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This legislation sounds so broad based on the article. Unless you know what youre doing legislation can be so broad that people wind up in court for years and no Cases are filed in civil court. I cant imagine it being effective in any way. With that said I havent read the details of the actual law so maybe it is solid.
I think this is a very level-headed view of lobbying and I want to say that I appreciate your comment. It’s enticing to imagine that Intuit is building a new pool on Chuck Schumer’s vacation property, and in a dark room somewhere a bunch of fat white guys are lighting this bill in fire with the ends of their cigars.

One other factor is that in “government time” we’re not far removed from the Healthcare.gov fiasco and in the middle of a debate over the technical debt of our easily hacked voting machines. Along with that, Premera and Equifax have suffered attacks.

I imagine there is nobody inside the actual government that is willing to try and “outdo” Turbotax.
TurboxTax is showing like $250 for someone with a house, a job, shares, expenses, etc. Not sure how anyone of this works so maybe I'm wrong.
I don't like this reaction to crypto mining scripts. I won't argue that a lot of crypto mining scripts out there are blatantly abusive but I think that as a concept it's a great business model. I wouldn't have a problem using sites that eschewed ads and used crypto mining scripts instead and I would have no reason at all to block them (unlike ads) as long as they're well behaved.

I think blocking mining scripts is a step backwards, hindering the adoption of something that could finally be an unobtrusive and ethical replacement for the failing advertisement model.
I've been using Netlify for a while on https://0xtracker.com and absolutely love it.

A few things that I love:

- Extremely cheap (i.e. free for my needs)

- Deployment previews for every PR. Coupled with Renovate, this is a fantastic way to manage dependencies. Especially useful since it's a hobby project, making me time constrained.

- One click support for prerendering

- Managed SSL. One less thing I need to do.

- One click rollbacks for when I screw up.
There are actually plenty of examples of devices themselves having legally mandated restrictions that undermine their own possible uses. There are even purpose-built computing devices (eg a car's ECU) which I am leaving out of this argument.

The problem is that with software on a general purpose computer, the issue must be taken to its logical extreme. Presumably someone advocating for digital restrictions doesn't envision settling for merely having the default install exhibit a behavior that can be changed with two minutes of following online instructions. Simply creating a restriction is not enough - for it to be effective, it must be fortified.

And that's the trouble, for the only way for that to happen is the platform to be fully locked down, removing the user's ability to modify. Phones are already perilously close to this regime, but manufacturers seem to not be seriously addressing rooting for right now. We can look to other areas (eg wifi routers) to see manufacturers only getting the idea because of half-baked government policy, and its needless chilling effects on software freedom.

(of course I haven't said anything about texting and driving itself, so you should just assume I think it's a bad idea like any reasonable person. I'm just pointing out that arguing for outlawing Free phones to prevent it is of the same non-starter category as arguing for outlawing cars)
Inventory is slots to put ads. AOL had the eyeballs, Google had the platform to turn eyeballs into money, better than AOL was doing by itself. Google provided a guaranteed rate (cpm? cpc?) so that AOL would have confidence it wasn't bait and switch.

See also the Yahoo/Bing deal which didn't work out as well. Microsoft didn't end up actually hitting the targets, and convinced Yahoo to take less; and Yahoo also didn't reduce employee count anywhere near plan on searchy/advertising stuff, so they missed targets on revenue and cost and user experience.
Is this one of those things like how some people read by speaking to themselves in their head, but you can read without doing the speaking part. Some people create the imagery, others have a meta-view of the situation?
It’s helpful, but if the task is to draw the imagined bicycle, then you would presumably add details as far as possible. But for most people the result is very far from what they would draw if a bicycle was in front of them. So what they imagine is not a bicycle. So most people can’t imagine a bicycle.
Exactly. W-2 and 1099 income is really straight-forward. If anything the IRS should provide ways for you to submit all your non-W2/non-1099 income to them and roll them up into a new form so that no matter what your situation you can "fetch" your current returns, sign them, and submit them. No need for third-parties at all. Any additional complexity is a symptom of rent-seeking IMO.
+1 to getting an accountant. TurboTax is great if you just have regular income and common deductions. I've never felt satisfied with TurboTax any time I've had a question about anything. Every year I pay an accountant twice what I paid TurboTax, I spend less time going through the process (I literally save a folder of documents and dump it on her desk) and get far more. At the beginning of the year she does my return, hands me a stack of 4 ready-to-mail envelopes with all my estimated tax vouchers filled out, reviews my withholdings mid-year with me, and works with my investment guy to make sure they're both giving me good recommendations. I have so much less mental load to deal with - I love it.
One might argue if this is related to scale.

'Everywhere else' is usually < 30M people which is a totally different ballgame.

Can you imagine an EU level healthcare mandate? It'd be out of control impossible, and yet it works well enough a 'the state level'.

It'd be nice to see some really forward thinking states lead the way and forge a path, if a few caught on and there were material examples of 'how it could be done' then maybe there'd be hope.
If you suspect it's more correct, go out and verify it (hint: It's not).
F-35 crashed and lost in the ocean off of Japan
didnt think so. hundreds of comments, some lengthy, and nobody knows whats really going on? also, i mean, maybe some cynicism ought to be tolerated if misinformation is? its hard work to do real, rigorous science, which is what journals like nature represent. but then we have this echo chamber in here where its been "refuted" by internet experts in their parents basements? (allegorical). i know there are/used to be educated people on hn, not just businesspersons. where did they go? hn is ostensibly about intellectual curiosity. but you cant actually satisfy intellectual curiosity with makebelieve. someone has to stand up for the truth, and for the blood and sweat that makes discovering truth possible: the scientific method. starting from doubt or skepticism, form a hypothesis, test it: observe and predict. theorize. replicate. repeat.
It mentions it in the article - working (short term) memory
> I don't expect the IRS to make software for complicated taxes as that's a very difficult challenge.

The IRS already has this software. They are literally the best placed people in the world to make this software.

How do you think they check taxes for 300,000,000 people + businesses? And their software is already pre-populated with data from employers, banks, brokerages, and all the other places that automatically file data with the IRS.
> - and subject yourself to their upselling and scam artistry, to try and get you to pay anything more than "free."

Don't forget data mining. Dunno if these apps have ads, but if they do, be sure to add that in as well.
Disclose here should not mean opening a popup, it should be a separate page where user can see what data have been collected and what did the algorithm decide based on that data.

Similarly GDPR should have been about a requirement to provide s page listing all of the user data, not about endless popups on every site asking to accept cookies. If i use a browser that supports cookies then i already accept them.
Google’s ‘News Blacklist’ Show Manual Manipulation of Special Search Results
PPAD Complexity
I have very weak visualization. One way of describing it would be that I can close my eyes and tell you where everything is in my house, or map my way downtown. But I don't see anything, I just know the spatial placement of everything and how to move through it.

But if I try to see the stuff, it's as though there is a brief flash, and I see an outline for a second or so, and then it isn't there. But I know what's there.

I don't think I was ever strong on this front, but I think my ability has been declining gradually. I'm 33 now. I remember arriving in a new country at age 23, and I could recall everything that happened when I arrived: my drive in, arrival at my new house, standing in the rain.

I can still recall much of this, but I have a memory of seeing it and having great visual recall of this. But, how accurate is a memory of a memory? I didn't take any notes, so it's hard to say for sure what I could in fact recall.

One odd point: I used to get the most vivid images while lying in bed with my eyes closed, falling off to sleep. The most fantastic scenes would flow from one image to the next. I think it actually helped me sleep. These were also notable in that I couldn't visualize that way during the day.

One day I had to take antibiotics for an MRSA infection. I recall the images that night were dark and foreboding. I haven't had colourful images since then.

Sometimes at night I get glimpses of them. It's as though the images are happening in the background, and I can catch them but without colour. And I can't always see them, so I can't follow, and the images stop.

Haven't found anything in the literature about antibiotics causing this though, so I'm not too sure, it may have been coincidence and instead just gradual decline that crossed a threshold around then.

Has anyone had gradual decline of mental images, loss of pre-sleep visions, or had either of these precipitated by antibiotics?

I think these images were called Hypnagogia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypnagogia
I don't mean to take away something so small from your great posts, but...

> repetitive PTSD-like school dreams

I'd really like to know how common this is. I'm now almost ten years removed from my school years, but the vast majority (90%+) of my dreams are based there.
> There’s a continuous stream of evidence to the contrary, particularly if you’ve ever worked for large companies and seen the kind of wasted resources that go toward pet projects and other high value items that fail miserably.

There's also a continuous stream of evidence not to the contrary, particularly if you've ever worked for the government and seen the kind of wasted resources that go toward pet projects and other high value items that fail miserably.

The difference of course is that one costs taxpayers whereas the other costs shareholders, and in one case (government and tax payers) the only feedback mechanism is votes every couple of years, which don't really make any difference because incumbent reelection rates are in the high 90s even though Congress's approval ratings often drop into single digits. Whereas shareholders (or their proxies, mutual funds) can simply sell a company's stock if it looks like the company is wasting resources; stocks get traded every day.
As noted by the economist Luigi Zingales in his book "A Capitalism for the People", companies that are receiving subsidies (or other favorable treatment from the government) are highly incentivized to keep receiving those subsidies. For example, if the tax preparation industry stands to lose $100 million if e-file becomes free, they will lobby up to that amount to retain the status quo.

The problem is that those who wish to reform the status quo are not as well funded or financially incentivized to create a counter-lobby. Ordinary citizens, who would benefit the most from making e-file free, would have to form a counter-lobby group and put up at least $6 million in order to have the same level of access as the tax preparation companies.

Zingales' proposed solution is to do away with subsidies and special treatment for individual companies, as they inevitably lead to cronyism.
Harrison Bergeron coming soon?
A canvas which doesn’t exist upon which you “paint” imaginary imagery. As someone who has only ever experienced sight when my eyes are open, I don’t know how to relate to that other than hallucination.
Agreed. A better use of space would be, "In 1971, Fermilab used a ferret to clean its particle accelerator."
I'm not sure why you posted this. Are you sure you read my post? I never said the South wasn't fighting to keep slavery.

In fact, the main point of my post was closer to something like "people generally aren't good, but just want to virtue signal to sound good." Obviously, the fact that the south was even worse (and still even tried to justify it on moral grounds) seems to fit into that idea.

Anyways, the responses here are not giving me much faith in humanity. I'm still living with tyranny. Anyone want to step up, or just keep alternating between virtue signalling and being outraged?
more young people are also likely to engage in online surveys, since they've grown up with this type of stuff.
Books every entrepreneur needs to read this summer
Don't get sucked into all the drama - it's very fashionable to hate on SF right now. For all its flaws, SF is still a top tier city with amazing things to do within an hours reach.
> Yet all the brilliant intellectuals want to find the VERY BEST METHOD EVER instead of just getting stuff done.

For many mathematical, CS problems, it _does_ help to think very hard to find the very best solution to the problem, sometimes irrationally hard. I do agree that we operate in a real world, and the facts of running a business mean that you can't be spending all your time trying to figure out the best.

However, it was only by thinking very, very deeply about these problems have many of the technological improvements been possible. MapReduce, AI, ML, Cloud Computing... all started as ideas in companies where people dedicate quite a bit of thought into how to solve some basic problems.

I'll be honest: I am glad that I can reap the fruits of the labor of all these smart people, that they have enabled me to change the way computing is done, to make it easier for anyone to get started and to generate value very quickly, using the building blocks which they created after thinking about and working about this for so long.
What I find interesting about those (I've seen something very similar before, maybe even that set) is that people don't bother to be informed by the obvious inability of the device they drew to function.
I can only speak for myself but the more I gain knowledge/memory of an object, the more I can fill it in. If I know "bicycle" very well I can visualize all the details - maybe not in full detail all at once but at least by thinking about each part in turn. If my memory of one is not so good, the details will remain not filled in, like a blind spot where my mind fills in the gaps and I don't even notice the missing data until I try to "see" those areas specifically.

The imagined bicycle may be a specific one I recall, or a mixture of various memories of bicycles I've seen.
I think the hope is more along the lines that they'll have to tell you if they are running something like the emotional contagion study.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/gregorymcneal/2014/06/28/facebo...

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/06/every...
Planet Money covered tax filing a few years ago and visited it again recently: https://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?stor...

My understanding is that the main opposition appears to be (1) the tax preparation lobby to protect their business interests and (2) anti-tax activists that believe that making people calculate their own taxes will make them more aware of how much they are paying in taxes.

The second argument blows my mind because I can't imagine that the set of people who would just pay the IRS without double checking their math are reviewing the tax filings from the third party they use right now. In other words, I would really like to see a survey of how people currently file their taxes in comparison to how they think they would if there was an IRS free filing for everyone or something like the ReadyReturn mentioned in the NPR story.
I think second is good
I always took Tradewars and [Barren|Solar] Realms Elite to be descendents of Lemonade Stand, 1973.

If there's an earlier instance in the genre, I don't know it.
Yeah, and unless the IRS has imminent plans to implement free tax filing this new clause has no real effect. It's not a constitutional amendment, if the IRS wants to offer this service in 5 years they'll probably need a huge multi-year appropriation and this clause to be revoked. Adding it in to this bill costs nothing and probably made the GOP reps willing to sign on.
> "Email" is used both as a singular and plural

Not in this case:

> My team did indeed miss the email from Pete

The purpose of his comment was to downplay that his team only let 1 of his emails slip through the "flood of emails" they receive. Whereas the whole reason why Pete's resigning his MVP in the first place because he felt he and his deep technical interests were being ignored. Not receiving a courtesy reply after multiple emails and 15 years of Service confirms as such.

and lets be honest, the only reason why he's getting any kind of response now is because it became an open resignation letter that's shining a light on the purpose and current state of the MVP program.
+1 on that Planet Money episode. Everyone in this thread should give it a listen.

The IRS could no doubt offer a great "public option" for tax filing software that would blow the others out of the water, AND be free. We need this.
The problem is exactly what you describe, the "war machine." Elections are in the public interest and should be solely publicly funded. Collect taxes for it, distribute it directly to candidates evenly, via some set model. You can look to Canada's system as a basis, although we do still allow some limited private contributions (which I disapprove of, but ~20% of total funding) [1].

That's all they should be allowed to spend. Then they use that money to make their case to the people on merit. No PACs, no contributions, no lobbyists, and equal access to airtime. This eliminates pay-to-play or at least criminalizes it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_political_financing_in...
I think to second is good.
I believe that I have aphantasia, this is all coming on very quickly right now, but after talking to my wife for about 30 minutes I'm certain of it. She highlighted the fact that I don't have any ability to recall my dreams outside of exceptionally rare instances.

I, too, have a good sense of direction and am often relied upon to be the guide on hikes or backpacking trips in places that we've never been before. I know how to read maps and use a compass and orient myself but that is less visualize than it is analytical, IMO.

But! I also have the black hole effect that the GP described. I have an almost uncanny ability to just get beyond trauma and bad experiences and I'm seeing now that that is probably due to this black hole memory effect. I don't carry memories with me the way that other people do, but I've known that about myself for a while. It's caused some strife in my life, and it continues to do so, but I've taken to keeping a physical journal and making frequent notes about things that happen throughout each day. The act of writing this stuff down seems to force these things into my memory. I learned recently that my father operated similarly in his career, using a single sheet of A12 folded into quarters where he'd divide each quarter into an hour of work, with 8 folds in total representing the average day. When he worked 12/16 hour shifts, he'd add additional folds.

And, so... I guess that in light of this, I've always wondered if I'll have dementia or Alzheimer's late in my life. My paternal great grandmother lived well into her 90s, but my paternal grandmother succumbed to dementia in her mid 80s. My maternal family has some folks in their 90s, as well, and everyone there seems to have their memory in tact. But, my father has had his struggles and I've personally noticed that my mother is starting to struggle with conversational memory recall today.
Tracking your pregnancy on an app may be more public than you think
Here's a good start (the Pocket integration debacle): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9876016
For future reference to OP: the term you're looking for is "modern web technology" or "modern technology"
Knowledge to the People
> Has anyone used Turbo Tax or H&R "free" versions to file? I can't use them & last time I tried they charged you to submit your taxes electronically but otherwise it was simple & easy.

Yeah, I've used H&R's free filing for 4 years or so now. When I lived in a state with state income tax, they charged me for that, and offered to charge me to remember my data for next year (I declined). their website indicates that state tax filing is now free, I wonder if it depends on the state, or if things just changed since 2015 tax year filing.

unfortunately I don't have any other tax experiences to compare to, but it was very easy. as a student, I don't have complex deductions or income, but as long as I can use the American Opportunity Tax Credit, and it doesn't take too long, I'm happy.
>When she was talking about 140 hour work weeks she conveniently left out the fact she was paying someone else to do her domestic work [0]

This is such an odd post. Who expects someone working 140 hour weeks to do all of their own house work? Sure, they're working 20 hours a day but they ordered chinese takeout and drop off their laundry!

Then, you link to child care as an example of "her domestic work"? Who complains about someone leaving their kid in daycare?
Silicon Valley has the same solution to every problem: more technology, or market forces. Everybody plays the game they know how to play.
Server might be down. Spam might've been posted to a site of mine. Might've missed an important call.

I don't whip out my phone at the urinal, but I'd check it on my way to or from the bathroom rather than while spending time with friends.
Lots of countries have an aging pop of farmers where young people are not very attracted to that as a career. This satisfies that trend and allows those regions to remain productive with even fewer people.
This is awesome!! really. like really. Great job! As a power user myself, I tend to go for the CLI style of view, in most cases that txt heavy.

I do have one question. <!here> is how you notify everyone in a channel about your msg. Can you customize this in the settings? otherwise, its a small adjustment I can make as you already have an app that I like more than the native slack app on macOS.
While Russian doesn't have a powerful engine as the F-35, their newer planes have twin engine with a combined output larger than the single engine of the F-35.
True.

But you can get display size, and paginate with ~80 character columns. So there's no need to scroll. As you say, scrolling really only works with one column. When I need to read lots of stuff that's hard-coded with two columns, I rotate my monitor to portrait.
The Loneliness of Infertility