skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just read the citations you posted. Do you make enough for it to be worth it?

From one of the citations

> The average digital nomad pays $64.76 per day in taxes they do not have to pay - that is over $23.000 per year. Imagine what you could do with all this money. Let us do the paperwork, while you travel the world*

$23K isn’t nothing. But I saved half that much just by moving from a relative low tax cost state (GA) to a state tax free state (FL).

If I lived in a state with higher state taxes and higher cost of living, I would have saved even more.

And anything you do, the first step is giving up your US citizenship since the US taxes worldwide income.

But then you need to have citizenship somewhere else or become “stateless”. From the few countries I looked at, it’s a 3-5 year process.

The US has a relatively strong passport (ranked 9th in the world). You would also have to give that up.

Cypress and Paraguay have strong passports (brought up in your second site).

Edit:

I see you aren’t a US resident. None of what I said applies to you. I’ll keep it up anyway for anyone else thinking about something similar.
As long as OS vendors are allowed to bundle browsers with their OS then any paid browsers is at a huge disadvantage. Most people are going to pay for a browser when their OS comes with a free one that is good enough. Thats how Microsoft killed Netscape Navigator.
> It's the extra parens, semi-colons, keywords and type annotations.

I always thought such minor syntactic differences are unimportant, except for the folks who still learn syntax and haven't seen too many languages out there to stop caring much about it.

YMMV of course, but whenever I need to jump hoops with some API or have things conveniently returned to me in a single call matters a lot for my developer happiness. Whenever my code needs semicolons or indentation or parens feels such a negligibly tiny nuance to me but things like this don't even blip on my mental radar... I always think about what the code does, and don't even see those details (unless I have a typo lol).

Maybe my opinion on this is just the echoes from the ancient C vs Pascal vs BASIC syntax holy wars while I was still a schoolkid, idk. I mean, when I wrote Scheme or Lisp I haven't really "seen" all those parentheses (but then, I just checked some Lisp code and syntax looks off and takes time to get through, since I haven't practiced it in a long while and it's pretty different from anything I've used any recently).

Again, YMMV, but `const chat = new LLM.Chat();` and `chat = RubyLLM.chat` are exactly the same thing to me - I don't remember actual tokens from the screen, I immediately mentally process those both as something like "instantiate a chat object and assign `chat` to it" (without really verbalizing it much, but as an concept/idea). And I don't think a little syntactic noise like `const` or `;` is making things worse or better for me. Although, to be fair, I could be wrong here - I haven't really did any experiments in this regards, with properly defined methodology and metrics, and my subjective perception could be deceptive. Sadly, I'm no scientist and not even sure how to set up one correctly...
I see. I was just thinking I would personally appreciate seeing a big graph of proof-dependencies. A bit like "Seeing the Forest from the Trees".

Every mathematician is working on their own TREE, I assume. But might be useful if somebody was looking at how the FOREST is doing.
If you chose a photo of socks pointing left, then the nearest neighbors are socks also pointing left.

I’d think the model should focus on the patterns and cut, not which way they are laying for the marketing photo.
That first Boston album is butter.
Van Halen is a huge band that comes up when I think about that period
Id put The Cars and even Cheap Trick in there as an example of rock plus varying levels of New Wave - higher with former, a bit lower for the latter
> Just this week i was looking for more humour writing like Douglas Adams, PG Wodehouse.

They are both masters of producing an absolutely perfect phrase that could have come from no-one but them—so's Pterry, by the way—but otherwise it'd never occur to me to lump them together. They seem radically different tonally to me.
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Ah, just what I was asking for. Thanks
The funny thing about the current AI hype and people echoing it is, if these technologies were as remarkable and promising as you say than they a) don't need the hype; b) you'd realize that hyping them would harm your own self interest because the rational thing to do would be to leverage them quietly while you have an edge on non-believers.

Thus the rabid propaganda is great evidence that these technologies are not revolutionary.
As far as making money before you've done anything to prove out your idea and your ability to make it though it's pretty spot on.

The reason there's not many people interested is people with ideas are a dime a dozen, the people able to implement it given the resources are a thin slice of that group.
If we look at it from the systemic perspective, the goal is to have enough milk at the office just in time.

Balancing the tasks between different actors within the system is a different concern.

If 30 seconds of my time saves someone else 10 minutes, it may be a good tradeoff, even if my time costs a few times more.

On one of the most effective teams I worked on, there was a tech lead who would throw himself into a role based on the team's needs based on insight from a morning daily. Most of the time, he played his strongest suit (back-end). However, there were days when he was helping with the most menial front-end tasks (he wasn't super-effective at that) or testing (same).

Was he efficient? If we look at him in isolation, then no. But because his work helped to remove bottlenecks and unblock the team, the whole team was more effective thanks to him.

What is interesting in some of the discussion threads here is how people look at the process effectiveness in a completely reverse way. Sometimes, they focus on their individual efficiency as if they were able to deliver value singlehandedly. Individual efficiency doesn't mean much.

A typical example would be a developer who's super efficient, but there's no one to do a code review (or test or whatever) just in time. By the time they get a list of issues to fix, they don't remember the context, they wrote so much more stuff relying on the things that they need to redo, etc.

Their efficiency would mainly be regarding coding in isolation. While the effectiveness would be measured in what the team could release/deliver to the clients.

As per Drucker's famous quote: "There is nothing quite so useless, as doing with great efficiency, something that should not be done at all."
Maybe mine are mg/emacs.
I don't see it. Has it been removed?
Cursor seems to have the ultimate “free” users waste the most time problem.

Frankly, anyone who’s actually serious about using Cursor has 0 issue with this change. Cursor is a ridiculously good deal. I use it literally all day professionally an d it costs me $60/month (buying extra credits).

I’ve had single days with RooCode where I’ve burned that much on API calls directly to Claude.

I have none of the issues the main communities have with it.
That's basically what Boost[1] brought to C++.

[1]: https://www.boost.org/
You may be happy with RooCode if you want to use direct APIs if you want (there are tons of supported backend).

The minus of it, is that it is super expensive, unless you have some tricks (you can reuse the LLMs of GitHub Copilot Pro like Claude Anthropic for example, but there is a quota, you can also use Gemini Flash 2.0 Experimental for free at 15 requests per minute, etc.).
Show HN: ClanPlan – Modern Family Planner
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I’m excited to share ClanPlan, an app designed to help you stay connected with your closest people – family, friends, and classmates – in a private and secure way.

With ClanPlan, you can:

Create private spaces (clans) – Keep communication within trusted circles.

Organize a shared calendar – Track events and important dates together.

Share and view pins for important locations – Quickly find and access shared spots.

Track real-time locations – See where your clan members are in real-time (with privacy settings).

Get notified when someone enters or exits a place – Stay updated without constantly checking the app.

Stay connected with real-time chat – No more switching between apps to keep up.

I built ClanPlan because existing social apps felt too noisy and public for personal connections. I wanted something focused and private.

I’d love to hear your feedback! What features would you like to see next?

Thanks for checking it out!
I've been doing this for years.

Hit F12 at boot, PXE, Kickstart and Puppet do their thing, and I have a fresh desktop in a known state in just over 9 minutes.
https://build.withpi.ai/ should work you through the platform capability.

Please provide feedback in https://discord.com/invite/adh94jZH37 on which dimension(s) that you want to scorer to be improved on. We should be able to incorporate these improvements on the generic scorer before going into training a specific scorer for domain specific use-cases.
Another hackernews article where the title is clickbait and the experiment doesn't really honor the title implication.

Language learning is not easy nor effortless nor "just a few minutes per day" endeavor. Babies had 24/7 immersion and a completely different context.

You can do experiments and try certain things but the framing needs to be honest and not "we tried this thing in a very small environment and extrapolated like mad".
With Teeth is his first sober album. He wanted the stripped back rock feel so it would sound different from the previous.
Also apparent links between Collatz and the busy-beaver problem:

https://www.sligocki.com/2021/07/17/bb-collatz.html
The Sprinter Who Hasn't Lost in 11 Years
Gift link: https://www.wsj.com/sports/grant-holloway-win-streak-60-mete...
The expansion of ways that we consume media plays a role, but I don't think we've lost the sounds of an era, it's just that the hooks are now coming from a variety of sources.

"Badger Badger Badger" (and their kin) is likely to evoke a particular era in your memory.

In a similar way "Uh-oh uh-oh uh-oh" may possibly evoke a more recent era.
I have premium and that’s what hurts the most! My issue is mostly on tv connected devices.
Haha. That made me laugh. I will now go looking for “The Mythical 1/10th Programmer”.
Making songs out of shorter different parts so they could be remembered easier is caused by attention span window, not a cultural thing.
No no. He’s saying that only people with his exact amount of technical skill and prowess deserves yt-dlp. If you for some reason are not knowledgable about cli tools, then that is the exact, natural, universal, god given reason that you do not deserve yt-dlp.

In order to ensure that not too many people learn about yt-dlp, we should also work to remove all access to knowledge about the magical super big brain requiring, mytical command line.

In fact to ensure that Google does not kill yt-dlp, everyone in the world except tracerbulletx should be force fed chemical powder that makes them stupid.

That way, only tracerbulletx will understand yt-dlp, and he can heroically guard this super secret tool that only those worthy deserves to know.
Mandelbrot Set Explorer
so we are all part, Ugg, or is it part Ugg-et, or is it both?, ie: y and x chromasones have nieanderthal bits?, if its both, then that is a strong indication that things were pretty casual, ,hanging out partying, looks like Ugg and Sue are hitting it off, some tasty mastadon on the fire, heard you and the other nieandethals got a saber tooth cat last week
Sure, I'm just saying the good stuff USED TO be mainstream.

But I'm also getting old I used to get excited about new music I could find but now I'm a bit more "jaded". :-)
Oh, right, duh. Yeah it’s just n^2.

(If it was n+(n-1)+…+1, then my equation would have been correct, but you’re right, since order matters it’s just plain n^2.)
There are a number of programs that use a purely audio-lingual approach with translation, like Pimsleur or the <language>pod101 series. In both cases, when I tried them as a short term tourist, people were surprised how well they could understand me for the short time I’d been learning. These were tonal languages very few tourists tended to learn, so local expectations were low and just being comprehensible was a win.
Resus App: a vital signs simulator for medical training
Resus is a realistic patient monitor simulator displaying vital signs, pathology waveforms, defibrillator, pacemaker, CPR, medication effects, alarms, realistic sounds, event logging, reset scenarios. Optimized for Android devices for healthcare training.
tangent: Inverse Phase's "pretty eight machine"

https://inversephase.bandcamp.com/album/pretty-eight-machine...

> Head Like I/O was the track that got this entire album started. I was at Ohayocon 2011 and joking around with Dave, Dirk, and Carlson about chiptune covers, and the topic of Nine Inch Nails came up. Being a fan, I mentioned that lots of NIN songs would lend themselves to chiptunes rather well, and I decided I would try to surprise everyone with a little bit of Head Like a Hole. In a bout of productivity, I was able to do a rough edit of about two minutes of the song in a day, and the surprise was a big success. The guys all pushed me to consider doing a Nine Inch Nails EP or album.

> I did this track on the Commodore 64 because I got into a conversation with Carlson about it first, and I hadn't given the C64 enough love. The idea to use more systems for the album formed as the idea for the album itself took shape.
> Hence the degrowth movement, etc.

The oddest thing about this to me is that they don't seem to think through what exactly this implies.

If one truly believes in the need to reduce human population then by far the highest margin things are not things like preserving a few hundred year old forest in England, but mass introduction of contraceptives to the DRC. It'll be places like Nigeria and Congo that dominate in terms of number of humans next century, not dying Europe (whose resource usage will decline even faster as fertility free falls), and those countries are not going to remain low resource consumption for too long.
Dreaming in Spanish itself is a good example of a program that doesn’t rely on text to make its audio comprehensible. Their lower level videos include a lot of context that make it possible to understand the speech without written words.
400 million years is a fucking long time. If the right conditions existed, I don't have any problem believing abiogenesis happened here on Earth, even with the first part of that during the Hadean lava world.
I want to know what computer he was using. It looks so familiar but I can't tell which computer it was.
I recommend 'The Cyberiad' by Stanislaw Lem. Get the Michael Kandel translation.

As an Adams fan since high school I was floored when I eventually read The Cyberiad and realized that Lem had laid all of the groundwork fourteen years earlier. It's very much the proto Hitchhiker's Guide. It's got it all: Intergalactic protagonists on a series of highly absurd adventures, enabled by fantastical tech, and a playful approach to themes at the intersection of technology, philosophy, and contemporary physics.

It is laugh out loud funny. Especially once you get into the first, second, and third sallys. The humor is fiendishly clever. Lem is incredibly punny and it blows my mind to know that it was translated from Polish(!). I hope Michael Kandel gets his due for keeping the spirit of this book intact, because it really hinges on some very clever use of language.
Given your qualifications, either an O-1 or E-2 (requiring an investment of Canadian money) through your own company is probably the best option.
I got turned on to Spiritualized later in the 90s. What a band. I get _somewhat_ similar but different but similar vibes from Lost Under Heaven

I remember also being blown away by Bucketheadland so much that every other album I put on sounded simple and linear. And we're only a couple of years away from the whole Bristol-led Downbeat sound (Portishead, etc) and Notorious B.I.G's debut.

I'm there with you on age. It gets harder to catch my attention because the differences between what I hear now vs what I heard then are so slight. So new stuff I like, eg. Lost Under Heaven, is a few measures of familar combined exactly correctly with a few measures of tastily strange; perhaps not "brand-new" strange but strange in stylistic juxtaposition(s) I suppose?
You could comment “this routine converts Celsius to Fahrenheit”

Or your could just name the method “celsiusToFahrenheit”

In this example, I’d rather the comment didn’t exist and the method was named appropriately.

That said, there is definitely a place for comments in code, especially for explaining the business context behind a counter-intuitive implementation decision.
That's ridiculous, imo. If we don't understand geopolitics and can't talk about it, what hope do we have of being good at it?
Didn't help me.
Going through a lot of iterations until one band name "stuck", true to his obsessive working ethos in finding the "right" sound for his music.

> L: Where did the name Nine Inch Nails come from?

T: I don't know if you've ever tried to think of band names, but usually you think you have a great one and you look at it the next day and it's stupid. I had about 200 of those. Nine Inch Nails lasted the two week test, looked great in print, and could be abbreviated easily. It really doesn't have any literal meaning. It seemed kind of frightening. [In his best he-man voice] Tough and manly! It's a curse trying to come up with band names.

[0]https://web.archive.org/web/20150813023119/http://www.thenin...
>We spend 70-80 hours a week in the office and, more often than not, work nights and weekends.

That's a red flag if I ever saw one. Hardly anyone can sustain 70h/w for longer than a year without drastically losing productivity. Not even in their 20's and most certainly not in their 40's.
recently i tried to write a local wiki with tiddlywiki and failed lamentably, ending up writing directly an html file *

Nash appears to simplify my job, thanks!

* plus this for an easy TOC https://codepen.io/cgurski/pen/qBrNrPo
Voice of America funding is cut
I was thinking about bands like Talking Heads and the Clash.

I think the first Boston album was produced in a home studio. Home studios also developed during this time.
They're still used pretty heavily in hospitals and they do take advantage of newer technology like RFID for routing.

Separately, there's a very cool startup called Pipedream that does autonomous underground delivery robots that are kind of the next iteration of the concept.
I can give you one anecdotal data point FWIW. I work 7-7 Mon-Fri, of which 75% is writing code and 25% is meeting. Beyond that I work at least 10 hours between Fri evening and Sun evening; 80% is writing code -- 20% will be doing some form of process.

I work in a semiconductor company, at a fairly high technical level but I'm no superstar.
Except that many NYC public schools have yellow buses that park in the narrow streets during pickup or dropoff which are the cause for 20 minutes of gridlock along those streets. "A couple of hours" seems to be rather unusual.
If you live in the new world this seems cool and interesting. If you live in these places it's annoying because it means every time you try and build something an army of archeologists descends on your property and stops you from doing anything.

A neighbor of ours in the 90s started building an extension to their country house. They found a bunch of skeletons, thinking it was a mass grave from a war they called the police to deal with it. Turns out it was some off shoot of a 6,000 year old culture no one had seen before and had possibly the oldest writing in the world: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vin%C4%8Da_symbols

Unfortunately for them they couldn't build the well and they didn't lack the morals to bulldoze the whole thing overnight like some other people did.
Your understanding about the exact fit between your NIW job and a new job isn't correct. NIWs are not subject to the same portability requirements as PERM-based green card applications. That being said, when you are able to file your I-485 application, you might be asked to demonstrate how your work is serving a national interest, even if this interest is different from the one in the NIW.
If you're thinking in these terms, then the advice isn't really for you. You are probably better served by staying where you are, paying the tributes you duly owe and obeying the commands of your government.

The real world application of this advice is that you don't ask for permission, and involve governments as little as possible in your life. This of course means that your source of income has to be adapted to this, usually meaning having your own LLC.
When I saw NIN on PBS's Austin City Limits in 2014, I knew Trent had gone 'mainstream' in his maturity (with Robin performing too)..

https://www.pbs.org/video/austin-city-limits-nine-inch-nails...

It only takes me 3-4 somber notes from a song in a movie or TV show these days to quickly identify it as NIN or Trent\Atticus. The latest was in the season 3 finale of Invincible...

https://fandomwire.com/invincible-season-3-soundtrack-all-so...

Episode 8: I Thought You’d Never Shut Up

Every Day Is Exactly the Same by Nine Inch Nails
It's hugely problematic for both for likely the same reason - daylight and climate.

I have 20+ years of metadata on my photo catalog and it's funny how seasonal it is for me living in the northeast. For years I would try dabbling in things like macro and birding just to do SOMETHING in the long cold season, but it's always been a waste of money for me.

Meanwhile I've started dabbling in music and the fact I can just spin my chair over to my other desk, regardless of time/light/temprature and get on with it is very freeing.
If you don’t like the Beatles catalog, I consider you to be sort of musically disabled.
the premise of comfort from shared credentials, and perhaps of increased security from sso; breaks down the moment you have a vulnerability like this.

Any type of password store, even a physical one, or just reusing passwords, ends up being safer.

Minimalism wins again
The threat is real, unfortunately. Your friend should look at switching him to a work visa, such as an O-1, which as an experienced engineer, the Ukrainian employee might qualify for.
It really depends on the company, and specifically how well the company understands and, more importantly, communicates it's vision.

Some companies are just garbage companies and can't figure out what they want to build, but others are laser focused on tangible goals. There's a whole spectrum in between and companies often move within in over time. Obviously in companies that dont know what they want, devs are less well utilized, while the more a company's management is communicating the vision well, the more utilized, or overutilized, the devs are.
Its nothing like what Microsoft did with IE. There are a few features in Chrome which are mostly optional for the vast majority of web apps. And some of those features like WebUSB make things possible in web apps that wouldn't be possible otherwise. So the "problem" is that Chrome is moving too fast.

IE had the opposite problem. Microsoft was moving too slow and was genuinely holding the web back. And obviously, that was intentional because Microsoft's business model at that time was entirely tied to locking users into Windows.

Its never been easier to write cross browser web apps. Some companies choose not to because they don't care enough to test in other browsers. And even then, there are a lot of apps that just happen to work in all the major browsers by chance. It wasn't nearly as easy to build a cross browser app for the IE6 dominated web.
The Case for Abstractions in IaC
Have Humans Reached Peak Brainpower