skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The ideal tenant candidate already owns a house and doesn't need to rent.

Having been both landlord and tenant at various stages of my life, my first law of landlording is that trouble from tenants varies inversely with the square of the rent.
It still doesn't have e2e encryption. It's unfortunate that they reinvented the wheel instead of using a great protocol (matrix) and focusing on writing a great client.
I own an LLC, traded stocks and crypto and CashApp handled it all flawlessly.
Realistically, how would you do your tax return for free?

Keep in mind that every service worker is terrified of an audit. The cost is much higher when you don’t have resources.

EDIT: I think I didn't phrase this very well. My point was that the average service worker is trained to be terrified of the IRS. These people are already usually paying hefty fines because they missed their returns in prior years. That's why they take the path of least resistance, and just pay someone else as a shield against this.

So it's not particularly surprising that TurboTax has swindled this person out of $600 with their upsells. Nor should she be condemned as a fool. If you were in her shoes, you might do the same thing.
CISO 101: The whole point of using third party is to delegate responsibility.
Abstractions are vital aspects of computer science.

Raw machine code worked! Why are idiots wasting time with this Fortran abstraction nonsense! /s

Javascript itself is still just fine - npm et al always struck me as a bad idea I agree, but I have zero issue with using what are basically linkers and compilers on JavaScript in the same way we'd do the same thing with a c linker and compiler, so I am not sure where the hate is coming from. If you are railing against splitting your code up into easily manageable separate files and reusable components then you are just wrong, sorry (no one wants an entire application in a single spaghetti file).
>They constantly crash and have no value over a native desktop application what so ever

Well maybe, but you can blame the the top companies and greybeards for not doing cross-platform better. Abstraction is how we don't have to deal with deciding which OS is the best for the average user.

But anyway, there was still a wide spectrum of quality for desktop applications way back then like there is today.
My guess is that they would sound close to transistors. I guess it depends on the tolerances though.
Somewhat interestingly the author describes themselves as “ageless” in the About page
Do you know if Freetaxusa supports declaring international income/taxes?

Edit: I looks like they don't :(

Items Not Supported

Foreign employment income (Form 2555)

https://www.freetaxusa.com/supported_forms.jsp
My favorite is when I get not just "hey" but "hey, how's it going?". It's one more step further removed from whatever the actual question is.
If I had to guess it probably has to do with how Chrome updates itself, which is likely causing the OS to see it as a new binary that hasn’t had permissions set after each update.
Although the author sounds a bit "boomer-ish" and "get off my lawn" in his blog post, I do agree with him in essence.

Especially his quip about websites being just JavaScript which generates the HTML. I have an old MacBook Air which I use when I have to work while travelling. This doesn't happen often, so I didn't replace it. It's mind-boggling how slow the web has gotten on it.

If developers developed on older machines, they would get so frustrated by the bloat that it would get solved overnight.

I think the industry (generalizing) doesn't care about this, because bandwidth, loading-times etc. are external costs and if one "moves fast and breaks things" in hope of getting another round of VC funding, then there is no time to care about this. In my view, the web gets worse with every new JS dependency/framework and what not.

Oh and if your website or web-app doesn't work without javascript (generalizing) then it is part of the problem.
maybe the rest of us should start a gofundme so we can pool together our funds and buy a few politicians.
Approximating sin(x) to 5 ULP with Chebyshev polynomials (2017)
That's the point though. MS US headquarters is not responding to these requests. MS {local country} branch is responding. And I'm sure the people that work in country X know how to contact country X's police.

This is really a non issue being blown up in to some unsolvable conundrum by people in this conversation that want to find problems in using a phone book.
It's a term that mostly white people (and John Leguizamo, for some reason) use.

Same with folx.
Why is it ridiculous? Especially for a subjective class like "English"

They aren't saying they're not giving completion feedback, they're saying they aren't giving explicit grades.

They also call out specific problems with the grading approach, and I'm curious what your solution to those problems is?
Landlord/tenet law is highly location dependent.

Around here (Maryland), landlords are required to offer leases up to 2 years (this might be a county law), although I suspect 12 month leases are still common.

At the end of a lease, MD law requires the lease to default into a month-to-month lease. To kick a tenent out without cause, a landlord need only provide 30 days notice.

However, if the tenent refuses to vacate, the landlord still needs to go through the eviction process.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/10/18/the-shadow-pen...
Or just use CashApp Tax. Your procedure makes it sound like Turbo Tax is the only game in town. Turbo Tax isn’t worth any of the effort you mentioned.
I agree with everything you said, except the popularity ranking. The value of a content shall be in the content itself; popularity is only a flawed measurement. Worse, popularity has very strong positive feedback that contributes to the great polarization of opinions.
I have personally also never experienced a crash in an electron app on win or Linux either.
This seems shockingly dumb. I wasn't aware of such things going on in the US, my cultural knowledge on the subject of growing up in the US was of kids roaming around on their bikes all day.
Nicky Case is one of my software idols, and this guide is a big part of that. It's a really light and engaging way to present this sort of information, but it's also deep enough that I generally recommend this whenever I end up in a discussion about different voting systems. This had a big impact in making me excited about technology as a tool to inform and explain, but also a significant impact in regards to my passion for electoral systems.

I also really like the page about fireflies, which is much simpler (mainly just a playground that you can play around with) but also just really fun.
Super interesting project, but....uh oh, I see a package.json.

I hope that our federal government has staffed enough experienced node devs to keep an eye on any rogue deps that get added to the project, though it should go without saying.

And it looks like they use Snyk so that's something.

However, I do not like that you have to email them to raise a security issue [1]. To easy for some wannabe product manager bureaucrat to suppress that out of fear and embarrassment.
Why data scientists shouldn't try to act like software engineers
With something like MobaXterm, they allow you to download a limited version of the product for free, and a full version of the program hidden behind an online account.

When you pay for the software, it generates an account you can use to log into their website and allows access to the paid version of the product.

Not sure if it phones home, but having a login/password combo restricting access to the paid version of your product would likely be "good enough" without having to use "check if I'm registered" online logic.

Of course, if they decide to share the program then you don't have any recourse but that might not be a huge problem, depending on how honest your customers are.
Zulip came out in 2012, which predates Matrix.
I work in theatre tech in Baltimore, and Figure53’s QLab software has a good model: You sign up for an account, you can purchase a license, you can download the software onto machines, you can open files for free but need a license to save edits, licenses can be activated online or offline-with-a-code, devices basically never need to go online (unless their license has an expiration date), and it all basically just works.

There are probably some people who have done the offline activation thing and then never brought the device in question online again (or blackhole Figure53’s DNS from that device), but I think Figure53 has decided to just eat that cost, and I doubt it costs them much.
Relevant to the discussion in: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30844872

Prior HN discussion (5 years ago) on this article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14328650
React v17 was released in October 2020.
I dont think anyone is going to go for a new tax especially if it hits the middle class and poor. Even if one political administration implemented it, the next would revoke it. Carbon neutral technologies just need to be able to compete on price and appeal. Tesla has proven its possible in transportation and other car companies are following suit. Need a couple of high profile competitive examples in other industries, especially power. They also need really good lobbyists.
Once again, author gives a couple vague points against single-page applications while conveniently failing to address all of the bullshit that came before with PHP and friends. These rants are always the same two or three substance-less paragraphs, concluding before offering any sort of concrete examples or reasoning.

Author expresses:

'In the past IT people, whether we're talking about programmers or something else, were very clever people.'

Yes, an age before programmers started wasting time on these vapid blog rants
100% Agree!

It is reasonable to try all those modern frameworks, tons of npm packages, webpack, sass, preprocessors, typescript.

And then throw this shit as far away as possible, because right now you have a beautiful javascript support in Chrome, if you need it, and you can render everything you need with React when you compile, i.e. prerender, your website.

Complexity these days is way beyond what we are ready to support. While React seems to be cool at start, in the end it, as any other framework, is a pain in the ass, 10 times bigger than any other solution
>encryption has many, many actually useful and productive applications

So does crypto but likewise opponents of encryption disregard the positives and focus on the negatives to align with their preformed ideas. The only way out of this trap is to have an open mind and internalize the fact that all technologies can be used for good and evil and thus are relatively neutral overall. Humanity must take the good and bad and see where the path goes in order to advance as a species.
> The authors argue that getting people to make the big leaps needed to decarbonise, such as buying an electric car or installing a domestic heat pump, instead requires “extreme positive incentives for change” (epics).

Seems like a recipe to lose elections.
if (as people are claiming here) grades don't accurately measure proficiency, their being objective won't magically make them a better measure.
I agree, and I think that what you said about the rate being incorrect is right. Pigovian taxes are great in models but extraordinarily difficult to implement. Measuring externalities, especially of something like carbon production, is a monumental task that economists in my opinion have been failing at. Another commenter linked a great analysis on how economists are drastically underestimating the economic effect of climate change (assuming 90% of GDP won’t be affected because its indoors!).

On the second point I somewhat disagree. The current inelasticity of demand is extremely important as climate change will become uncontrollable at longer timeframes. The current trend is not enough and not fast enough. I agree with the authors that Pigovian subsidies for renewables worldwide are necessary as soon as possible.
My experience with CPAs has been poor. "I dunno, just put what you think is right" is how the last person I paid told me to handle a mismatch between my wife's actually grant payments and her 1098-T.
I would like to reach out to tell you (not yet showable) what i am doing as a hobby too. It's a learning exercise for me.
Funnily enough I have the opposite experience! My M1 can stay closed for weeks without losing more than a few percent, while my Intel-based tends to drain about 10%-20% a day.
Outer solar system bodies like Pluto contain water as a major component, not just a breath of condensation on the surface.

Between high pressure, freezing point depression of brines, geothermal and sometimes tidal heat, liquid water underground is generic to outer solar system, cometary and interstellar bodies of fair size and above.
I think you can solve this with public key cryptography, your public key ships with the program.

Then you sign (HMAC) something unique to the user (such as email address) along with an expiry date.

That signed message becomes the 'key' they enter.

The software validates the message at the same time as parsing out their email address and the key expiry date from the message.

This doesn't require any phoning home.

This doesn't stop multiple use unless you start requiring an initial phone home where hardware IDs are provided and incorporated into the hashed+signed message. That only requires phoning home once and doesn't need phoning home every start.
Ask HN: How many people actually use Vim?
Vim is often said to be the "best" text editor for speed and usability, but is this actually a viable solution? I suspect that there is a silent majority that uses VSCode or some other easier-to-use GUI product.
Fargo season 4 has a scene where this Italian mobster goes...

"I think I'm finally starting to understand this country. You say one thing, yet do the complete opposite".

It's a bulls-eye for me. Americans are fake, not genuine, dramatic/hysterical and hypocritical like no other culture I've ever seen.

They also have quite a few positive traits. And any other culture you pick, including mine, too has negatives and positives. It's not a contest but we should be able to reason about it. It's fair game.
Zen 4 is reported to have AVX-512 support. I'm not sure if that'll be included on Ryzen or not, though; only Epyc is "confirmed" as far as I know.
Bitcoin MINING is only feasible with special purpose hardware, but that's not what was stated:

> 1. Can your "blockchain" be validated with regular hardware?

Bitcoin can be VALIDATED on practically any low end consumer computer, including an early Raspberry Pi.
Well, maybe you're right but I'm not so sure. After watching recent interviews with random people on the streets of Russian cities. Here's interesting thread on twitter by someone sharing his experience calling random Russians and trying to talk: https://twitter.com/GentileOslo/status/1506663082634145797
I missed including my T2202 one year and thought I owned a ton. They then sent me a letter saying lol, no we owe you. So pointless.

What annoys me now is that if you want a paper booklet you have to request one in advance if you did not use one previously but otherwise there is no free to everyone option to do it. You either request a paper booklet or use 3rd party software.
I believe in the importance of law and order in society, but I still freely admit that "law and order" rhetoric usually means something specific and carries a handful of specific implications.
If only it were really that simple.
As the documentary Demolition Man shows, we communicated using jingles.
Same. Every time a new version gets released I feel a pang of guilt for that poor codebase, but it's been jogging along for 5-6 years with minimal updates and it works like a charm. Fairly big code base as well.

I did upgrade from react-router v1 though... declaring routes as JSON just felt a bit too gross.
Then they must’ve pre-invented it!
I think you might be mixing up causation here...
The background is nearly white at #fcfcfc, and the body copy is an 80% black color (roughly #323232). That is a contrast ratio of 12.49:1, which far exceeds even the most stringent contrast requirements in WCAG 2.1 AAA of 7:1.

The "Color, Color Family, and Grade" callout box has the same color text but an #e6e6e6 background, which produces a contrast ratio of 10.27:1 – also passing.

Everyone has different preferences, but in terms of color contrast they're doing great.
They obviously should've used a time machine.
They're usually shockingly pleasant to deal with, too. Having owned a couple of small businesses over the years, our taxes can get complex. There were a couple of times where the IRS had questions about our filed returns, and the clerks we dealt with have always been genuinely nice, helpful to work with, and authorized to exercise decent human judgment.

Them: It says here you spent $X on healthcare expenses.

Me: I've got 4 kids. I always hit my deductible.

Them, literally laughing: Yeah, kids are expensive. OK, moving on...
OpenBB Raises $8.5M in Seed Round Funding Following Gamestonk Terminal's Success
Under macOS at least you can set custom key shortcuts for any function in any app that has a corresponding menu item under System Preferences > Keyboards > Shortcuts.

Really wish other OSes had a similar feature, though it’d be more hit or miss there due to how often standard menubars are eschewed under Windows and Linux.
From the URL in the root comment:

> Each separate email in violation of the law is subject to penalties of up to $46,517
I don't see how 5G will make Three faster if the bottleneck is backhaul, but maybe my assumption was wrong - I had excellent reception and maxed out the carrier aggregation on Three so it seems weird that it would be the LTE part that's the bottleneck.
>and many other large tech employers and sign illegal agreements to not hire each other's employees.

I don't remember reading about any formally signed agreements. Executives aren't going to create an incriminating paper trail like that. Instead, it was some complaints in emails and an implied understanding. E.g. Steve Jobs and Eric Schmidt emails:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Schmidt#Role_in_illegal_n...
Unfortunately, this kind of approach upholds and supports the status quo of false balance (false equivalence fallacy, or "both sides") which has degraded media discourse since the early 1980s. Please read "Dark Money" by Jane Mayer. The false balance in the media did not arise by accident. It was intentionally created, funded, and established by billionaires who wished to invent their own false narrative and impose it on the American people. The 1971 Powell memorandum is generally considered the opening salvo in the nascent architecture of this movement, and it has a distinct anti-science, pro-industry bias at the beating heart of its soul. I’m sure you mean well, but this is not the solution, it is more of the same problem. Facts matter. Reality exists.
This is awesome! I see some blog posts of mine already on here but using an outdated URL.

Are there any plans to check for redirects and update the URL or to recrawl?
> It depends on whether the grade is the ends or not. But here the grades aren't the ends. It's just a means to achieve the ends - learning the material.

This is objectively false in the US education system at least. If you look at the training for standardized tests (the training that costs money, but is fundamentally necessary if you want to get into a good school) a huge amount of it has nothing to do with the material, and everything to do with how to rapidly exclude incorrect answers. All of that exclusion is based on various numeric tricks or filters with no actual understanding of why. Moreover standardized tests in the US explicitly encourage that behaviour by being ridiculously time constrained, to the extent that if you do not get training in how to *quickly* answer questions, no amount of understanding the material matters.
I've switched to Edge.

So, yeah.
I'm sorry you had a bad experience in Vancouver. But in my experience, bad and even extortionate landlords are not limited to cities--they absolutely do exist in suburban and even rural areas.
When a measure becomes a target, the measure will be optimized at the cost of the
actual target if the two diverge. If the measure is close enough to the target that the easiest way to optimize the measure is to optimize the target, then you'll be fine. If the easiest way to get an A in arithmetic is to know arithmetic, then students will learn arithmetic.

There is a reason the previous poster chose arithmetic as an example. It is very difficult to pretend to know arithmetic without knowing arithmetic. Can Romanians add, subtract, multiply, and divide?
> The Axie DAO allowlisted Sky Mavis to sign various transactions on its behalf. This was discontinued in December 2021, but the allowlist access was not revoked.

Repeat with me: "decentralized"
Elden Ring Review
Absolutely not, seems self evident. Also, "Web3.0" is parasitic on the current web. Without the current web, "Web3.0" won't exist.
Same in Finland.

They get my income, loans for future capital gain deductions, have calculated in the basic deductions and so on.

I wanted some extra deductions this year, so I simply went and inserted those on their own web site with simple boxes to fill. Even before the tax season. No problems...

It is great when the tax agency isn't actually adversarial, but instead ready to help and even work with you if you are having troubles.
> That being said it's usually narcissistic parents with money who are looking for an easy solution.

After reading this and the previous thread on these programs, I really get the impression that this is the fundamental driver behind it. Some people in comments try to paint a picture of desperate parents at their wits end taken in by the program's lies, but these kids didn't wake up one day and decide to have a lot of problems. I strongly suspect that most were simply neglected and abused by horrible parents that had them and didn't want them and did a shit job being a parent to them because they are narcissistic assholes, the sort of shit people that American society churns out with ever increasing frequency. That sort of people believe things that sound like easy fixes for their years of failure to actually be a good parent, and the child suffers even more for it.
As a counter-example, sales taxes (and VATs) are very simple, yet almost nobody knows how much they’re paying.
> As an example they will finally increase vacation from 15days to 20days on April 1st this year.

That change is for junior employees. It's still overdue, but vacation bumps up to 25 days per year after you have some tenure, and has done for more than a decade. I'm not saying that 25 days is anything to write home about -- I've heard of places that give 30, or unlimited -- but 25 is not bad.
I think the larger tech community should be made more aware of this. Maybe if the likes of LTT or MKBHD (popular YouTube tech channels) could be convinced to do a video on it, it could help get more people into the Firefox camp