skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, I use FreeTaxUSA also. It doesn’t have all the integrations that Turbo Tax et al. have, so you have to spend a bit more time manually entering your figures, but I had no issues.

You can also double check the numbers if you want by going through another service like Turbo Tax but stopping before the payment step.
I think if you asked these universities they would say that they are taking the very long term view. (For instance the one I went to has been around for 800 years already.) If you are thinking on a timescale of centuries then you want to treat your funds as capital, so you spend your investment income on research, scholarships, building maintenance and other educational goals, but you don't eat into the capital or in 200 years you'll be in a bad place financially. And if your funds are sizeable then investing them and managing them is a big job that you probably don't want to outsource.
I got the sense they saw Google beating Sun/Java in the supreme court and said "We'll be fine, lets move the release up"
The story with livestock is complicated. From that same Wikipedia article.

> The indirect effects contributing to the percentage include emissions associated with the production of feed consumed by livestock and carbon dioxide emission from deforestation in Central and South America, attributed to livestock production

So now deforestation is equivalent to livestock? Should I say shopping malls and residential areas are a problem because they require all the plants on the land to be cut down and paved over? I really wish these '% of everything' statistics would go away. It is almost always more complicated which fosters climate skeptics.

Energy production - aka fossil fuel burning such as coal for electricity and gas/diesel for - is the vast majority of emissions. We should be focusing on getting our democratic voting power focused on one that one easily digested story to get things done on a nation-state level instead of getting bogged down in these micro-issues. "Everything causes climate change" is impossible to fix. "Fossil fuels and especially cars and coal" cause climate change is very possible to address.

See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGG-A80Tl5g and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdrhpThqlCo for examples of more nuance.
Can you be specific? I anticipate that the people you are thinking of are heretics. I mean specifically that they deviate from dogmas of the church, not any colloquial definition.
And the most sensitive personal and business emails continue to be sent in clear text. Without the sender usually even thinking twice about it.
Do they teach algorithms during bootcamps? Anyway the comparison is wrong, OP will be interviewing for junior roles and you for senior roles, its a whole different challenge for him. Likely much harder.
"practical or financial help that is provided, often by the government, for people or animals that need it"

"money that the government pays regularly to people who are poor, unemployed, sick, etc."

I still don't see the problem? A social safety net is good for everyone. Human compassion and lofty ideals of a just government aside, the rich are benefitting from it, too, in the sense that you can't have a functioning economy if there's no one to actually do the labor, rather than just collect the dividends.
People all over the world lie. I think lab leak speciation is more driven by a lab mucking about with bat coronaviruses being around the corner and the bats 600 miles away.
Is there someone here from Amazon that can actually do something about this?
Hell No, for the most part in my limited experience, they're not estimates, we should really stop calling them that. They're at best guesses at worse they're coupled with excessive padding and extreme waste.

I don't have any beef with it being hard. I have a major beef with it setting invalid expectations, having no basis in calculated fact, and overall being useless/time consuming to the people having to meet these deadlines and participate in said "agile" rituals.

I'm all about capacity. If we can understand what a team is capable of or the capacity of said team, we don't have to guess how much work they agree or don't agree to do or force them to use a crystal ball at the weekly séance.
Right, so that would stop "just" the initial tutorial. Thought it could be blocking FaunaDB, that wouldn't be good.

Thanks a lot for the feedback, will work on a workaround.
For years people have warned about hosting the majority of world's open source code in a proprietary platform that belongs to a for profit company. These people were called lunatics, fundamentalists, radicals, conspiracy theorists, and many other names.

Well, they were ignored and this is the result. A for profit company built a proprietary system using every code hosted in its platform without respecting the code license.

There will be a lot of people saying this is not a license violation but it is, and more, it is an exploitation of other people work.

Right now I'm asking myself when people will stop supporting these kind of company that exploit people's work without giving anything in return to people and society while making a huge amount of profit.
It's currently still archived by Software Heritage https://archive.softwareheritage.org/browse/search/?q=https%...
Same is true for healthcare, K-12 education, and infrastructure. The US spends more dollars per person—excluding military expenditures-than Canada, but Canada somehow manages fit universal healthcare into that same budget.

It’s best to think of the US public sector as comparable to that of a semi-functioning developed country, such as Italy, rather than one of the competent ones, like Germany or Sweden.
Opening Schrodinger's box isn't side-effect free. :)
Don’t forget the CPA trade associations who are right there with them lobbying for the same nonsense tax complexity.
Sure, though some of that relies on your city having large parcels of empty land to situate them on. And these are much bigger and nicer than the ones we recently rolled out here in Portland[1] but cost almost 10X more, so you'd hope they are.

1: https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/tiny-home-pods-help-p...
> Solve the easy 80% of the problem.

The issue is that the current players are unable to solve that part properly.

In my country, it was impossible to book a cab with an app before uber came.

Yesterday, I tried knowing if my insurance covered some dental cost, and I was unable to sign up or login on the website, I had to call a human to book an appointment to a brick and mortar store. This is the biggest insurance provider in a western european country. I'll take the new "startup" as soon as it comes, just because they make 80% of what I need convenient enough. They can deal with the remaining 20% later, currently my 80% needs are not served.
every update i try gnome, and every time i end up nuking the partition

the UX is oppressive and huge, it feels slow, it feels heavy it's everything i hate about macOS without the things i like about macOS

XFCE is a much better choice, it's the definition of a desktop OS, lightweight and slim, pair it with [1] and you get a windows like experience

[1] https://github.com/nsz32/docklike-plugin
What an extremely revealing comment on your part. For your sake, I'm sorry the world has moved past your heyday of 'business in strip clubs'. I'm also sorry that your life is such that you can't even enjoy a full day off.
I have two separate threads of response:

1) You think Bill Gates just had friends who he could casually invite over for a naked party? You don't think that he had to invest a significant amount of time into coordinating those parties (read: finding and paying for his guests, since it is also widely reported that most guests were strippers likely under NDA)? I really want to know what world you live in where you can be a semi-famous (at the time) sexual libertine who operates in secret without devoting a lot of time to it. Maybe you pull it off, given the confident tone of your comment, but I'm guessing not.

2) I'm in shock that you can read PG's essay on hard work (Assuming you did), then make a comment that 'maybe the naked pool parties with strippers WAS his work for the day.' Even if that was true, my point about mythologizing 'Bill Gates' hard work' still stands.

EDIT: Tell me you've never been to a strip club without telling me you've never been to a strip club. Maybe they were brighter and quieter in the 1980's, but I somehow doubt it.
There is nothing wrong with Cliff's store front:
https://www.kleinbottle.com

The problem is in Amazon's storefront, and there millions of sellers are operating in the same space, so doing some due diligence is required. If Cliff could just seize ownership of his storefront from a thief, why couldn't a thief seize it from Cliff? The solution is to register a proper trademark.

Like it or not, the world is messy, and it costs to keep it clean. Registering a trademark is like buying locks for your home and vehicle, and buying soap to wash your clothes, and changing the oils in your machines.
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Nothing important is single homed to one cluster. Much emphasis is placed on preventing correlated failed of clusters.
disclaimer that this is completely anecdotal, but what i've heard from a few people in fortune-500 oil&gas companies is that 30-40% attrition is an acceptable side-effect of returning to offices, because productivity has been down by even more than that during WFH.

the push to get people back in the offices is because people aren't working from home. there's no point retaining your staff if they aren't actually getting anything done. maybe it's different for software engineers at FAANG companies, but keep in mind that even if software engineers are productive, those companies employ thousands of people in sales, marketing, HR, accounting, and other office jobs. and pushing people back to the office in one department while letting another department continue WFH isn't going to play well.
The key to this approach is basically pacing. If we think about a birthday cake and apply ‘measure twice, cut once’ to the actual cutting of the cake, this would be a waste of time. However, ‘measure twice, cut once’ for getting the ingredients right before baking is critical.

This is usually a critique of younger star athletes where they only have one gear when they first come into a league (usually that gear is just pedal to the metal). It takes a little bit of time to understand how to adjust pace so as to be able to move quickly in some phases, and slowly in others.
What about donations? Even as a student, I liked to donate frequently (maybe it's in my culture).

Being able to donate a decent amount to a cause whenever I feel like it, is a plus.
Lobbying is a fact of life in a democracy. For any government regulation, law, program, etc. there are multitudes of lobby groups on all sides of each issue. Why in this case is this such a big unethical crime? Lots of government programs are inefficient and expensive due to interest groups - that will never ever change. Welcome to Democracy.
Must be regional. Are you in America? Maybe because card payment is less common?
The "nonnormative sexual culture" they are referring to is celibacy. Besides monks and nuns there are also hundreds of lay Catholic organizations that require members to remain celibate.
By the time this article is released, the scraped is stale.

LinkedIn is self advertising portal for newer better opportunities and that data is actually in public view and someone is selling it to get me better opportunities it sort of sounds fine..

What would be informational is if so called hacker comes and says how he used the data or the tech stack used.
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Anyone know rxplanation for deaths ? One thousand over how many years ? Was it neglect, murder, disease ?
in an ideal world, yes, and we do not live in an ideal world, unfortunately.
It would nice to be able to have a provably private system for something like this. Proof of identity, or proof of personhood, or whatever you want to call it is going to be a foundational element of online trust in the coming years.

As a forum or community, I want the ability to ban a troll without them coming back under a different pseudonym.

But at the same time, I don't want to post under my real name, or even something that can be linked back to me.

So you ideally should be able to have multiple pseudonymous identities that can't be linked together by a 3rd party, but also have the ability to block the "root" identity, even if you only know the pseudonym.
It is ok to cut corners as long as you spend a little bit understanding what would be the correct solution and what is it going to cost/benefit you.

I have a notebook with all corners we cut at my current project. Also a bunch of other stuff (like various types of problems). The new designs are getting evaluated against my notebook.

I know it sounds funny but I just can't get into agreement with other people on how to make notes of technical debt and so, not wanting to spend too much effort on it, I just made it a notebook which I am diligently filling whenever I hear something that I would like fixed.
My take on HN is that there's a very vocal and fervent anti-office crowd here that cares more strongly about it so will dominate conversations about it, and that the "typical line-level engineer" employee will roll their eyes, not engage, and just continue waiting until they can get back to normal.
I honestly can't believe it's taken them so long. It's a killer feature of discord, and the Slack audio calling at the moment still feels clunky and unreliable.

Every big Slack update, I've been disappointed that the calling hasn't been overhauled.

The only other thing I want from Slack is to be able to invite guests (proper guests, not guest accounts) into calls/meetings. Our customers use Teams, and it's a nice experience being able to join a meeting without an account or downloading some meeting app. It's the only reason why we still use Zoom.
> One question we have to ask ourselves is what came first—the mental illness or the game development

Just watched the "Bob vs. Nintendo" documentary where they quote some weird autobiography he posted to his site where he admits to killing a kitten earlier in his life:

> "I got a kitten, named it Mew, and accidentally killed it the first night I had it. I was stoned, and it woke me up somehow. I got angry and put it in a big plastic bucket in the closet, half asleep and confused. In the morning it was dead - it had suffocated. [...] I shoved me further into a haze"

The thought of that is horrifying to me. This guy has clear impulse control issues and reminds me of someone who's BPD/manic enough that their actions killed an innocent animal. "I was stoned and angry" isn't a valid excuse for suffocating an animal - this guy is wired wrong. Assuming this event happened before the whole "Bob's Game" fiasco I'd definitely say the mental illness came first.

I'm going to go pet my cat now...
Self-selection bias. Clearly those who love the saying are predisposed to move fast. But they move so fast they haven't had a chance to understand the saying!
You can only measure capacity if you know the size of the work you're taking on. If you don't, what does capacity even mean?
They don't make for sensational Youtube content that isn't covered by the "MSN".
https://archive.is/Trpkg
Paying signals that you have disposable income, making advertising to you more profitable.
why don't you ask the virus what its future plans are?
What do you hope to get out of masters? After a few years in the industry employers stop caring much about your school and degree (unless it's PhD, that sticks for life). Work experience is a lot more valuable than another degree.
Right. You just fine someone else that wants it done and grease the wheels.
> They were sharing memes, for example, that likened Mr. Netanyahu to Adolf Hitler — an offensive comparison that could prod some people into more extreme views and make others think their online groups had become too extreme.

It's really quite excellent that people only call their political opponents Hitler on those dirty encrypted messengers where all the wrongthink happens, and not on, say, Twitter.
Not sure why the downvoting. This is a very valid outlook, OP should at least consider there is some risk he is taking. Its a pretty ageist industry and his junior colleagues will be 2 decades younger, this could get demoralising. Its possible for sure but not easy and who knows if OP will be happy eventually. My gut says try finding some product managememt role that is a bit technical.
Having recently done a small Gatsby site I can identify with the comments about complexity over time. And graphql does seem like utter overkill too!
Yeah bad China, let's all take American loans and default on those instead!
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This is generally why I don’t see a ton of value in trying to do accurate estimation. You’ll get better velocity and delivery not wasting your time on all of the faux story point estimating that scrum and other systems do.

The most proven way to do accurate estimation is to base new estimates off of previous delivered work (i.e. we’ve built this suspension bridge design before and it took us this long, so we believe a similar bridge under similar conditions would take similar amount of time). This is not what most places do (and most places don’t spend a lot of time after the fact really seeing how long each phase and part of the process took).

I’d argue that estimates should be removed from day-to0-day engineers and placed with program managers or others whose job is to see how long work has taken and make schedules and estimates off of previous known work.

The other way to get more accurate estimates is to build in systems and processes that require less and less custom work over time. So many software shops and tech companies never invest in this and every new major feature or project is heavily custom work.
When your KPIs are "velocity" and your measurements of that KPI are duly myopic, then all your local incentives are best served by the fastest random walk to nowhere in-particular.

I've observed this most pathologically at organizations running the "hyper growth" playbook.
Who is doing the mentoring then if only early career people are in the office?
Because as we all know, privatization never leads to perverse incentives and anti-competitive or anti-consumer behavior. Just look at the American telecom industry, which is famous for high satisfaction and low prices with no price fixing, tying, market segmentation, or any other cartel-like behavior to be seen.
> When I say "sabotaged," I'm not speaking hyperbolically. The tax-prep industry, led by Intuit, led the fight for 20 years, with their cultlike leader Brad Smith at the forefront of a bribery and intimidation campaign.

I just finished reading the Snowden article about conspiracy practice, and this is a stark example of it. A group of people acting against the democratic interest, subverting the legal and political system to their interests, and leaving the public feeling powerless.
>Already said in this thread, but I think it's ridiculous that when people think about abusive big tech, they never think about Intuit.

Because it isn't that big of a deal.

> Their business is literally the idea of creating friction in federal and local tax systems so they can extort people in exchange of removing some of those synthetic frictions (emphasis on "some").

That's a hyperbolic characterization. It's not that big of deal.

Lobbying is a fact of life in a democracy. There are always interest groups on every side of any issue that lobby for their selfish benefit, frequently to the detriment of the public (e.g. public sector union contracts). That tends to make most government programs less efficient and more expensive then they could be because politicians will balance needs of all kinds of interest groups. That will never change. Intuit has a right to lobby for their interests. Characterizing this as somehow nefarious, or even as an outlier is hyperbolic. Welcome to Democracy.
I had the pleasure of being at a startup with a very talented SRE named M. Harrison. His minimum-level review criteria were that when you were planning to approve a PR, you should summarize everything the PR does in the approval comment. Responses like ":+1:" or "LGTM" were not allowed. When I would read a PR intending to understand and then summarize, the errors or omissions (eventually) started to just jump out at me. I'm not sure if I'm articulating it properly...but that expectation of a small book report-ish paragraph helped me become much better at critically reviewing PRs.

disclaimer: the majority(not all) PR's were in a very very large terraform codebase.
You still need to do the cost basis calculation yourself, because a single financial institution can't calculate that for you (you may have the same securities with another institution).
"State the type of random number generator algorithm used in a language's built-in random number generator. If the language or its immediate libraries don't provide a random number generator, skip this task.
If possible, give a link to a wider explanation of the algorithm used."

Fortran has multiple compilers, and the standard does not prescribe the algorithm for RNG to be used. I imagine the situation is similar for C and C++.
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Have a look at Passengers:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passengers_(2016_film)

And here's an alternative take that might work better:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gksxu-yeWcU
obsidian might be of interest but it's not open source (imo this doesn't matter because the data is plaintext and can be stored in Git).
> I want to be in the office because I work better when my team is around in person.

That's pretty much why I said that allowing remote work isn't unambiguously the best choice. There's negatives to every arrangement, and your scenario is one of the negatives to allowing remote work. Personally, I don't think it's enough of negative to counteract the positives, but it's enough that it's worth having the discussion.
There is, which is why it took so fucking long for these vaccines to get approved, they needed to be strenuously tested for safety and efficacy among tens of thousands of volunteers.
I've changed the baity title to a representative phrase from the article body [1], but it is maybe a bit too narrow now, relative to what the article is really about. Suggestions for a better title are welcome. Sometimes we use the HTML doc title but "The Rotting Internet Is a Collective Hallucination" is worse!

[1] That's the best way to get a better title. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
I'd love to see a turbotax alternative that

1. imports your previous turbotax years

2. charges $10 less than turbotax

3. offers a free version gated by income

4. squirrels away some percentage of profits each year to a big "F U" fund, half of which goes to lobbying for permanent income tax simplification, half of which goes to directly paying out the shareholders in the company on dissolution.
I never said we need to leave the bad actors out of the narrative. I am simply talking about not placing the blame on them.

It is the equivalent of a blameless postmortem. We are in a constant cycle of firing interns for pushing costly bugs into production without ever wondering why we are allowing interns to push to production without supervision. We just fire the intern and think the problem is fixed. We have learned that isn't a good way to run a company, but we haven't learned that isn't a good way to run a society.
This status page... the lack of updates... it's like watching snow melt
Cosby is legally innocent. He made a deal with the state and the state lied. If the state doesn't keep its agreements, the government is a sham.