skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah yes I forgot the US has a separate state tax system. In Aus the federal government distributes taxes to the states (which of course is highly controversial amongst the state governments but the average person couldn't care less)

You can also claim back the cost of filing here I believe, so if you need to use a third party they are essentially paid by the government. Maybe that's why they make it so easy here?
> And if you (actually) believe in equality, those affordances should apply to all.

Assuming one actually believes it’s an affordance, as opposed to a pointless inconvenience and cash grab. I suspect those whose views you’re attempting to impugn generally have the latter viewpoint.
> If I read this right, you can still use the free service the IRS provides if you make less than $66,000.

You did not. You can contact the private companies such as H&R Block and request Their free service if you make less than 66k - and subject yourself to their upselling and scam artistry, to try and get you to pay anything more than "free."

> I don't expect the IRS to make software for complicated taxes as that's a very difficult challenge

The vast majority of people file extremely simple taxes, as they're salaried workers with minimal assets. Most first-world countries provide a pre-populated tax form with the relevant data (since your employer already submits it), for you to peruse, edit, and hit the submit button on. If other countries do it without a problem, I don't see why it's too technically difficult for us to do the same.
"That’s a reasonable approximation"

No, because the authors don't understand how miners gain revenue. For every dollar of miners revenues, currently $0.02 come from tx fees and $0.98 come from the block reward (12.5 BTC today.) Therefore with everything remaining equal (same average fee per tx, which is the authors' assumption), if the tx rate grew 50x it would increase miners revenues to $1.98, hence only doubling revenues and power consumption.
Does this support Azure login on Slack?

This seems to be a common hurdle on non-Electron Slack clients (well at least on the one or two others I tried within the last few years that I can't remember the names of now).
that concern is simply not valid. The IRS would send you a proposed return and you could make whatever changes you want to make.
Lenn Pryor did say emails in the parent reply. "Email" is used both as a singular and plural, so I don't think his later reply is wrong, either.
Great list, and interesting for non-Googlers too. I'd replace, though:

Google -> Real World

free food -> :(

With:

free food -> free time
Its not that complicated to define.

Lots of people have done it from Tim Wu, to Jaron Lanier to Clay Shirky to Tristan Harris. The problem definitions and solutions are almost 10 years old now.

It's just that YouTube, Facebook and Twitter didn't give a shit. Plus all kinds of side show debates about free speech, privacy, anonymity and half a dozen other things have taken focus away from the fundamental change social media introduced into the way humans as a group communicate.

That fundamental change is these systems attach a publicly visible number next to every thing anyone says.

Whether it is a like/view/upvote/click/follower/retweet count it has an effect on how people think and behave.

Whether it is the President, a Journalist or a 10 year old the numbers have an unasked for influence.

There is no good psychological/sociological reason for these numbers to be publicly visible in real time.

Engagement and Recommendation systems can still collect these numbers and continue to do their jobs without publicly displaying any of these numbers in real time or not at all.

These changes can't be rolled out instantly because a large part of the population are hooked and need to be slowly weaned off.
Today kubecost is different in a number of ways 1) open source with easy installation 2) exclusively focused on kubernetes-centric infrastructure and 3) offers a fully deployed solution.
> while "B, A" optimizes for some sort of efficiency

What sort of efficiency do you think this optimizes for?
I'm guessing better than GP anyway. Or call it a smokescreen if you will, distracting people by making loud decisions while the board got ready for winding down everything. I mean I'm guessing - we'll never know for sure unless someone from Yahoo's leadership comes forward and lays it all out.
Related to https://www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2019/04/08/us-workers-a...

Citizen overheads for essential services are as high or higher in the US as in mainstream developed nations, but laws dictated by corporations mandating (or making essential-in-practise) private provision clumsily hide them behind a fake 'low tax' banner.

Here in Aus our ATO makes the (dead simple) etax directly available to end users. Its popularity speaks for itself, and there'd be hell to pay if the ATO ever removed the service. Cf public healthcare etc - corporations are rightly scared of public provision. People like it & it's very sticky.
It's a spectrum. Or at least vividness of visual imagery is. I'm extremely low on the vividness scale. Don't know if this makes me aphantasic, or something else:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vividness_of_Visual_Imagery_...
Eh you'd be surprised, I couldn't even get an interview with some places, got denied from others, but now work at Google doing full stack. Every technology I use though is Google internal, and I don't have much knowledge of full stack development outside of Google. Some companies just test your algo / ds / system design knowledge, and sure I do fine there, but any specific knowledge I'm useless. TBH I think I'm not very good at any one language either because I often have to switch
..and "engagement"-obsessed social media/ad platforms are the equivalent of a guy who hangs out in the parking lot handing out free jello shots to people as they get into their cars.
> Money speaks depressingly loudly in politics.

I don't know what's disheartening about it. Here in D.C., Democrats are in an ideological war with Republicans. Money is necessary to fuel the war machine: https://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015.... Of course they want to get larger donors more involved.
Now do how wealth redistribution from rich to the poor is good.
Those numbers sound about right. It is surprisingly cheap to influence our Representatives and Senators.

Maybe it would be within range of a decent crowdsourcing campaign to raise the amount of cash to buy enough influence and lobbying to move the needle on things that are in the public interest, like this issue.

Ugh. If only more of our Representatives and Senators actually worked for the people, rather than for whomever promises them the most money...
Every doctor I see is a Medicaid provider. Yes, there are doctor who don't accept it, but it's not hard where I'm from to find a doctor who does (perhaps we have an oversupply of doctors?).
in the multiple times it has happened to me, they were right, and refunded or charged me sometimes modest sometimes small amounts

The one time it happened to me was much more opaque. Basically, some years after filing, the IRS said something like "you owe us an extra $5". Without much explanation as to why.

Okay, easy thing is to pay $5. But what if it was $500? Still not cost effective to pay an accountant to help you understand why. And what if it's $5,000? Is it worth battling a Kafkaesque bureaucracy for that? What if it's $50,000?

The current system sucks but it sure is better than having the starting point for taxes being the government tell you exactly how much you owe them and you having to battle them to prove otherwise.
Statistically because drunk drivers are looking at the road and aren’t seeing everything correctly (or quickly enough), distracted drivers aren’t even looking at the road.

Even if you’re hammered enough to have 5% of your normal driving ability, not looking at the road at all is a straight 0% driving ability. It’s essentially driving with your eyes closed every time you look down.
I can certainly see imagery, but never to the level it becomes hallucinatory.

Instead, it feels more like a background process. The more I focus on a mental image the less I "see" the visual input to my retinas. I've attempted to figure out how many visual streams I can see at the same time and I struggle to imagine more than three. If I focus very intently on all of them it seems I don't see any of them in great detail.

Certainly if I block out my visual input or focus on some unchanging imagery it becomes far easier to make my mental imagery more intense and detailed, but they can also be disrupted quite easily again by some new visual stimuli or an errant thought.
A "task" in ECS means a container. In Fargate, in order to be ready to receive requests 24/7, you have to pay to have a container running 24/7. In that sense, it feels a lot closer to EC2 than it does to Lambda.
You’re not wrong. I see most cloud consumers at AWS, with anyone else married to Microsoft or who is in business competing against Amazon going with Azure. Which is a shame, because Google Cloud is pretty solid, but the stigma is real.
Man... that sounds awesome... Your description is actually the first time I've been sad about what I'm missing.

I definitely can't re-feel, re-smell, or re-taste. That's not the least bit ambiguous in my brain, I just have no idea what that even means. Re-hearing? I'm not sure... I can think "words", but there's nothing especially "audible" about it.
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Great summary!

Out of the box support for prerendering is also fantastic too – https://www.netlify.com/docs/prerendering/
In the real world they can't physically touch you so let's replace that with passive facial recognition. In that case, yes they can do that all today. Someone can follow you all day from the moment you step out into public.

We might not like it but it is legal and they own their observations.
That's how we learn how great BB is.
The text of the bill specifies that it only applies to companies with at least 100 million monthly active users.
I imagine like this, it always seemed to fit well with Bertrand Russel's conceptualisation of the "table" in his beginners treatise on philosophy ("Problems of Philosophy"). The barn in my mind is the concept of barn, it's not really solidified in to an image-able object.

In dreams I enjoy the contradictory nature of things/people, like someone in the dream is themselves fully and also someone else; or a barn say is painted red and made of wood whilst simultaneously being entirely constructed of windows, and the windows can't be looked out of ...
I've never had strong visual imagery, but recently I've been practicing visualizing mental images as well as attempting (and failing) to overlay those images over my vision.

Whenever I do visualize images, they feel as if they are positioned behind just my forehead or at the top of my head. Sometimes I imagine this as a sort of "canvas" on which I can imagine or draw images. With your example of visualizing a ball, the ball and my hand can be on the same "layer" on this canvas, but do not affect my vision at all.

What I find interesting is that I can actually move this canvas around spatially or create new ones. On each canvas for example, I can imagine a different rotating object. As well, each canvas retains its image as a form of short-term memory. So I can switch focus between different imagined images or compositions.

I'm curious - with more practice - how mental imagery can aid in memory. Recently I learned a song in a language I do not understand, and the words of the song would appear on my mind's "canvas" almost like karaoke or like reading off imaginary flashcards...

It's always interesting to read about how other people's experiences are similar or different to my own. The minds eye is endlessly interesting.
For the vast majority of people, filing your taxes by hand is so easy, I'm not sure why more people do not do it. It also has the side benefit of making the government pay more to collect your taxes.

The IRS is also extremely wonderful to deal with, and is happy to answer your questions. I've had questions about procedures before (even made a mistake), and you just call (or they call you) and you fix them.
Cron jobs in knative: https://www.knative.dev/docs/eventing/samples/cronjob-source...
> I don't expect the IRS to make software for complicated taxes as that's a very difficult challenge.

Well, I do expect them to:

1. Verify 99% of taxes automatically anyway, and that's a very difficult challenge. There's no way IRS can use a human to verify every single tax filing.

2. Make a public service off it for those 99%.

3. I suppose that even for complex cases it's probably even _easier_ to make a software for that. There's no human that can remember thousands of pages of tax code.

Humans are still needed, but for correcting/adjusting/verifying the software itself.
Seems like a really ill thought-out and implemented security feature.
I assume this is getting upvoted because the headline reads as if Google is killing off instant apps, which is not what this says.
And many people will still go to a private tax service to verify that everything that could be accounted for is accounted for. The concern isn't that people wouldn't be able to make changes, the concern is that people would naively accept whatever they are told they should get back, even if that isn't the case.

To be fair though, I think this is somewhat less of an issue after President Trump's tax reforms; with the doubling of the standard deduction, it's become less fruitful for most people to attempt to itemize their deductions.
i ask for help frequently, but in a community of people (at sdf pubnix) who are very, very, very likely to have lists of answers to commonly-asked things ready via gopher or www.

of course this is only after having rtfm.

i imagine it's different for everyone. an interesting question certainly!
I sound like a Planet Money shill on this forum, but I'd recommend listening to a great episode [0] from 2013 which talks about 'folk' banking institutions used by people in the US. It takes its information from the US Financial Diaries project [1].

One interesting 'product' I'd never heard of was a savings club where every member contributes $x every month, and every n months you get $x*n. It performs a similar consumption smoothing as a credit product

[0] https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2013/06/18/193176928/epis...

[1] https://www.usfinancialdiaries.org/
> I do that in the UK and they cost less than the prices I see online for US tax software... and he does whatever he needs to do to fill things in.

Really? For less than $29?
Ten years ago, when I see a MVP give technical advice (they seldom do), they are very helpful.

Now when I see technical advice from mvp, I wonder if they had ever read the manual...
This is industry code for "AirPlay receivers don't provide enough information ensure DRM is respected."
Ugh, I hate this argument so much. It's the argument Grover Norquist goes around making to every Republican in Congress that that (in addition to Intuit's lobbying efforts) to stop this from ever happening. (There's a great episode of Planet Money [1] about it.)

In addition to just about every major country other than the US, California already has this and it's absolutely fantastic. I've literally never heard anyone who's actually used it complain about it and say they'd rather not have the option of filing their taxes in this way.

Imagine if your cell phone bill worked like US federal taxes. They would send you a blank sheet of paper and make you write down your minutes, texts, and megabytes for the month, and any other applicable fees you might owe, calculate the total bill yourself from that, and send a check for that amount. The provider already knows what you owe and calculated it themselves; they just aren't telling you, and you're threatened with additional fines or burdensome audits if your calculations don't match theirs. This causes you weeks of anxiety and dozens of hours of lost productivity every year. (Paraphrased this argument from the subject of the Planet Money episode.)

[1] https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2017/03/22/521132960/epis...
I emigrated from the UK to USA last September and the number of people I see on the freeway here with their phone in their hands is a constant source of amazement for me.

As a keen road cyclist in the UK I actually have bought an off-road bike because I simply don't trust US drivers.

In fact, the standard of driving here is frankly appalling. Tailgating and speeding is rampant. Lane surfing is rife. Couple that with just generally less safety street furniture at intersections and the laughably easy driving tests it's frightening really.

People say self driving cars are a danger, frequently the media report every Autopilot crash but what about the hundreds every day caused by some idiot texting? IMHO the sooner we take the distracted meatbag out of the driving equation, the better. I'm a car guy who just did a 2000 mile roadtrip to the Tail of the Dragon but this has to stop.

More enforcement and stricter penalties. Social stigma might be more powerful than this though.
I was once asked this exact question in a technical interview. I used __builtin_ctzll and that dumbfounded the interviewer. (Disclaimer: this may or may not be a good thing to do in an interview depending on the role/interviewer.)

In the real world, you probably want to use this builtin or something provided by the compiler/standard library as opposed to rolling your own.
If someone pulled a camera phone out anywhere near me at a urinal, they would probably get punched.
cron jobs in knative: https://www.knative.dev/docs/eventing/samples/cronjob-source...
Likely an understanding that she would unwind the company gracefully without touching the shiney glass case full of $BABA and a trust that should would execute that understanding faithfully.
Current Microsoft's UI guidelines seems to prefer viewport height columns and horizontal scrolling, which makes much sense, but the UI which presents sane UX with that idea simply is not there yet.
Yes, it's generally bad form. But the important context here is that Democrats have a mega-majority in the state legislature (up from being a normal super-majority) [0], plus the governor's mansion, likely much of the judicial bench, and much of the electorate (who can weigh-in directly via ballot propositions). If something is or isn't being done in terms of statewide policy and regulations, the buck stops with the Democratic Party more than it would in almost every other jurisdiction.

[0] https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-sac-skelton-democrat...
Zeit is more about full applications rather than mostly static sites but yes you can do the same thing with both.
Gosh, I did this back in my high school as a Senior, two years ago. Got myself suspended for two days and ruined my perfect attendance, oh well. It scared the shit out of me when two police officers barged into my U.S. History class and pulled me out.

The usernames of our voting system were our 5 digit student IDs. And the passwords... same as the usernames. I wrote a puppeteer script that looped through 2000 IDs and voted for everyone. They tracked me down through my home IP address -- if there is a next time, I'll definitely use Tor haha.

EDIT: Yeah, the school's VP picked up on it because normally about 40% of the student body actually votes -- but this time it was 100%; plus when student's started signing into their voting accounts, it claimed they already voted. Not my brightest moment.
The lockouts start small and then increase after waiting out the lockouts. Starts off like 1min, then 15, then an hour then 24 hours.

I might have been a dick in a past life and purposely lock my friend or of their phone while drunk at the bar.
What about the complaint/criticism that Brier scores (which Tetlock uses to score forecasters) do not weight the severity/importance of the result eg: forecasting the outcome of a war and forecasting the winner of the super bowl are weighted equally.
"What we _do_ know for sure, however, is that atmospheric CO2 has a big influence on the earth's climate"

So what's the Climate Sensitivity, and to what sigma?

"and that we are seeing actual measurable changes in things like average temperatures"

The absolute best, gold standard temperature measurement network, the USCRN, has seen little warming since it first began measurements back around 2005. 15 years or so is too short to confidently argue trends, but it is getting close. While the US is, what, 2% of the surface area of the globe, surely this result requires some consideration. Check the data yourself:

https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/crn/
I suspect you do, as well. Your realizations are very similar to mine when I first found out.

> I couldn't describe a person's face to you at all, but if you asked 'do they have a big or small nose'

The day I told my wife about this, she had me try to describe a woman who'd just sold us food a few minutes prior. I've seen this woman many times, but the only thing I could really conjure is that she was old. I don't have face blindness, no problem recognizing people, unless, like you mentioned, I very barely know them.

> This even applies to people close to me such as my own immediate family, partner, etc.

After that, my wife had me try to look at her face, then look to a piece of paper and immediately draw. Of course, artistic ability and aphantasia are totally different things, but it really cemented how little visual information gets retained. As soon as I looked away, all I knew was factual information like "curly hair", "mole next to nose".
> I guess in the USA they are worried the IRS will get it wrong, so on the chance they will, everyone has to follow really complicated processes, even if their tax affairs are simple...Am I wrong?

New Zealand has extremely limited deductions compared to the United States: http://taxsummaries.pwc.com/uk/taxsummaries/wwts.nsf/ID/New-.... For example, just from Google, it looks like you can't deduct expenses for daycare in New Zealand.

What we're worried about in the U.S. is that making deductions "opt in" will lead to an effective tax increase from people not claiming them (or being afraid to contest the "bill" sent to them by the IRS). You know the studies showing how organ donation rates shot up when it was made "opt out" instead of "opt in"? Same thing.
I think the standard shouldn't be size, but type of software. Facebook is a platform. People expect (reasonably or not) some element of stability in a platform. I don't want even a small platform doing tests on me and my data.

But if it's a game, or a blog? Knock yourself out, no matter how big it is.
I still have used an editor from a company far older than Google, and would love to learn what life was like on a Symbolics system or the dirty tricks of obsolete networks.
Wikipedia says the authors of that study have financial ties to the 'Lucidity Foundation'.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galantamine#Lucid_dreaming
Does what you say also apply to EF Core? I don't know the previous EF version, but EF Core seemed simple to me. Particularly after comparing it with what I knew about Hibernate.
As a vehement proponent of free markets I wholly oppose this sort of crony capitalism. I think this is something everyone in politics can and should agree on.

If the government is going to collect taxes they shouldn't be giving a certain industry a leg up on for charging money for people to pay taxes.
Why is law so inaccessible?

I've always thought about trying to scrape government websites for law changes and drafts, shift them onto github and give the respective politicians clearly labelled pseudo accounts in an organisation in which they all vote on pull requests.
Or they might have gone bankrupt decades ago :) the problem with betting-the-farm is you’ve gotta win every time, one miss and you’re kaput
No worries! Thanks for trying to help in good faith! :)