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> So I ask again, will the IRS make a painless tool? If the answer is yes, but Intuit is lobbying them not to, then I understand your point.

Exactly this, yes. It's well documented all over the place, but here are a couple of examples:

https://www.propublica.org/article/filing-taxes-could-be-fre...

https://www.economist.com/democracy-in-america/2013/04/02/it...

In any case, thanks to the folks in this thread suggesting alternatives. I was going to switch to Credit Karma last year, but literally the day after I created an account I woke up to the news that Intuit had bought them.

Edit: I see down-thread someone says they had to spin out the tax-filing portion of the business?
Then hedge funds turn back around and put the money coming from Universities back into MIT kids hands.

It's seriously telling of why Western economies don't grow like they used to.

Money became a hot potato business where nobody has the arrogance to say "Ok, I will do this on my own"

The and Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg of today aren't leaving Harvard anymore.
No. The top managers are in silicon valley, but the key engineers and product people are distributed.
Acquaintance over at Google in the Pacific Northwest works on invoicing so I can believe that that's true without even leaving the country.
It makes it easier to read. I don't like reading big paragraphs and text that span all the way across the screen. I wished more people was like OP.
I thought Netflix let you pick the exact split between cash and equity no?

For example, for a 500k salary you could say, I want 200k cash, and 300k in stock
A crashing airplane dangerous to more then just people on the airplane.
Sure it is, you just need a significantly reduced software stack, like an embedded device. Harvard architecture, where the code memory and data memory are completely distinct, also helps by eliminating many (but not all) classes of vulnerability.

For example, take a look at esp8266, which is a $2 wifi device with 1-16MB of program space (FLASH) and 80 KB (that is 0.08 MB) of RAM. There are no "remote execution" vulnerabilities there [0] -- just "DOS" and "bypass wireless encryption" ones. In general, for IoT, you encrypt all traffic and you do not trust user's networks anyway, so it should not matter that the network packets can be intercepted.

For more protection, you can use Wifi co-processors [1] -- then even if your wifi co-processor is completely compromised, the worst it can do is to monitor/change network packets, something that we know how to handle already.

[0] https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?form_type=Basic&res...

[1] https://www.wiznet.io/product/wifi-module/
Mmmmm in comparison to normal displays they are really expensive, that’s pretty much all anyone is getting at. I can get a regular sized 1080p display for like $50, and the same size would be 10x for e-ink. The price is more for good reasons like you’ve explained, but still just high in comparison.
You could get the whole carbon from a counter at a department store if the cashier wasn't around.
anagram of Menalto? (Menlo/Palo Alto)?
China’s Bitcoin Crackdown Sets Up Record Tweak to Mining Puzzle
Getting banned has a minimal cost if you are a throwaway goods reseller running off a newly registered business in a region where you can effectively ignore all foreign laws, falsify documentation, or whatever else.

Getting banned has a high cost if you are a single small business with a long-term decades of time in business as the same company registration.
One of many morality-related shocks for me, joining adult life, was that cheaters often prosper. Gaming systems against the spirit of rules, lies of omission, outright deception—all are kind of a great idea if you want to succeed, and, as one might expect under those circumstances, are basically normal. It's only suckers like me who have a hard time with them. Go figure.
In this case, no, many of those in question are not required to file a tax return.
The problem isn't estimation per se, it's the vicious cycle of

estimation => "commitment" => "failure" => padding => distrust

and much like Global Thermonuclear War the only winning move is not to play.
Meaningful measures of human society in the twenty-first century
The traffic you get from people following links is measurable (and real!) The traffic you get from "link juice" is imagined.

The original PageRank paper assumed that PageRank approximated the distribution of views on web pages assuming that people followed links at random.

If Google wanted to know what people are viewing today, they don't need to collect a link graph and do matrix math. They can measure it directly with Chrome, Google Analytics and data exhaust from the advertising platform.
You have to be careful, because work friends can suddenly vanish when you change jobs, but anyone with a bit of social awareness can navigate this.

WFH has changed work from a social experience into something boring. I get it, work is work, and maybe treating it as a more significant part of life isn't a shrewd move, but I am definitely missing out something in this current state.

(That being said, I do understand that I may change my mind in 10 years, assuming I have a family. But I can only talk about how this seems today.)
Rust has all of them with vanilla JS. The code is clear and easy to understand, and could be reused by other people easily. Here's an example: https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/vec/struct.Vec.html
Glad it's working well for you. I'm the polar opposite and I hope we both will continue to have a plentiful choice of workplaces where we can work in the style that's best for each of us.
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Here are some numbers: the evaporation enthalpy of water is 2,260 kJ/kg at room temperature. The specific heat of water is 4.2 kJ/(kg*K). So for a given amount of water, the evaporation is "worth" about 500
Kelvin of cooling in terms of energy absorbed.
I have their Walmart Plus. If I'm buying a major brand item I go to Walmart. 0 chance of knockoffs. I get 2 day free shipping. And - if it's in stock locally, many times they deliver directly from the store and I get it next day (no option to tip...so no pressure there).

I use their store delivery option if I'm buying certain groceries or items I need ASAP. Yeah I need to tip - but I consider it me saving gas money/time.
The problem is that you then arrive at work soaking wet, so you have to change clothes and then store your wet stuff somewhere all day. Then change back into the wet stuff for the ride back (which might be in the rain again).
That shouldn’t be required. Amazon should verify the seller. Scam sellers sell knockoff trademarked items everyday on Amazon. Trademark won’t fix anything.
Eucalyptus forests outside of Australia a a complete ecological disaster. Nothing lives there except these trees, no birds, no animals.
Before credits like this, filing wasn’t required and didn’t make sense for many people with low income: https://www.irs.gov/publications/p501#en_US_2020_publink1000...
The difference between this model and a human developer is quantitative rather than qualitative. Human developers also synthesize vast amounts of code and can't reference most of it when they use the derived knowledge. The scales are different, but it is the same principle.
Played Nethack regularly for 10 years completely unspoiled (~1988-1998)
I went to a Yale arts open house one time, and all the studios I visited had daylight and were about the size of a 2-person dorm room. Different departments with different budgets?
Sounds like you just need to put some effort into building a social life outside of work...

And dating a co-worker in today's climate? No way, to much a risk -at least in the US.

The rest of them (comfortable space to work, food) are easy to solve with minimal effort. Especially on a dev salary.
Mess them up in the IRS' favor, and it was clearly a mistake, and something they've had to fix for me.
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IMO, if someone thinks you are going to get much work done the first week they are out of their minds, or their software is a trivial console app contained in handful of classes.

I could probably jump into a new position and start cranking out code fast, but it would be different than any code in the existing code base, and could apply techniques not used by anyone on the team. This would result in an awful piece of code to maintain for the team.

There are just so many different ways of writing code that a dev would probably need a few weeks to get comfortable with the code base. I speak openly about this during interviews. One interviewer from a fortune 1k company said I would be given about 6 months to get comfortable with the code base and start with smaller tasks. Another company said I would be building trivial things for a few weeks before touching the codebase.

Unless it is a fresh project there is no such a thing as jumping in and cranking out code day 1.
> If you want to see the latter part nicely integrated, come to a SIGAUTH meeting and help me argue for it.

Invitation accepted! :) I've been dying to see an ALTS-like [1] thing that works with Kubernetes. I really should be able to talk encrypted and authenticated gRPC-to-gRPC without ever having to set up secrets or manually provision certificates, dammit.

[1] - https://cloud.google.com/security/encryption-in-transit/appl...
WWII Finnish soldier over-doses on meth, skied 250 miles to escape Russians
I wouldn't be surprised if the ARM builds don't require a TPM, and they kick the can down the road WRT requiring equivalent functionality on ARM. TPMs are very, very x86. For instance that LPC bus they sit on is almost electrically the 8086 front side bus, just with a tiny state machine in front to serialize it (hence LPC: Low Pin Count 8086 Bus).

There's of course equivalent security processors and domains on pretty much every ARM application soc, but the exact semantics of them (like pretty much everything in the ARM space that's outside of the actual CPU core complexes) is extremely heterogeneous. They might even be running in EL3 on the application cores themselves. Wrangling all of that is probably out of scope for W11 RTM.
Well yeah, if you're trying to prove it wasn't a simple mistake from ignorance, you want to prove they have a pattern of making this mistake. That's when it turns from accidental to intentional malfeasance.
Robinhood probably gonna be a meme stock on /r/wallstreetbets when it ipo
The Gemini protocol will never gain widespread traction because its designed to appeal to a specific tech-contrarian anti-modernist mindset with restrictions that most people won't find appealing or useful.

And as soon as the mainstream knows about it, and it no longer feels quirky and niche, it will be declared dead and abandoned anyway.
Early 90's, but our computer system (some sort of minicomputer) had a modem bank so that teachers could do grades and such from home. I worked in the office because I had an open hour, I earned a credit and I also got to see the guidance counselors view students records and such. It would have been very, very easy to change grades.

Also, many schools had internet connections back then. I know our school had a T1, it might have also had a leased line to the state education system for some reason, I would guess the security was very lax back then.
That doesn't show decades. The tone of the article sets up to divide readers.

IRS spends 11 billion, 300 million is barely a speed bump, is the money being spent correctly?

IRS has been used as a tool of intimidation and oppression to target political enemies of the ruling oligarchy.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/irs-scandal-fast-fac...

They have deep corruption, the tax code needs reform, and justice deferred is justice denied.

Gas lighting and blaming the victims of political intimidation is not acceptable.
That's four words. The word word doesn't mean what you think it means.
Funny, I spoke with the ringleader of an online harassment ring and he told me that he thought his victims gathered online to "normalize" their deviant behavior and wanted to deny them the opportunity to do that.
Yeah fair point, we need to collect more salaries overall to present a more accurate picture of the labor market. One way we plan to tackle this is to provide more incentives to share your salary.

Perhaps this is more of a social stigma issue around sharing your salary, but we encourage everyone to submit their salary, it helps everyone else out: https://levels.fyi/addcomp.html
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Number 1 is actually the opposite opinion of 'Software Design for Flexibility' which is like an advanced successor to SICP.
A big disconnect I see is that some offices and teams are much more pleasant to be around in person. There are companies that feel like prisons -- windowless open office setups with oppressive noise and distractions. There are others with a bunch of cool people who are respectfully quiet when others are working.

It can feel like an "pro-office" person is threatening to consign you to half your waking life in jail if you work in the former.

My hope for the WFH movement is that actual thought is put into office floor plans and setup. Open space offices are hopefully the first casualty of the next few years.

I'm a bit worried that things will accidentally go the other direction: if employees are partially remote it will be hard to justify giving them their own piece of the office. You'll have to lug everything with you every day and won't feel any ownership of anything there. It will feel like working out of a hotel room instead of your own domain.
They've done a lot of software for 4 decades. And most Apple software and services employees don't interact with hardware teams at all.
Its so difficult to say what is going on behind closed doors when established brokerage houses get caught(or any brokerage). In many ways it makes perfect sense that an established firm is able to negotiate for more lenient penalties, much like an established lawyer might be able to negotiate for more lenient sentences.
use the VC money to provide free service or subsidies the cost
Beyond Universality
For employees you pay the same in taxes. RSUs are treated as income just in Stock based compensation vs USD. RSU vest is the same as taking a USD based salary and purchasing the shares.

The Employees do get the benefit that between the grant date and vest date, the RSU value could increase. And the employee gets the benefit of capturing that growth.

E.g. if 100k of RSUs granted, and 25% of it vested each year. Say in year 4 the value doubled. So they'd get 50k of RSUs and when it vests the employee is taxed as if it is income, and pays income tax on the 50k value.
Holy shit that was a good read honestly.
Move closer. Why didn't I think of that?
This is interesting article - I found that part about being "Oracle shop / Microsoft Shop" pretty insightful, as well as their argument "some major cloud is going to grab our open source and start selling it so we need to focus on features.

It does make it seem there will be a gap between the open source and the SaaS version though. Which I understand is their business model, but still.
I appreciate that everyone in the comments are overusing the wink emote in the most obvious joke, meaning more people will come away disliking it.

Only ever seen smug, arrogant, or creepy people using it. The sooner it vanishes the better.
I know Intuit has legislators at the federal level in their pockets, but I would think that in a place like California it would be harder. Has there been any progress to have simple automatic filing for state taxes?
Agreed. I would add that both the local and DR backups should be verified tamper-proof. All too often I have seen people go through all the trouble of setting up and testing DR sites, only to have the same automation able to tamper with local and DR copies of the customer data. If the automation can delete or write to a backup, so can the attackers.
Thanks for the example. I'm noticing a ~1 second delay for a page load after I click something. That seems a bit much.
The borg concepts and interfaces have been the same for ages. The borglet and borgmaster get released and pushed out very frequently (daily or weekly) and it doesn't break anything among the workloads. There are not maintenance windows for these changes because containers can run while the borglet restarts, and borgmasters are protocol/format-compatible so the new release binary simply joins the quorum. Machines also get rotated out of the borg cell regularly for kernel upgrades, way more often than I've seen outside of Google.

I think an important thing to know about K8s is Omega failed to replace Borg, and then the Omega people created K8s. So K8s does not necessarily descend from Borg, and not all of Borg's desirable attributes made it into K8s.
Were you able to contact a person through their live chat or call back links?
It’s more than that: they stopped the potential practice of the IRS sending you a pre-filled out tax form with what they know that you could then just sign and accept, as is done is many other countries.
Yes. I was thinking to start with smaller examples showing how they write code at <big project> without necessarily understanding the big picture, but bigger examples would be great too eventually. Something like http://aosabook.org/en/index.html already mentioned here.
SWIM once said to me: Funny thing about those System 75's, the entire ordeal originated from the hack of a bank's telephone system, who had a small Unix UUCP network and, for some odd reason, put all their System 75 logins and passwords into their Systems file. The default login information leaked out after a hacker named Syadasti announced that he was willing to turn any System 75's given to him into usable remote PBXes, and eventually some other hacker (Scott Simpson, maybe? don't know) set up a system on his own home line that responded like a System 75 would, and gave Syadasti that number. He promptly tried to login with the cust/rcust accounts, which were recorded by the other hacker, which led to the explosion of System 75 hacks throughout the US.
If simple snippet similarity is enough to trigger the GPL copyright defense I think it goes too far. Seems like GPL has become an obstacle to invention. I learned to run away when I see it.
Snowflake is massively down.

The status page currently shows a complete outage across all regions of all 3 clouds. Wow.
Just to be clear, the entire planet apart from Liberia and some tiny islands use Celsius, not just the English-speaking world, that's probably around 7.5 billion people if you are going for an extended audience.

This is a good map to illustrate the stark reality: https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/countries...
We think of data points on our platform as snapshots of salaries in time. Currently, we ask for the last reported year of compensation which would include stock appreciation. You can distinguish this on our compensation page by filtering the "Years at Company" field: https://levels.fyi/comp.html?showFilters

When the Years at Company field is 0 it is a new offer.
I think this is a valid line of questioning but personally I'm not sure everyone should "have the right to fail the course from start to finish" on the basis that it can be a severe drain on resources and perhaps even unfair to the person falling behind. If the work is highly collaborative then the person who fell behind becomes a burden for their peers. If that is not a concern you will still get people that either squeak through without flourishing (reducing the overall quality of your graduates), or people that realistically did not have a chance from the outset that then get denied at the finish line.

For the purpose of trying to determine what is or is not fair I don't think it matters whose fault this is (a failure of the school's pedagogy or of the student's ability to keep up) because I think allowing the failure state to continue is fundamentally unfair.
That is right Google operates under the assumption of people as in large groups of individuals. Their primary drive is to add billions of more people to their graph, https://nextbillionusers.google

If you read through the marketing material, you will notice that they use the word people and not individuals or persons or you. "People are at the center of everything we build."

For what is worth, Fidelity customer service is quick and reliable. They've always answered by questions or solved my issues over the phone.
A big thank you for putting levels.fyi together. It's a big reason that I'm working in tech today.
Walmart launches low-priced own brand analog insulin in US
VC money is top 1%er money. Because they are so overloaded with cash even really hairbrained stuff gets funded by someone looking for something, anything, that can beat the market.

The VC market is basically medieval patronage with a capitalistic flair. Now the patrons are expected to bring you in massive returns instead of just producing culture.
I often help my friend who is also my accountant with his systems. He has to use various Intuit Pro Tax products. These are straight out of 90s boxed software land. Installing and using them in this day and age of polished software is like taking a step back into a timemachine especially when networking is involved. He pays thousands of dollars /year for these products and the technical issues with data sharing, networking, printing are just incredible.

Another thing that is jarring is the regard that Scott Cook, the founder of Intuit is held in the valley. He was apparently a mentor and coach to many founders Jobs? Page/Brin? and others. But the disconnect with his sterling image as a coach and leader and the general dark patterns/crappiness of Intuit products is something that is interesting.
How does Netflix compete for post-senior talent with only one level? (i.e. “staff” and beyond)
In my opinion it's an instinctive response to HN's line spacing being too low, and paragraph width being too high. But That being said, the people here are disproportionally used to starting at packed lined of code so the problem doesn't get picked up.
People need to stop calling companies “big tech” because every large cap company uses technology in a way that used to be exclusive to one tech industry.
At least for me, the hours I used to spend driving my car are now spent doing actual work, because that’s what I’d rather be doing anyway. The only reason I don’t work more hours as it is is that I have other obligations. Just seems like a total waste of resources along multiple dimensions to have me driving around my brain.
In university, for some strange reason, we were required to spend a few hours in a 'learn how to use a search engine class.' It was brutal, they used remote control software and slowly and painfully taught us how to use google.

I figured out pretty quickly you could Ctrl-alt-delete to bring up the task manager and just close the client on the computer I was using.

The teacher never figured out why one of the computers vanished off the remote software management screen she was using.
> But … as a citizen, you do have a responsibility to file tax returns.

No, this is not a general responsibility of citizenship.