Hacker News: fire

New comment by fire in "The Radiating Programmer"

fire — Fri, 24 Nov 2023 00:29:11 +0000

> This only works when you trust your team members. This means absolutely nobody who can fire me on the spot, not my supervisor, not my skip, not the CEO/CTO/VP should be on the call.

not sure how I'd've ever justified suggesting engineering standup without our engineering manager present

New comment by fire in "Free IRS-run tax filing pilot to be available in 13 states"

fire — Tue, 17 Oct 2023 22:02:15 +0000

my favorite part is how brokerages like morgan stanley don't report the cost basis when they report your sales to the irs, and for no reason I can find.

This means that if you don't report sales from your side so you can note the cost basis, the irs assumes a cost basis of 0 and calculates owed tax on the entire sale value - this applies to stuff like RSU grants as well, and trips up a great many people entering the tech sector ( especially young people who may not have much tax filing experience )

I legitimately don't know why brokerages don't all include the cost basis by default ( or why they aren't required to by law )

New comment by fire in "Free IRS-run tax filing pilot to be available in 13 states"

fire — Tue, 17 Oct 2023 21:54:47 +0000

w2 only would mean independent contractors , like gig workers, won't be able to use it, right? since they get 1099's and not w2's?

New comment by fire in "Free IRS-run tax filing pilot to be available in 13 states"

fire — Tue, 17 Oct 2023 21:47:26 +0000

are you referring to like when you do summarized trades? or something else?

New comment by fire in "Costco Capitalism"

fire — Tue, 17 Oct 2023 07:57:49 +0000

Was this recent? My Costco still had Hot Pockets as of last month

New comment by fire in "This is a black and white photo, but an artist has drawn color lines through it"

fire — Thu, 21 Sep 2023 18:28:19 +0000

this is honestly way cooler than the OP tweet

New comment by fire in "Open source hooliganism and the TypeScript meltdown"

fire — Fri, 08 Sep 2023 00:13:55 +0000

my guess is that's primarily due to the shift in incentives for social media, but also Svelte's decision being made by the group of maintainers/contributors together, and not impacting end users more or less at all as Svelte didn't stop generating types when they swapped from TS to JS+JSDoc

New comment by fire in "deVStudio – Runs VS Code on Android"

fire — Thu, 07 Sep 2023 20:19:46 +0000

neat, any thoughts on how to use a different base app?

New comment by fire in "Open source hooliganism and the TypeScript meltdown"

fire — Thu, 07 Sep 2023 20:19:07 +0000

Developer drama on twitter was always tiring but it's gotten so much worse since direct financial incentives for high engagement came into play

New comment by fire in "Mojo is available for local download"

fire — Thu, 07 Sep 2023 18:28:05 +0000

> Mojo is now available for local download – beginning with Linux systems, and adding Mac and Windows in coming releases.

sure would be nice if this was front and center on the actual website; the download page requires the user create an account in order to even find out that linux is the only supported platform at present.

New comment by fire in "deVStudio – Runs VS Code on Android"

fire — Wed, 06 Sep 2023 01:11:42 +0000

Does this use actual vscode or is it based on vscodium?

I'm curious how much tweaking you needed to do to get this to work - I'd love to see this with https://cursor.sh (vscodium based) as the editor

New comment by fire in "Show HN: Open-source obsidian.md sync server"

fire — Thu, 24 Aug 2023 23:28:42 +0000

Honestly I just want a sync solution I can host on my NAS that the mobile app can still access, which unfortunately isn't something the app natively supports, and more or less all of the current community solutions come with one caveat or another ( like the otherwise lovely git solution having issues on iOS clients, for example )

New comment by fire in "Chiptune.app"

fire — Sat, 15 Jul 2023 22:46:47 +0000

this is extremely cool when it works well!

my poor pixel 3 can't play back almost anything on the site without constant popping ( resembling artifacts, I think? ), which is sad

New comment by fire in "Threads, an Instagram app"

fire — Tue, 04 Jul 2023 01:26:47 +0000

Great, another social media platform that won't have any form of support team.

Twitter at least had one you could actually talk to before Elon took over, but Instagram has lacked support contact methods for years at this point.

Using a platform where you have no recourse or even method of reaching out if something goes awry is always a dangerous game to play :(

New comment by fire in "Gut–Brain axis"

fire — Sun, 25 Jun 2023 20:44:30 +0000

do you happen to know what the other two tests were / what the other condition being tested for was?

New comment by fire in "Dev Drive on Windows 11"

fire — Fri, 02 Jun 2023 23:49:43 +0000

holy crap

New comment by fire in "Hacking my “smart” toothbrush"

fire — Thu, 01 Jun 2023 09:54:28 +0000

ironically the special blue bristles in the philips heads that turn white when the brush head needs to be replaced is exactly what you want, I think?

New comment by fire in "Dev Drive on Windows 11"

fire — Mon, 29 May 2023 21:29:23 +0000

you mind speaking more about the kind of size differences you're seeing? also, do you have a link to that article by chance?

New comment by fire in "Dev Drive on Windows 11"

fire — Sun, 28 May 2023 03:23:59 +0000

oh neat, ReFS isn't dead

interested to see performance metrics when tech youtubers start messing around with it

New comment by fire in "Gravitational-wave detector LIGO is back"

fire — Fri, 26 May 2023 23:22:45 +0000

are gravitational waves like, universal? could we use them as a timing reference, I wonder?