone joining to provide a phone number for account verification purposes.

All in all discord seem to have the immature unprofessional crowd. It's a gaming chat system after all.

Reddit Go is not as hostile but not very informed either. Although that's not true for all participants.

Compare Reddit to the quality of Go nuts, there is a difference.

But at least Reddit is a more or less open forum, where discord is hidden and a walled pff property.
tl;dr: stick to contractors, don't form employment relationships

It doesn't make sense anymore

baby boomers: get a job and be set for life

gen z: change job every 1/2 years, all online/remote, work from anywhere, move to another country

things are moving fast, and regulations are 50 years behind
1919 Electric Auto at Re-Charging Station
Why doesn't they sound believable?
I'm reminded of an analysis I heard about GE from a friend of mine in finance. He said for a while (many years ago) everyone knew the earnings were cooked because the consistent performance was basically impossible, but everyone was making money and went along with it. He said one way they were able to cover their tracks is every so often changing their accounting methodologies enough so that long term comparisons like this were rendered useless for forensic accounting purposes. I find that all very interesting if it's true.
Competence at politics is orthogonal to usefulness to the company. Often times incentives can push politics in self-destructive ways to the organization.
You're absolutely right. I am personally to blame for Illinois' tax rate, gun violence, and financial condition, and I really shouldn't talk. I'll go quietly now...
35K year is a lot of money. It is close to the average yearly salary in Germany, the country he has mentioned, and this is not including taxes etc.

So is $1mi. For a lot of countries, this is money you could retire on.
Enough of such comments. Obviously you have never worked much in the front end or the web user experience, and don't understand the complexity or the difficulty of such technologies. Anyone saying "things were fine in 1995" is ignoring how non-interactive, non-intuitive how web pages were, and how much more pleasant it is to look at a web page and get the information today. It is true that some web pages are using unnecessary (or even too much) animations and such and may have a negative effect on user experience or accessibility, but there is no doubt that the web is a better place than it was in 1995. And I'm sorry to say that your personal opinion does not matter, and the web is never going back to 1995.
The Privileges and Immunities clause has only been interpreted once by the Supreme Court and only (so far) protects the right to interstate travel (on your own two feet, BTW). It has never been held to forbid interstate taxation, and in fact, the right to interstate taxation was recently expanded in South Dakota v. Wayfair, Inc. (2018) when the Court was already conservative-leaning.

The plain text of the Constitution often does not mean what laypeople think it means.
Kinda shocked a native-born American who attended 2 elite schools here didn't fully grok the implications of our federalist system. You gotta take the good with the bad my friend!
There's a whole range of applications where it makes sense.
Since it is very well readable in full sunlight, e-ink is very suitable for low refresh aircraft displays. I suspect the same could apply for all kinds of HMIs which are used outdoors.
Property taxes are indirectly included in the CPI through owner's imputed rent.

https://www.bls.gov/cpi/questions-and-answers.htm
On the topic of security, I am surprised there aren’t more safeguards for marketplace actions. I work in a larger organization and see that folks very much want to pull in actions that solve an immediate need without any type of vetting process. These actions are part of your build pipeline and can pose a substantial security threat.

Dependabot does not currently scan for outdated or vulnerable marketplace actions. It’s difficult for Enterprise Orgs to ensure only vetted actions are used. I think this area of GitHub is ripe for security and governance improvements.
UI Browser Will Be End-of-Lifed in October
This Instagram page must be so exhausting to maintain.
Same. I use Go for work because that's what the company uses, but I can't imagine coding in it for "fun". Elm + Scala feel much better to me.
This is just someone who started a business and didn't do 10 minutes of basic research. It's not a secret that if you do business in a state (eg by hiring an employee), you will be required to register in that state and pay taxes.

Every state does this.
It's an excellent measure of the typical societal well-being in fact.

On average there is a strong correlation between the two globally and there has been during the entire post WW2 era at the least. It is the rare outlier that doesn't see a correlation between societal well-being and GDP per capita.

Shall we stroll down the list of high GDP nations? Surely it's unnecessary, as we all know the names. Oh ok let's do it anyway.

Ireland $101k | Norway $99k | Switzerland $96k | Qatar $84k | Brunei $80k | Singapore $79k | US $76k | Iceland $74k | Denmark $68k | Australia $67k | Sweden $58k | Netherlands $57k | Canada $57k | Israel $54k | Finland $53k | Austria $53k | Belgium $52k | Germany $51k | New Zealand $50k | UAE $50k | UK $50k | France $44k | Japan $39k | Kuwait $39k | Taiwan $36k | South Korea $35k | and so on

And everyone also knows what the bottom 1/4 or 1/3 of GDP per capita nations look like and how horrible their societal well-being is. The correlation is blatant. It's not perfect of course, it is however very high.

There are no great societal paradises where the GDP per capita is ~$500-$5,000. And there are no countries that are like Zimbabwe, Somalia or North Korea but have $30k+ GDP per capita figures.

The only serious weak spots in the correlation, primarily, are the US being ranked so highly on GDP per capita (but being below eg Finland on societal well-being), and the couple of smaller resource rich nations like Qatar where human rights are weak. For the vast majority of nations the correlation is quite sound and consistently so.