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juliennakache commented on The time bomb in the tax code that's fueling mass tech layoffs qz.com/tech-layoffs-tax-c... · Posted by u/booleanbetrayal

netcan · 7 months ago

What are the implications of this.

As I understand accounting, this means that reported profits would be higher, and therefore incur more corporate income tax liability. Cash flow isn't effected besides tax.

A startup isn't likely to be making a profit yet, under either accounting rule. Is there a benefit to reporting a larger loss?

My first thought is that this effects Google and suchlike, not startups. But... assuming steady state "r&d" expenditure... it's not that much. Everything gets deducted within 5 years anyway.

So... maybe this hinders more modestly profitable, and fast growing companies most. Those that can't afford to carry 5 years worth of paper profits as easily.

Otoh... I am curious about how the difference between r&d expenses and operational ones are determined irl.

This should be quantifiable. How much extra assets are software companies actually booking?

It seems questionable that this "silent killer" had actually affected employment so much.

juliennakache · 7 months ago

The R&D credits are deducted from Payroll taxes, so they impact pre-revenue startups as well.

juliennakache commented on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2024) · Posted by u/whoishiring

juliennakache · a year ago

We’re Hiring Founding Engineers @ Medbill AI (US Remote, NYC, Seattle)

Hi HN,

Medbill AI is hiring Founding Software Engineers! We’re building the most trusted service for reducing the time, money, and stress associated with medical bills and health insurance.

The Problem: 40% of medical bills in the U.S. contain errors, contributing to over $195B in medical debt annually. Navigating health insurance and resolving billing disputes is a nightmare for millions.

About Us: Backed by Top Investors: $17M seed round led by Forerunner, with participation from the founders of HuggingFace, Oscar Health, RocketMoney, and Tim Ferriss.

Our Team: We’re a small but mighty group of 6 engineers, including 3 former Staff Engineers from Oscar Health.

What We’re Looking For: -4+ years of experience engineering software as a product/full-stack engineer or back-end engineer. -Excited to solve complex problems in health tech and shape the technical foundation of a fast-growing startup.

Have questions? Reach out to hiring@medbill.ai or apply at

https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/medbill-ai?utm_source=d9ljn0qBe4

Looking forward to hearing from you!

juliennakache commented on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2024) · Posted by u/whoishiring

juliennakache · 2 years ago

Medbill AI | Founding Senior Engineer + Founding Designer | Full Time | Remote - US timezones

We are building an AI assistant that helps people with medical billing and health insurance issues. Thanks to AI and new healthcare regulations around patient data access and price transparency, it is now possible for everyone, including you, to have their own assistant who works around the clock to save them time and money on medical bills and health insurance issues.

Reach out if you’re interested in the role or want to learn more about what we’re up to!

https://www.medbill.ai/about

juliennakache commented on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2023) · Posted by u/whoishiring

zztop44 · 2 years ago

For the designer do you need US time zones or is ~5 hours overlap with Pacific Time close enough? I know someone who’d be a good fit if so…

juliennakache · 2 years ago

Some of the product team is in EST so that's going to be too tight. Thanks for offering though!

juliennakache commented on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2023) · Posted by u/whoishiring

juliennakache · 2 years ago

Medbill AI | Founding Senior Engineer + Founding Designer | Full Time | Remote - US timezones

We are building an AI assistant that helps people with medical billing and health insurance issues. Thanks to AI and new healthcare regulations around patient data access and price transparency, it is now possible for everyone, including you, to have their own assistant who works around the clock to save them money on medical bills and navigate the disjointed US healthcare system.

Reach out if you’re interested in the role or want to learn more about what we’re up to!

https://www.medbill.ai/about

juliennakache commented on Show HN: Graphite – Stacked Diffs on GitHub · Posted by u/tomasreimers

Xiulung · 2 years ago

Hey @juliennakache UX designer at Graphite here,

All PRs will be shown with the proper draft/open/closed/merged states on GitHub and on Graphite, we do a lot of work to make sure that the real-time status is synced between the two so that you can adopt Graphite without disrupting your team's existing workflow.

Would love to know other pain-points you have around GitHub so that we could make Graphite even better for you and your team

juliennakache · 2 years ago

Hi, sorry just seeing this.

What about the comments on commits? Are those all displayed in the Github PR when it's merged, and attached to all the correct lines, even the ones that were made on branches that were rebased?

Thanks!

juliennakache commented on Show HN: Graphite – Stacked Diffs on GitHub · Posted by u/tomasreimers

juliennakache · 2 years ago

Seems interesting! I've been very unhappy with Github workflow and UI for PRs. It's insane that each time you rebase a PR, you lose all your existing comments on that PR (i.e. they are no longer attached to lines in the UI).

Does anyone know if you need Graphite to see a PR once it's been merged in the Github repo? I'm curious about how locked you in when you start using Graphite.

juliennakache commented on I’m in Wyoming to celebrate the next nuclear breakthrough gatesnotes.com/Wyoming-Te... · Posted by u/erentz

DarkNova6 · 3 years ago

Sodium is such a nightmarish coolant. Yes, there are advantages in building and engineering a sodium cooled reactor, but from an operating point of view... oh boy.

Sodium catches fire when exposed to air.

Sodium reacts violently with water (used in some designs as secondary cooling cycle).

Sodium absorbing a neutron creates a strong gamma emitter with a low half time.

Sodium reactors have always had low availability times, caused by constant technical problems.

However unlike lead as coolant, no advances in material sciences are required to get an operational Gen 4 reactor. On the upside, you can pretty much use Sodium (fast) reactors right now... but maybe you shouldn't?

juliennakache · 3 years ago

From a link shared in a thread below:

“High-temperature properties such as the volumetric storage density, viscosity and transparency are similar to water at room temperature. The major advantages of molten salts are low costs, non-toxicity, non-flammability, high thermal stabilities and low vapor pressures. The low vapor pressure results in storage designs without pressurized tanks (Fig. 1). Molten salts are suitable both as heat storage medium and heat transfer fluid (HTF). In general, there is experience with molten salts in a number of industrial applications related to heat treatment, electrochemical treatment and heat transfer for decades.”

I don’t know anything about this but it does seem that things are not as clear cut as your comment made it seem.

ref: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/cite.202000137

EDIT: From ChatGPT 3.5:

“ One of the most commonly used molten salts in nuclear reactors is a mixture of lithium fluoride (LiF) and beryllium fluoride (BeF2), commonly referred to as FLiBe. FLiBe is used as both a coolant and a neutron moderator in some types of nuclear reactors, such as molten salt reactors (MSRs) and some advanced small modular reactors (SMRs).

FLiBe has several advantages as a coolant in nuclear reactors, including its good heat transfer properties and its ability to operate at high temperatures without evaporating. Additionally, FLiBe is not highly corrosive to many materials commonly used in reactor components, which can help reduce maintenance and replacement costs.

However, FLiBe does have some potential disadvantages, such as its relatively high viscosity, which can make it more difficult to pump and circulate, and its high melting point, which can increase startup times for reactor systems. Additionally, FLiBe can be corrosive to some materials, such as aluminum and some types of steels, so care must be taken in selecting materials that are compatible with FLiBe.”

juliennakache commented on QuiLLMan: Voice chat with Vicuna-13B github.com/modal-labs/qui... · Posted by u/pierremenard

juliennakache · 3 years ago

Interesting. How does local development work or remote debugging work if the entire production toolchain is abstracted away with proprietary software?

juliennakache commented on Launch HN: Play.ht (YC W23) – Generate and clone voices from 20 seconds of audio · Posted by u/hammadh

juliennakache · 3 years ago

Looks great. I've waiting for a service like that ever since Microsoft released their paper on speech synthesis using voice samples. Feature requests: - make the voice generation available via API so devs can embed that in their app - expose a streaming API like Polly so we can feed it text in real time and get the voice as an audio stream - make it Hipaa compliant and have a plans that offer signing a BAA

I'll be your first customer if you do this! You can get in touch with me at @juliennakache