skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The vast majority of people are better off with the standard deduction. For everyone else, they can file to their heart's content.
Incidentally the conservative chancellor candidate that took a media opportunity with Musk to demonstrate his otherwise non-existent interest in renewable energy not only lost the election but also displayed so much incompetence over the last year that his party saw him as radioactive enough to replace him in all of his positions.

It's possible the problem isn't so much that regulators are trying to play dirty against Musk but so inept at trying to cut corners to win this "prestige project" that they actually cause overhead by being caught and having to do things again properly.

I'd say generally speaking Tesla's perception in Germany is positive and politicians are more inclined to bend rules in Tesla's favors rather than against. There are just limitations to what you can get away with.
It's still possible to get decent results out of GTK, but I've noticed that developers need to stop fighting against the toolkit and do things using the recommended way. Do not try to just make an app that looks and feels like a Windows app or a MacOS app or something like that, if you want that you'll have to use a different toolkit. If you want a guide on how to do things I'd recommend looking through the code to a more recently updated GNOME app, that will give a good idea on how things are supposed to be structured. XFCE tends to be really out of date in terms of code and best practices. I also have a few more comments on your issues.

- Client side decorations: You don't have to use these in a GTK app, it's only common to do this since it saves space. But if you don't like the style then yeah maybe GNOME-styled apps are not for you.

- Themes: I think this is a misconception. GTK doesn't have a real "theming engine", it's just CSS. Changing the CSS has always been unreliable and only meant for advanced users that could keep it updated. If you've ever used one of those "User CSS" web browser extensions then it's kind of like that. I really think you might be chasing rabbits on this one though, I have honestly never seen a desktop that had custom themes that didn't break at some point. The only OS that I've seen that has decent theme support is Android, and it does that by heavily restricting what themes can do.

- System tray icons: The notifications API is meant to replace this.
For example: a person, representing organized crime group, approaching you, mentioning your SO and/or children and demanding half of your salary monthly or else...
One policeman was visibly dissatisfied with his salary and asked me how much I earn. I thought "holy shit...", then told my salary when I was hired for the first time. He was greatly pissed off that I told an insufficiently small number.
wow now that's a killer feature that might be just enough to get me to move there than somewhere else. More governments should be looking into replicating this.
Yes, I'm unabashedly honest with them. If they are happy with their job me telling them changes nothing for them. If they are looking for a career change it adds a bit of motivation so that investing the time and money in schools or bootcamps is a good investment. If they have a lead that pays above my current salary they know to bring it to me, otherwise they know it's not worth my time; and there are lots of places trying to pay far under market for developers. It helps me advise friends and family so they can watch for opportunities that aren't serious. A job posting 20% under market is a red flag.

I was very close to becoming a substitute teacher. Then a teacher shared their salary with me. Even with the all the benefits it still wasn't worth it.
Jerry:
I don't understand. Do you have my reservation?

Rental Car Agent:
We have your reservation, we just ran out of cars.

Jerry:
But the reservation keeps the car here. That's why you have the reservation.

Rental Car Agent:
I think I know why we have reservations.

Jerry:
I don't think you do. You see, you know how to take the reservation, you just don't know how to hold the reservation. And that's really the most important part of the reservation: the holding. Anybody can just take them.
>Not just Japan, also true for the UK with our Pay As You Earn system

It's true for most of the world. It's a bit like metric vs. imperial – the US is the odd one out.
Researchers discover first dinosaur era crab fully preserved in amber
It can even be hard flying on weekends when the planes are full of non-business passengers- things move much more smoothly when everyone is just used to the grind.
I've always taken the approach of honestly discussing what I make with anyone inside the industry that wants to know. It's better for everyone when there is transparency around salary. Doubly so, when it comes to equal pay discrimination.

That's gotten harder and harder the further I've gotten from the "just a software engineer" path.

I'm still an advocate for talking about it, even when my data points are not as relevant, in the same way I'm an advocate for open startups (and when my startup makes any money, I'll share :P). Having knowledge around how long it takes to grow something, or how long it takes to walk a career path is very important to decision making.
Tech is fine. It's humans that get in the middle. And where I say "humans" you might very well read "money".

So, Do better, people.
And it makes sense because government might not have all the data even for basic tax filling. On the other hand employees data are already available from various other systems where you have to register them and report and pay social security, taxes, healthcare etc.. I co-own an accounting company in Czech Republic.
I have to pay $6,000 per year for tax. I hire a lot of employees in other states which means that I have to file a tax return in 30 states.

Intuit is pure evil.
Of course people will come back with more sophisticated bots, that's inevitable. That happens with everything: bad thing is happening, we figure out how to protect against bad thing, bad people figure out how to get past protection, rinse and repeat.

My point was more that bots are way more harmful than real people online, and any policy on online anonymity intended to "help" people should be focused almost entirely on bots, not people.
W3C Co-Signs the Global Encryption Day Statement
Many animals are likely conscious. They feel pain and see colors, etc.
I fully concur on that last statement!
The freedom to do the worst is also the freedom to do the best. That is an unavoidable universal law.

Look at instances where the conversation is forced to respect conventional values.

It's death. Conformity and moronic mob-politics becomes the norm. So norm that you forget that there was anything better. (Reddit and Facebook are 2 notorious cases of this.)

4chan is sharp and smart. And infantile and vile. And sometimes it's hard to tell the difference. Which is only proper.
I don’t and I tell them I don’t want to talk about this stuff. I don’t see any value in my friends and family knowing I make more or less than they do. My friends work at Big Tech and are probably earning more (especially with stock), my family work outside of tech and definitely earn less.

I don’t lie about it, though. My memory isn’t the best and it’s likely I’d forget the number I said previously.
I'm not sure how you got the idea that "former President Trump" is incorrect. It's pretty standard style.

Reuters uses the exact same terminology for Obama [1] too. Same goes for the AP [2] and the BBC [3].

Even the U.S. Government prescribes the use of "former President" [4]

[1] https://www.reuters.com/world/us/obama-holds-groundbreaking-...

[2] https://apnews.com/article/ed-gillespie-terry-mcauliffe-ralp...

[3] https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-58937970

[4] https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GPO-STYLEMANUAL-2016/pdf...
Gimp should adopt the design language of its competitors Photoshop and Affinity Photo. Affinity largely looks and acts like a copy of PS when you open it up. That’s a good thing.

Also the name Gimp is really really terrible.
A Lyft or Uber car can be hailed by an app, to the exact place I'm at.

A city taxi would scan the most lucrative areas, and my never show up where it's convenient for me to be picked up.

I don't understand how this drastic difference goes unnoticed. The fare is not the only factor; availability, convenience, and control are no less important.
Building in Poland would be too on the nose and building in Germany brings prestige while still being close enough to the Polish border to benefit from cheap labor with minimal labor protection laws. I guess it's a trade-off.
It's not that difficult, but as you point out, the government already knows the info you have to give them.

That's the crazy part.
Geekbench.com says m1 max 1700, 5950x 2200
Imagine the effects of a data breach, though.
Heh.

My standard classroom experience is that I ask “dumb” questions all the time, often eliciting guffaws.

By the end of the class, though, everyone is asking me for help (even the guffaw people).

For me, really understanding the material is critical. I can’t deal with rote.
i feel like you agree with me in your opening statement they ARE saying they'll bring these products to market. im not going to refute all your points but you have an extremely optimistic view. Loop NEEDS fsd because basically right now its a taxi service and every single driver needs to be paid. have you heard of buses? theyre economically cheaper. People have done the math on this and its contrary to your point. If you want contrary points just lookup thunderfoot on youtube. hes the one who convinced me to stop investing in tesla.
They don't know that. The trick is to send you a draft proposal based on what they do know, and allow you to amend it based on information that they do not. If you aren't eligible for any deductions nor have any other taxable source of income of which the IRS was not aware, you just accept their proposal. That's how it works in most developed countries.
These anticheats are being ported to Linux by valve. If it was Microsoft's anticheat working in a TPM itbwoiodht impossible.

Also, Microsoft is already a DRM vendor with the Windows Store.
> One particularly infuriating anecdote: at a past job many years ago, the email structure was lastname@company.com. I dutifully sent the IT person in charge of creating emails my desired email. The IT person wrote back an amazingly condescending email that as per the policy, emails had to be last names, not individual letters. I then had to go find a bunch of random websites which explained single-letter names and forwarded them to the IT person. They then obliged, but did not apologize for insulting me. That is not right that I had to put up with that.

Except single letter last names are less common than people not following policy and/or abbriviating the name. It could simply be an honest mistake and the email is just their standard response since they have other things to get to. Did you try simply pointing out that that the letter was in fact your last name instead of getting passive-agressive?
> Some rich states tried to procure vaccines on their own.

My point was that the states themselves asked to be allowed to procure the vaccines, so blaming the Union for asking them to "compete" is incorrect. As your link to the Liberalized policy states, 50% of the supply was being purchased by the Union, presumably to supply to the "poor" states.

> How does that preclude the Union from extending vaccine coverage to all?

You're right - it doesn't. However I think the (only) Rs. 35000 crore budget should have made it clear that the government was not planning to inoculate everyone for free. Some, like me, got lucky; but I know plenty of people who had to pay for their vaccines.

> And then placed an order for a grand total of 11 million doses

From Jan 16-Feb 28, India was inoculating only frontline workers and healthcare staff. For these AFAICT, the Union ordered 11 million vaccines in Jan[1], as you mentioned, and 14.5 million in Feb[2].

India started inoculating senior citizens and people with co-morbidities from March 1, and in March the Union had ordered 120 million vaccines[3].

The Union claimed, in May, that they were purchasing the entire supply of both SII and Bharat Biologicals, so if there was any shortage it was due to the lack of manufacturing and not lack of purchase. I'm not blaming the manufacturers of course - obviously they took time to scale, and they (especially SII) have done well now.

1. https://www.indiatoday.in/coronavirus-outbreak/story/india-o...

2. https://www.business-standard.com/article/current-affairs/go...

3. https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/120mn-doses-ordere...

Edit: added some more information on vaccine orders
Same, I have a full-time job and have a small side business, and my accountant does it all for $150. It's incredible and she saves me a lot of money.
I don't see any point in discussing salary. I know my friends earn more than me. I gain nothing from talking about salary.
Since I’ve not seen it mentioned yet, https://www.freetaxusa.com/. Used it the last few years to do my taxes, which include investment and self employment income. No complaints. Intuit’s stuff would charge quite a bit for my “complex” taxes.

They charge a couple bucks to file state taxes, which gives me a bit of confidence they’re not making money by selling my info to someone.
Startup is creating personalized deepfakes for corporations
No mention of politicians? Let's search... https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/intuit-inc/summary?id=D0000...

That's the first result for https://www.opensecrets.org/search?q=intuit
Domain registration is one of the first things you have to do when creating a website. If you want to register a domain and see you can do so on cloudflare, I'm sure it will bring people who otherwise would have registered on godaddy or namecheap into cloudflare and get those customers introduced to cloudflare's services.

It's a lead generator and gets people into using cloudflare earlier.
And from my reading of that article it was only the right hand side wing that they replaced, not both sides so it was asymmetrical for the duration of that flight. What an amazing story, and what a great case for modular design.
Show HN: A Cassandra prober
But just for clarity, this is completely legal, isn't it? Polish people have the right to work in the EU, like all the other EU residents, or not?
No. That is a legend promoted by Plato. He was not making the "youth" (in general) distrust authority, he was going around telling the sons of nobility and highest ranking officials that democracy was a stupid idea and that they would be better off seizing power for themselves.
Mind trap
I paid 600 usd last year fora tax accountant. He couldn't even do the most easiest part (1040 with stocks and dividend), and after struggling with him we didn't even proceed with the multistate reports I needed. It was complete waste of time and if I didn't check the result it would be also a waste of money and potential criminal action.
The weight of a full gas tank that can drive you 1000km is a lot less than the weight of batteries that can do the same. even if you include the ICE engine.

In other words: even when you take conversion into account, energy density (both by weight and volume) is better in gasoline than battery.

(I love BEV, and I see it will win over most of the market, but gas wins on energy density)
There are also companies that will recondition a DC-3 so thoroughly that from a regulatory perspective it is considered a zero-hour airframe.
The "Pay-As-You-Earn" system was introduced in Australia and the UK during WW2 lol. The US has the same system its just been implemented extremely poorly
In theory, and this is a pretty airtight theory, it is computation. Because if it isn't, it's magic.

In practice, it is only implemented in one type of animal, or maybe a few types, depending on how it is defined. And we do not have a practical answer for how and why. Partial at best. And not in a way that would enable enough understanding about what kind of computation it is to implement similar-enough computation in a machine.

It feels like the scale of computation needed is now, or soon will be, available. The 100 billion neurons with 100 trillion connections seem daunting until you look at the connection and neuron (and sensory) data rates. It was clearly never going to happen in a Symbolics 3600. It is not clear it could not happen in a modern data center.
Show HN: A Kafka prober
So, for the most part, the lions’ share of distros still run emulated.

In that case, running “only slightly faster” seems like win.

I’m sure we’ll be fully native, soon enough. We’ve had native ARM Linux for years (Android). Should be fun.
Are you really arguing that corporatocracy is a progressive form of governance? Or do you just believe that companies leeching off society via regulatory capture is better for everyone?
Show HN: A Zookeeper prober
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Politicians are directly controlled by special interests. This is why we have John Deere using copyright laws to stop farmers from repairing their tractors, Intuit using tax law to protect it's expensive software, and patent trolls using abusive patent laws to extort entrepreneurs.
I interpreted the 'generations' as being a reference to genetics, rather than to nutrition, hence the comment.
I just discussed this with a bunch of my friends. If you're having a high level technical exchange with somebody that you don't know, then you find out that that other person is a female, you're really impressed, that a girl will be that good at this very technical topic.

If, OTOH, you find out that that other person is a black guy (assuming you're white), you go through one of two reactions: If you're opinion of blacks is low, then you're really impressed. If you don't particularly like blacks (read: racist), then you're disappointed, and slightly pissed off - that that other guy knows more than you do, or know so much about a very technical topic, when he belongs to a group that you've been told are not very bright.

Humans are interesting creatures in this regards. That's why the right to remain anonymous online should be a given.
> Fear of looking stupid as a beginner is something that most people have right from the start

I'm a parent of a 5yo and surprised this is your experience. If anything, I'd say child behavior is the perfect anti-example of fear of trying new things.

Take one of the examples you provide: language. Young children ages don't care about using incorrect grammar or using the wrong words. This is why they're so good at progressing so quickly. Kids are way less afraid of failure than adults.

I also wouldn't be surprised if there's a significant environmental impact to children's behavior as well; in most ways, they're blank canvases when it comes to skill-based behavior. Personality...not so much.
No, only my partner. I'm especially careful about it around family -- I don't even tell my parents. Inevitably, people begin to have expectations of you, whether they think your salary is high or low. I've learned my lesson.
From the TFA:

> Authorities decided to repeat the process after

> environmental groups disputed in a separate case

It's environmental NGOs who cause this trouble for Tesla.
Google wants favorable distribution for YouTube TV over other streaming services Roku offers -- it's not about the users or the app or compliance.
Agreed.

I took a typing class in high school back in the 90s and felt so inferior to my peers who could do 75WPM... I never got it right back then. It wasn't until I just completely forgot about all the rules and started writing regularly on keyboards that I improved. To this day I still mis-spell things and look at my fingers, but I type just as well as anyone else in IT, and probably get paid better than most in stenography jobs...

And then spell check was invented, which fixed a lot of my problems (although it's been wonky a lot lately for reasons unknown)

Just goes to show that the emphasis on learning a skill that may be valued at one point in time probably won't ultimately be what you need to develop fully in the long run.

I still look at my fingers when I play guitar as well, and I have pretty fat fingers. A guy at a guitar shop told me I'd never be able to play guitar as a pro long ago when I was just a kid, but that made me work harder at it. Many people who have made hit songs look at their fingers too, even Prince... You can tell if you watch enough YouTube live performances.

Rules on how to improve are usually just guide lines, not laws... Practice, dedication, necessity, native talent, and time spent on developing a skill are what really drive achievement. Developing a sense on what works best for your particular talents and being able to pivot to new things until you find your "success niche", is a big key to finding life-long success in my opinion.
I don't understand what kind of mental gymnastics it takes for policymakers to impede paying taxes. How absurd is it that the government would rather make it difficult for its citizens to give it money!? ( ͠° ͟ʖ ͡°)
Pretty sure California and New York are tired of paying billions of dollars to the Federal government that gets re-distributed to all of the failing Federal welfare states.

If they're so tired, I'm sure they'd be happy to give back the billions of dollars they receive any time now.

https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/donor-state...
I've dabbled a bit in C/C++, and even a little Python, but not enough to build something like this.

Maybe one day I'd like to re-write it with everything I've learnt so I can compile it and monetize it.

I've also thought about open sourcing it, but the code is a little rough (messy) as-is and I struggle with what to do.

I know JavaScript and PHP, and PHP just seemed to do everything I needed.

I built a website a long time ago for collaborative music composition. It interacted with command line software and used XMPP to communicate with the server.

That sorta lead to using PHP to control everything in the theatre, plus a lot of the components I bought can be controlled through HTTP commands.

Overall, this was a side-project and I've slowly perfected the timing and the features over the past six years to where I have it pretty feature complete and reliable now.

Everything is timed perfectly, it can handle intermissions, overtures, and exit music. If there's some sort of break down, it shows film melting, shuts off the projector, and brings the lights up... Stuff like that.

As for VLC: This all runs on a Raspberry Pi 4. I originally used VLC but started having trouble with it when I moved from the Odroid XU4 to the Pi, so now it runs on mpv.

Moved to the Pi because I wanted to run Netflix in the theatre easily as well. If the Odroid ran Netflix (and some other small things), I'd prefer it.
1040 filings are not easy at all. incorrectly filed 1040s can lead to things like your investments being classified as a PFIC and taxed at 39.6%
"Thanks Google. Think I’ll be buying this."

Well I wont. I will look for an accumulator replacement for my Pixel one.

700 USD every few years? Quite a bit of money.

Screensize? We had a joke in our (European) high school to tease someone: You shoe size develops like 10, 11, 12, coffin for children, coffin for adults, motorboat...
Looks like the same thing is happening to cell phone screens.
Affinity vs. Experience
I kind of suspect that rigorously defining consciousness may end up being a significant part of the problem of explaining consciousness.