skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's interesting to compare this comment with one of the other top comments on HN right now, an explanation of how Google's culture of promoting users for solving "hard problems" is ultimately a terrible, terrible strategy for their users and their company. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31262428

As engineers, we should to step away from our egos and our desire to do something "interesting" and focus on where our solutions actually solve real problems, like Stripe's products (often, not always!) do. Whether something is "middleware" or "not interesting" has nothing to do with how useful or valuable it is.

I'm sure there are plenty of people working at Plaid who are really interested and dedicated in working on the kind of middleware that their co-founder is denigrating here. It's a shame they have to work for a company where that kind of polish is pushed aside in favor of ambiguous "innovation". As an engineer and a customer, I know which kinds of companies and engineers I want on the other side of the table when considering business partners, and—going solely from your comment—it sounds like Plaid isn't one of those companies.
If I was leaking something of this magnitude I would be *extremely* paranoid, and frankly require that Politico cannot publish the PDF itself, but must retype the entire document in-full and display it on their website. (Let's hope there aren't different versions of the document floating around with slightly altered sentences to track down a leaked version).

Reality Winner was caught partly by The Intercept's poor opsec, and investigators reviewing the microdots on the PDF scan.

https://blog.erratasec.com/2017/06/how-intercept-outed-reali...
How about the IRS send us a filled out tax return instead... and we can amend it.
So you can do that if you want, you would probably need some USB hubs to accomplish, and probably a logical way to map out your serial connections, but it should be doable.

https://docs.pikvm.org/usb_serial/

Or in the case of how I did it, i setup a multi-port KVM, that allowed me to manage x number of devices (with video) from a single unit. In this instance, a serial connection was used from the pi to the actual KVM which allowed me to switch inputs etc, from the gui.

https://docs.pikvm.org/multiport/

https://docs.pikvm.org/ezcoo/

https://docs.pikvm.org/multiport/
I meant that today is a different day from yesterday, and the day before..

It's a common English idiom.

I don't have the reference links handy but the TL;DR is that Stripe has played dirty lots of times before. The formula is:

1. Pretend they want to acquire a company with a product they like

2. Then, once they waste enough of the competitors time (buying buffer enabling them to figure out the secret sauce)

3. Clone stamp the competitors product, fucking them over royally. Also leverage the tremendous public reach, visibility, and clout of Stripe itself to promote their clone.

It's a very ugly and distasteful way of doing business. It aligns with the values of the Farenghi on Star Trek.

It's naiive on the victims part, sure, but Stripe is dishonest and shan't be trusted.
> If your business cannot pay a living wage, it should not exist

Says who?

There are countless people on this site who run businesses that don't even pay themselves. Are they under moral obligation to shut down their own business?

The majority of minimum wage work is done as supplemental income to a household (teenagers or spouses or partner). There would be a large subset of people who would not qualify for social safety programs but who would not be better off without these positions.
I fully acknowledged groups beyond my own --- and the fact that corporations acknowledge and abuse these groups vulnerability to social pressure.

After all, this is what advertising (i.e. Google) is all about --- coercing people to act a certain way and buy certain things in order to fit into a particular social stereotype.

Which is worse --- being socially stunted or socially vulnerable?
Ask HN: Working for a US company while being based in Europe
Is it possible to work for a US company (as a software engineer) while being based in the EU? If so, how is this typically done if the company has no presence in the EU? Do you have to create and operate a company in order to be able to bill, or can you become an employee? If so, how would you pay income tax?
Sure, it is spectrum, still I note that things cost quite a bit more and people earn quite a bit less than US. So I am not sure even if free tax filing were there, Canadians have it better than US.

For EU, when government put pressure on companies to be polite I need to learn that end result being beneficial to citizens or just politicians and bureaucracy.
> Says who?

Voters and dollars spent on political speech.

> The majority of minimum wage work is done as supplemental income to a household (teenagers or spouses or partner).

The characteristics of lowest wage earners does not justify underpaying labor. It is an excuse by business to underpay.
“I Have to Admit, I Have a Low Opinion of Human Beings”
Previous discussion, currently on the front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31264618
I wrote Programming Bitcoin for O'Reilly and it was published 3 years ago. Some observations:

* You won't make that much money directly, but I have probably made a good amount indirectly. The credibility from having published an O'Reilly book is not to be underestimated.

* I got the animal I wanted (honey badger) by asking for it. I did justify the ask by showing my editor the Bitcoin honeybadger memes.

* The book writing process was a grind. Because my book was so focused on programming exercises, I wrote my own suite of testing tools to make sure everything was consistent. It felt more like a software engineering project than a bunch of blog posts.

* I have since introduced more people to my intake editor and they've published their own O'Reilly books.

* I don't get much of a discount on my own book. I just buy them through Amazon.

* They give you a framed picture of your cover when your book publishes.
A collection of mathematical art: a 3D signed distance function dataset
The investor class is anyone with a 401k
It might be a popular opinion because I make more than this and have increased my earnings over the years from $2.90 per hour to what I earn today, BUT why does anyone think the MINIMUM wage should be this high? DO the same people expect to give me a similar wage increase to offset what will inevitably bring on higher costs and probable inflation?

I mean assuming minimum wage were $10 and we raise it to $25 arbitrarily, that's a 150% increase. At the BOTTOM. Now everyone who wasn't earning minimum wage has just had their earning power slashed. What about the employees that worked hard in school or through a series of jobs to get up to $25 per hour? Now they are making "minimum" wage at a potentially high-experience-necessary job? Does this mean that my and other people immediately and automatically deserve a 150% salary increase to keep the earning-power relative? So someone who was earning $100,000 now automatically deserves $250,000?

What about costs of goods and services? Do we automatically increase these by 150% too? Gas that is $4 now $10? Rents at $1000, now $2,500? How does that help the minimum wage earners? Sure they have a higher wage, but now costs (ie inflation) has just skyrocketed keeping them and their buying power exactly where it was previously. And if EVERYONE'S wages weren't increased those not on minimum wage (assuming their wages didn't get the 150% bump) just lost out bigly.

I am ALL FOR fair wages for work. But resetting and arbitrarily raising the minimum wage doesn't work for a sustainable long term solution. Instead, why not pressure companies to minimize profits thereby reducing costs so lower wage earners can afford the basics and hopefully some extra comforts.

Why not provide more financial education so lower income workers don't get caught in credit card/debt and paycheck loan traps that keep them poor. Let's put more tax dollars to work in low income neighborhoods and areas.

I feel there are so many other ways to lift people out of poverty traps, but arbitrarily raising the minimum wage only looks good on a piece of paper/paycheck. In the long run it just keeps people in the same position and hurts those higher up the ladder. And yes I know this last part sounds elitest, but that is not my intent. I am only saying that this hurts EVERYONE'S buying power in the long run.
For purely sequential algorithms I agree, fewer work steps means less energy used and less time spent.

But the picture is very different when it comes to parallel algorithms. There often is a tradeoff between doing more redundant work to reduce the latency and finish faster overall at the expense of more energy being used.

One example is the "scan" operation on GPUs. There are lots of different algorithms to do it which form a gradient between fast and efficient. For reference see page 2 of this paper:
https://research.nvidia.com/publication/2016-03_single-pass-...
More often than not, the investors take some losses (foreign investors are usually wiped out), and the company is reconstituted with the same executives holding similar positions (and equity in the new company). This is done because large companies are usually politically well-connected, and the various levels of government in China prefer stability over rule-of-law.
Electric Hydrofoil Boat, ‘It feels like we’re flying’
Average transaction fee on bitcoin is about $1.50 USD which is low for bitcoin. If you use a second layer you can only transact on some tiny channel, you still have to sync with the main chain. A second layer is very good for sending one person 10,000 small payments, which is not a real use case.

https://bitinfocharts.com/comparison/bitcoin-transactionfees...

Don't forget that bitcoin still has the throughput of a dialup modem.

https://bitinfocharts.com/comparison/size-btc.html#1y
Nothing capitalistic about this. Super complex taxes are a problem created by the Government.

Get rid of the income tax and switch to a simple sales tax and most returns would be eliminated
> In other words, aren’t you capping junior hires to come from the bottom ~60%?

Why do you think you need the top 40%?
Please don’t take this personally, but this isn’t very helpful advice.

I’ve learned how to do many things in my life, and I’ve come to appreciate that it’s very easy to practice the wrong thing and never make any progress.

Another way to phrase my question might be, “What and how should I practice to develop my music reading skills?”
Unsurprising - AWS has been the front-runner for a while now. They have been aggressively marketing their capabilities to the US government and are well-positioned to win this type of contract.

Whoever wins these contracts, I hope that taxpayers get a good deal - not that we have much choice in the matter. For example, my company, Usage.AI, cuts AWS bills by up to 57% using Reserved Instances, but without any lock-in.

At the scale of $10 billion, every percentage point cut is worth $100 million. With the average business wasting 35% on their AWS bill, that's $3.5 billion of potential savings that could be going back into the taxpayer's pockets (https://www.flexera.com/blog/cloud/aws-costs-how-much-are-yo...).

But I digress.

AWS is clearly the leader in cloud computing, and they have been for some time. They have made significant investments in their infrastructure and their team, and it shows.
"Making traditional light switches smart", the switches are not smart, they are dumb on/off switches that cut the power to the bulb.

People want this because they already have them and they come in a lot of designs that are usually used all over the home (and may not be available anymore) Running an extra wire to existing switches is often complicated.

You can buy smart bulbs that work with an app but if you switch off the power the app wont be able to switch them back on.

If you add a smart component behind the switch it can bypass the switch but then the switch cant be used to switch off the light.

You get 4 states pretty much:

The smart component would have to listen to the switch, if it changes state it should switch the light.

00) If the switch was off and the light was off it should turn the light on when you switch the switch on.

10) If the switch was on and the light was off it should invert and turn the light on when the switch is switched off.

01) If the switch was off and the light was on, it should also invert and turn the light off when the switch is turned on.

11) If the switch was on and the light was on it should turn the light off when you switch the switch off.

Powering it is also an issue as there is usually only a + and a switching wire running to the switch, no - or ground.
And whether or not we ever know the truth, such as it is, it's pretty clear to me that the companies involved sincerely believe their positions at an executive level and that BBW editors really believe their position for whatever reason. The whole thing is very strange.
Roberts should simply have the FBI ask each clerk if they leaked the document.

If the clerk says yes, fire them.

If the clerk says no, they are either telling the truth or committing a felony. Would the real leaker risk catching a felony charge if they don't know whether the FBI actually knows the identity of the leaker?

If the clerk refuses to answer, apply "adverse inference" and fire them, because they are either the leaker or are hindering an investigation.
I bring up cloudflare because the technologies involved with Tailscale are really cloudflare core competencies. Cloudflare runs 1.1.1.1/WARP which is a massive dns server and wireguard VPN, respectively. They already have Cloudflare Access. It’s a natural fit. It’s pretty easy to imagine that cloudflare is better positioned to steal customers from Tailscale than Cisco, F5, or Fortinet.

Cloudflare needs to solve two problems: they need to introduce a free tier of Access that doesn’t use the CDN and creates direct connections between endpoints (to basically remove all operating costs), and they need to make the onboarding process for hobbyists easier instead of having a “contact sales” link on their homepage for these products. That’s doable.
Seems to be a conure trait. I have a green cheek that's also like that. Won't poop on us (except by accident or out of spite), but our budgie really doesn't care where he poops.
No, because banks don't care about security.
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well maybe if nature would stop trying to asphyxiate me, and stop sending bugs which bite me and suck my blood preferentially over others, I would visit more. as of right now, i've learned that i am persona-non-grata anywhere there is not air conditioning.
Note that I said "anonymized".

The first step should be to separate the identity from the data. The phone's ID is plenty for research purposes, keep the name out of it.
That's not L4 vs L6, that's start in 2015 vs 2108 or whatever.
For real. This is how the system ought to work. If they have the resources to come after you if you accidentally filled something out wrong, they have the resources to fill it out right for you in the first place. The tax system in the USA is nothing short of a farce.
They opened to everybody too soon.
Yes, and the government learns a lesson.
As stated in TFA and throughout this thread, moving the burden to the ICs means they will be incentivized to focus on Promo Packet instead of real work.

No offense intended, but in your comment it comes off a bit selfish and bears the hallmarks of a classic archetype of terrible manager. I'd never willingly work for you. Being in management isn't for everyone, it's a people-focused domain. The whole job is about supporting the team and setting things up for successful outcomes.

There is nothing wrong with being an individual contributor. If your organization limits how far ICs can go, take this as a sign of toxicity and consider finding a higher quality organization to join.
"Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness which they have prescribed;

To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless!"

- Isaiah 10:1-2

Seems to me we got an awful lot of that going on these days.
Most people don't have super complex taxes, there's no reason the IRS can't just send them an itemized bill every April, that you can either attest to the correctness of, and pay, or contest by doing a full filing.

Progressive income taxes aren't what make tax filing a pain.
> it reduced the bias in the system from ICs writing up their own packets,

and replaced it with manager bias.
How much longer are we just going to keep eating up whatever the Stripe PR machine churns out? They did a great job with payments but a lot of their auxiliary products are just worse versions of other businesses.
And if you ever do want to edit the code, you have to know the name of every non-ASCII symbol the codebase uses if you want to type out those same symbols without copying and pasting them. If you're not familiar with the material, entering a character like ξ can be a real challenge, and is actually more keystrokes than just typing "xi".
How do people feel about Prom/Grafana? I can figure out most things, but I've had nothing but problems with these tools for years. I assume I'm the problem, because I never hear anything but high praise from anyone else. But for me it's pure friction every time I touch them and I can't figure out why.
There is a whole industry around improving digital services the US Government provides (and State governments as well).

Check out 18F / USDS sometime.
> Sorry but shouldn't you have just taken the initiative and fixed the bug yourself

Why should I spend a week learning a different domain when someone with experience in that code can possibly fix the bug in an hour? Passing the buck to the right person is the correct answer when you are not an expert and someone else is. Passing the buck too many times happens very rarely, most of the time it is the correct answer, so long as you pass it to the right person.

I can go into anyone's code and fix a misspelling. However if the problem is less obvious someone with experience can take a few days off my time just because they don't have to figure out how the code is supposed to work before figuring out why it doesn't do that.
But isn't that just part of Wireguard itself? In the end that's what's happening in my case when I exchange data through Wireguard between my flat and the one of my parents... .
Fed lifts rates by half point, starts balance sheet reduction June 1
Gotta love this spicy thread
I’ve seen zero w go for like $50 which is just crazy.

The new, higher ram models are more than used optiplex with i5s.

I don’t really understand who is paying $50 for a Zero or why.
An argument (all be it, probably not a great one) for funding smaller and less impactful disease research is that major diseases are likely to see research from private medicine (because that's where the money is).
I mean, the whole point of having an economy in the first place is so that people have food and shelter and other amenities. If it can’t do that for the population in the aggregate, it’s broken. Raising the minimum wage would cause some decrease in the amount of resources going to everyone else (comment if you want my mathematical reasoning, otherwise it’s an exercise for the reader). But I’m ok with that.
So "People sometimes ask me to describe the differences between Nebula and Tailscale" and the answer is "performance and scale", but you don't have clear comparisons for those numbers?
Twitter is not exactly a shining light on the hill as far as being a good business.

Facebook is also starting to see the issue with being a one trick pony.

But as for as Google, how many failed “other bets” have they been throwing money at since they were founded?

Google was founded in 1998. About the same time that Apple was close to bankruptcy.

One year they introduced three messaging platforms. How many failed first party phone initiatives have they had including buying Motorola?

Not to mention Google Fiber that left city streets ruined with “micro trenching” (https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/02/googl...)

Since then, Apple has grown the Mac business, iPhone, iPad, “wearables”, and has a growing services business.

Microsoft built Azure, Xbox and pivoted with Office365.

Amazon (disclaimer I work at AWS), built AWS.

Google has a lot of smart people. But not a good business development strategy.
Sure they can print money and buy more BTC, but at a cost. At some point that cost leads to economic failures.
A good programmer doesn’t take suck their talent from other programmers around them. Giving so much to a handful of establishments sucks up the best researchers and projects
All of articles from this blog are worth archiving and putting in a library in this exact interactive form forever. I never understood mechanical watches before. Now I know exactly how they are made possible. Thanks for explaining it visually while interaction with the visuals.
Rippling and Return of Ambition
I feel such a disconnect from all the comments. Seems most engineers/manager in the comments are pulling by my estimates, $400,000~$1,000,000+ a year arguing over culture. I don't get it because it's not an issue outside of FANG. Seen far more ugly stuff in companies that pay 90% of that in Canada. It explains why there's a big brain drain here.
It’s pretty similar as far as how it works for you.

It may be cheaper to VPN to home vs a cloud server, and you may avoid issues where sites block AWS. You can also securely forward other ports. Sometimes I print or access other services in my house that aren’t internet safe.
Interesting - thanks, I'll take a look at some of these ideas. I don't care a bit about fade-in effects, though it looks like I might still have a "text shift in" effect I can get rid of. It's a nice looking template, and the main problem with too many tweaks is that I'm long, long out of web dev. So I just don't have the current skillset for it.

Pictures aren't an option for my blog. It's very photo heavy as it's a lot of teardowns and analysis, and the bulk of my hacking effort has been ensuring that all the photos are run through the render pipeline and into photosets, to reduce bandwidth. I've debated adding AVIF images, but render time on those is quite obscene compared to jpg/png/webp. I should probably add fallback hyperlinks to the original image if JS is disabled - for now it just displays them inline.
Does ArcticDB support store data in memory, and flush overflown & old data onto disk (or other persistent storage sink)?
Still love my SKX007J though I don't wear it as much once I got in the habit of step counting, maybe I should start wearing two watches...
Most people with a 401k derive a small portion of their income from it.

If >60% of your income comes from your day job, you're not part of the investor class, you're part of the working class.
I don't get the no-escape rule...it should be possible to escape