skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be fair, paying taxes if all you're doing is receiving income from an employer isn't that bad. There's a simple form for it. Where it gets bad is the stuff your employer doesn't know about:

* Investment income

* House or other capital sales or purchases

* Stock option purchases or sales

* Child custody, dependents

etc. I don't see how any country's tax code would capture these income or loss streams without some manual filing process.
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It's odd to call out the New York Times and New Yorker here. Most news outlets have well documented systemic bias. Given the statement at the beginning which suggests otherwise, I would lump this piece into the same bucket as other media outlets : biased with an agenda.
I agree there's a hint of yellow journalism afloat here.

> My company has banned Jetbrains now and received questions from regulators about it. Don't see them banning Microsoft anytime soon.

It was their collaboration software that got hit iirc. I also recall the delivery method being very smart, something along the lines of inserting code during compilation. While it's certainly reasonable to ask JetBrains to prove their releases are infection free among other things, banning all of their software seems excessive.
The issue isn't a non-CET machine. The CET becomes NOPs on non-CET machines.

The issue is expecting it to work in a freestanding environment.
On a side note : there are no holes in swiss cheese :-) , the cheese with holes in it is french and called Emmental.
Charles must have some wild carveout from apple. All other apps that do that have been shut down. I still run a very old version of adblockios that starts a vpn (proxy) at 127.0.0.1 and blocks traffic that way. mostly.
There's a third possibility, and I think it's Stallman's ideal computing landscape: all users care deeply about the code running on their machines and they are competent in applying and vetting patches, building from source, etc. It's unrealistic, sure, but it sounds nice right about now.
I don't live in America, and haven't lived there for nearly my entire life. But my parents are citizens, and they graciously gave me US citizenship. Now, while I earn money abroad, live abroad, receive support from my government abroad, I still have to file taxes in the US. For the most part I don't have to pay, but I end up paying a couple hundred dollars for someone to file my taxes. Most of the online tools don't know what to do about people not living in the US. Also, as a fortunate Hi-Tech worker, I will soon earn enough money that I will have to pay the US government taxes for money that I earned abroad.

I've looked into renouncing my US citizenship, but that costs a few thousand dollars. And, the US can reject it for several reasons, one of which is tax avoidance. Also, as per the rumors, it is nearly impossible to get a US Visa after that (and I still have American relatives who I would like to see). Seeing as us expats don't have a senator or congressman, we don't really have someone to fight for us. At least I am still allowed to vote. Before every election that I am eligible to vote in, I email the candidates and ask them what their stance is on taxing foreigners (and don't get me started on the fbar). Based on their response I vote.
Caste system is officially illegal - has been for a long time. The laws are so positive on caste, the judiciary had to step in to dilute the SC/ST atrocities act. There are affirmative actions for the lower castes on Hindu run institutions and government institutions.

As touching as your concerns for us, why don't you put your money where your mouth is and advocate for social justice for EWS and historically disadvanted SC/STs in minority run schools, colleges and institutions, or advocate for adding the lower castes to the minority list. Let me add women as well there. Add women, sc, st, obcs to the minority list.

Let me also add a personal observation here. As a dalit, the most caste based abuse that I have got was from christians. Some from really old Hindus, and some soft bigotry due to reservations. Whether it's the "blood purity" preserving thomas christians, not allowing dalit christians to be buried at the same place as others, or outright murdering a dalit christian because he got married to an upper caste christian, the caste system unapologetically flourishes today among christians, while the hindu community progresses forward on caste (disclaimer: south indian here - can't speak for other parts of country).

>The lower castes don't need a separate schools

Again, not upto you. It should be upto the lower castes to decide their destiny and to select the best way for their social mobility. I say a school in which they don't feel discriminated is important. I say a school in which they feel at home is important. I say - it's none of your business.
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Not the worst actors, but I'd say typical is fair game. And there's a whole lot of nuance there of course, both in terms of what's the scope of "typical" and what you do with that info.

As I said I don't have much exposure to high-level bodybuilders so I can't speak to that specifically. But if you take a look at fittit there's a *lot* of broscience repeated by the majority of posters, and to the extent that the bullshit increases the friction that beginners experience and provide little to no benefit (either in relation to the effort expended, or worse yet in absolute terms), it is detrimental to the casual majority.

I realize we may be talking at cross purposes since I can't speak to personal experience with bodybuilders, just the popular perceptions of their habits.
My manager started using this Saas with us to automate this https://www.getclockwise.com/
You can use Bhyve and run Docker in a Linux virtual machine. Docker works similarly under MacOS using the Hypervisor Framework. FreeBSD would need to radically change in order to implement Docker natively.
Could you please describe why is that a bad idea? Or point me to a good reading source? I’m learning different aspects of economics and am genuinely interested to understand the downsides of taxing consumption as opposed to earnings. Now that I think about it, in India we are taxed on both ends.
It’s wild how every time something bad happens to a US soldier it’s a newsworthy event worthy of somber tones and think pieces but when they gun down 40 civilians it’s just another day at the office.
Is this the end of the A-68A iceberg?
Do things that dont scale. Most problems can be solved. The most difficult one is making ppl love your service. eg. gaining users.
ugh, I was so excited when my POWER9 arrived... and then I started looking at the OpenBMC stack.
It doesn't seem right that taste can be the least important attribute of a fruit's market success. Even if appearance tricks consumers into buying a product once, wouldn't bad taste and texture discourage them from making repeat purchases? And for a staple like apples, aren't repeat purchases the vast majority of sales?

And yet, still, Red Delicious rules. I've long been baffled to see them in all the beautiful deli displays in NYC, the Big Apple, because their gushy, pasty bland internals render them unenjoyable.

How can this be so? Is there some kind of supply chain monopoly/scam operating for apples in NYC, like the United Fruit joke with bananas?
Thanks for bringing this acct to my attn. Bot or based schizo, good reading either way.
But if you were slow updating you could avoid a malware once it was known.
DeFi and other blockchain projects follow the same model. It is not only about writing the code, but also running it. In which case you can embed the monetization in the software. Hats off.
Is that graph set to keep the republican median constant and the rest relative from there? The associated link tells a much more nuanced story that I don't think really results in "mixed" being a fixed center point. But the article and graphic do show a deeply disturbing divide.
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My favorite story on the topic — https://www.odessa.edu/current-students/_documents/pdfs/a-st...

The following story is one that’s been circulating for awhile. I believe it holds a very important message regarding appropriately setting priorities in our lives.

A professor of philosophy stood before his class with some items in front of him. When the class began, wordlessly he picked up a large empty mayonnaise jar and proceeded to fill it with rocks about two inches in diameter. He then asked the students if the jar was full.

They agreed that it was full.

So the professor then picked up a box of pebbles and poured them into the jar. He shook the jar lightly and watched as the pebbles rolled into the open areas between the rocks. The professor then asked the students again if the jar was full.

They chuckled and agreed that it was indeed full this time.

The professor picked up a box of sand and poured it into the jar. The sand filled the remaining open areas of the jar. “Now,” said the professor, “I want you to recognize that this jar signifies your life. The rocks are the truly important things, such as family, health and relationships. If all else was lost and only the rocks remained, your life would still be meaningful. The pebbles are the other things that matter in your life, such as work or school. The sand signifies the remaining “small stuff” and material possessions.

If you put sand into the jar first, there is no room for the rocks or the pebbles. The same can be applied to your lives. If you spend all your time and energy on the small stuff, you will never have room for the things that are truly important.

Pay attention to the things in life that are critical to your happiness and well-being. Take time to get medical check- ups, play with your children, go for a run, write your grandmother a letter. There will always be time to go to work, clean the house, or fix the disposal. Take care of the rocks first – things that really matter. Set your priorities. The rest is just pebbles and sand.

——

An often seen addition:

A student then walks up to the jar and pours in a beer. It flows into the little gaps between the sand and the pebbles and the rocks.

There’s always time for a beer with friends.
There’s a phenomenon quite similar to the Gell-Mann amnesia effect: the bias of an outlet is quite obvious in the coverage of an event one is particularly familiar with. Of course then we flip a page and continue taking them at their word.
It's possible all the experts are stupid, or that you don't have as deep an understanding of the situation as they do. Which is more likely? That may come across as glib, but seriously, occasionally when it seems like the expert consensus makes no sense, it indeed doesn't. Most of the time though it's just that you don't have the necessary knowledge and experience to effectively evaluate the expert position.

In this case, yes, as people are vaccinated, variants that evade vaccines will spread more easily than others. From what we've seen so far, these same variants tend to be more contagious regardless, so that likely would have been the case anyway. By vaccinating though, you achieve a few things. First, you protect people from the variants that are susceptible, saving a lot of lives in the short term. Second, you massively cut down transmissions of the virus, each of which gives it an opportunity to mutate and produce new variants. Third, in most cases, you do provide some protection even against resistant variants.

And finally, just as the virus is not static, neither will be the vaccines. Work is already underway to update all the major vaccines to cover the new variants, and that process should be much faster than creating the initial vaccines (in design, trials, and roll-out). So it will be possible to vaccinate against variants that evade current vaccines.

Yes, it will take a while, and it would be nice if the virus would just sit still and not mutate. But we're still far, far better off with vaccines than without them. You are correct though that other measures will need to remain in place for some time as well.
How is this relevant to the discussion? You could bring a large list of corrupt activities for most countries. I always wondered why we South Africans think we are so special. Especially the South Africans who left after the transition to a democracy.
There is also no ester test. You have to inject it daily (or more likely several times a day) but it's detectable for like 4-5 hours. This plus first two no-shows not counting as failed test makes it possible to juice in professional sports which do out of competition testing. Granted I don't think it's popular in BB circles because yeah no testing and injecting as much as frequently would be painful.
> “Dark patterns are something that are spoken of with pride and encouraged in design all hands” meetings, said one former designer.
I actually think stop Swiss cheesing is a pretty succinct way of what you are saying in your second paragraph.
Do you also cultivate a network of informants and leakers to find out what is happening in the corridors of power or secret organizations? Do you travel the world to find out what is happening in the major cities? Fly to war zones to get appraised of the situation?

Not to mention, primary sources are often far, far more biased than journalists. A competent journalist will not simply report on one primary source, they will research several sources, cross-check them, and produce a story that incorporates information from all 3. Even if they can't or won't control their personal bias, they are likely to have much less skin in the game than the promary sources on anything.
Every Google Play update prompt in My Apps has a description provided by the publisher. If there is an urgency to update and they don't say so, I'm not going to blithely accept every update.

Ior example, had there not been the exploit risk, I would have left Chrome at the older version, as their new tabgroup implementation is horrible, and it doesn't even allow you to open a new tab without creating a group or going incognito!
I'm not sure I agree. I'd much rather that doctors base their decisions on what they read in publications in their field rather than do their own research.
Unix was never a single OS, it was mostly about being POSIX compatible. In the "Unix war" everyone wanted to call themselves Unix but couldn't because of AT&T trademark so they chose different names.

- AIX is Unix from IBM
- A/UX is Unix from Apple.
- They’re both AT&T System V with gratuitous changes.
- Then there’s HP-UX which is HP’s version of System V with gratuitous changes.
- DEC calls its system ULTRIX.
- DGUX is Data General’s.
- And don’t forget Xenix—that’s from SCO.

So if we want to talk about the most popular POSIX compatible systems today that are free we're left with the different kinds of BSDs and Linux OS. I also mentioned MacOS in the article, in relation to CoreAudio, but decided to leave it out as its design can't be inspected and compared properly. And also it's not a very popular OS amongst my readership and the world in general.
Item 29 (“linking” static libraries) is simply the `ar` program.
Tldr: you care only about how much you are taxed.
Trump supporters feel the same way about Fox that you feel about MSNBC. That’s why there’s OAN.
That's where they need better-educated, or more capable auditors.

I used to do PCI auditing for organizations that handled credit card data. The course was a two-day joke, and they relied at the time on some stated level of prior experience.

Clearly, the class was intended to give you knowledge of what's required, and how some processes worked, but you were expected to know the security stuff first.

While I was not a huge fan of the organization, I was somewhat more satisfied when I could help the clients with reasonable analysis of their controls, and where they'd fall down (regardless of tick-box compliance.)
You’ve covered many interesting aspects related to the current situation with ‘copyright’ and it’s current perception. I would not argue with that because you’ve done it very well. It describes what we have at the moment more or less.

Yet one thing is missing: the connection between ownership and copy! The link is not there. Those are different things while by some ‘magic’ reasons are used interchangeably. I suspect there are no justified reasons for that, I didn’t see so far and I think there is a price to pay for the ‘magic’ in definitions.

> All you've said so far is that you don't like it, but your arguments have been vague about why.

Actually I didn’t. It’s not about me liking it or not. It’s about missing the very “why” in definition itself in the first place which usually leads to abuses. It seems there is a flaw in definition that I can spot and I merely pointing out at it.

>I really think the missing steps in your understanding is that the missing "magic" is simply "because we decided it's that way",

While there are could be missing steps in my understanding. I suspect there are missing steps in definition itself or understanding by those who invented the term. (let’s not suggest something worse: intentional deceiving ). The idea itself does not appear as too complex but rather made complex to hide the obvious flaw in it.

> That is, what is your definition of a "right", why is ownership not a right, and why can't we decide that creator may have the limited ability to control how others may make copies of a work, and describe that through the term "copyright".

We cam explain many things by saying: “Because it is historically so or culturally accepted”. I am questioning the reasons behind it, because we cannot just define that gravity is not there and say it’s a cultural thing to define, and meanwhile we’ll just ignore it. There are consequences to that and some of the consequences of ‘copyright’ we already observe. Youtubers for instance complain about oppression and abusing them and not only them. So I am questioning is there something ‘real’ behind ‘copyright’ and is it worth protecting like ‘a saint cow’ with enormous efforts. Should we kill creativity of individuals in society just for the sake of something that doesn’t even have a proper logic behind it.
We can only hope that maybe this year we will have another Elfstedentocht :)
Learn to deal with interruptions. It's not reasonable to expect 4+ hours of uninterrupted time per day. We aren't monks copying sacred texts.

Being productive despite interruptions is a job skill. It can be achieved. It's a more realistic path to success than blocking off 4+ hours per day, because most people are in a position where they need to attend the meetings they are told to attend.
I probably have a proportional exposure to SNY via index funds as what Trump is reported to have, compared to his fortune. I would say that there would be very little value in reporting that interest in any context. Certainly it would tend to make most readers think that the financial interest may serve as an improper motivation, when there is no likelihood that that is the case.
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At least in C, "header only" libraries typically require a #define LIBRARYNAME_IMPLEMENTATION somewhere in a .c file to define the symbols declared in the header. That way you're not including a copy of every function in every object file, which is what would slow down compile times. C compilers are very fast at skipping #ifdef blocks.
It ought to work in a freestanding environment. If it doesn’t, then it’s IMO a gcc bug. I found a GCC bug which may or may not be the ipxe issue. Are you seeing another failure in a freestanding environment? If so, I don’t suppose you either have a reproducer or can point at a problem in the generated code?
I've always been under the IRS Free File income threshold (I've worked as a high school teacher and am now in grad school), but last year after reading this article was the first time I actually filed for free. That was after 5 years of paying for deluxe TurboTax.

I had heard the government required TurboTax to have a free edition. But back in 2019 (and before), if you Googled "TurboTax free" you'd be taken to a decoy free edition; the real one was called their "freedom edition," and was hidden from Google's listings. If your tax situation is 'too complicated,' the free edition tries to upsell you to the "deluxe edition," even if the "freedom edition" could have handled the situation just fine.

Thankfully now you can find the actual free version on Google, but it's still very confusing that the "free edition" is less free than the (still somewhat hidden) IRS Free File ("freedom") version. And the faux Free Edition is still being heavily advertised.
Not exactly, but there is this [1] that shows how the binding strength varies with single amino acid change.

[1] https://jbloomlab.github.io/SARS-CoV-2-RBD_DMS/
Sounds like fuel cells would be best for planes or drones.
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Based on fake news and a campaign against it to deflect from EU commission failure around vaccine roll out. I see it is working.
Is there a list of games like this?
I remember playing a free side scroller sci-fi FPS game on windows ~12 years ago. That I liked a lot but never found again.
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This also applies to personal time as well and I treat scheduling as a packing problem.

It may sound non-intuitive at first but if someone asks me if I'm free for 1 hour on Saturday my answer will almost always be no, but if they ask if I'm free for 6 hours or free all day the answer may very well be yes assuming it's for something interesting. The reason is that 1-hour events like quick meetings or lunches put a hole in the calendar that prevents other 6-hour activities (e.g. hikes) from being scheduled.
Thanks again! I’ll consider this settled: people prefer Ken Liu, but that’s not why the second book was different :).
The American system of worldwide taxation based on citizenship is extremely strange and shared by just a handful of other nations such as Eritrea, Hungary, and Myanmar. [1] Even more odd was the decision to shift to territorial taxation with the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, but only for corporations and only for income earned with tangible assets overseas. [2]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_taxation

[2]: https://www.taxpolicycenter.org/briefing-book/what-territori...
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Ask HN: Looking for software work in non-profit
I've been dreaming of applying my skills to working full-time at a nonprofit organization, but have no idea how to start. It seems like they're so difficult to find, and the ones that I do find just don't ever seem to need software developers.

Does anyone have a clue how I can be an engineer for an NGO? I'm particularly interested in causes helping children, but open to options. Even prepared to take a pay cut to fit modest budgets.
Performance changes depending upon the rule list provided to Safari. A better (not necessarily larger) rule list means that more unnecessary items are blocked and web pages therefore load more quickly. This means that there can be a large difference between ad blockers even if they use the same underlying blocking mechanism.

As you note, the rule quality is also important. We judge our rule quality based upon:

- How many ads, trackers and annoyances it blocks

- How frequently rules are updated to meet changes to pages

- How large is the rule set and does it include out of date and redundant items (many ad blockers have overly large rulesets that increase memory use and reduce maintainability; including 1Blocker)

- Not breaking any required web page functionality
AZ has however been shown to be effective against a very similar variant in a wider study

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/02/05/astrazeneca-covid-vaccine-wo...