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Dave Chappelle's new special is well worth watching. It is one of the best pieces of comedy by the greatest comedian of our time.
> Does the USA not have the back of their citizens?

In the US, at least one party requires its members to have the party's back, but not the other way. Which is why we have mass delusions about vaccines being bad, or COVID-19 not being a big deal. The party has decided its members need to provide blood sacrifices and the party members obliged. This is the same party that says that government can do no good, then asks for your vote.

For a less partisan example, for the past ~3 years, people with US phone numbers have been bombarded by spam phone calls, making the phone system nearly useless, and congressional action has been nonexistent.

When I see what is going on with national media and with federal inaction, I feel that the US is far past its peak years. We have chosen bad governance, and if we can't get a majority of people to even want to advocate for themselves, there's no way to get that back.
No because I’m in 1st world and they’re in 3rd so would just make them feel bad about their efforts

Some trusted friends and colleagues know though
Yes it already does this, in error for many people. Example:

https://ttlc.intuit.com/community/state-taxes/discussion/why...

The FTB and Intuit exist on the same plane of hell.
Seems to me that the bigger problem with the headline is the the a priori assertion that these are the World's Greatest Minds. But substituting for "Philosophy's Biggest Egos" really detracts from the mystique I guess :p
I stand in solidarity with the guy holding the sign: "We like Dave" - - - cops should have arrested the violator that destroyed his sign
Agree with questioning this. They are both brilliant, but that doesn't justify arrogance. IMHO, it detracts from his brilliance and clouds the clarity of his thoughts.
And intuit is California company - not lost on anyone.

Im also annoyed the intuit bought Mint -- which I like but now feel like it is a risky to have them access all my accounts / purchases etcs.
If batteries are the constraint, selling cars with smaller battery packs lets you sell more cars.

If other parts of the car production are the constraint, stick with the big batteries and high prices.
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Uber and Lyft literally save lives

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamasurgery/fullarticle/278...
HEY! Fellow US ex-pat here in Germany. I do use germantaxes.de which offers a hand-holding experience and all in English but the fact that there's a simple government provided solution is how it should be.

All this hate towards FB and others but we really should be reigning in the likes of Intuit because filing taxes should not cost anything for simple W-2's.

I recall reading that in Japan if you have just wage income it's more or less automatic. Imagine that!
"at their own peril"? It's really not a big deal lol
Exactly. I can't wait for the scam that is Tether to become unraveled. I always thought it was hot garbage since it first came out and I read up on it. Iirc it's totally centralized and there have always been questions over whether they had the $$$ to back up their coin.

If tether disappeared overnight I'm not sure if it'd even affect the rest of the market given that it's inevitable failure is probably baked in or at least wouldn't be a huge surprise.
Have you ever had an even minor non-standard issue? Foreign dividend paid in stock rather than cash for example.
Tiny crab preserved in 100M-year-old amber lived among dinosaurs
Real talk though, how are they going to know that you bought an energy efficient AC unit for your house that you can deduct off your taxes?
> There is no need to use GOTO when a language has functions/procedures and exceptions.

There is no need for exceptions either. Everything can be done with error code.

Just because there are redundant mechanisms to achieve same result does not mean one of them must be abolished.
"reported cases" is not the same thing as "statistics show." As someone who was diagnosed with COVID in August, was out of commission for a week and a half, and recovered fully, I'll need more convincing than "this happened once, maybe even twice" to believe it's worth it to get the shot.
Nice website except for the popups and information bars every where.
Willingness or lack thereof is irrelevant. There is no possibility of zero cases. There are many animal hosts and the vaccines, while effective at preventing deaths, don't reliably prevent infection or transmission.
I have no idea about the legal situation of distributing ROMs and an emulator for Atari 2600.
How much net positive impact will it have?
A big immediate cause of problems seems to be hundreds of official protests from local citizens and (not necessarily local) environmentalist groups. Whether or not German car companies have something to do with that is anyone's guess (no sarcasm).
Yep. I feel like buying an EV now is like buying a $50,000 PC that will be obsolete the minute I take it home.

EVs are insanely awesome though. I'm leasing a 2019 Bolt and after a month or so it's the best car I've ever driven. EV torque is a blast. With the type of driving I do I'm able to get by on a Type I charger at my apartment and a rare visit to a public charging station. I think one-pedal mode helps because I'm barely ever using the brakes.
I think this interaction is an example of what "the customer is always right" is supposed to mean. Sure, the salesperson should verify that the person isn't using mistaken terminology, but past that, why not just help them? Or why didn't the salesperson take the initiative to ask them for the reason, instead of continuing to insist they were mistaken?
It's not? In what ways?
Ask HN: If you could rebrand Facebook, what would it be?
Polygon Dodges $850M Hack, Pays Record $2M Bounty
With "systematically pressure", you can actually say "tries to enforce the law"[1], if they're aware that the premise is used for swapping sex for money, they need to make it stop. Simply paying for a not-for-work apartment or should not fall under that legal space, though.

[1] https://lagen.nu/1962:700#K6P12S2
I wonder if future generations will totally misunderstand "left to own devices." No, it doesn't mean with your phone, tablet and watch.
You are obviously totally ignorant about how the leasing process works. Leases are auctioned off to the highest bidder.
I had one non-“salary” event one year. I spent so long staring at the instructions during filing, failing to get any of the software to work for my case, and at the end of all of it I ended up overpaying a significant amount.

I later (2 years) found out about some tax exemption I qualified for and applied for it. They sent me a refund after I filed an amended return. I miswrote my zip code. The check got sent and returned. No phone call to me or attempt to contact me to my knowledge.

Only after 8 months of waiting did I reach out. Person was real nice and resolved it all real quickly (for which I’m grateful), but still a bit annoying that this was a thing.

Meanwhile in many other countries you have 1 (one) form to fill out if you have to. None of the billions of tax exemptions you have to file for correctly (mainly cuz you don’t have to give tax credits when your social programs are semi-universal) or other headaches.

The filing is annoying and can be error prone. The underlying system is something right out of Brazil (the movie). The sort of bureaucracy that Americans like to imagine infect every socialist nation is totally present in the tax system of the US
> You mean there's something wrong with being skeptical?

In the face of overwhelming evidence? Emphatically yes. Pursuing skepticism for the sake of skepticism results in one refusing to acknowledge reality, and often leads to people being a crank.

Skepticism is a tool, not a destination.

> Come one...you can't say you don't believe that 'climate change' is a political bat used to beat opponents with.

My eyes rolled so hard I almost hurt myself. Do you believe that climate change is happening because of human activity; yes or no? It is a very simple question, and whining about it being a “political bat” makes me suspect your answer might be “no”.

Also, it’s funny how nobody worries as much about how jobs and the economy are used as a “political bat” by the fossil fuel industries, who are being nakedly self interested.

> Anyone who takes this topic seriously understands that the environmental problems we face today are in the 1000s.

So? You don’t know how to fix your own car (probably) or cure yourself or all kinds of diseases; that’s what we have experts for.

What is it about global warming that makes everyone decide that having thousands of experts telling them the same thing isn’t good enough? Makes you wonder if this argument isn’t made in good faith…

> Environmentalism does not equal climate change does not equal global warming does not equal planet health.

Completely irrelevant to the question of whether or not climate change is happening. The solutions are nuanced and complicated, yes, but this reeks of prevarication over whether or not the problem is real.

> For example, I explained my position with my sister in-law that Greta Thunberg is a child who is used by the politicians around her and that she has never had anything thoughtful to say on the subject despite her prowess in the media. Apparently, now I don't care about the environment.

When discussing the environment and suddenly you change the subject to Greta Thunberg, it does seem like you care about the culture war more than the subject at hand. In this forum it is extremely weird to bring her up.

Personally, I don’t really give a shit about her one way or another. Climate change, is it happening? Yes or no.
This is very impressive that they got to this level despite starting late due to the Joe Biden vaccine raw materials embargo on India:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-india-...
I'm curious what the repercussions of stating your salary to the wrong person is? I used to be embarrassed because I thought others were making more than me based on their purchases.
If they were so remarkable in lobbying then tesla probably wouldn't be able to start building their factory in the first place.
> If you never display the filename, the answer is to treat existing filenames as bags of bytes, but that breaks down as soon as you need to display them, or if you need to manipulate them by appending unicode to them, in which case you have to decide on an encoding.

No you don't. On Windows you treat paths as a u16'\' an/or u16'/'-separated sequences of uint16_t. On Unix it's a '/'-separated sequence of bytes. If you want to display, you need to decode, but for display only - so errors should use replacement characters as a graceful failure. For appending you encode your string and then append the bytes. Never do you decode externally provided paths for the purpose of manipulation.

> There's some obscure solutions to this problem, like https://simonsapin.github.io/wtf-8/ (which includes discussion of the 16 bit encodings you need for Windows)

It's relatively new, but has wide enough adoption cosidering - e.g. it's what Rust uses for Windows paths. It's also straightforward - just encode the unmatched surrogate pairs as if they were the corresponding reserved unicode characters using the normal UTF-8 algorithm.
Then they would deserve the title, and I would be proud of them.
California offers the typical international option: they'll send you your estimated annual taxes, and you just jave to correct them if there's a discrepancy. This was supposed to be the default option for Californian state taxes. Instead, Intuit's army of lobbyists managed to almost get rid of it. It is now an opt in for people that is not advertised or easy to find on the gov website.
Intuit's business model is making tax preparation easier. If tax preparation wasn't so deliberately complicated in the US, they would no longer have a viable business model.
Thanks I can reproduce, I created https://github.com/lunapaint/vscode-luna-paint/issues/103 to track it
The best and fastest way to win the entry level job is with a solid personal work portfolio.

Employers want to see what you can do, and how well you do it. Attention to detail is key on that same portfolio.

In a world where most people are presenting perfectly formatted resumes listing their education and accomplishments, the best way I've found in my 20 year career to stand out is by maintaining and updating my personal portfolio. Maintaining it allowed me to develop my own useful workflows and problem solving skills that no work role or CS education could ever allow me to learn on the fly.
I'm not an haskel programmer. I barely understand haskell type signatures. But it worked for me. It is not a substitute for an explanation but as a very condensed summary (as in if you forget everything remember at least this) it works great.
This wouldn't be doubling the size of the M1, it would be quadrupling the size of the M1 Max, so more like 1500$ for the chip.

What you're talking about at the end is chiplets and it takes a lot of work to get it to operate, just ask AMD.
With Uber, Lyft, and Venmo - I feel almost zero concern that my college-ish aged children will feel the need to drive home drunk after a night partying.

Apart from that, it seems pretty lame to blame the gig economy for failures often caused by a government trying to shut the gig economy down. LAX shuffles people using Uber and Lyft off to some terrible pickup location and charges extra fees that have to be factored into the price, so the thesis is that Uber and Lyft aren't living up to expectations? Meh.
We were told only two shots were needed and that if we all did our part that this problem would go away and we'd go back to "normal".

Now we need booster shots because two doses of the vaccine that was touted as "safe and effective" isn't so effective after 5-6 months! What a surprise. Now because of this virus and the actions of governments worldwide, we're heading straight into an global economic recession with inflation at levels we haven't seen for decades. That's back to "normal"?

I can't wait for governments who have implemented digital passports to invalidate everyone who have taken two shots and don't want to get a booster because of any number of reasons.
(OH WAIT - Israel is already doing this! Lets arbitrarily deny rights to citizens based on what the government wants us to do!)

This is a HUGE part of why people are vaccine hesitant. You've got people parroting mantras like they're fact and browbeating people with questions or concerns about it.
A few years ago, Tesla bought a german supplier of automation equipment, Grohmann Engineering [0]. They should be familiar with the way things work here by now, so they hopefully factored all that into their decision already.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_Grohmann_Automation
> First data is readily available, so if they want to know they can.

Yes and no. Yes industry numbers are readily available but I have friends that I consider to be at or above my technical level who suffer from an almost crippling imposter syndrome or "Yeah, maybe in CA but I couldn't get that wage in KY". Also all the companies I choose to work for are smaller (<100 or even <30) and so there is much less data out there on sites like Glassdoor and/or there could be potential backlash for posting your salary since it would be trivial to find out who posted it (even with fudging title/salary). Yes, the backlash would be illegal but it can be extremely hard, if not impossible, to prove and so it's easily to wait till I've left a company for a while before posting that data publicly.

> Secondly I've found that in general people value familiarity and stability more than maximizing salary.

There are absolutely people I've shared info with that decided to stay but I'm much more familiar with "You are making how much? Crap, I need to find a new job". If you are happy where you are and don't want to change then that's fine, I just want people to know what they are worth. Some people get stuck at a place for 5-10+ years and think "Well I couldn't find this salary anywhere else" or "What if I can't learn a new system/language/etc" and in a lot of instance I know these people could do it, it's just fear of the unknown (I'm not going to pretend I don't suffer from this as well).
I guess it depends on what your bar is. I'm comparing it against Java/C# primarily. If you compare it to Python then yeah, it looks like a pretty fast moving language, I just don't think that is a relevant comparison when your choices are much broader than just Python or PHP.

PHP 8 introduced a lot of great stuff but to me it's just about playing catch up to things like Kotlin, i.e null safe operator, etc. They made the runtime a lot faster with the JIT and the Opcache but it still pales in comparison to the JVM or CLR.

Type system is still not a real type system, it's more analogous to Typescript. I get why, it's because you can't turn around and make PHP backwards incompatible, but that is also why it can't ever be in the same class.

Meanwhile in JVM land you have things in progress like Loom which present a fundamental change in how highly concurrent applications can be built. Since Java 9 huge things landed like Jigsaw + ZGC and Shenandoah which are cutting edge GCs, not cutting edge for Java but in language-tech overall, i.e it's Java that sets the pace for what a modern VM looks like and that has been the case for some time now. v8 was perhaps more impressive for a short while until InvokeDynamic came along and escape analysis got better but these days JVM is pretty squarely in the lead with CLR closely following.

PHP won't ever be on the cutting edge and tbh, that is probably fine. Like I said, C isn't cutting edge and it's just as applicable as ever.

The difference between that and what people in this thread are arguing is they are saying things like "PHP is modern and generally good!" which just isn't true. It's improving and that is great, but modern and generally good it is not.

Doesn't stop it from being useful in the places it excels but as a general purpose language there are just better options.
Yes.

Western countries have been going into mass hysteria over this, prompted by their government leaders and media. While the initial panic would have served the purpose of making everyone aware of the risks, this ongoing behavioural psychologist nudge terror is the type of overkill that will result in cultural and mental dysfunction for a generation, if not more. Guess who stands to benefit the most- it isn't people at ground level, that's for sure.
I don't think Confucius said that.
Intuit is one of the most evil companies on the planet.
> they are creating jobs

As I understand they'll mostly be filled by the polish workforce, they didn't built it so close to the border for no reason.

https://www.berliner-zeitung.de/en/building-delays-at-tesla-...
I think you may find that when illegal migrants get deported, the security of the nation improves...
I live in Hyderabad, the place where the Dilsukhnagar blasts happened. Don't remember hearing of any major jihadist attacks on the past seven years or so... Success of a government no?
I'm familiar with MISRA (embedded dev), I only wanted to point out that the MISRA rules in no way justifies a blanket ban on gotos.

The ban (in the case of C, anyway) is almost always the result of someone's completely subjective opinion that gotos are bad.
Do you trust a site like reddit to keep your government ID secure? I don't.
> I don't find tax filing to be particularly difficult.

That's nice.

You still might care that we collectively waste an enormous amount of time doing it, unnecessarily, for the benefit of Intuit (and some cranks who want people angry about taxes).

If you still don't care, I'll be taking a few hours of your labor per year for my around the house work. It isn't particularly difficult work, no big deal, right?
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Very horrible stuff
> the reason they were so much brighter was (in part) exactly because of what made them initially seem dim

The causality also goes the other way. Very smart people see their limitations more clearly and so tend to be humbler about what they know.

They realize they can learn from others and so ask a lot of questions that others might feel foolish asking.
"Better" should be defined ... do you mean "better" as in one more willing to bend over for them?
Nextdoor has had enormous racism/bigotry problems. They have had to revamp a variety of their interfaces to minimize this problem. It's like they have to do A/B testing to minimize it. Real identity doesn't do anything to slow down the oblivious.
Most web devs are aware of most of these, or at least the gist. The issue (I find) is the clients, management, the creative team, etc. are not. Not that they need to understand the nitty gritty details. Of course not. But their disconnect between their expectations and reality is demoralizing and destructive.

These lists are helpful and entertaining, but the damaging friction typically too often comes from the outside
A lot of discord servers will ban for use of all caps

Was talking yesterday about how forums used to have their own rules for appropriate behavior. The "golden" era of online comms
From the article it isn’t clear what data one can access form
VSCode. Can someone clarify?
Intuit's business model is making tax preparation easier. If tax preparation wasn't so deliberately complicated in the US, they would no longer have a viable business model.
Unfortunately common among many technical users, they have no sense of page design whatsoever, and instead go for the "raw data" approach. It is bizarre
Domain registration is a commodity these days, and there are plenty of providers in that area. Why would Cloudflare want to spend much resources innovating on that, when there are other things they can do?
In many rural areas, there are no other growing tax bases. Indeed the population in rural areas is declining overall as people move to cities for better opportunities.
> From the situations I hear described, it's pretty clear the guy just likes to tease, and enjoys the "intellectual exercise"

This was the default assumption for plenty of people when they first hear about real flat earthers, but unfortunately it appears to quickly devolve into actual, very firm beliefs for many people.

This whole phenomenon of "LARPing" your way into a conspiracy (I'm going to start posting about the Jewish cabal controlling the world because it's "edgy," it triggers people online, and it's a fun intellectual exercise to see if I can gather as many pieces of evidence as possible) and then actually believing it seems to honestly explain how a lot of these conspiracy theories end up gaining so much momentum.
Cloudflare's take on cloudfare's pace of innovation. I am curious if it's highly innovative built with strong engineering fundamentals with breakneck product delivery to a large audience of clients or if poorly architectured in an antiquated programming language and not achieving product-market fit? As per other commenter said - nice recruitment post.