skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's some benchmarks in the talk.

It is significantly faster than coreutils in some situations.

They also know cases where it is slower, and thus I doubt it'll remain so.
ye, you did great work, my little cal/contact sync setup would not work without your work :)
I'm not sure what you mean by "overhead", but direct indexing has been commodified for the masses for a while. See Wealthfront for example. Even Vanguard is pushing into it soon:

https://www.etf.com/sections/features-and-news/vanguard-goin...

Now that said, I agree the benefits of direct indexing for the non-wealthy is vastly overstated and probably a mistake for most.
Been using Thunderbird since I don't remember, before that sylpheed etc.

Use a Mac now and Thunderbird is using 0.1% CPU idle and 562MB.

I use the "folders on the left, message list on the right top, selected message view underneath" view.

Things that I require on Thunderbird (that I had to hack, muck around with):

* Timestamps in ISO8601

* Either the ability to use a Solarized theme, or one that accurately uses the MacOS light/dark themes.

* Larger (16-20pt) font sizes for all panes

* Really good integration between a CardDAV server (I use fastmail) and accumulating email addresses automagically and not get confused with my local MacOS Contacts.

I don't use the tasks/events/calendar integration because it gets confused between my CalDAV server (fastmail), and my local Mac OS calendar.
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So, what I'm trying to get someone here to confirm (with no success so far) is that none of this would be a issue to speak of without inheritance cost basis step-up? Am I correct to understand that that's the real issue, and wash sale rules etc. are just distractions?
Because it is the law in the United States that agencies must transition to the centrally managed login.gov. ID.me never should have been rolled out in the first place.
Investors retreat to Giga Texas for Mar 1 event.

The future is bright.
This is a pretty wide net you are casting. It sounds good, but I’d guess anyone thinking this trends younger as the industry hasn’t always been stable yet alone always kind to aging engineers. Most people understand the politics at play after some time in the industry unless they’re completely living in a bubble.
There's a really fun game set here, The Blackout Club[0]. Really generates some spookiness off of the concept.

[0] https://store.steampowered.com/app/599080/The_Blackout_Club/
There’s nothing more annoying than GPL absolutists. Who really cares if someone makes a closed-source fork of the code? On the other hand, given that closed-source code is going to exist, isn’t it better if it’s able to use the best code available rather than forcing developers to either ignore the existence of something because it’s GPL’d or just ignore the license in the first place?

There’s a reason I choose MIT over GPL. It’s a freer license.
>"And if you know what you are doing"

I knew what I was doing and that is why using Epsilon was the most reliable thing in my data processing algos.
It felt like there was a big wave of cheap Android tablets a few years back. Usually with sketchy brands (either no brand, brand not known for mobile devices, or resuscitated "Grandma's TV" brands), no long-term support, and terrible build quality. The few serious attempts that hit the market-- the Galaxy Tabs and the like-- were as costly as a laptop for a product that was far less compelling than one.

I suspect that soured the market on them-- the immediate assumption is that they're trash or toys at best.
Do you mean the 75% instead of the 25%?, otherwise your comment doesn't make sense.
At this point I believe that this is only a snowflake on an enormous iceberg of opportunities that we are missing, because “come on, everyone could open a shell and <insert your convoluted pipeline here>”. It’s probably a trillions dollars industry that doesn’t exist due to professional deformation and being conditioned to sit and work for someone else’s profit.
I agree with all of that. Hand wringing over tax loss harvesting seems silly to me.

I think there are very good historical reasons for basis step-up, namely, that it is unreasonably hard to expect heirs to figure out basis from a deceased, especially for illiquid assets. But since brokerages have to track basis since 2012, it would seem easy to, at least, disallow basis step-up for securities that have cost basis information held by the brokerage.
It's a shame you're continuing with your snark - if you work in tech, I'm sure you could use your imagination on the myriad of ways that many employees could still be generating value, or you could even do a quick search and satisfy your own curiosity.

More recent: https://www.investopedia.com/articles/markets/121015/how-yah...

Older, but more clearly laid out: https://fourweekmba.com/how-does-yahoo-make-money/
Is anybody tracking the growth of the staffs of these companies?

When I hear “NetCo lays off 10K” I wonder, does that mean they will have fewer employees than a year ago? Or is this just a blip on an overall trend of hiring?

This graph[0] makes it look like Microsoft, for example, is laying off far fewer people than they recently hired.

I would intuitively expect Yahoo to be the exception, but it would be great to see something like “…representing N% of its yearly hiring average since 2020” in these headlines.

[0]: https://www.statista.com/statistics/273475/number-of-employe...
You cant find people to do real work
Thanks for sharing, we're happy to see other open source automation tools! The projects are unrelated but you can find similarities between how OSS projects are generally structured as they get inspired from famous existing examples.

As to the fronted, I took a look and I think there is a big difference between the two. The UI is very different and one of the projects is built on React while the other is Angular.
I thought we were mostly startup folks, at least as far as engineers go?
I don't particularly care for the pricing, like most of the people here. However, you really shouldn't care that much what we think. How are sales amongst the normal people who just want to upload images and do transforms? I could see this doing fairly well with bloggers and such.
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I recently released a Chrome extension that adds features to Rumble live chat to make it more viewer and streamer friendly. Features include user mention highlights, full window chat, recent chat user list, autoplay and more.

The Github repo can be found at github.com/sleighs/chat-plus. Feedback is appreciated. It would be great to hear from users what features they'd like to see in the future.

Thanks for checking this post out. I hope you enjoy ChatPlus.
I agree, I find regular expressions to be the clearest way to describe families of strings that share a specified structure and no longer find them hard to read. This sort of argument has always struck me a bit like the way people will say “Greek is hard to read because you have to learn the alphabet”: learning the alphabet for Greek isn’t the hard part of learning Greek and, similarly, learning the meaning of the characters used in regexes isn’t the hard part of using regexes. The hard part is learning to think in the language that uses those characters.
I always love the delusional argument that Apple is a premium brand like Rolex.

Rolex sells watches that are incredible pieces of engineering but functionally can be found in a watch that is 10000x cheaper.

There is no laptop that I can buy today that is equivalent to an M2 MacBook Pro at any price point let alone significantly cheaper.
I'm neither an accountant nor a billionaire, but it seems like wealthy people will always have a certain amount of stock that is in a loss position. So if the "washed" stock appreciates and they want to sell it, there will be other stocks in a losing position that can wash the washer. You can therefore defer those taxes indefinitely.

This only makes sense to me if you have a very large, very diversified portfolio.
The iPod was originally designed to be connected via FireWire only. It took an incredible amount of internal pressure to get Steve Jobs to relent and allow USB.
“You could run Twitter with 50 engineers” is practically an HN meme at this point. There was lots of discussion claiming that many Googlers sit around and do nothing. I think there are two consistent sides of this particular debates
There are often situations in which the rational approach is to upstream enhancements, if only because it reduces ongoing maintenance of a derivative product. This is especially true of foundational infrastructure. BSD/MIT-like licensing works well for such software (perhaps less well in general).
I've found this to be true, looking at the course of my own career. Just told a German tourist over breakfast that some US workers get as little as two weeks' vacation when starting a job. You should have seen his reaction— his eyes bugged out and he almost choked on his eggs and sausage.
While the tool is extremely simple to replace with something more low level. I think there is no better way than what he chose to actually monetize something like this. Consider the target markets.

Individual bloggers. Too cheap to pay sub. Also too cheap to pay a $10 onetime.

Hackers. Would happily spend whole day implementing the same with a less polished npm package and would never pay for anything anyway.

Professional designers. Can get the same or even better results in the tools they already use with both hands tied behind their back. They don’t need this even if it’s free.

Now to the last and only viable market. Journalists who are lacking tech skills and no designer to back them up. They don’t care how simple the tech behind is, as long as it gives them value. It’s just cheap enough that they don’t have to blink and the recurring revenue from these will offset any non-existent $10 one-off purchases from individuals.
A HELOC on your home is a tax dodge? That will be news to millions of middle class people.
The conditional in the code _is_ a protection. It is not fair of you to consider it non-existent just because _you_ can easily bypass it.

Using your argument, it would be fair to circumvent any protection as long as a specialist can trivially bypass it? Remember that 99% of internet users have no idea what "Show page source" actually does, much less what "javascript" is. You are the top 1 percentile power user here.

Arguably a lot of things are not strongly protected per se but rely on specialists not trying to actively trick the system, much less posting their techniques on public forums.
The US does go after the wealth for tax fraud. I think the bigger issue is that the wealth pre-emptively hire CPAs/lawyers to take maximum advantage of tax rules in a way that may not be prohibited, innovating faster than legislators can act.
Eh, same thing happened in 2000's and 2010's... it's honestly about 3 years late.
- when was the last time I had to scrape pocket lint out of the gaps?

- am I due for another?
In addition, it's free for users and the API's free plan is sufficient for most personal uses. Hard to see how any of these newcomers could compete unless they had funding behind them
The blur is addictive because it feeds a feedback loop: rather than tiring out your brain on understanding one thing in detail, you can watch two summaries and have a vague sense of understanding. It allows to jump to next novelty, always feeding the system 1 of the brain but system 2 is rarely brought in picture.

I wonder if this will lead to a stratification of work in the society: lot of jobs can operate on the blur. "Just give me enough to get my job done". But fewer (critical and hopefully highly paid) people will be engaged in a profession where understanding the details is the job and there's no way around it.

In Asimov's foundation novel this is a recurring theme: they can't find people who can work on designing or maintaining nuclear power. This eventually leads to stagnation. AI tools can prevent this stagnation only if mankind uses the freeing of mental burden with the help of AI to work on higher set of problems. But if the tools are used merely as butlers then the pessimistic outcome is more likely.

The general tendency to lack of details can also give edge in some cases. Imagine if everyone is using similar AI tools to understand company annual reports which gives a nice, tiktok style summary. Then an investor doing the dirty work to go through the details may find things that are missed by the 'algo'.
HN isn't one person.

It's a community of individuals having a debate.

But I get your point! :-)

It does seem that way...
More work? More conflicts? less testing?
I was issued a 2015 rMBP and held onto it until the 2022 M1 was available to replace it.

It was barely usable in the end, but I didn't want to be locked into years of crappy keyboard et al when the improvement was Just Around The Corner™.
Not doing something is generally easier than doing something...
My muscle memory from 1995-1997 to test network connectivity is to ping yahoo.com.
> face no accountability for it

Well, just look at how administrative errors, and professional misconduct by instructors is handled. I had a professor fail half the class because he lost the final exams, and another cohort because he made serious errors in the grading. The university did absolutely nothing to deal with it. While I was able to get the grade removed, I was directly told by the vice-dean to get out of the faculty for making a stink about it.

It took four years for the university to take action against the professor. Apparently the line wasn't even him telling students to kill themselves if they failed his course.
Please not the post office. Small town post offices are so vindictive with no oversite giving them this power would be horrific. My house has not received mail for years now because my mother had cancer and could not get her mail timely enough for them. The turned her mailbox off and made her open a PO box if she wanted mail. When I later moved to the home I inherited I was not and have not been able to restore service, and the USPS just redirects me to the local post office :(
This doesn’t feel correct to me. I graduated with a CS degree in 2001. Companies were downsizing and shutting down when I started working in the fall of 2001.

To complain more concretely: I think the stats are wrong. The dot com bubble didn’t really burst until 2001 - but this post cites statistics between “December of 1999 and January of 2001”.

It also doesn’t say where it got it’s 2000s stats from.
Docker on Mac creates a full Linux VM, thats one reason it is so slow, the other being the filesystem IIRC. The hypervisor does not matter that much.
What's a good example of peer-reviewed research on rental markets, in any city?
All the posts I see so far don't mention what I'd consider the main positive need for many employees in large Internet/tech companies. That is essentially localization.

Customizing huge website X to deal with a specific large market Y in way that actually picks a reasonable amount of extra dollars that are "on the table" in that market. IDK, how Facebook or Twitter deals with auto sales, where at least US auto market is a whole different world. Things specific to each country, etc.
I'm only using the port for charging, but okay. I mean with wifi you can do the same quickly too and you don't need a cable for this.

I think the good old Galaxy Nexus was the last phone I've been using in a usb-drive mode
Does it help to add removal of feature flags to the definition of done of your epics? Then isn't it much the same as staying on top of any kind of tech debt?
I encourage you to find you’re friends where you want, but where I live, having close friends at work just isn’t done (and never has been).

Despite this, the weekends are always busy with friends from outside of work. I find it builds a strong community.

For my part, I work for a Silicon Valley company and therefore do have some close friends at my job, I get the best of both worlds.
I don't know if it's making waves among the zoomers, but there isn't yet an alternative for zoomers who've entered the tech workforce, is there?
Surely not everybody's cup of tea but that line is one of the reasons why I like the original audiobook so much (the abridged version read by Gibson himself - not the Audible one). His voice gets distorted on reading the AI's lines to make him sound more eh AI'ish. It's just a silly little filter but it somehow makes the exchange between Case and the AI sound rather terrifying.
The USPS would be horrible for this. Small town post offices are too vindictive and not professional enough to be given this level of authority/power.
You never pay them back. Just pay interest which you also borrow. This might stop being as attractive if interest rates are high and inflation is low though.
The way I had it explained to me is that “Type C” is the form factor, and that’s what is meant by universal. Which actual USB standard is implemented by the client/host varies widely.

This leads to an immense amount of confusion because people are used to different form factors indicating compatibility.
There's a big difference between tech being able to last 1.5 years and being guaranteed to last 1.5 years. The latter costs more upfront to smaller players, even if the quality of the tech is otherwise identical.
Trunk based development, while fashionable today does have some theoretical downsides. Imagine a feature toggled code base in the limit - no actual functionality, just partially baked features behind toggles. The end result is a series of branches manifested in the code itself - with no actual "mainline" as nothing has ever been completed. I'm pretty sure that would not be awesome.

Of course, a branched code base in the limit is similarly never merged which obviously is terrible as well. My main point is don't follow trends, instead simply do what what makes sense - that might mean feature toggles, branches or some combination. Stay awake, be creative and avoid dogmatism: sometimes things are better out than in, other times better in than out.
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baka and boke are unrelated words.

The overlap is that the verb "bokeru" and its root "boke" can be used to describe someone losing their mental faculties e.g. through age or disease such as Alzheimer's, and by extension it can be used as an insult to mean "stupid" as well. But etymologically there is no connection.
While the numbers may not lie, do they mislead?

I do not feel this is a complete story without comparing employment to 2019, nor without mentioning how many companies have gone bankrupt.
Release integration branches bring the behaviour of big releases. The bigger the release, the bigger the risk, therefore the less you want to do it.

With release integration branches you not only integrate for release (which the bigger the release, the more difficult it is), but also now you have to integrate back from release into main (because bug fixes and what not). The longer that you have had that integration branch, the more likely that you have move forward the main code and the more difficult then becomes the back integration. So you end duplicating the effort.
I am talking about taxes paid yearly per property by the owner even it they don’t occupy the property
> namely, that it is unreasonably hard to expect heirs to figure out basis from a deceased, especially for illiquid assets

But then can't they assume the cost basis is $0 if they can't provide documentation to back up something higher? I thought that's how it works in general when you don't have cost basis information available.
Number 2 is definitely not irrelevant for billionaires, perhaps especially for billionaires. Deferring taxes means that your investments can achieve faster compound growth.

See the "Financial Impact of Tax Deferral" section in this article, https://www.securitybenefit.com/tax-center/article/how-tax-d....
> Here's the paper:

It's super-paywalled. Can you upload a copy of it somewhere?
I upgraded the speakers & hinges on my 11th gen.

It does not turn the speakers into something high-end, but it is significantly better than before and easy to swap.
Simulated footage of FedEx-Southwest Austin-Texas airliner incident
Hi my name is boxxy
The case where I've seen those tricks used with measurable effect was a Python debugger - specifically, its implementation of the sys.settrace callback. Since that gets executed on every line of code, every little bit helps.

(It's much faster if you implement the callback in native code, but then that doesn't work on IronPython, Jython etc.)
I'm not sure what the pay rate is now for Western Union, but the fees are high, and at the time I believe you only got the official rate in pesos. Moreover, I got a huge additional discount from my landlord for paying in actual USD as opposed to the same amount in blue rate pesos, because the pesos were hard to change and would be worth less the next month. I also ran a startup Bitcoin casino at the time, so I had access.
It doesn’t work like that though for publicly traded companies. Even if you bring in more revenue that they be are paying you, it can be attractive to fire you to juice the stock price on Wall Street.
I think it is good for book sellers and conference speakers. Particularly the Uncle Bob types that love simple and dogmatic ideas.
Reminded me I used to prefer https://www.dogpile.com/. Also still around.
Compounding isn't a magic potion that gets you infinitely wealthy though. The highest tax bracket is at < $400k. Over retirement that's a total difference of... say, $10M? We're worried about $10M for someone who has $85B in assets? How much of the $85B do you believe consists of compounding from that $10M?
Couldn't the government just print money, which devalues the currency, and is thus essentially a flat rate wealth tax?
A friend has been waiting for the transition to receive last year's tax return-- eventually there will a deadline for collecting it and they'll need to do the video call or whatever (short on documents).
That's less readable than the original suggestion though.
By intervention I mean some external agent causing the system to leave the initial equilibrium macrostate A, which would not happen spontaneously. E.g. a wall is removed, or a piston is quickly pushed, to make the system evolve towards new equilibrium macrostate.

> given a set of measurement values, the more states there are which produce those values, the more likely we are, all else being equal, to observe those values. And so a closed system will evolve by pure chance into a state where the entropy is maximized simply because you are more likely to observe values corresponding to greater numbers of underlying states.

This argument is that future macrostates of an isolated system passing through non-equilibrium states (due to some intervention to the system that was in an equilibrium state before) should be almost always of higher entropy, because those have immensely higher multiplicity than macrostates with lower entropy. There is hugely more microstates that are compatible with higher entropy macrostate, than microstates that are compatible with lower entropy macrostate.

However notice the word "future". We can formulate the same argument using "past": past macrostates of an isolated system passing through non-equilibrium states should be almost always of higher entropy, because those have immensely higher multiplicity than macrostates with lower entropy. There is hugely more microstates that are compatible with higher entropy macrostate, than microstates that are compatible with lower entropy macrostate.

Now, why does the argument give correct answer when applied to future macrostates but not when applied to past macrostates? We need additional assumption about the non-equilibrium process that makes the argument invalid for the past.
> that you pretended were a rebuttal

Maybe you are new around here, but that”s not how we exchage ideas on HN.
> But the rich wont vote for that!

The middle class wouldn't vote for that either.