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I helped my sister do her taxes this year, since it was her first year. We just used the H&R block software since that is what I used to mine.

They rejected her return because I kicked two of the numbers on the EIN of one of her employers. The rejection was quick too, as we got the email about 20 minutes after submitting the return.

I always knew that the IRS checked your return, but I always figured it was something that eventually happened. I didn't think they checked everything as you submitted it. I don't know why I though that. Guess I pictured the IRS computer as an old IBM S/360 with core memory that did everything in batches.
> Human beings can't be trusted with ...

Very few items could fill in this blank to make a true statement:

"Every human should be trusted with unrestricted and amplified _____________."

If you create a superhuman thing and release it into the world, you damn well better control it.
A couple of questions:

1) Does "many" equal "the large majority"? That is, 100 people can be "many", but if there are 100,000 with the opposite view then it doesn't make sense.

2) Do you place the same weight on market 'experts' as you do on engineering 'experts'? That is, if a transport engineer says it's not possible to build a hyperloop on the original because of a half-dozen well-understood engineering issues, and a market expert says that a given product is not going to be commercially successful, then are they equally (dis)trusted?

Because the three examples I gave were in the "not possible because of known engineering problems", while the successes you listed were more marketing and commercialization.

Going back to 1), I'm not a car person so I don't know the history. It's not hard to find car experts from 2009 who tried out a Tesla and were enthusiastic about it. For example, from https://www.thecarconnection.com/news/1021105_driven-2009-te...

> I was fully prepared to write something negative about the 2009 Tesla Roadster simply because it is the poster child for "environmental change" and "all things wrong with Detroit." Then I drove it.

> I suppose it's OK to be wrong when you admit it...

> If this is the future of cars, enthusiasts have nothing to worry about.

So I assume the experts you refer to are "car people before 2008 with knowledge based on gasoline engines and a few earlier electric cars, who had strong doubts that a small company would be able to produce a mass-produced electric car."

That seems to me to be substantially different than a transport engineer who points out that the raw numbers - load time, capacity, speed - simply do not justify the cost for a small tunnel given that there are well-known alternatives which can provide much better service for the same cost, and there are no proposals for how the small tunnel can come close to matching those alternatives.
This article mentions that he accidentally discovered this in 2009... here's an article from 2006 mentioning fragging https://www.advancedaquarist.com/2006/3/aafeature3 that also mentions that folks were doing it in the 90's

I think the thing that isn't being covered in these articles is that it's the fusion of these fragments that are what is resulting in the explosive growth. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4614846/

It sounds like you can fragment a larger coral, put them close together, and as they grow they'll actually fuse together, instead of competing, and becoming sexually mature much sooner.

Typically speaking, and based off a very small amount of experience of my own keeping a nano coral tank years ago, coral of the same type (zoanthids of different colors in my case) would run into each other, compete for the same space, and sometimes kill or drive back the other.
But Navigant curriculum was very unscientific. There no actual quantitive reason Tesla is worse. Is was based mainly on business factors like go-to market strategy and vision.
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"Likely to cheat" usually means something like "the probability of a person cheating is higher," meaning it would be based on the number of incidents, not on the amount of money.

If the poster has meant the amount, they might have said "Lower income people with cash businesses cheat more than wealthy people" (which is ambiguous) or "The IRS loses more money to low income cheaters with cash businesses" (which is unambiguous, and, when you phrase it that way, truly sounds ridiculous given the high level of wealth inequality I would expect one wealthy cheater to cheat the IRS out of more money than all of the other cheaters in the world)
Thanks so much for the link! I think this is a powerful idea and look forward to studying it more.
Especially in the startup world, such a model would be quite helpful as we spend more money on the lawyer than on anything else (in the early days).
There is an immense amount of joy in the simplicity of how the infrastructure of these old systems is structured, and how well-exposed and accessible all the components are.

Limitations also seem to breed a certain type of creativity. I’ve found myself ‘lost in a sea of options’ when developing for newer systems having started my development experience on the SEGA Genesis and moving onwards to the Game
Boy Advance and Nintendo DS.

There is also an immense amount of joy in the now-accessible ability to test on hardware.
Sounds a lot like the "self evaluation" nonsense when it comes to performance review.

"I give myself a 5 and deserve a 5% raise" Oh well you only get a 2% raise.

Just lazy management that event "delegates" the only part of the job they are actually supposed to do.
DOn't take this lightly if you are serious about the website. DMCA takedown is worldwide and with European copyright laws in place you have more reasons to worry. Talk to a good copyright attorney. There are many, seek the help of NGOs in this area. Do NOT sit back.
I wonder if he's going to explain this position at all? Or if it's just posturing against Waymo et al. Seems like more data is always better than less data for this application?
It's pretty absurd to think the authors didn't expect any kind of reprisal. No kind of organizing against an entity this size, especially with the visibility the walkout had, comes without a cost. And not reporting on the consequences would be handing over the victory to Google.
But they don't have the cars. Every car on the road that is a tesla sends back data.
And I don't want them to succeed because they are actively hostile towards 3rd party repairs and car modifications, plus their current model 3 microtransaction bullshit scares me as a customer, I'm dreading the moment other companies catch on with that. I'm specifically talking about the fact that the base model 3 ships with heated seats out of the factory but you can pay to have them unlocked with a software update. I suspect that having them enabled with a simple software mod would get you accused of piracy since you're using something you haven't paid a licence for(even though you've obviously paid for the hardware)
Lagos for sure, Johannesburg, and maybe some others I'm forgetting?
Unless I misunderstood, the parent comment referred to a buy-out/acquisition route, which is where SmartCar should ask for at least a post-money ballpark figure -- no judge involved in an acquisition process.

If SmartCar goes for damages, then that's an entirely different ball of wax.
My view on this is that complexity, like energy, can only really be converted from one form into another. Normally the distinction is between runtime complexity and cognitive complexity — the result of hand-optimised imperative code. In other words, the classic trade-off between developer experience and user experience.

Svelte's claim is that converting it into build time complexity is in fact the only sensible thing to do. It doesn't really matter how much complexity is involved in `npm run build` if it means that DX and UX are no longer in tension.

But to answer your point about SVG, Svelte has to obey the same fundamental constraints as any other code, so you will eventually hit performance issues (though you may enjoy this demo https://youtu.be/AdNJ3fydeao?t=1138). One avenue I'm currently exploring is whether the same declarative/compiled model can be used as a wrapper around WebGL APIs, though it's very early days.
I've been in the oil & gas industry for 20 years (IT side of things). We never use MM, I'm looking at last years half year results, and it's "m" across the board.
> Doesn't take a genius to figure out why they were forcibly transferred.

This doesn't meet the standards for burden of proof.
I have basically no experience with Java. But in C# I think the above is whats behind stuff like

fooobj.events += my_eventhandler;
> He win the criminal suit.

You don't 'win' a criminal suit. The standards of proof in a criminal suit are different than the standards of proof in a civil one, because the punishment in a criminal suit is much heavier than in a civil suit (where the maximum is some monetary penalty, whereas in a criminal suit it is imprisonment or in some countries even death).

I really think your view of the legal system is somewhat theoretical, there is no such case that it can always be won given the right lawyer or argument.
Huh. I've only been here a couple of years, and I feel the quality of discussion is already starting to worsen. (However, it's still better than most other things—see https://danluu.com/hn-comments/)
So how many of these 2000sampled families are actually on-line or have proper internet connections? How is this distributed across the country? How many have proper jobs? Are unemployed ? How does it match to the age distribution among all inhabitants? And why would 200 $ be a right cut-off for income?
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Humans are not likely to go extinct anytime soon - anything that can wipe out the most adaptable and one of the most numerous and widely distributed species - would leave the Earth uninhabitable to pretty much all higher life forms.

That doesn't mean we can't trash the place or experience massive drops in population.

There does appear to be hope on the higher temperature corals, but I don't know of any plan to actually plant reefs like that. Australia, which benefits economically from tourism to the great barrier reef should take a serious look at it:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/the-coral-triangle/2...
It’s also used everywhere in oil & gas for both dollars and barrels (another fun unit of measure).
Why would you say that? The car has LTE and connects to WIFI. It could easily send way more data than any care company at any time including over WIFI.
>I wonder if he's going to explain this position at all?

Doubt it.
That one is just the cliff notes. From the more detailed guidance at https://www.eeoc.gov/laws/guidance/retaliation-guidance.cfm#...:

"Depending on the circumstances, calling public attention to alleged discrimination may constitute reasonable opposition, provided that it is connected to an alleged violation of the EEO laws. Opposition may include even activities such as picketing."

i.e. direct labor action is considered part of the right to communicate grievances.
It won't be megabytes, that's only in the experimental phase. Binaries can shrink dramatically once run through a linker and trimmed down to only used APIs.

As far as performant, I agree it wont matter in most trivial interactions but large datasets with computations already see an impact (for example we have million row datatables to show sometimes).
Its interesting this comes up now, I had to write an essay related to this recently [1] (check out the references section I found some really interesting literature on the topic). The Chinese policy discourse on Climate change does not "stop" at articulating Responsibility in terms of per capita emissions, but also historic emissions, here is the relevant extract from it:

"The life spans of different gases in the atmosphere vary, furthermore they contribute differently to Radiative Forcing which causes Global Warming. Since Greenhouse gases (GHG) have long atmospheric lifespans, Chinese GHG emissions are larger than their contribution to Radiative Forcing since it started emitting them later than other countries. The Chinese scientific community supporting the policy thus highlights that since cumulative Chinese CO2 emissions are lower than "developed countries’", the Chinese contribution to Global Warming is also considerably less, 10% of total radiative forcing [2]."

[1] https://guillaume.desusanne.com/how-does-chinas-policy-disco...

[2] https://www.nature.com/articles/nature17165
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I'm not referring to the metric prefixes. Other than "k" which is well known and commonly used as meaning thousand, I doubt most people would be familiar with the other prefixes. It would seem easier to just use the first letter of million, billion, etc., words which are known by most everyone.
What other herbivores cook meat before eating it? How do you feel about the amount of kale that goes into one kale smoothie? Were our bodies designed for all these radio waves? The ship has sailed. Evolution will figure it out.
Is there an easy way to bypass the paywall? Wouldn't mind subscribing to the economist tbh, just not right this instant.
This matches my personal experience. Developers in fully-developed countries like France, Italy and the UK are typically well under $100k USD per year on average, with a few outliers above that, at least for most companies, and falling very rapidly when you start talking about Poland, Estonia and so on. After tax incentives some of these areas are amazingly inexpensive.

I think people overestimate the compensation outside the Bay Area and India due to lack of experience, and even those in 2nd tier regions (US-TX, US-NC, ...) still overestimate European and Canadian compensation whereas they likely know very accurately what compensation for India and China looks like.
I agree, it's not a life-changing burger, but it's quite a good substitute and both filling and attractive. This picture from Kenji Lopez-Alt shows how attractive it is to compared to processed beef patties:

https://www.instagram.com/p/Bv7CnCKB5Sw/
I don't know the context for this, but one appendix isn't bad... appendicitis is bad.
Looks like par for the course. This happens all the time and it’s just part of the game you have to play when entering the markets. A judge or jury will have to figure out the rest of it, if you have the resources to go that route. Ultimately you’d be better off viewing this as a distraction. Every hour you spend on this is an hour you don’t spend on your own customers or hiring your team to do what matters: execute. And others will pop up just like this, with more funding and more powerful lawyers.
> Extravagant things like this are obviously only a miniscule fraction of the cost

What makes it 'extravagant'? That it's not typical or normal?
Cahill does not mention feminism or feminists at any point, either in the Medium article, or in his review that it links to. You can certainly choose to interpret "ideologues" in this broad way, but that is a very uncharitable (for feminism) reading.
If we build enough Nuclear power plants climate change wouldn't be an issue
haha, I completely agree with what you said and I know it was industry-specific term. But despite knowing that, and _STILL_ knowing it meant "$22Million" I still argue with my brain when a little voice says "Mega Millions?"

I was hoping I wasn't the only one, and happy to see a vigorous conversation start because of it. (I inherit Karma in a MLM feedback-loop right?)

>I work in advertising where "CPM" is a common metric (cost per milli).

That's just silly, _everybody_ knows it stands for cents-per-mile, and how truck drivers are paid. (jk)
haha here's one better -- i am using the GOOGLE'S voice to text API to break their own audio captcha!!! so when people say that captcha is about stopping bots, they are wrong. as some of the top comments point out, from google's POV captcha is about enforcing personal identification and training AI.
Do you think this might just be people wanting something familiar "at the bottom"?

E.g. both Swift and Julia (and Rust, and Clang ...) have a common underlying backend (LLVM) in common, whereas in Common Lisp, it's ... Common Lisp all the way down, and it could potentially be a much better world, but it would just require duplicating too much stuff to be a viable candidate?
> It wouldn't be quite so bad if there were a huge repository of already proven theorems you could pull from.

What about things like Metamath [1]? (Not sure if there is a more mature similar effort, Metamath is just the one I've heard of.) It seems like it has quite a lot of the "thousand other trivialiaties" you mentioned, but maybe it's still not enough to make a real dent?

[1] http://us.metamath.org/index.html
No I'm saying FAANG (ie, not Microsoft or Cisco) don't want to jump in to compete with MS/Cisco who already have strong offerings.

Amazon have an offering, but it's relatively recent (last year?).
Chip is new and is needed for autonomous driving
Ah, you mean Uber?
You're off by about two orders of magnitude there, judging from recent history.

But even then, that's a long time from a human perspective, I think we could re-plant reefs the same way we replant forests on timescales of a couple generations or less.

Edit: obviously it would be better if we didn't have to do that, but that ship has sailed.
tl;dr: "For the average person, improvements will likely be between about 2 percent and 6 percent."
This is commonly called the second mover advantage. If they do not have some special sauce that prevents an easy copy of their idea then it was going to happen sooner or later.
Highly theoretical: in your position I'd set up a library and teach English rather than IT if that's the limiting factor. Books and peers are just as useful as direct teaching.
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I’ll have to double check. I had an impossible burger recently but didn’t see the version. It was similar enough to previous ones that it’s safe to assume it was 1.0.
Use Outline, here is the outlined version: https://outline.com/9xnM42
@overcast Interesting! US-based? How would you denote 1000 bbl/day? kbbl vs mbbl
Because lidar is expensive, error-prone, and can't be created without flaws. So if you make a car LIdar will fail way before camera. The only problem is if camera only can work
Humans are unlikely to go extinct, but our modern society/lifestyle is very likely to.
Yeah, 6 figures USD as a minimum basically describes SV and NYC, and that's it.
Really, this is an issue in the library/server: the library/server needs to expose HTTP/2's controls on maximum permitted streams.

> And secondly, because with HTTP/2, the requests were all sent together—instead of staggered like they were with HTTP/1.1—so their start times were closer together, which meant they were all likely to time out.

No, browsers can pipeline requests (send the requests back-to-back, without first waiting for a response) in HTTP/1.1. The server has to send the responses in order, but it doesn't have to process them in that order if it is willing to buffer the later responses in the case of head-of-line blocking.

Honestly, over the long run, this is a feature, not a bug. The server and client can make better use of resources by not having a trivial CSS or JS request waiting on a request that's blocked on a slow DB call. Yes, you shouldn't overload your own server, but that's a matter of not trying to process a large flood all simultaneously. (Or, IDK, maybe do, and just let the OS scheduler deal with it.)

Also, if you don't want a ton of requests… don't have a gajillion CSS/JS/webfont for privacy devouring ad networks? It takes 99 requests and 3.1 MB (before decompression) to load lucidchart.com.

> If you do queue requests, you should be careful not to process requests after the client has timed out waiting for a response

This is a real problem, but I've suffered through that plenty with synchronous HTTP/1.1 servers; a thread blocks, but it's still got other requests buffered, sometimes from that connection, sometimes from others. Good async frameworks can handle these better, but they typically require some form of cancellation, and my understanding is that that's notably absent from JavaScript & Go's async primitives.
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I think you just agreed with me. Please reconsider what I've said and what you've said.
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Realistically, there are no smoking gun facts presented here. The hard work was already completed, in identifying which posts were the "evil" posts.

This is just scooping up those posts, and seeing what they looked like. You can't take this analysis and use it to say "this is what bots look like" and then find more.

It's like taking the clothes of thousands of criminals and looking at their pocket litter. You can't go out and arrest more people by checking their pocket litter for resemblence to the master criminal pocket litter profile. (with rare exceptions like maybe a stray cyanide capsule lacking a normal reason for existing, pocket litter analysis only works in reverse, where once a known criminal is detected, the gum wrappers and loose change might become interesting, but are otherwise usually unhelpful in spotting suspicious people)

This analysis didn't detect Russian bots. It borrowed an official report and categorized and sorted through the related data.

Using data like this to accuse other posts of originating from bots would be somewhat sloppy. The results are just free association, and it would effectively amount to banning everything a detected bot ever said from ever being said again, which is a pretty toxic strategy for dealong with bots and media manipulation, when you consider how that would play out over time.
Why not? Works fine in our tests, and a large part of .NET apps are internal apps that work great with this kind of framework.

I think the biggest issue is sending every interaction over the wire but there are ideas to separate the event handling or even split which components run server vs client-side. That would allow highly responsive inputs with no lag while the parent component can run all its logic on the server.
what does "for good, this time" even mean with their regression issue?
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I started playing with Options recently too. I read many books/blogs but "Trading Options Greeks: How Time, Volatility, and Other Pricing Factors Drive Profits" seems to be most helpful. Not sure if it is really a beginners book or not.

I mostly stick with SPY and it keeps climbing. I just buy 30-45 days out calls that are slightly out of money. Usually sell them at 20-30% profits with in a few days.

Of course, it is only 1-2% of my regular investments in index funds. Too risky to put any real money in options.
> would leave the Earth uninhabitable to pretty much all higher life forms.

Why are you ruling that scenario out?
So Otonomo took down their API.

Can you confirm that more of their API other than the authorization code was duplicated? Honestly duplicating auth APIs are perfectly fine. If you showed proof of business APIs being duplicated, I'd have more faith in your claim. Right now this looks like a publicity stunt on a baseless argument.
So your suggestion, if you see an injustice, is to leave, so that the situation is handled by people who don't recognize the injustice?

That'll help!
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Funny that you should say that when I didn't mention Breitbart at all! I referenced the extensive evidence provided by James Damore - formerly a relatively high-profile Google employee - and privately confirmed or corroborated to Damore by other Googlers or former Googlers, not all of whom were necessarily willing to come out publicly.