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jsty··on A raw dump of companies from all over the world by LinkedIn handle
What's the license the dataset is released under? I poked around the documentation a bit but couldn't find it - apologies if it's in there!
jsty··on IRS tests free e-filing system that could compete with tax prep giants
> Of course assuming your laws allow it.

The spherical cow of the accounting world

jsty··on Story: Redis and its creator antirez
Add in a dash of complaining about name clashes
jsty··on Google Cloud Europe service disruption
Minimising the blast radius from logical changes (software & config) that get rolled out at an AZ-level.

Their descriptions[0] however promise zones have a "high degree of independence from one another in terms of physical and logical infrastructure". Just how well separated this physical zonal infrastructure was remains to be seen ...

[0] https://cloud.google.com/architecture/disaster-recovery#regi...

jsty··on Software firms across US facing tax bills that threaten survival
Unsure if you were getting at this too, but software development in the UK can absolutely be ineligible for R&D tax credits yet still require treatment as capital expenditure for tax purposes (and thus not simply fully deductible in year 1 like revenue expenditure) - see [0] from the AAT on this.

Disclaimer: Not an accountant, not your accountant, get professional advice.

[0] https://www.att.org.uk/tax-treatment-software-and-website-co...

jsty··on Tell HN: iOS lets carriers add WiFi networks that you can’t stop from joining
If the use case is as described (connecting to WiFi APs owned and controlled by the network in deadspots / hotspots - e.g. stadiums and large buildings - and not end-user APs in homes), it's not clear to me that this poses any significant threat above and beyond connecting to the same operator's cell towers. If you don't trust them to run a WiFi network, probably shouldn't trust their cell network either.

Having phones automatically and uncontrollably route via random 3rd party APs is a bad decision, but I didn't read GP as advocating for this.

jsty··on AI-enhanced development makes me more ambitious with my projects
> Then "explain why <my code> needs to be <new code>"

It would be nice, but until there's a breakthrough on having LLMs / other models generate, maintain and walk the user through a representation of their reasoning, these explanations are likely no more reliable than a random StackOverflow answer - except without the benefit of other users scoring / picking holes in the answer

jsty··on My startup banking story
They wouldn't have looked at it as a one-off $35M deposit though, but as one of many increasingly large deposits into a tech company that could all be traced back to a VC firm - all of which could be verified by information the bank has available without needing to query the customer, not least a series of effervescent PR pieces by said VC funds about their new investment
jsty··on PostgreSQL 14 Internals
Impossible is a bit of a stretch - that both search engines and books contain an index isn't a coincidence.
jsty··on ARM vs. Intel on Amazon’s Cloud: A URL Parsing Benchmark
If you care about performance to the extent of inlining hand-tuned assembly, you almost certainly care enough to do your own perf benchmarking on your own workloads.
jsty··on Firecracker internals: Inside the technology powering AWS Lambda (2021)
An analogous project from Google with similar use cases is gvisor, which IIRC underlies Cloud Run: https://gvisor.dev/
jsty··on From Go on EC2 to Fly.io
All of which have a counter-party who can suspend your service if they believe you're abusing the service: A&B your cloud / hosting provider, C&D the transit provider - all will have language in their contracts allowing for suspension or termination if they suspect abuse.

The only things that help protect you against this are (1) having named contacts on your account who will vouch internally at a supplier; (2) negotiating these clauses in contracts to prevent instant suspension in all but the most serious cases; and (3) utilising multiple suppliers.

jsty··on World’s largest four-day work week trial finds few are going back
If it wasn't a government-mandated day (e.g. Friday is now part of the weekend) then you'd have to ensure days off were split such that there was coverage of the whole working week - which is exactly what service industries that need more than 9-5 x 5 days a week availability often do currently.
jsty··on Gitlab’s Startup Acquisition Process
From the context Product Champion would seem to be using "champion" as in the B2B sales world - usually someone advocating the purchase of a particular vendor's solutions, here someone inside GitLab advocating to buy a particular company.
jsty··on More than five whys and “layer eight” problems
It sounds like Bridgewater - and if so Dalio has written quite widely, e.g.

https://www.principles.com/principles/85cda87a-6491-46bd-9cf...

jsty··on Why big tech companies need so many people
Individual Contributor - i.e. those who build and run things, not manage others
jsty··on Why is remote work seen as a gift?
There’s plenty of virtual office / forwarding address services, but claiming you live at one when you don’t for a pay gain risks (1) fraud against your employer; and (2) tax fraud (if eg in a different city / state / country).
jsty··on All programming philosophies are about state
Rich Hickey's "Simple Made Easy" talk discusses value and time - how mutability ties these together such that value is always time-dependent - and the complexity that results.

https://github.com/matthiasn/talk-transcripts/blob/master/Hi...

jsty··on Ask HN: Do you hate software engineering but love programming?
Surely the extreme case is whole teams working on software only one person uses
jsty··on Ask HN: We found a cracked version of our software on the web, now what?
If someone is sufficiently motivated, they'll always find ways to crack the software. If you don't have a large "personal" user base (as opposed to firms) - consider introducing a cut-price personal edition to lessen said motivation. Firms using it for "real work" - which I would hazard a guess at your price point form the bulk of revenue - are unlikely in any case to use a cracked or personal edition. Firms in less well-off regions may choose to buy the personal edition and accept the legal risk, but avoid the larger security risk of a cracked version - so you still get some revenue.
jsty··on What are executive off-sites good for?
> they shouldn't be about work at all

Other tax systems may vary, but in the UK if you have an offsite and it's not overwhelmingly for work (think agendas, sessions, meetings, etc. as proof) - the employee gets taxed on the value as if it was income.

There are ways for the employer to meet the additional tax burden, but far easier to just add in a work component and call it an offsite.

jsty··on Ask HN: Why the Linux Kernel doesn't have unit tests?
Quite possibly FoundationDB - they do a lot with deterministic simulation

https://www.foundationdb.org/files/fdb-paper.pdf

jsty··on Humans.txt
Between the "About Us" / "Team" / ... company website pages and LinkedIn profiles, I'd wager a majority of white-collar employees already have much more than the contents of Humans.txt linking back to details of their employment
jsty··on Show HN: Have fun betting virtual (not real) money on predictions from HN users
> But what happens as you start adding stuff. Toaster notification

Sounds like an amusing corollary to Zawinski's law. "Every program attempts to expand until it can notify you your toast is done..."

jsty··on Writing down what I do in Obsidian
I'm slightly confused - Obsidian has mobile apps [0] and sync functionality is built in [1]

[0] https://obsidian.md/mobile

[1] https://obsidian.md/sync

jsty··on Microsoft is phoning home the content of PowerPoint slides
> it could be because investors notice that converting people to the Cloud is not currently working

Given the barn storming financial performance of other cloud operators and Atlassian's impressive record in (un)reliability, I think investors are quite aware that converting people to the cloud is going swimmingly most places that aren't Atlassian.

jsty··on How we handled a recent phishing incident
> Yubikey would indeed prevent an attack like this from working.

It would using U2F / WebAuthn. Some Yubikeys support generating TOTP codes [0], which would be vulnerable to phishing attacks

[0] https://support.yubico.com/hc/en-us/articles/360013789259-Us...

jsty··on How we handled a recent phishing incident
My guess - issues tied to requested features from current & prospective customers, and bugs associated with specific vendors - all of which could plausibly lead to a bunch of (name, email) data points stored on GitHub
jsty··on The Netherlands may be the first country to hit the limits of growth
> Doesn't 90% of fresh flowers come from that country?

47.9% of the global cut flower market in 2019 [0]. They do grow 90% of Europe's orchids [1]

[0] https://www.mordorintelligence.com/industry-reports/netherla...

[1] https://londonflowerschool.com/journal/inside-the-dutch-flow...

jsty··on EasyList is in trouble and so are many ad blockers
> This issue caused CF to irreversibly ban them though

Do you have a source for that? The article only mentions them being throttled + the screenshot with the support engineer saying they seem to be breaking the ToS and asking them politely to move back into compliance.

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