skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>How do you propose to garner support to fix the system without drawing attention to the bad actors?

Is there any evidence that drawing attention to bad actors actually garners political support to fix this? Look at the comments here, almost everyone is talking about the problems with Intuit and not how to fix this systemically.

What we need is grassroots political change. This specific issue regarding tax prep is a symptom of larger systemic problems caused by two main issues. First-past-the-post voting means that people generally only have two viable choices when voting. Anyone who is a single issue voter and their single issue is the tax prep industry is extremely rare and frankly in my opinion crazy. This means that no one has any incentive to change the status quo. The second problem is how US's free speech laws (or perhaps more accurately the current interpretation of these laws) basically create a near free-for-all in terms of campaign financing. Since there is almost no strong motivation for change, the only people involved in the discussion about tax prep are the people who are already invested in the industry. They obvious have a huge incentive to lobby against the death of their industry. So you have an issue in which we have little public motivation for change versus an entire industry that would be willing to dedicate all their profit to fighting change. It isn't surprising we see the results we see.

>A multi-billion dollar company has been lobbying the IRS so it can steal money from the most vulnerable taxpayers" is far more compelling than "poor people pay more taxes than they have to".

I am not making the second argument. I am generalizing the first argument to "multi-billion dollar companies have been lobbying the government to steal money from everyone, let's adjust our system to stop that".
But isn't it like that e.g EU branch of $FAANG company does less cool stuff?

e.g Google EU does CRUDs and maintains GCP meanwhile cool stuff is being done in MV?
Snowflake Is Down
But what do you think isn't good about their website?
The mind does not respond to training as well as muscles respond to training. Short term memory , such as digit recall, is is correlated with IQ and not something that can be improved with training. Maybe you can develop tricks for trying to make memorization easier, but like using a level to lift weights, it doesn't mean you are stronger or have better recall.
The citizenry elects the people who could overturn the laws preventing a recall. It's just not that important to the citizenry.
I'm not from levels.fyi but I think some reasons are

* Its cheaper for the company than cash (stock is the company's currency, they can issue more of it, decrease the supply, use it as collateral in financing etc)

* It can be better for the employees (pay less in taxes, more opportunity for growth)

* Incentives become aligned (I now care about the continued success of the company more so than I otherwise would)
> I really can't imagine most people would be like "huh your phone only works in this one very peculiar way, I guess there's just nothing else that can be done about that."

Think about it like: I'm already on vacation, that my boss three levels up (CEO) approved, including explicitly approving / encouraging-as-company-policy my use of this device/service during my vacation. Now boss-two-levels-up (some VP) is trying to cover their own ass for something they didn't do, by telling me to do urgent work during my vacation. The only way to actually get them to go away in a way that doesn't result in awful office politics happening to me, is to make it technically impossible for me to be reached, or for me to do synchronous work. Thus the device, and the public/institutional knowledge that I'm only reachable through such a delayed mechanism.

That way, rather than me having to make waves (which could get turned around on me, since I'm not there to defend myself), the VP would have to make waves about me not responding — which would expose publicly to the rest of the company the fact that they're trying to make me work on my vacation, and cause the CEO to come down on them. Very likely, they'd realize that, and just give up on the idea of shirking their responsibility off to me.

(This is all hypothetical; I don't even have a boss.)
I don't really buy this argument, since you can sign up at most traditional brokerages for free, with no minimum balance, and zero or almost zero trading fees on most trades. There's absolutely no more barrier to entry than with Robinhood.
When my friends webserver died and they had no backups, I found the wayback machine was s good (historic) static site generator ;-) Just mirror it from there and voila.
Median compensation around Toronto for C$158,000 seems quite high. Real numbers of course might shed light on surprising facts such as this. How do you combat the bias of people feeling that higher salaries are more important to report, however?
Say you have a batch job that performs tasks A–E, and each of those tasks might process thousands of records. At some point, something will go wrong that causes the process to crash, hang, or error over many records. If the code is not idempotent, you need to investigate exactly where things started going wrong and figure out how to resume the process at that point. You don't want to reprocess records and e.g. send out duplicate emails or double-increment some number you're tracking. If the code is idempotent, conversely, you can just start the whole process over again without having to worry about any of that.

Similarly, many systems involve consuming from some message queue. It's basically impossible to guarantee exactly-once delivery in most systems. You either have to risk missing a message, or having it delivered multiple times. If you're running idempotent code, you can always err on the side of redundant delivery without any ill effects.
Walmart was correlating credit card information in the 80's. My mind still boggles at how poorly they have handled the Internet. If there is a company that can best Amazon and provide unique experiences with their tens of thousands of local warehouses (their retail stores!) it should be them. It's utterly mystifying that instead of leveraging their strengths they ran off and created a less functional clone of Amazon. Yikes!
Tl;dr Intuit made a bad outreach website, so here’s a bunch of other stuff we don’t like about Intuit unrelated to the Child Tax Credit outreach
Somewhat related - do you know if those companies will hire US-based engineers for the same European positions? Or are those positions primarily set aside for engineers already in Europe?
Why can't we have even a cooler 5d object represented in 3d and sell that on Amazon?
Isn't there an old saying? A young, healthy adult dies in weeks without food, in days without water and in minutes without air.

To that we should add: a young, healthy adult dies in hours of 35°C wet bulb:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wet-bulb_temperature#Wet-bulb_...

"A sustained wet-bulb temperature exceeding 35 °C (95 °F) is likely to be fatal even to fit and healthy people, unclothed in the shade next to a fan; at this temperature human bodies switch from shedding heat to the environment, to gaining heat from it.[9] In practice, such ideal conditions for humans to cool themselves will not always exist – hence the high fatality levels in the 2003 European and 2010 Russian heat waves, which saw wet-bulb temperatures no greater than 28°C. [10]"

Lytton, British Columbia reached 33°C wet bulb yesterday, 29-June-2021.

British...Columbia. In Canada.

Like a lightning bold from the gods, this kind of event can happen virtually anywhere. And it will, more and more frequently.

PS: I'm pretty shaken up by the recent heat event, where it reached 112°F at my home near Olympia, Washington, right on the Puget sound. Prior all time high temperature, in August, was 104°F some years back.

If 33°C wet bulb had hit over Seattle/Portland, it's quite possible that thousands could have died.

We're in for a very rocky road.
> Another common critique is that the pull requests encourage reviewers to only look at the code. They never even pull down the changes they are reviewing!

Our CI automatically deploys a "review app" when someone creates a pull request. This simplifies code review, QA and demoing!
As was explained to me after the most recent insider leaks of income and tax information, a mere $70M wealth is enough to avoid taxes altogether. One "invests" one's wealth, and then lives off of revolving loans against those investments. Such a structure allows one to declare a $0 income every year for the rest of one's life.

So, any particular change to our current system of taxation might be flawed. However, in general, we must change our current system of taxation.

https://www.newsweek.com/warren-buffett-who-advocates-higher...
Haha! It won't be long until there are some there.

I may take out the filters by technology choice for the time being, because there's nothing there.
There’s a few movies that I’ve watched so many times I can basically replay them back scene-for-scene on command. If I get struck by something that reminds of some dialog, my brain suddenly starts playing the entire scene, like laying out the context of the quote.

I also figured that the memory palace concept was sort of like an ordered JSON object, so any memorized sequence should theoretically work. I’m now imagining some tool that lets me load up one of my favorite movies, but then also let’s me drop iOS or Snapchat-style stickers on any range of frames. So maybe I need to remember some recipe… At 01:00 I can place a sticker of an image of vegetable oil, then 01:05 is a salt shaker, then 01:10 is some eggs, then at 01:15 is a photo of the finished product. These stickers would be overlaid on the film conspicuously, maybe on top of character’s heads haha

This also brings to mind the possibility of making my entire world a memory palace if I had the above capability in a set of AR glasses. Notes/to-dos/whatevers could be placed and anchored to different places in my home, workplace, neighborhood, etc. They might eventually become interweaved into my mental representation of that location, so that a specific anchored item always springs to mind when I look at my coffee table, for example, whether I have the AR glasses on or not.
Amvoom fraudulent page in Google webcache

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:0UGfjt...
Another option is to petition, which is a form of group negotiation. Apple still has the ability to turn it down.
Wrong move by public health officials here.

Good quote near the end of the article: “You just told the unvaccinated, ‘Yeah, get vaccinated, it’s so scary, but of course, you’ll still have to mask because it’s so scary,’ ” said Monica Gandhi, professor of medicine at the University of California at San Francisco. “If I were an unvaccinated person who was debating whether to get vaccinated, I would think, ‘Oh wow, there’s no point, looks like the delta variant would break through the vaccine anyway.’ ”

If you're not vaccinated, apart from being too young or physically disqualified from it, this is all on you. If you get sick, that's your fault. I'm not wearing a mask again for you.
Film at 11.
A great positive feedback loop, no? Anthropogenic Climate Change (ACC) creates a need for more AC which in turn creates more ACC which furthers the need for more AC. Yeah I don't see this going well for the next few decades.
This is really confusing with the link being the actual "ask us anything" and people asking questions here that others are answering, yet OP hasn't written a single response.
> 7. Their Payment for Order Flow is (or at least was) significantly higher than industry standard.

Just to elaborate a bit, with payment for order flow the broker essentially gets a kickback for executing a trade with a particular firm. They pass on part of the kickback to the customer as a rebate, and keep some of it for themselves.

Robinhood was (is?) keeping a bigger cut for themselves than other brokers who do payment for order flow (practically all retail brokers at this point, I guess), while advertising that they have the best execution.

If I remember right, they didn't get dinged for keeping a bigger cut because that's not necessarily illegal, they got dinged for lying about it - you can't say you have the best execution in the industry if you're taking more hidden fees than everyone else.
Are you not?
"About 0.1% the snippets are verbatim"

This implies that by just changing the variable names, the snippets are classed as non-verbatim.

I don't buy that this number is anywhere close to the actual figure if you assume that you can't just change function names and variable names and suddenly say you have escaped both the legality and the spirit of GPL.
We made it because we were and are more cooperative and more social in others words we gather together in order to survive and work together but other species such as bees or ants are also very much cooperative and social but they are not highly intelligent although they have collective intelligence.

I think anatomy of humans played the crucial role in our evolution. Hands are powerful tools which enabled us to create and develop other tools and technologies.
You could say a human is laundering GPL code if they learned programming from looking at Github repositories. Would you, though? The type of model they use isn't retrieving, it's having learned the syntax and the solutions that are used, just like a human would.
It depends on state law.

When I worked at a state government agency, we would laugh at companies with these things as freedom of information and other laws have precedence over some NDA.

Texas is a weird place, but usually these laws are pretty similar between states. These economic development agencies are making a conscious decision to make this information privileged. I wouldn’t blame the companies for this at all — the government entities are the ones enabling this.
> When people say "I'm not political" they're really just confessing to low social status and acumen.

Right. Politics is a tool often used to keep people with low social status where they are.
The crates.io website is weird, it seems out of place and not at the same level as the other part of Rust's ecosystem.
The last time I got a quote from a local accounting firm it was for $3,000. My tax situation is more complex than most but the difference between $150 for some paid software and an accounting firm is a lot. And the people working at the budget firms are basically just using TurboTax-equivalent software anyway.
The citizens cannot police the federal electorate. At best, they can police local politicians and maybe a few big ticket federal items. They have too much going on in their own lives to police federal politicians passing hundred page bills every week.
I buy a lot from Walmart now, to drive business away from Amazon (I would never have typed these words a few years ago...). First thing I do is click Retailer = Walmart.com.
> "and please skip the tired argument that I should just pay a subscription fee to avoid their ad crap - we are already paying them with our data. My data is worth far more to me than the value they provide for it. Plus - I won't give money to a company who forced this Faustian bargain on me."

Not only this, but many of the largest companies these days would never remove advertising even from a paid service. It's like cable TV. They wanna charge you and advertise at you for more money.
Does ephemeral storage not have configurable limits? That seems like quite the oversight if not.
> Floating point numbers give you that, problem solved.

No. For example, floating point addition is not necessarily associative. In that sense, floating point numbers aren't even a field and it's wrong to say that they can be used as a stand-in for real numbers.

Floating-point numbers are incredibly useful and it is amazing that we can exactly analyze their error bounds, but it's wrong to treat them as if they were real numbers.
Yeah me too. Eventuality I stopped noticing them.
Fire up Ettercap and read unencrypted AIM conversations...
For sure. I've used Github Pages (free site hosting) for a few years now. I'm leaning back toward VPS though so that I can do access log analysis rather than depend on Google Analytics.

But the point was to make a comparison to a Raspberry Pi and emphasize that you do not special compute to withstand thousands of page views. Even S3 and GH Pages are overkill in terms of the compute behind both of them vs. what you need minimally.
We say that a lot, but it's not that cheap if you're using redundancy and backups. It's cheap if you don't care too much about the data.
The FDIC-insured nonsense alone perplexes me. There is no web to spin here that favors them.

Did they really think they could get away with this? Or did they have a severe cascade of miscommunication? It is incredibly irresponsible and careless behavior either way.
Exactly, sad puppy face because my personal growth is my career growth and my career growth is my financial growth. So please more money.
I am a retro-computing fanboy and recently have been reliving the world of text adventure games on one of my most favoured "failed" computers of the 80's, the Oric-1/Atmos range of UK 8-bit machines.

https://www.oric.org/index.php?page=software

(Search for i.e. 'adventure')

The aesthetic is so pure, and in the context of oric.org, the titles are a testament to the spirit of an entirely different form of walled-garden/app-store.

I favour the Oric, and many of the great old architectures like it (Amstrad CPC6128!!) not for much more salient reason than it was my first 'real' computer, on which I first gained an immense amount of arcane knowledge that led me to an even more immense amount of arcana.

The adventure has been text since the very first day. A coders adventure game never STOP's.

*bonus edit: everything old is new again, and it is awesome:

https://defence-force.org/index.php?page=games&game=blakes7
"It takes some chutzpah to turn defense from your own willful negligence into a revenue center." It's not chutzpah - it's the norm for most tech companies - or any other companies who's primary product is intellectual property. Think patent trolls, copyright trolls, etc. Amazon is a product troll that somehow has managed to maintain a veneer of legitimacy.

I see what they are doing no differently than what Steele started with Prenda law. Heck that's probably where Amazon got the idea :p
You left out "after you get big, hire a senior regulator from the Obama era to leverage personal connections in Washington."

It's so depressing. It's probably better to not know how this stuff works.
I mean, that's a pretty harsh way to put it. It takes a very flexible lifestyle to be able to move 10 minutes from your office every time you get a new job. That is also likely to severely impact your finances. For some workplaces, it would be a financial impossibly to live that close for anything less than an executive salary. Often it's far more optimum to work remote if you want to minimize your commute.
Morally Motivated Networked Harassment as Normative Reinforcement
Yup the higher you go in level, the larger your stock compensation is to tie you to company growth and align incentives. A company that's the exception to this is Netflix: https://www.levels.fyi/company/Netflix/salaries/Software-Eng...

They have one level and pay all cash with an option to convert some of it to equity.
Also, 0.1% of output is directly copied doesn't include the lines where the variable names were slightly changed, but the code was still copied.

If you got the Microsoft codebase and Ctrl+F'd all the variable names and renamed them, I bet they would still argue that the compiled program was still a copy.
Why would you ask that? I didn't imply that. No guarantees with WFH either.

Inserted edit: I notice you didn't comment on bullying. That's awkward over a zoom. At least one boss of someone I know has found out the hard way. Especially on playback.

The mind set changes when you start self organising because you're alone in a room. It's a different dynamic.

The gig economy has a lot of twists and turns. Less old guarantees but some interesting new ones.
Honestly this is varied.

I've seen a bunch of (usually smaller or just starting) tech companies win out business because of how responsive their customer support even though their product was inferior.

Robinhood won because it saw an opening in changes in market demands:

- Increasingly lax SEC rules for retail traders.

- Increases in income inequality whereby the poor side of the spectrum has been told they can't have access to the rich's set of investment tools (i.e. millennials with varying degrees)

- Per transaction fees that made day trading appear less lucrative (see point before)

- Competitors with terrible UIs for non professional traders

Part of the reason the ETrade/Schwabs/TD's of the world didn't do what RH did was because it meant deliberately making creating a trading account more difficult. For example - Vanguard almost deliberately makes their service hard to day trader because they don't want to carry that risk profile.

So, this was not a market that was crying for better customer service but one that wanted cheap, easy to use access to investments that were seemingly unattainable previously.

I'm actually more surprised the SEC (or a class action lawsuit) didn't thwart RH turning into a large business when it was much smaller...not the competition.
This happened to me when I transferred to Schwab. Surprisingly it was Schwab the one that eased my mind. I called them and they put me through the cost basis department which told me that RH basically has to prepare the cost basis manaually and
pass it to them/ They told me that it had been taking a while but that they were indeed receiving the Cost Basis for other customers.

So I just had to wait. Of course this sucks because it blocks you from selling, but it will eventually show up.
Yes, this makes sense!
...yes, and?
I noticed that. They have an even smaller target audience being an in person bootcamp.
The FAANG have a lot more leverage over their employees than people seem to think.

Very few if any outside of these companies pay a mid level engineer 700k (yes, this number is real, can we please stop debating this fact?). So, if all FAANG force their companies back to the office, the employees have effectively no leverage.

This is similar to how the top cos colluded to keep engineer wages low in the 2000s, except they don’t need to explicitly make such a pact.
I am not sure how it is at the more experienced levels but for new grads and juniors you apply for the company, then have a "general" interview (think leetcode, some nominal system design stuff). If you clear the bar, you proceed to some team matching stage (this where the companies start to differ). Your experience and your input is taken into account and you are matched with a team where you fit in best. Some companies have the team manager talk to the new candidate to check for fit, others have different processes.
could anyone tldr what meltano does and where the name comes from? is it mELTano of ELT?
Reading a variable isn't side-effect free either :P
How do you account for stock/option appreciation? Which number is displayed on the site?

There might be a huge difference between a person reporting their total compensation from their offer letter (according to the fair market value at the time) vs what it is after a few years of appreciation.