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New comment by bm1362 in "The rise of E Ink Tablets and Note Takers: reMarkable 2 vs Onyx Boox Note Air"

bm1362 — Tue, 15 Jun 2021 15:56:50 +0000

Frankly no, it doesn’t re-flow them so the text will often be too small. Quite a massive oversight and no one really talks about it.

New comment by bm1362 in "Italian seaside residents hit with bygone feudal tax"

bm1362 — Tue, 25 May 2021 13:10:03 +0000

In modern monetary policy, income tax is used as a deflationary measure and our government is funded by the fed.

New comment by bm1362 in "Ask HN: How do you generally build a product?"

bm1362 — Thu, 06 May 2021 15:43:43 +0000

You can just skip all this: create a landing page with a “Coming Soon” mock-up and sign up form.

Buy some ads, tweet and then wait to see if it’s worth working on.

New comment by bm1362 in "Ex-Netflix VP found guilty of awarding tech contracts in exchange for bribes"

bm1362 — Wed, 05 May 2021 16:23:23 +0000

I believe that white collar crime deserves the harshest punishment of all. It’s committed by intelligent people, premeditated and generally abuses a position of trust.

New comment by bm1362 in "AMD Reports Q1 2021 Earnings"

bm1362 — Wed, 28 Apr 2021 20:55:28 +0000

I've prototype on a collab notebook and have been using AWS GPUs for training. Having to jump through hoops for quota and the general anxiety in trying to optimize the costs led me to just build a machine with a 1-time upfront cost. As a sole proprietor, I can write off the capex against future revenue anyways and depreciate it.

New comment by bm1362 in "AMD Reports Q1 2021 Earnings"

bm1362 — Wed, 28 Apr 2021 20:52:41 +0000

Dope, 7 days is a pretty nice turnaround. I went with a 'custom' prebuilt so I could plan for adding additional cards once they're well supplied. You might run into trouble with the PSU, case clearance and mobo throughput if you plan on adding another 3-slot 3090 - those are all sub-1k though so you can always swap once you need to!

New comment by bm1362 in "AMD Reports Q1 2021 Earnings"

bm1362 — Wed, 28 Apr 2021 05:19:54 +0000

I just went this route to build a ML workstation. I was able to get a prebuilt with a 3090 for ~30% of a comparable build on https://lambdalabs.com/.

Now I just need to wait until next year to get the second 3090. I considered waiting for the new A4000s to launch to see if they'd have better inventory but figured 3090s have additional value as a gaming gpu.

I'd be curious how professional ML folks are fairing and what they're using -- it's not too late to cancel my build.

New comment by bm1362 in "YouTube tells foreign creators they will soon be charged American tax"

bm1362 — Wed, 10 Mar 2021 16:05:31 +0000

I believe the IRS would investigate many small donations under the gift tax. An analogy would be restaurant servers claiming their tips as gifts and thus not disclosing it as income.

I’m sure there are clauses to avoid abusing gift tax as a loop hole for providing a service.

New comment by bm1362 in "Dual-flush toilets 'wasting more water than they save'"

bm1362 — Wed, 30 Sep 2020 05:44:55 +0000

Also just bought the same model, hoping to replace a terrible Whirlpool.

New comment by bm1362 in "Guide to Equity Compensation"

bm1362 — Sat, 22 Feb 2020 05:39:28 +0000

The stock is counted as income when it is exercised. The basis is the strike price then, once you sell later it’s considered either capital gain or loss. My understanding is that you can only apply 3000 in capital loses to income tax liability.

New comment by bm1362 in "Tesla remotely removed autopilot features from used Tesla without notice"

bm1362 — Fri, 07 Feb 2020 18:24:22 +0000

They regained the CR:

https://www.consumerreports.org/car-reliability-owner-satisf...

New comment by bm1362 in "Tesla remotely removed autopilot features from used Tesla without notice"

bm1362 — Fri, 07 Feb 2020 18:22:54 +0000

That’s not a great analogy.

Apple sells a computer with an extra Siri service. You return it and they resell to another consumer who has the option to purchase the Siri package.

Seems reasonable to me.

New comment by bm1362 in "Omnieq: Credit Spread Scanner"

bm1362 — Tue, 21 Jan 2020 17:24:28 +0000

You can purchase real time data streams for relatively cheap (200/month) from many companies, even exchanges themselves.

I’m actually building something similar for my own options trading and was eventually going to spin it into a SaaS.

New comment by bm1362 in "I moved my sites from Google Kubernetes Engine to Netlify and saved $1000 / year"

bm1362 — Tue, 24 Dec 2019 20:17:46 +0000

(Thanks got your reply!) Also other drawbacks: lack of http/2, couldn’t configure mtls from cloudflare to avoid someone going around the waf

New comment by bm1362 in "I moved my sites from Google Kubernetes Engine to Netlify and saved $1000 / year"

bm1362 — Tue, 24 Dec 2019 20:15:43 +0000

I wanted to point my root domain (hosted by Google) to the Heroku app DNS target. I was able to solve this by using Cloudflare instead, with flattening.

New comment by bm1362 in "I moved my sites from Google Kubernetes Engine to Netlify and saved $1000 / year"

bm1362 — Tue, 24 Dec 2019 19:32:17 +0000

Anyone have any recommendations for a managed Compute/Postgres stack that’s less than 100/month? I was trying Heroku but frustrated by the single port per container and lack of static ips.

New comment by bm1362 in "Blizzard Suspends Professional Hearthstone Player for Hong Kong Comments"

bm1362 — Tue, 08 Oct 2019 17:10:00 +0000

How about the Iran Nuclear deal? Or is that a bad example?

New comment by bm1362 in "Ask HN: Do senior engineers have a mental model before coding?"

bm1362 — Sat, 31 Aug 2019 08:18:26 +0000

I went to a FAANG interview today without preparing and was asked 7 leetcoding problems across 5 interviews. Even the behavioral one included a leetcode problem.

Most interviewers seemed to give an easy problem followed by a medium/hard. I think I succeeded, purely based on years of doing leetcode in the past and having a job at another FAANG-like.

New comment by bm1362 in "Lambda School fined $75k by CA for operating without state approval [pdf]"

bm1362 — Tue, 30 Jul 2019 01:20:48 +0000

Hedge funds bought shares because of the cooked books and unreal returns.

New comment by bm1362 in "DoorDash Changes Tipping Model After Uproar"

bm1362 — Wed, 24 Jul 2019 18:23:12 +0000

I see tipping as a form of profit sharing. If a server or barista gets more volume for the restaurant, they get a cut. Often times, servers leave at the end of the night with $200+. I used to be a valet and was paid $5/hour but would make easily over $100 in tips.