Hacker News: zedpm

New comment by zedpm in "How to convert between wealth and income tax"

zedpm — Fri, 22 May 2026 16:03:06 +0000

Are there serious proposals to just add a wealth tax on top of the existing income tax that would apply to the sort of people who actually pay much in income tax vs capital gains? It's an honest question; I haven't seen proposals of that sort, so I'm skeptical that the arguments are meaningful here. For an individual like Jeff Bezos, he's paying virtually no tax under the normal income tax rates referenced in the article, but rather capital gains tax, which tops out at 20%, not 37%.

New comment by zedpm in "Nullsoft, 1997-2004 (2004)"

zedpm — Mon, 11 May 2026 20:14:07 +0000

Yep, NSIS is awesome and my team is still using it to package Windows builds of at least two apps. I was pleasantly surprised to see Tauri [0] includes NSIS as one of its built-in installer options.

0 - https://tauri.app/ 1 - https://tauri.app/distribute/windows-installer/

New comment by zedpm in "RabbitMQ 4.0"

zedpm — Wed, 18 Sep 2024 19:50:17 +0000

$10/month difference is, to use your phrasing, absolutely nothing. It's not worth anyone's time to make that switch unless it's some toy app paid for out of pocket.

New comment by zedpm in "Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks"

zedpm — Thu, 02 May 2024 15:33:57 +0000

Interesting, the use of grammar production rules reminds me of Grammatical Evolution[0], which has shown some promise in constraining the search space when using EAs for e.g. symbolic regression.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammatical_evolution

New comment by zedpm in "The AWS S3 Denial of Wallet Amplification Attack"

zedpm — Wed, 01 May 2024 21:42:55 +0000

Lots of reasons. My company started using AWS (and specifically S3) something like 9 years ago; R2 wasn't even on the radar back then. If I were starting from scratch today, I'd be looking seriously at Cloudflare as a platform, but it's only in the last year or two that they've offered these services that would make it possible to build substantial applications.

New comment by zedpm in "The AWS S3 Denial of Wallet Amplification Attack"

zedpm — Wed, 01 May 2024 21:39:50 +0000

Jeff Barr posted that AWS is actively working on a resolution for this: https://twitter.com/jeffbarr/status/1785386554372042890 . Given who he is, I take this as a strong indication that there will be a reasonable fix in the near future.

New comment by zedpm in "DBRX: A new open LLM"

zedpm — Wed, 27 Mar 2024 15:42:18 +0000

Somewhere, Edward Tufte[0] is weeping.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Tufte

New comment by zedpm in "End of Life for Twilio Authy Desktop App"

zedpm — Tue, 13 Feb 2024 20:59:16 +0000

I use Authy on my phone and watch, but not Authy on the desktop for exactly this reason; if my computer is compromised and 1password is accessible, they still don't have access to my TOTP codes. Having it on both my watch and phone means I can break a device and not lose access.

New comment by zedpm in "Tesla is launching their developer APIs"

zedpm — Fri, 13 Oct 2023 19:59:57 +0000

I'm glad to see they didn't forget about HTTP 418[0] in their response code docs[1].

[0]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Status/418

[1]: https://developer.tesla.com/docs/fleet-api#response-codes

New comment by zedpm in "Fuck being productive"

zedpm — Thu, 11 May 2023 17:44:19 +0000

Factotum and South of No North are two of my favorites.

New comment by zedpm in "AWS to deprecate boto resource abstractions"

zedpm — Fri, 20 Jan 2023 16:28:28 +0000

This is very disappointing. I'm kind of amazed that they think this is a good business decision when there are massive numbers of paying customers with mountains of python code using boto3. I imagine much of that code uses the resource interfaces since they're easier to use.

This isn't some fringe feature they're deprecating; the official documentation uses these interfaces in its examples; they're literally telling you that's the correct way to use the library and then the next moment they're telling you it's not.

New comment by zedpm in "MacBook Pro featuring M2 Pro and M2 Max"

zedpm — Tue, 17 Jan 2023 16:25:30 +0000

I’m still using a 2015 MacBook Pro, and it doesn’t feel slow. I’ve done no repairs or maintenance on it in all that time.

Amazon RDS now supports new General Purpose gp3 storage volumes

zedpm — Thu, 10 Nov 2022 20:07:17 +0000

Article URL: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2022/11/amazon-rds-general-purpose-gp3-storage-volumes/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33552430

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by zedpm in "Aizuchi: Does your listening make Japanese people uncomfortable? (2013)"

zedpm — Fri, 21 Oct 2022 15:39:08 +0000

This is interesting. I've just started having video meetings with a colleague (not Japanese) who aggressively interjects these words when I'm speaking, to the point that I find it distracting. I'm simply not accustomed to having someone say "mmm hmm" several times during a single sentence, and I find I start to lose my train of thought.

New comment by zedpm in "Apache Apisix: Open-Source API Gateway and API Management Platform"

zedpm — Thu, 15 Sep 2022 21:55:46 +0000

While you _can_ tack all of those things on to your API, many people (myself included) prefer to separate those concerns. A dedicated API Gateway can prevent a lot of additional load from hitting the backend services. A gateway can also be a nice abstraction of the public interface from the underlying service(s).

New comment by zedpm in "Tell HN: Heroku alternatives with generous free tiers"

zedpm — Thu, 25 Aug 2022 21:29:19 +0000

It's worth noting that AWS's free tier has absolutely no safety net and you can easily end up with an unexpected bill, sometimes a very large one. The single best thing AWS could do to encourage people to learn about its services by trying them out would be to have a safe-by-default billing configuration. A user should have to flip a switch in their account to allow any usage over a given dollar amount, with services being halted in the event they would breach this limit without having flipped that switch.

Amazon more than doubles max base pay to $350k

zedpm — Mon, 07 Feb 2022 15:47:26 +0000

Article URL: https://www.geekwire.com/2022/amazon-more-than-doubles-max-base-pay-to-350k-for-corporate-and-tech-workers-citing-labor-market/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30246395

Points: 351

# Comments: 445

New comment by zedpm in "To stop building heat islands, stop overbuilding parking lots"

zedpm — Thu, 13 Jan 2022 19:41:34 +0000

Right, that's my point in responding to the parent comment about fitting 5 people in a Camry; it's not so simple when 3 of them require car seats.

New comment by zedpm in "To stop building heat islands, stop overbuilding parking lots"

zedpm — Thu, 13 Jan 2022 17:32:49 +0000

Have you ever tried installing 3 car seats into a compact car?

New comment by zedpm in "Tell HN: AWS appears to be down again"

zedpm — Wed, 15 Dec 2021 15:57:40 +0000

Wow, yeah, us-west-1 AND us-west-2 are reporting connectivity issues. I'm guessing this is related to the Auth0 outage that's currently going on too.