skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Both you and the parent are right. I actually did get basic filing instructions in high school and managed to handle my own taxes easily for the first fourteen of my working years.

Eventually my taxes fell into the realm of forms that even CPAs can make mistakes on or are unfamiliar with. I am really conservative with this stuff and really make sure to pay what I owe. I, or my CPA, still make mistakes that result in the State or Federal government sending me small “you paid us too much” checks every so often. That’s been true when I’ve done it myself, used TurboTax, or used CPAs. I have a friend with similarly complicated taxes and she just got her first “you owe us $XX” letter for this TY2020 and another $XX check in her favor for TY2018 and TY2019 making the whole thing a wash.

If they can tell you that you paid the wrong amount a couple months after filing it feels like for those on a W2 and without unreported 1099 income they could just send a statement with an invoice if you owe and a check if you’re owed. The status quo for those individuals really is as you say. There’s enough complexity baked in that people throw their hands up in the air and just pay the $100 for basic tax prep that should be unnecessary in the first place and is not much more difficult than balancing a checking book.
> Coordinating times is also an issue while pairing. Assuming core hours allow, I generally like starting my day between 11am-12pm and ending at 7-8pm. [ ... ] This is even worse if you're pairing with someone multiple time zones away.

Depends on which way the difference goes, doesn't it? If it happens to be two to four hours "the right way around", it would put you on track with someone observing "regular office hours" in their time zone.
I take it the number was fake and that he lost his money.
Could you please be more clear about ''no evidence that user data was compromised''
As I understand my favorite resolver - unbound - has separate "infra" cache that also caches RTT times, and "down" status of name servers:

https://nlnetlabs.nl/documentation/unbound/unbound.conf/#inf...
I blame all the sellers using PayPal's services but not wanting to pay the fees. <RANT>I pay a 3% fee to purchase with my debit card, so sellers need to pay up as well. I'm sick of sellers wanting me to use F&F or cover their PayPal fees. If you have a business that accepts payment through PayPal, or any other payment service, pay the fees!</RANT>
Grainy photographs and elaborate tales are very important.
Not at all. I just tried searching for "Facebook" on Google. The whistleblower story is not on the first page of search results. The outage is mentioned half a dozen times on that same page.
https://www.propublica.org/series/the-turbotax-trap

Propublica is the definitive outlet for reporting on this stuff. They've spent years digging into bills and the millions that Intuit and H&R block spend lobbying around tax reform.

> “For a decade proposals have sought to create IRS tax software or a ReturnFree Tax System; All were stopped,” reads a confidential 2007 PowerPoint presentation from an Intuit board of directors meeting. The company’s 2014-15 plan included manufacturing “3rd-party grass roots” support.[0]

Also of note was how after they conceded to making a government-mandated (bad, hamstrung) free filing software alternative for those making below $39k, Intuit blocked it from Google with robots.txt: https://www.propublica.org/article/turbotax-deliberately-hid...

...Which is important because if you start from anywhere else on their site, they'll begin hurling upsell dark patterns at the user, despite proclaiming "free" in copy in many places.

Right now, if I google "file taxes for free usa," the page "TurboTax Free Edition"[1] ranks higher – which is not the same software. And, of course, they do not link to the actual FreeFile page from there.[2]

Edit: turns out that Intuit will no longer be offering that government-sponsored Free File alternative after this year (disclosed in a blog post titled "Accelerating Technology Innovation," hah)[3]. Good riddance. The US Treasury Inspector General found that only 2.4% of taxpayers (2.5 million) actually used the free file software, whereas 5.5x that number could have filed for free, but were likely charged for it instead:

> TIGTA estimates that more than 14 million taxpayers met the Free File Program criteria and may have paid a fee to e-file their Federal tax return in the 2019 Filing Season.[4]

[0] https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-turbotax-20-year-f...
[1] https://turbotax.intuit.com/personal-taxes/online/free-editi...
[2] https://freefile.intuit.com/
[3] https://www.intuit.com/blog/news-social/accelerating-technol...
[4] PDF: https://www.treasury.gov/tigta/auditreports/2020reports/2020...
It’s not just fixing problems though. The tax code has changes every year, so the software must be updated accordingly, which is a lot of drudgery. Open source can handle drudgery if there’s a big, passionate community. So you’d need a lot of people who are passionate about the tax code and about OSS. I’d like to see that Venn diagram.
Americans and their silly "justice system".
These jury awards are usually reduced at appeal.

Some examples:
https://www.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSKCN1UA2CH

https://www.morellilaw.com/the-biggest-injury-verdict-reduct...
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One of the most brutal parts of the US tax system is the informational returns you have to do if you have any international connections at all. If you’re unfortunate enough to live abroad and be self employed or own a small business, you basically get fucked. Lookup IRS form 5471.

The US assumes that all people who have anything to do with other countries are billionaire owners of multinationals with armies of lawyers to fill out paperwork.
I do not claim to be an export on this topic, but afaik blabbers initial selling point was to sort the settings in a way more accessible menu and overall adapt the app to the other messengers that dominate the market: Rounded, more bubbly text displays, more sensible menu integrations, the ubiquos little checkmarks to display delivery/read status etc. monocles started as a project to reverse/refine some features like the auto-link preview the blabber guy added which isn't necessarily wanted when in unknown group chats, because previewed links might be illegal in the users jurisdiction.

Overall both are very frontend centric modifications, focusing on user comfort.
Most city maps I used would have a street index and a grid coordinate system overlaid on the map so you would only search within a square like "D5" for example.
Also, don't forget the reviewers who approved the change. And the designers of the whole system/process that enabled this thing to fall through this process.
That's very clever. Love it.
> interrupting people for a realtime conversation is a feature people want and use

Really? I'm dumbstruck by this sentiment. I've never met or even heard someone express they like being interrupted with a unsolicited, unexpected (video) call.

I'm Canadian, and my team is all remote, with people in Canada, US, UK, Portugal and Romania. No one does unsolicited video calls.. at all. Don't get me wrong, we do lots of video calls, including adhoc ones, but those are always started with a DM like "hey, have a few minutes to chat?"

If I'm deep in something, I'll reply with "maybe in an hour or so" and if I'm ready right then I'll just call. Sorry but not asking first just seems rude and totally disrespectful of the other person's time.
>The point of Windows 11 is beyond me.

The Marketing Video was pretty good, for the first time in my life Microsoft really touched my heart, a real lifestyle brand, something to life for....NOT
Isn't your second paragraph contradicting the first? If the final amount is much smaller then it won't be punitive.
Having the badge system work from a single point has a lot of advantages for a company like FB: HR can update info from everywhere (they might not be in the same office), you can immediately deny or block a card everywhere, you have an audit log etc.. They're not having this for fun.

Akso, it's likely not on an fb subdomain, but something like office.security.fb-infra.com (example). It just happens to be that fb-infra.com is using the Facebook DNS server.
It just pursuades the wrongdoer to enforce mandatory arbitration agreements.
> The amount needs to be high enough to actually influence the wrongdoer

Totally agree, from the article:

> faced a hostile work environment in which, he told the court, colleagues used epithets to denigrate him and other Black workers, told him to “go back to Africa” and left racist graffiti in the restrooms and a racist drawing in his workspace.

Yes, maybe this amount of money will convince companies like Tesla to actually do something. Hit them where it hurts, and 127 million per one worker should hurt.
The article rather does seem to be making a fine point, a distinction between exposure and ingestion.

So hygiene/old-friends is probably OK. You don't have time to eat a peck of dirt before you die? Meh.
Of course! That person learnt a valuable lesson yesterday, so they cannot be fired.
> o enforce mandatory arbitration agreements

And maybe that should force the powers that be (state-level? federal-level? not sure) to make that enforcement illegal.
That's exactly why we should use domain names instead: having to pay prevents a whole class of people just registering for fun, and having them expire reduces the risk of squatting.
The Mockingboard is a wonderful piece of hardware and it's great to see them still being produced today. They're even available in kit form if you'd like to solder it together yourself (it's all through mount, nothing difficult).

I will note, however, that it's not just that the card doesn't ship with the speech chips (SSI-263P) - no one has made them in a very long time, and they're essentially impossible to find (and very expensive if you do).

Finally, if you're going to dust off an old Apple device and fire it up, I would seriously recommend rebuilding the power supply - capacitors don't last forever, and they can do unfortunate things when they fail.
Isn’t that 1901 or 1902?
The tech behind the scenes is pretty advanced though, from what I've read. (At least compared to reddit, along with apparently pretty good bot detection and such.)
They're not trying to be the same thing.

- Clojure has a unique take on state management backed up by unique value semantics. This has created an emergent data-oriented paradigm.

- It heavily favours functional programming and all of the built-in data structures are persistent.

- It is designed to be used and reused across different host environments (CLJC), not just the JVM.

- It bases its collections on a common, flexible abstraction (seq) and has introduced very useful data literals for maps, sets, vectors, regexes, etc.

- It eliminated a bunch of anachronisms like superfluous parens everywhere and car/cdr, while introducing useful syntax for destructuring.

- It's a Lisp-1 like Scheme.
It's not about more or less expensive or higher/lower VAT.

It's about whether or not we should pay a 3+% cut to the payment processor when there are clearly other options.

Nothing in this world is free, question is who pays for it and how much.

Of course US credit card transaction fees also fund cashback and other reward systems
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```In the novel The Diamond Age, author Neal Stephenson posits a future in which the world is divided into competing nation-tribes, or phyles. The most powerful of these phyles have extensive nanotechnology capabilities, and use nanotech in various ways to gain an edge over their competitors and neighbors. Most notably, they create various sorts of airborne nanotech robots -- known as mites -- to infiltrate one another's territory and perform espionage or sabotage. Naturally, the other phyles retaliate with antibody mites, which hunt out and disable the invading mites, turning them into inert black dust, or toner. And so it goes.

The phyles' populaces themselves rarely see this conflict in their own airspace. Rather, it plays itself out in the Leased Territories and no-man's-lands between phyle enclaves. The thetes (classless members of no phyle, who live in these no-man's-lands), on the other hand, intermittently find their air full of clashing mites, flashing lidar, and the resulting microscopic debris. ```
In your post:
"There's no more time-honored way to get things working again, from toasters to global-scale distributed systems, than turning them off and on again"

This is generally true, but as all rules, there are exceptions, and I encountered one a few month ago:

To be short, the system (an embedded soft real-time control) ran fine for a long time, and the user added more and more processes. After some glitch and "to be sure the restart fresh", he initiated a reboot... And then nothing worked anymore!

The problem: each process consumed a lot of RAM for a short period at their start. When the user added processes manually, everything ran smoothly. But as soon as a few processes needed to start roughly in sync, it took too much RAM, the OOM killer killed the entire app, and back to square one.

In a way, this is also an example of metastability: the application is restarting in a loop and cannot exit that loop on its own.
What do people think of GNU Cash? I tried it once when I started up my own company and wanted to keep books. Noticed it was very much adapted for non-US audiences. Even after adding Swedish account codes it was still missing a lot of info. It was essentially a glorified spreadsheed. Could have stuck with Libreoffice calc as far as features went.
I answer and make calls on a frequent basis. People expect me to be able to do both. Its not actually weird or old fashioned.

That said, there are a few caveats.

Unknown callers? I'd better have an appointment with you at that time. Otherwise off to voicemail with you!

Junk calls? Spam calls? I'm on various lists. Some of thise lists have teeth. Others not so much. Either way, you'll end up on my list and you'll vanish from my future.
Liberapay

They don't take fees but you can make donations to help them.
It is insane. There's a huge line between justice and grift, and I mainly blame lawyers for the latter. If every claim of hostile workplaces resulted in similar settlements, every company would be bankrupt within a few years. A company can have a strict zero tolerance policy, but they can't police every action of every employee while on the clock. Such settlements would likely incentivize companies to put cameras and microphones everywhere, including bathrooms, which would also result in "emotion distress".

Forced arbitration isn't just either, but the court system hasn't left much room for alternative with such overreaching punishments.
I can relate to this. I did some contracting work for a large bank (let's call them client #1) and had to deal with IBM mainframes connecting their OSA-adapters to an IP-network. These adapters talk OSPF to the network and we needed some changes. No one from IBM allocated to my customer then (this is essential..) had any clue. I had to arrange via another colleaugue of mine working for another customer (client #2) who also dealt with IBM that an IBM engineer for his client (#2) talked to the IBM engineer for my client (#1) to have this change done. IBM seems to be silo'd as hell and no one from their team (PM's whatever) seem to be in any rush to contact within IBM to help solve an issue.

At the time (2016-2018) their IBM Bluemix cloud offering was a joke. Custom made and in no way a match for AWS/Azure. Luckily I persuaded my client to refrain from using Bluemix and go with Azure/AWS instead.
Ten hours after outage ended, Facebook has little to say
Just to add : iDeal is a flat fee, starting at about € 0,29 AFAIK. Depends on your contract.

edit : according to the document, ING charges € 0,25.
> bathroom grafiti, which most of us developed thick skin against by our late teens

You'd expect to see this at a public toilet, etched into school furniture, or at the urinal at a dive bar, but this has a totally different vibe in a workplace where everyone is being paid to be there, and colleagues need to trust each other. The 137 million payout does seem extreme, but it's probably just adequate to incentivize a company with the turnover of Tesla to improve its policies (and outcomes).
Yeah, in Poland it’s similar. Since ~2001 we’ve had wire transfers that take up to a few hours to arrive (or instant) and cost 0-0.25$ to send, regardless of the amount. It made PayPal or Venmo kind of pointless over here.
Speaking of Venmo. Venmo for some reason would not let me confirm my bank or credit union no matter what I did or what email address I used or however long I waited, the error message is one of those non-sensical catch-all error messages originating from some black hole. And customer service cannot do anything because "it's not up to them". Cash app worked instantly though. Anyway I would not recommend venmo or at least offer an alternative.
> It can cause liver injury in a really small amount of cases, which should self correct.

Great, now multiply the usage expectations by 1000 and include that people in that pool will have each possible additional liver related factor. (Now "should" being 99% isn't even good enough.)

When we analyze how safe a vaccine is, a few dozen people who might have very specific health problems having potentially fatal reactions is a problem if we can't preidentify that group. When we allow a contagion to spread to endemic and therefore eventually encompass the entire population a treatment needs a closely proportional safety level to a vaccine and will eventually need to be far safer than any long acting vaccines.

If 10% of the population are going to take any treatment much more active than placebo, it has to be safer than most OTC medications for it not to kill a hundred times more people than giving everyone the least safe vaccine.
The vaccines are not stopping infections.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10654-021-00808-7
> To PayPal's credit, this was their first rate increase in a very long time if not forever.

There is no reason to assume that rates should go up at all, it's not like the % you take needs to be corrected for inflation.
If you find or share any information to correlate your point, I'd be happy to read about it and change my mind. I can't prove a negative with the information that I have.

Until then, both AMD and myself both agree that this only affects the method that the Windows implementation uses. I don't think the AMD PSIRT team would misrepresent their findings too.

I wont say it will never affect the Linux PSP implementation, however the driver behaves differently.

I hate 'throwing credentials', but I do work for the Red Hat Product Security team and we have a line of communication with hardware vendors for this reason.
But then it is the DNS that had to propagate from the now accessible authoritative servers.
Apple's A15 Chip Faster Than Company's Own Claims in Independent Tests
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27440924

>>The Block 1A and newer (pneumatic driven) CIWS mounts fire at a rate of 4,500 rounds per minute with a 1,550-round magazine.

>>Shells fired by the Phalanx cost around $30 each and the gun typically fires 100 or more when engaging a target.[14]

>So it's about three grand to zap one drone, and you get 15 shootdowns before a human needs to shovel more ammo into the turret. That would make it vulnerable to a saturation attack.

You could imagine firing fewer rounds per salvo, but that only slightly mitigates it. Against drone swarms you kinda want directed energy weapons, either microwave or laser. Which don't exist, currently.

Also note that Phalanx is radar based, leaving it open to the usual suite of radar jamming/ECW/antiradiation attacks.

You can tip the odds back in your favor by emplacing more Phalanx systems, but at ten million bucks each, that limits you to stuff like defending small-size/high-value targets like the White House, rather than numerous and sprawling US military bases.
I've heard the term used in libertarian circles. I think it's justice without punishment. Instead of the offender being slapped on the wrist, imprisoned etc., the offender must work to restore the victim to how they were prior to the offense.
Do you have to open WhatsApp and connect to the servers to access the number? (Honest question here, I've never used it)
Ya I have seen doodleipsum, but i would say this is better than that. Even with doodleipsum, you would have to leave your code editor, go to an external website then pick and copy the link you want to use.

With Imgsrc.space just name the picture you want right into your code and it would be magically delivered.

something like -
https://imgsrc.space/sunset - would give you a picture of a sunset
https://imgsrc.space/computer - would give you a picture of a computer.

It's just like searching on google images but without even leaving your editor.

Also if you use the JS library.this is how easy choosing an image will become-

<img src=". cat"> gives an image of a cat

In my experience while using Imgsrc.space your images would not be cached by the browser, but if you still face any issues.
try adding a ? mark at the end with some random query string (even just a ? would be fine)
something like
https://imgsrc.space/cat?
China isn't taking Taiwan risking nuclear war. Xi may say it's a goal, but it is likely merely promised vaporware to rally the Party.
Thanks a lot, I'll check it out!
Lol this is ridiculous.

Don't make a hostile work environment or fuck around and find out?

Theres literally a pending class action against Tesla for this. They have a systemic problem that they're going to have to address or keep getting fined. 137 million is pennies for the company anyway.

Some might find this hard to believe but it's really easy not to be racist. It really really is.
> Nobody wants to touch this story with a comment in 3 hours? I wonder why.

In all fairness it was not on the HN main page the first 3 hours, see: https://upvotetracker.com/post/hn/28755257
I do. If it's an unknown number, it's probably someone from work not on my contacts list trying to coordinate someone.
Oh! It makes sense. While I don't like telegram for some reasons, their API is totally top notch and a real pleasure to work with.
Critical thinking and abstraction seem to be related at least in informal systems. There, choosing the scope, or window is highly related to choosing abstractions. You almost always cut off edges (AKA make assumptions) knowingly or not.
It would be interesting to estimate what dollar value can be ascribed to a x-hour FB outage, both in terms of lost ad revenue for FB itself as well missed conversions/revenue for businesses running ads on FB/IG.
One could put an unencrypted usb in a bank safety deposit. I kinda get a kick out of the notion. But yah Shamir’s seems underused.
I am one of those people that is put off by PayPal.