skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Except in the US you still have to file your taxes. They might be the simplest to do, but you still have to. Which typically means people end up using turbotax etc, and paying for the product.

Spain's equivalent is basically 'we know you have a kid and this income so here you so. just sign on the dotted line'
If you prefer to do your federal taxes yourself (and/or want to crosscheck the free fillable forms) the following site provides an Excel approach:

https://sites.google.com/view/incometaxspreadsheet/home

I use it every year and find it to be great.
> released on Twitter

Ok... is there a link to that?
There are a number of possible ways to approach it. Based on the description, you seem justified in getting more than 50/50 equity. But it may not be as "late stage" as you imagine.

For example, your description is very product-focused. I wonder whether there are users/customers? Revenue? Product/market fit? If I were a potential co-founder, lacking these would indicate it is still very early/"risky". If these are not present even after 1-2 years of work, perhaps a co-founder is 100% necessary to accelerate its growth.

Another aspect is whether the co-founder (and yourself) will be paid a market salary via the "pre-seed". If so, that could justify less equity. Or the opposite -- if you're paid more, that could more palatably justify a more even split!

Ultimately, I would just be honest and upfront with your potential co-founder about it. As long as you are both on the same page and believe it's fair, that is what matters most.
Samsung loses bid to pause Caltech patent lawsuit over wireless chips
Why on earth they had to invent a new language with another crazy syntax that reinvents everything?
With such an incredible team at MSR that did everything from new languages and compilers, couldn't they have know better?
Mostly I do. Anyone can be a coal miner. Just show up and start digging. I'm not saying coal miners don't have their expertise and maybe their salary would go up if no one wanted to do the job but "in general" you get paid by how hard it is to find someone qualified to do the job.

All these companies are in layoff mode but because they are trying to be frugal during the recession but none of them actually want to layoff that talent, each of which was one of 100 or of 1000 resumes sent to the company. Google gets 3 million applications a year and still has trouble finding people that can do the jobs they're hiring for.

Queue rant about how the interviewing process sucks.

Maybe it does, but of the people I've interviewed only about 1 in 10 is a clear "yes, this person can code well", 2 are "probably ok" and 7 are "based on the performance/style/etc... from the leetcode question I wouldn't let you near my code base..... maybe you'd rock but you didn't show me you'd rock. You made all kinds of basic mistakes that makes it seem like you don't actually code much or you write lots of bugs. Sorry, I was totally routing for you. I would 100% love to hire you but you failed to show me you can code". That's irrespective of if they "solved it".
I think the author intended it as a valid criticism, though it's hard to tell given the passé stylistic choice that calls back to early internet (I am nostalgic for those days sometimes). However I disagree with that as it's just one more, fairly silly, obstacle to overcome. If this "replacement" ever did, theoretically, been seen as suitable, all that would happen would be that attack code would suddenly see an increase in quality.

If you've done any research into quality malware, exploits and the like (both domestic and foreign), the quality and often elegant solutions they come up with will not be somehow kneecapped by an emoji. It also only needs to support inputting one emoji in the event that someone uses this out in the field; not hard to do in shellcode.
Thanks for posting. I didn't realize that this had been such a hot topic recently.
Okay, those were just topics discussed extensively in uni courses. It's pretty clear what to expect but seems people just rediscover it like something new now and then.
Yeah, I always read this as "bottom emoji" in my internal monologue, and that is how I search for it if I need to copy & paste it on a laptop or desktop lol.
I wish Windows was different in that regard. On Windows, large pages are borderline unusable.

They need special security privilege SeLockMemoryPrivilege, since vista introduced UAC most processes don't have that privilege.

Windows is unwilling to page large pages to disk, easy to fail with out of memory errors. I don't think there's a good reason for that: it's much faster to load 2MB from disk on modern computer, then it was to load 4kb from disk on i386.
> What's the purpose of your math?

To show that $100b in reserves may not be that much if you need to keep the company afloat for 168k people.
If you believe that a bad manager can sink a project and a bad CEO can sink a company by making the wrong decisions, then you kinda have to accept the flip side too.
lots of interesting tools in here. saved
What’s the difference? (Genuine question)
Fair point, and I would love databricks guys to do similar because rising tides etc

Still amazing a group all went on to so many things - maybe like the guys at PARC
Apps in general get better over time. As a platform having autoupdates will improve the average experience of your users as they will be using better apps that have less issues and less crashes.

Yes, the play store already does this.
Yeah, so one thing that is pretty naturally frustrating is that hiring processes are incredibly unfair in the sense that perceived quality of candidates by the process is often wildly unrelated to how they would perform at the job and, in particular, the processes often rate poorly many candidates who would make excellent hires. This unfairness does not feel good but I think it would be worse to require companies to be fair (likely their definition of fairness would be bad and processes would converge more meaning all companies were competing for exactly the same candidates) and it is reasonable for companies for these processes to be unfair as their goal is to hire N candidates who meet their bar, rather than to find all candidates who meet their bar and randomly select N of them. I do think it is bad for companies but I think it’s bad that the processes are ineffective (ie missing excellent candidates; overpaying for mid candidates due to competing with everyone else for the same people) rather than because they are unfair.

One thing to note about the article is the person seems to have had some reasonable variation in interview process between companies. Perhaps if the hypothetical dry cleaner management software maker applied to a company that did work-sample tests, they would get a chance to shine by being good at programming and taking feedback and working on actual problems independently for example, even if they didn’t do a good job at passing the candidate screen or doing ‘algorithms’ at a more traditional company.
As GPUs demonstrated there is still some space for other shenanigans like parallelisation. Not everything has to be about pure silicon cost gains
It turns out that paying an accountant is a good defense against audits if your tax situation has any complexity at all
I love the idea that the secret goal of the World Economic Forum is to subvert capitalism. Again, bringing us back to the question of whether the modal critic of the WEF knows what the WEF is in the first place.
CEO salaries are decided by boards of directors, who are often other CEOs who have a vested interest in maintaining this system of extremely inflated compensation. It's essentially an aristocracy and is pretty unique to the US[1].

[1] https://www.wtwco.com/en-US/Insights/2020/12/ceo-pay-landsca...
> However, in the real world software engineering is hardly ever just about programming.

Which is why i like to talk about 10x engineers rather than just focusing on the development part.
Am I the only one surprised that he only owns 1.76m shares?

I assumed it would be more...
Same here. My first job in the freshly ex-communist Czechia was for Otis, an American company that entered the local Czech market for cheap labour (cheap from their perspective).

I got about $1 / hour from Otis and would have violently opposed anyone trying to "protect me" from that job.

The idea that they should have paid me $10 / hour instead (or whatever "fair" number in line with US wages) is laughable. Such fabulously sweet job would have been immediately snatched up by my boss' boss, or someone from their family – I'd never even hear of it.
Depending on your budget, a lot of houses/flats in the UK can barely get above that even with heating on full blast. So I’d say yes unfortunately.
Yes, but F-Droid isn't on the play store so it wouldn't matter if they get Google's blessing to upload the app to the Play Store. They can just distribute the app with background installing capabilities from their website like they already do.
Given Heinlein’s unconventional personal life, I don’t think it’s much of mystery what’s sealed.
Ok, shameless plug. I did a pretty “popular” version of this.

https://knight-queen-game.netlify.app/
They're just a few tens of thousands of ops away from deploying the HypnoDrones.
I’m guessing the vast majority of people that hate the IRS don’t have any reason based on personal experience. They are people that believe things like “The IRS is hiring 87,000 new armed enforcement agents”.
Death of the Generalist Seed VC
Have you considered arguing with the other WEF critic on this thread who seems to believe the WEF is a front for global communism?
this is so hilarious and cute
Well, it's the one thing the directions didn't actually say: The goal of the game. I'd be shocked if anyone went to that site and could figure out what to do.
That's 11 out of 35. A 31% hit rate. Still not bad.

Being more selective (3 to 5 places instead of 35) could've maybe gotten a 75%+ hit rate (but also might've missed the best one).
And why won't that be the configuration ActivityPub converges to? Why will people be signing up for random group instances rather than just pushing a button to get their own? That's what happened with blogs. Why won't it happen here?
"Nay, good sir, do not dismiss the AI's composition as mere puffery. 'Tis true, the machine doth not possess the soul of the Bard, yet it doth strive to emulate his style and grace. And who are we, mere mortals, to deem what does or does not sound like Shakespeare? Let us not forget, he too was but a man, with faults and flaws. Let us instead embrace the evolution of language and the advancements of technology, for they may lead us to new heights of literary splendor."
I don't want to freeze the object, I want to have a handle that doesn't allow me to modify the object. (Whether that would be at all possible in JS is another question.)

So

let foo = {field:1};
immutable let bar = foo;
bar.field = 2; // error
foo.field = 3; // ok

This is what I actually want when I think "const". I don't really care that you can reuse a variable, or re-seat a value. What I care about is that I recieve an object and sometimes want to modify it, and sometimes I want to make sure it stays the same. Maybe somebody else holds a reference and I don't want to surprise them.

(The inverse problem is when I have a function that takes something like a string or a number, and I want to change that from within the function. There is no way to pass a value type by reference. You have to encapsulate the value in an object and pass that. It would be cool if you could say something like `function double(ref x) { &x = x*2; }`.)
I am referring exactly to "must be connected to the server to do any source control work. There is no local repository..." which is plainly wrong by any means.

SVN client supports equally well as "svn:" protocol as "file:". Server is not mandatory with SVN - you can work with repositories on your local HD or network share.
I've worked on (alleged) sota delta compressors before and was suprised how much code is needed here to enable OMP parallelism & LZMA compression. It could also just be the difference in delta technique, I will definitely look through it some more if I have the time.

For reference the tool I worked on (gdelta) is about roughly 700 sloc: https://github.com/i404788/gdelta
It's really something to watch people struggle to shrug off the cognitive dissonance and just... realize some things that some others have been preaching for a while, that's all I'll say.

Maybe 2022's unexpected doses of increased class consciousness is going to extend in 2023. (Of course it is, post-pandemic trends only show signs of increasing, strap in!)
We started using feature flags to disable, rather than enable capabilities. Turn them off and see if anyone notices. Ramp up the rate. If you identify some cohort that needs the feature, keep it on for them, but isolate them until you figure out a migration plan to close whatever gap you may have (or at least some way to massage unhappy customers if you aren't going to support some legacy thing).
Twitter will translate and recommend tweets from people in other countries
It wasn’t clear to me whether that 0.60 accounted for the fact (mentioned in the overview) that only 10% of photons reaching the eye actually make it through.
Woah there. Neither a "not guilty" verdict nor a case overturned on appeal means that the person was actually innocent. It means that there is not enough evidence that was judged admissible to convict. (This is a consequence of "innocent if not proven guilty" - or at least, not jailed if not proven guilty.)

Putting prosecutors on trial for something less than clear prosecutorial over-reach is, in my view, a major mistake. Perhaps the bar should be lower than it is, but there's no way it should be as low as "didn't get a conviction" or "overturned on appeal".
> enterprises required social interactions to reach personal success changed society to a structure where collaboration was rewarded much more so than violence, which was punished.

One big hole in your argument - mexican cartels. Modern industrial society, loads of collaboration inside the cartel, very violent people achieve massive success. I am confident that life of a medieval farmer was far less violent that living with a violent cartel.

Can you actually bring any empirical evidence that victorian-age factory life was more peaceful than agrarian life 100 years prior? I think you are engaging in self-delusion, or comparing today to 500 years ago - which is unfair
FFS, you felt the need to defend a convicted arms dealer?
He confessed to cheating online, not over the board. People have used shoddy statistics to allege that he cheated over the board, but none of them have held up under scrutiny.

I'm not saying the guy is a saint, but low-effort cheating in low-stakes online games by looking at an engine in the background seems substantially different than what would be required to cheat completely undetectably in major tournaments with many people watching.
It is far from clear which will be the cheapest storage medium, in each place. Count on people to install whatever is cheapest where they are at the time they build. Batteries are expensive right now, but costs are still falling. It is conceivable that a substantial fraction of installed storage will actually end up batteries.

My favorite medium, at the moment, is heavy weights hung from a disused supertanker moored over a sea trench. Each weight would have its own cable reel, with clutch and brake, sharing a shaft with the rest, the shaft driven by a winch and motor/generator kept out of the weather. A net full of ironstone riprap would serve for the weight. The winch would be whatever is the biggest available off the shelf, with the weights chosen to match the winch. Maybe 1000 tons each?

A supertanker is wide enough for multiple shafts, and you can rack together multiple supertankers. A smallish one can hold up 100,000 tons.

Taiwan has an excellent trench right off the SE shore, but there are a lot of near-shore trenches, off SE India, SW Mexico, E Korea, SE Japan, and even Monterey and Monaco. Probably a deep trench is not even needed for viability; 1000 meters is probably plenty.

A supertanker seems to run $50-100M new, probably a small fraction as scrap. There will be a lot of supertankers to scrap; it is already starting.
Other FAANGs have largely transitioned to dollar value awards, meaning the amount you vest is predetermined and disconnected from the stock price.

Corporate bean counters did the math and realized they were leaving money on the table, on average. One ant's contribution doesn't typically make or break a bigco.
Dying Out of Sight: Hikikomori in an Aging Japan (Video, 2021)
Yes this is another instance of the financial tail wagging the economic dog.

Our economy has become completely over-financialized, and in this situation the fed have decided that inflation needs to be contained, and are inducing a recession to do it. They can do this quite reliably because of the level of financialization, companies are in debt to the hilt even if they don't need to be (it's because shareholder value), etc.
This is regularly deprived for the mentally ill.

Either humans have this right or don't.
Recursive Middle Manager Hell
My understanding is that elderberry is not really the elder referred to in European folk stories.
Absolutely! :)

Lots is rooted in Edward Bernays.

Can go back further than we like.

The first time we experience something it’s enriching to ask are we the fist to ever think about this or experience it? Do it and you can connect to many more perspectives to enjoy your experience even more.

Shout out to msn culture, irc culture and bbs culture for laying the groundwork of currents and waves to come.

Anything earlier?
> They're incarcerating some financial idiots like SBF and Holmes

That is some peak HN right there. Prisons are too full of bankers, amirite?
Sensationalist click bait titles have taken over more or less completely at this point. :(
I've seen a number of places use the "Build Number" from their CI tool on the mainline branch to represent a similar notion. Presuming you've "centralized" things, this tends to work well.
Any way to use a drone?
>They wanted to replicate what the big tech companies were doing with neural networks, without the complex interface.

This is utterly wrong. What data bricks did has nothing to do with neural network. Probably Forbes wanted to mean Hadoop. I am happy for the team though.
Dry cleaner app guy maybe but insurance guy for sure.
I was thinking, dude I can just move the knight between the same two squares, this game is easy.
I ran into a service where the password entry input enforced a shorter length than the change password.

If I pasted my password it failed, but if I auto-filled from bitwarden it succeeded. Took me weeks to figure out why...
These old units are common in engineering applications across North America, the US especially. When I was in chemical engineering school, we had to be effectively bilingual in terms of units. We even used some bizarre units like the lb-mol, defined as the number of atoms in 12 lbs of carbon-12 (ie 454 times more than a gram mol).
I am guessing they are not other players live but probably recordings of older sessions, I did try to follow a few people and jump around to communicate but couldn't verify any response... quite a beautiful project in any case
Large companies’ CEOs need to be wealthy in order to be in the club with others whose influence might matter. Wealth == Power.
Neither?
My prediction is the latter will retire coming up and have the next one clean the mess.

Personal opinion and jaded perspective of course. Disclaimer: don't like shortsighted "follow the shiny thing" decisions. I haven't seen evidence the CEO of Google has positioned the company for the long term or to survive. Namely, the bus would have been going fine if not better without some if not all of the Google leadership on the wheel.

I hope I am wrong.
Very cool experience!

Firefox. Not sure how to select my audio out device. I think it used the wrong one.
Chance discovery could extend batteries: replace tape that causes self‑discharge
If by Unicode you mean UCS-2 or UTF-16 though it applies.
M$FT laid off 10K workers while it boasted record-breaking profits. Sure they'll try to justify it. Doens't make it _not_ obscene.
What tool are you using to save similar resources?
Was hoping someone had done this already, thanks.
I sometimes interview just to stay somewhat sharp. I interview with Amazon every time they ask, which is every 6-12 months, and they actually gave me Leetcode Hard last go around in October. Usually they give me Leetcode Medium. It's always for a SWE II role so that doesn't explain the increase in difficulty. Makes sense they are being more selective ahead of layoffs though. I'm sure someone high up knew the layoffs were coming about a year in advance.
Jump in morse code :)
Parallelization and GPUs were the hot story 10-5 years ago, and require(d) a pretty substantial shift in the software stack for less-general gains. You're still hoping the cost-per-transistor goes down. I think recent 400W+ GPUs have shown that we're coming close to the end of this particular S-curve. The big question is whether any of the tricks we have left are broad enough and strong enough to address the economic problem.
Multiline Comments in 218 programming languages
> Intuit does not "keep tax codes complex" -- your legislators do that all on their own.

Lobbying, my friend. Intuit spends money to actively lobby to keep the tax code complex.

Don't trust my word? Google it, or start with this [0].

[0]: https://www.nbcnews.com/business/taxes/turbotax-h-r-block-sp...
It's the type of thing that is bad PR, because it makes a headline that looks bad, but really the two things are very separate.

Business as usual vs getting rid of excess staff, not sure why it matters what the Execs were doing the day before, either the company has too many staff that it does not need or it doesn't, everything else is irrelevant.
I think the problem these days is that it’s so hard to fire someone. I’m not sure if it’s legal, cultural or otherwise, but I constantly see coworkers who are at best useless and often detrimental being kept on and on and on.

So the game becomes to avoid hiring someone like that at all costs, because once they are hired they are impossible to get rid of.

I wish employment was more like contracting - you give someone a trial for a few weeks and then end it it’s not a mutual fit. No long interview necessary - the job is the interview.
That's ignoring a lot of evidence we have of police officers planting fake evidence. See for example https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/melissasegura/josh-tepf... where about 300 people in Chicago alone have been exonerated due to cops faking evidence.
> They charge $14.99 for the state filing. Usually a coupon code available. Or go to the state's website (CA at least), and file that for free, too. But for the convenience of not having to input my info again, I'll pay their fee.

Some states don't offer a free-file option. My memory, which is at least a few years out of date, is that MI doesn't.
I deal with imposter syndrome by asking tons of questions and being totally up front about what I don't know - it helps that I have a sense of pride for what I know I can do - I'm a better lateral mover than most and that's helped me be useful where others struggle so it's okay when I'm struggling and they have the answers. Eliminating ego is a constant piece of the work.

The survivor bias is one that I think on pretty frequently. A friend that I mentored is a lot better than I am in technical ways but struggles in some of those areas that have nothing to do with tech - emotional regulation and people skills - and it's made the journey very difficult. I wonder frequently how I could have better taught those skills.

Edit to add: Homeless to senior eng? Holy cow! I wanna hear that story!