skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> ...and spend $90k making the software

Well, did you spend the $90k on W2 salaried employees, or to a vendor?

> Essentially, all R&E expenses...

The R&D tax credit was too good to be true anyway.

The crazy loopholes are crazy. What were people expecting?

Congress was not going to let people outsource "R&D", which in the bulk of cases is large companies like Accenture and small companies like bullshit agencies doing straight-up software customization that had little to do with real research or development.

Insofar as it affects startups, the amended law seems to exist explicitly to rein in the pro-forma declarations / reports template-generated by non-specialists.

Every tax or HR related firm in existence has been hawking this bullshit to tech companies for a while. Truly a bunch of parasites.

Congress needs to repeal the R&D tax credit as it exists today and allow people to ordinarily expense whatever it is that they are doing.

If it feels there is a good reason to make the money-to-US-salaries tax-reduced, it should make a simple blanket declaration checkbox for a narrow set of qualifications that would obviate the need of "R&D tax credit specialists."
Meta trims datacenter build bills by $4B with new 'phased' design
Time for some local press coverage on the topic of "why is Killingly so dangerous for children?" with plenty of "the department denied this when asked, but multiple officers spoke to us off the record about the dangers of the town and advised never leaving children unsupervised."
Unschooling works for some, mostly those who have a desire to self-direct. That's not everyone. Some need the assistance of external structure to be successful, and if left entirely on their own will gravitate to less useful things -- consumption that doesn't lead to creation.

Personally, I was homeschooled for a few years of my elementary education, and it helped me jump far ahead of my peers. My siblings homeschooled for a smaller portion of their education, and didn't find it useful. While their academic level didn't drop below their peers, it wasn't enjoyable and they were quite happy to go back to public school.
The EU is literally a government by committee. A kind of technocracy with very little accountability for those making these decisions. The UK has a lot of problems right now, but at least BREXIT helped preserve some sovereignty from that behomoth. That is good for the long term.
It is really a pity Go didn't support the comparable interface from 1.0.
The Go 1.20 change is just a compromise between theory perfection and the pity.
When you draw a trend line that goes up: Yass science is awesome, progress is inevitable!

When you draw a trend line that goes down: Um sweety, that's a heckin fallacy.

> The fallacy is proclaiming that a specific chain of events will occur due to one action.

As I said myself and you rejected, the fallacy is asserting a trend from a single data point. I guess you just like hearing it in your own words more.
Not super interesting and not quite the same thing, but as a teen multiple different parents would not let us walk to local shops or events, insisting on driving us. The reason were the "cops would pick us up" if we were walking somewhere without an adult as teens.
Bringing on a friend, telling them to learn everything the smartest and best engineer on the team knows, and them succeeding at it, honestly sounds like some dream situation. I wish I could just magically have people become a copy of the best engineer on my team

When people talk about nepotism its usually how the underperforming person with personal ties to a manager isn't getting fired, or getting promoted, despite having everyone else do the work for them

If this friend is actually just as good as OP, that's pretty impressive, without connection to OP that needs to ask for better compensation or start interviewing elsewhere
A bow and silver-tipped arrow is a less-effective silver bullet. but is a) better than nothing, so is useful a a defence against werewolves, and b) also useful as proof of concept that demonstrates that silver bullets would be even better.

If there is an analogy, it would be, as in the last para of the article: "(some gun control) is probably not as powerful as a real (effective gun control, like nearly every other developed country has) would be, but it's way easier to make on short notice, or by a single person (US state). Sometimes you need to stop overthinking everything and just try an idea and see if it works."

This all supposes that people would see that the idea works, understand something that they did not before, and change their minds; which I find overly charitable as applied to real-world problems. Dogma, propaganda and wilful blindness to facts known already plays a huge role.
>I am completely flabbergasted as to how this was thought to be a good idea...it seems like it drastically increases the cost of starting a bootstrapped software company in the US, which is just terrible policy in general.

Oh it's a terrible policy for you. Yes, for you, the person who may want to actually create something which threatens the people who own large businesses, this is quite terrible. But for the people with lobbyists who want to make sure competition is made almost impossible to happen, it's just amazing.
Credit card companies issue "points" which is effectively (faux) currency, with which people do arbitrage vs dollars, for a counterexample.
Motion and door sensors tied to lights that come on and adjust with light intensity and time of day is the best automation I've setup. It's so nice to walk into a dark room and have the lights turn on (without blinding you), then turn off when you're gone. Much better than fiddling with dimmers.
Have you asked the people this happened to or are you just making assumptions? It’s important to critically examine our own biases in things like this, particularly if we have no idea why something evokes a strong emotional reaction.
FedSoc is a poison to democracy and sensible society, I can't imagine having another one.
Google opens arms to VMware in the cloud and Microsoft 365 on ChromeOS
Authentication now requires a smartphone or a security key. I have neither...
I've had similar thoughts, but I always land on the asymetry between governments and its populace being the key issue.

If transparency is the norm, governments need to go first.

Since that will never happen, the only solution remains privacy for all, or no government at all.
Here's the link in case anyone's curious: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpywI2WmcqM

I really liked this video, I see your point!
Play Counter Strike 1.6, with full multiplayer, in the browser
>That is uncalled for, I know a ton of people that grew up in Warsaw Pact countries and they could in fact walk to Babushka's Dumpling Shop and back without getting their parents arrested.

Just to clarify, the analogy I'm drawing is to how beyond reproach authority is to the average citizen, not making any point about whether or not Warsaw Pact children could travel freely.
"Would the law you propose have stopped you being abused?"

No. Police are not psychics. They do not stop theoretical crime. They can only respond after crime has happened.
There's an R&D tax credit. See [1]. I would aggressively pursue this option. Much better than a deduction anyway.

1: https://www.hklaw.com/en/insights/publications/2023/01/rd-co...
I accidentally had Developer Tools open when clicking on this link... and even by today's standards what vice.com does with its own site is awful.
Enter the hunter satellites preparing for space war
Have you ever been to a prison? It’s not a randomly selected group. The majority of prisoners are in for serious violent offenses, easily confirmed by looking at the data or speaking to anyone who works in a prison.
This is not the same as the tax credit. That is a different deal. Even if you do not claim the credit at all, you still have to do this amortization.

> Well, did you spend the $90k on W2 salaried employees, or to a vendor?

It wouldn't matter, if the expense is related to the business of developing software, it counts now.
Novelty vs. utility, science vs. belief, and where we are with AI-first products
Most people dont. Thus the ever-growing backlog. This applies to movies, books, games... You enjoy what you can.
Buran was born dead, because it was so expensive, eats all money from programs it could launch.

Examples, Soviets planning space telescope like Hubble; martian sample return; long-duration heavy Venus rover.

Unfortunately, Soviet non-market economy was about 4-5 times smaller than US, so US have money for Shuttle payloads, but Soviets don't have.

BTW, Buran was by design much more expensive than Shuttle.

Because non-reusable parts of Shuttle where cheap SRB's and fuel tank, but expensive LOH-LOX engines saved.
On each launch of Buran sacrificed equivalent to three Zenith rockets (essentially, Energia was unificated with Zenith, side boosters where very similar to Zenith 1st stage, and central block was Hydrogen, but costs similar).
As backwards as it sounds my time in near-autocratic 3rd world I've felt the most free. Worst case scenario the police can be bribed for a crisp $20. As long as someone isn't doing some horrible shit (like real violence) a lot can be overlooked.

>(I actually also think folks here overestimate how hard it is to get guns

Yeah I often imagine myself in the scenario of what to do if I ended up in Schengen or something and without arms. I calculated it would take me about 2 weeks to print an FGC-9 and source the various ammo components (by doing things like using primers from nail gun ammo etc this can be done all from unregulated sources).
Folks in the US are aware of this, it’s all they ever talk about.
Democracy is when the will of the people is implemented in government policy. No state has “democracy” as its form of government. Any process can result in democratic AND non-democratic outcomes. To determine how democratic a state is you must poll its population as compare what they want with what the state does. You cant just read what every republic claims about itself and declare every multiparty republic to be “a democracy” and every single-party state to be a “not democracy”.
Ask HN: Do you feel Apple throttles phones with OS updates?
I bought iPhone 14 pro max. It was zippy until Jan when Apple started pushing new iOS 16 updates. My suspicion is they have a mechanism to slow down the current model slightly so ever so it feels sluggish than the newest model. These phones have bang on hardware and I can’t believe they are the limiting factor in performance.
>No modern government will pass a law that grants its citizens more privacy.

GDPR was passed not that long ago.
Absolutely. The problem is the sane individuals don't become police. The ones convinced the quiet suburb is an evil dangerous place in need of constant vigilance do.
So make a list of things we're not allowed to do.
Reciprocally, how much likelier a chance of success, how much greater would the building be & how much larger the audience, if this industry had open standards & joint efforts? "Create more value than you capture" talks to knowing that you have to give over significant control; "if you love it set it free."
USA does something similar: https://www.uscis.gov/news/alerts/uscis-issues-policy-guidan...
> ...astonished that people without ethics exist

"Moral intelligence" (or "MQ") and "moral cripples".

...are my provisional terms for talking about this.
Pasting what I wrote above:

>Just to clarify, the analogy I'm drawing is to how beyond reproach authority is to the average citizen, not making any point about whether or not Warsaw Pact children could travel freely.
America needs a party representing the public interest of ensuring small government.

Stop centralizing parental authority.
Ok, its official then.
I didn't lose you, don't you get it? You were always lost, just pretending to be found.
Because you have a large number of media outlets. There's at least one media outlet for every relatively big ideology or demographic. And these biases are well understood by people.

With LLMs, you'll probably end up only having 2 or 3 companies, and it wouldn't be surprising if they all end up having silicon valley, left leaning biases.

You can tune Fox news, but you can't use a "right wing chat gpt".
https://insidereport.io

Project Description:
Database of SEC Form 4 filings. Makes it easy to see related filings, filter by company. issue, officer, or keyword. Up to the minute filings.

Testing help:
I'd like to figure out how to make this information more relevant and actionable for existing investment and trading strategies. I'm also pretty early on in the project, and I'm using the NextJS beta + Vercel, so looking for some smoke testing and QA.

Contact info: oliver at insidereport dot io
Just to clarify, I will paste what I wrote above:

>Just to clarify, the analogy I'm drawing is to how beyond reproach authority is to the average citizen, not making any point about whether or not Warsaw Pact children could travel freely.

You could even extend this and say that the level of authoritarianism on display is what I was told Eastern bloc countries were like (and why they were bad).
Yeah antennas need to resonate, not just absorb. A litre of water wouldn't be a very good antenna at 2.4, but it would warm up due to absorption if it is a trong signal. A vhf antenna might make a terrible antenna at 2.4 as well, but it would also warm up in a strong enough signal. Don't belive me? Shove one in a microwave (please don't really).
> This is top 5 tech companies in Canada. If this is the kind of culture promoted here, how are other companies doing?

just because its a top company, doesnt mean it treats ALL its employees better than other companies... Each team is usually a microcosm which runs itself as youve witnessed. The same applies elsewhere, a non-fortune500 company can have great teams and culture. It doesnt need an office slide or a professional chef to be a strong culture.
Let me google that for you...

https://www.prepscholar.com/gre/blog/average-gre-scores/

Social workers scored well below the median percentile in all categories.
I asked ChatGPT to read your question and write an email.

Prompt: Read the following diary entry from a worker. Write an email he could send to his manager outlining his concerns. The goal of the email is to create a productive path forward for the employee to continue in their job while feeling like they are appropriately compensated and fully engaged.

Results:

Subject: Request for a meeting to discuss my concerns about my current situation

Dear [Manager's Name],

I hope this email finds you well. I would like to request a meeting with you to discuss my current situation and concerns at the company.

As you are aware, I have been with the company for the past three years and have consistently given my best effort in my work. In our performance review meeting last year, I was told that I am the best engineer in the organization. Despite this recognition, I have not received any raises or promotions in the past three years and my salary has remained the same since my joining in 2019.

Recently, there was an addition of another engineer to our team, who was brought on during the mass layoffs. I understand that this person has a prior relationship with you, which may be that of a friend. Despite there being no requirement for another engineer, I took it upon myself to train this person to bring them up to speed. However, since this person has learned all that I know, I have noticed a change in the behavior of my manager towards me and a lack of communication in our 1:1 meetings. Additionally, this person who I trained has now been assigned a lead role and is giving me directions. This whole situation has become toxic for me and is affecting my work satisfaction.

I believe that it is important for me to feel appropriately compensated and engaged in my work. I would appreciate the opportunity to discuss this matter with you and find a productive path forward.

Thank you for your time and I look forward to hearing back from you.

Best regards,
[Your Name]
This is the existing scheme for one specific expensive API. Pricing for everything else clearly has nothing to do with it, and could be anything.
The Laravel framework makes money by its hosting business, Forge.
> Are you a lawyer?

No, and my posts are not legal advice.

> Or do you have a lawyer review every contract you sign?

Yes, and they provide me with legal advice specific to my situation.

> Just curious how you are so confident a particular contract, or clause within, is unenforceable. Not saying you're wrong, but how do you know?

MA statute is very clearly written and its courts don't have a reputation for fucking around with legislative intent.
Join a Toastmasters International club - the single most useful thing you can do to improve your communication and leadership skills.
Perhaps his point is that the minimum value of a physical entity like gold is greater than $0, but I see your point/criticism too. Essentially "define value" can lead to varied definitions?
> how many people here could go on television onto some talk program or news show with their real name and face and tell a child abuse victim that while their concerns may be valid they are wrong and they should shut up?

Well, putting aside the "shut up" part, I'd be happy to state publicly that under no (reasonable, peacetime) circumstances should the government be allowed to read my texts, emails, and documents.

Obviously there's a bunch of qualifiers to assign to that (if I'm under suspicion of something, OK, sure, maybe the government can get a warrant) that I'm not qualified to speak intelligently about, but that's the gist. Saying that the government should not be able to read your email or list to your phone calls is not an unpopular opinion, at least in the States, and it's also not one that requires you to be of an overly technical persuasion to have.

People support victims of child abuse and they also distrust the government and don't want it to have awesome powers of espionage it can wield against the entire populace at scale all of the time. Those positions might conflict with each other if you frame the conversation that way, but if you do frame it that way, I don't think it's a given that the child abuse argument is always going to win the debate.
I have a pipeline for scanning of analog sources like film. Since these are meant to be edited after scanning, 8-bit range is much to limited.
Actually, you know that's a fascinating point. I'd love to see if 10,000 people were asked whether one of these statements in isolation was "hateful" whether we'd see similar, stronger, or weaker biases.
Headless spreadsheet! It's really cool.
And yet, they tend to be very successful on getting any proposal they want from those bodies.

You can wonder why.
America Lost Its Grip on Reality
And in many countries anyone who does that would get lynched. Literally. Even before the local public prosecutor acts to persecute them under the laws that protect animals...
My understanding is that only applies if you're claiming that your expenditure is R&D, that is, it's saying that all software development costs are permitted as part of R&D not that if you spend money on software development you must declare it to be R&D.

There are other requirements to meet for expenditure to qualify as R&D, like experimentation and consideration of alternatives: if all software development is R&D and R&D must have alternatives considered and justified, are companies even permitted to engage in software development if suitable alternatives exist?
WOW. A regular NYT opinion columnist, suggesting that the Language Wars are an in-group ideological war, between well-to-do white liberals, who don't actually give a crap about the various disadvantaged groups that they're claiming to be speaking up for?

I hope the guy can keep his job.
Reply from our CPA:

“There's pretty widespread bipartisan distaste for that change and there have been multiple attempts to extend the deadline or amend the change, but they haven't picked up steam yet. Still possible it will be changed retroactively. The saving grace is that a lot of the expenses they are talking about you needing to amortize would qualify for the R&D credits you'll be getting. So there's often a substantial offset between the two.”
Highest income tack bracket in the US is 37%. But it's different for corporations.
First off, thanks for this feedback – it makes it clear that we need to do a better job.

We're following the GitLab open core model. Our licensing is the same as their's (and many other open core companies).

This means that all existing code and the vast majority of future code will be under the MIT license. At some point, we will add some enterprise features that are in /ee folders and they will be licensed differently. This is to protect us against a competitor taking the code and launching an alternative hosted service without any effort on their part. We felt that this was a friendlier option than going with something like AGPL.

Sorry that our self-hosting guide isn't available yet, we will get it up really soon. We want people to use Trigger.dev and that includes self-hosting.

There are lots of open core companies that have a cloud version and the ability to self-host. I don't think that our business model conflicts with being open source – anyone contributing will make the experience better for everyone (cloud or self-hosted).

Hopefully this answers your questions and helps to alleviate your worries about the project. We are big believers in open source and have thought hard about how we can create something valuable for everyone.
I like the idea but currently I don't find this funny / interesting to watch beyond a few minutes.
> I think that most people would not care if a video is posted online of them if the video is in fact fake.

I think most people would care a lot. After all, it doesn't matter if it's fake or not, if matters if anyone you care about thinks it's real. And some almost certainly will.
Should Covid Vaccines Be Given Yearly?
Correlation or causation? Perhaps people who keep in shape are also more organized and hardworking, or maybe mutational load affects both physical attractiveness and career sucess.
Few things

> API endpoints that provide clean, abstracted negotiated rates data could be a great infrastructural product for both traditional providers and digital health companies.

Cascade Health (who I've been working with) have this API on the roadmap

>Patients that I've interviewed generally want a completely abstracted process - send or upload a picture of their bill and their insurance, and then hand it off. This would be similar to the cushion.ai experience.

Mixed on this. I think a way to select your insurance and know what you'd pay out of pocket, and to compare your out of pocket costs between multiple providers, is SUPER valuable. By the time you have a bill, you already owe money. Before the visit, you actually have a shot at making a decision that costs you less.

> Employers on the other hand want to ensure that they aren't being overcharged by their current stack. They are always looking for solutions for reducing costs and better understanding the drivers of those costs, which tools like springbuk.com address.

Cascade is also doing this.

> I have less familiarity with the provider side, but the cost of maintaining an insurance billing program has always seemed manual and inefficient.

Have a writeup coming about this one actually. I believe there's room for "Contract Streaming" which allows you to use the published data to a) ingest your contracted rates with every payor and b)know in advance what the out of network rates are for any payor, so you can tell a patient in advance exactly what their visit will cost them before they walk out the door. (There's also a bunch of other benefits around forecasting and stuff, but this is the start).