skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The acceptance of federal forms by states ranges from

"we don't even have income tax" to "copy over a few lines, multiply by this fixed number, and we have 5 other possible deductions" to "we have our own forms for everything, and you need to file a separate local tax return"

And heaven forbid you have any part year returns with a couple of states like the latter.

My point is that the whole system is inherently a mess and even if federal returns were automated, many people would still be spending considerable amounts of time preparing taxes.
Doesn't worry me a bit. I'd already be looking at 2 years in prison just for being gay. But then, there's a whole bunch of the world that I wouldn't travel to.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/laurabegleybloom/2021/03/23/cri...
Relatedly, the sheer number of YouTube adverts for Qatar I’ve had recently… the adverts have nice happy jingly music and cute little avatars exploring Qatar’s filthy lucre ^H^H^H-uh I mean beautiful buildings, shopping centers, pools and the like. Basically trying to “adwash” their slavery.
Exactly. Time is valuable and there are plenty of people and organizations incentivized to waste it.
been to uae many times. was never scared.

Taleb has been hyping this story for weeks.

The fact it gets so much media coverage suggests its rarity. The odds of being detained in uae for social media posts is very low. The UAE gets tons of tourism. Your odds of being roughed up by police in America are higher.
I wonder how someone who publicly joked about supporting ISIS or Al-Qaeda and hoping they strike the new WTC would be greeted if they arrived to the US.
This is where being a vendor (at a distance) tends to be as close as you want to get to some customers and their culture. Being a vendor is probably the best way to achieve that kind of "influence/innovation" in a company like Samsung.
That's crazy. Local timelines are the best part of mastodon instances.
Why bother when you could afford to live in a luxury hotel every remaining day of your life? Don’t have to worry about calling the plumber, etc..
There's quite an area between a blog that can't be accessed and a blog that is at its peak. I hope it will find a good spot in that area, since reaching a new peak is unlikely.

I'd be happy to see the kind of discussions that happened on Lambda The Ultimate thrive anywhere, so long as it's reasonably open. Stack Exchange is pretty good because it puts content under a CC license: https://stackoverflow.com/help/licensing I thought there was a programming lanugage Stack Exchange but I'm just seeing https://softwareengineering.meta.stackexchange.com/ - and there's this question: https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/309740/where-to-ask... On the other hand, StackExchange tends to resist open-ended questions. Perhaps a Discourse (cofounded by a Stack Overflow cofounder) would be a good spot.

I'm really hoping it will come back up even if it doesn't get new activity because archive.org isn't the same as being able to just link to an old post.
Maybe he means the part1/part2 split? Perhaps he misunderstood that this is a device of the blog author, who wants to give his audience a chance to try out the question without spoilers, and that it wasn’t part of the interview itself?
You should also be terrified by the fact that one of the royals, Issa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, is seen on video torturing a business partner, and suffered no repercussions after the video came out in 2009.

https://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=7402099

Of course, the torture victim and his brother who released the video were convicted by UAE courts.
Perhaps the lowered barrier to entry has resulted in a surplus of 0.1x engineers, and 10x engineers are merely 1x.
Sure he did. The law recognizes his indirect control as possibility and all the SEC forms specify when they ask how much he controls they're including via those mechanisms.

I mean, if he owned some Google stock, and Google decided to buy 1% of Twitter, that would probably be different, because Elon wouldn't own enough of Google to make them do anything or even be aware of their investments. But if Tesla did, or he bought index funds that included Twitter, then yes.
Only one of them control the state, and that is and has always been Castilla.

This may be a technical forum, people can Google it up and do some deep research.
You don't get to be an Nx programmer by working N times harder or longer. You probably have a diverse background of experience and well versed in applying knowledge from one area in another, and general creative problem solving.

I certainly don't work 2x more than other devs on my team and perhaps less than 1x on many days. I do try to stay sharp in terms of what I'm doing, why it's being done, and on the lookout for alternative means of achieving the same or related ends. I'm sure that there's many times I've worked 2x harder, longer and produced 0.5x results in a complex and contrived process that I thought was more interesting, better in some vague way, or had great potential, only to find it should be trashed and done the 1x way. Sometimes though that informal R&D pays off in other circumstances. I do this because the 8 hours I spend working goes by much easier and I don't feel tired at the end of the day doing something I feel is ineffective.

I haven't even done this for advancement in my career although it's a major factor that's considered when praising 1x. To each their own.
That hasn't been true in 50 years
From Europe, Dubai is a very common and rather cheap destination these days. Return flights from London are under £300.
> Even when it's not as big as a DOS, it doesn't seem right to me that I can't tell people they're not welcome to cause this additional system load.

You can tell them. You just can't prosecute them if they don't obey.
The bank and the game are far less important than me retaining full control of a general-purpose computing device and sensor that I keep by my side for a majority of the time and trust in the most intimate parts of my home. This is also a fact.

If the bank and the game cannot function in this reality, then the only solution is for them to provide separate devices for me to interface with them.
But the USA can lock you up anywhere in the world :p
Great to know you really go out of your way to protect your users
I dislike using touchpads very much. I go to great lengths to control everything with the keyboard, and fall back to a traditional mouse when I have to (I tried trackballs but I couldn't adapt). Whenever I'm forced to use a touchpad because I'm on the go or I don't have room to bring a mouse with me, I groan.

That said, the implementation of the touchpad in a Macbook vs a regular touchpad in even a high end laptop is night and day. The software and hardware work together to make sure the touch surface is centered, and your fingers glide through it, there are no accidental presses, and esentially never misinput. The haptic feedback is so good that you can't really tell that you're not pressing a button. In comparison, the touchpad in what I consider the best Windows laptop, the Lenovo X1 Carbon, is a steaming pile of shit, and fails every measure.

I don't know how much of it is Apple's attention to detail versus their ability to do vertical integration -- Lenovo likely has very little control over how Synaptics implements their drivers -- but I would pay a hefty premium for an experience like a Macbook.
I came to think that the whole Big A Agile and small a agile is also just an excuse to put the blame elsewhere.

We can't say with a straight face that we expected IBM or Accenture like conpanies to move to an "agile" process.

And smal and/or smart conpanies were already doing "agile" without making manifesto and boasting it at every occasion. What's left is the middle ground wh

'll blindly follow any trend and get certifications to proudly have the buzzwords on their company site, and "agile" weren't for them either.
Yep, it’s sort of hilarious to see us rich Westerners criticizing work conditions in Dubai while our countries simply make it impossible for these same people to get visas to work in the West.

UAE is doing more to improve the lives of these people than the West ever has, even if it doesn’t look all that pretty. It’s very unfortunate that photos of denied visa applications will never evoke the same response.
It’s not just you. I worked at JPL for twelve years and I expected it to fail too. I can’t tell you how happy it makes me to be wrong about this.
How to update Capacitor Apps without the App Store review
More formal education? Planning 20 years ahead? Every part of this is counterproductive advice for somebody in OP’s situation.
A cookie is basically just an item in a dictionary. Each item has a key and a value. For authentication, the key could be something like 'username' and the value would be the username. Each time you make a request to a website, your browser will include the cookies in the request, and the host server will check the cookies. So authentication can be done automatically like that.

To set a cookie, you just have to add it to the response the server sends back after requests. The browser will then add the cookie upon receiving the response.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17769011/how-does-cookie...
What makes you think he is willing to sacrifice short term revenue?

- He's a businessman. You could argue that you need to be successful to have the resources to help people

- He sued Top Gear because of a somewhat negative car review of the original Tesla Roadster [1]. Would an advocate of free speech to the level some want here do that? Maybe he changed though, maybe he only wants free speech when it doesn't hurt him.

I'm honestly asking where the image of a champion of free speech comes from, besides what he says he'll do?

[1]https://www.wired.com/2012/02/tesla-vs-top-gear/
[2] https://www.forbes.com/sites/elizahaverstock/2022/02/15/elon...
> UAE is the absolute worst place to hold a giant soccer tournament. They have to use special AC units inside giant stadiums (built on deaths of lots of migrant workers)

Ummm, Qatar isn't UAE...
Nah. It's not outrageous to say that a criteria for being a "general purpose computing device" is that I should be able to run whatever code I want on it.

I say this as someone who's an iPhone user, and I'm perfectly happy with my iPhone. But I wouldn't call it a general purpose computing device honestly. The Android phone I used many years ago, for all its flaws, would have fit that description much better IMO.
You seem to be claiming that the authors of the article secretly believe that "intelligence is totally independent of genes", which isn't supported by the article itself.

You then call the ideology of a hierarchy of intelligence a strawman, and proceed to criticize what you imagine their argument against it is, which honestly is kind of hilarious.

Also, the article isn't "debunking" phrenology, as that isn't necessary. It's reminding us that historically, the reason these theories of genetic intelligence are created in the first place is in order to support and justify eugenics.

And you keep describing the article's argument as being "therefore anything goes". The article has an argument, and I think this quote from near the bottom summarizes it well:

> These objections come not from head-in-the-sand progressives, but from logic. Genome studies can illuminate things that genes cause, but genes don’t cause everything. Whatever scientific evidence emerges regarding genetic populations, it won’t explain why some students do well on tests any more than it will explain why some social scientists construct essentialist theories of intelligence. Educational success and biological essentialism are social and cultural phenomena, not genetic phenomena. True, genes help shape people, and people make up social and cultural situations. Likewise, grammar helps shape sentences and sentences make up Harden’s book. But we can’t reduce her contention that genetic differences cause social differences to the syntactical rules of an English sentence. Meanwhile, beneath Harden’s protestations that she’s an egalitarian hides a stealthy affirmation of the old, tenacious view that races and classes are natural kinds.
Whoever owns an NFT can prevent the pre-image from being lost by just personally storing it. If they wanted to ensure the pre-image is easily accessible to others, they could additionally host it on IPFS.
I also used Cash App this year to file. I found it remarkably simple and easy compared to completing the forms by hand.
This type of question definitely hinges on having a pre–prepared build environment. The author of the blog even noted that getting the build environment set up was not part of the test.
The combination of Unix, a polished user interface and a system that Just Works(TM) appeals to a lot of tech people. That combination at least used to be a kind of a holy grail.
> The propellant is extremely rarified and not particularly hot

Doesn't matter, nothing changes. If you have a strange effect something is confining. If you don't know how it is confining you have to entertain all possibilities so you need the stats at each phase

These trees aren't very dense or hot and they can't touch for the same reason. Every leaf that falls from the edge has to be replaced at the center. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crown_shyness

Near the Quanta things get discrete so coagulation gets chunky, but nothing changes in principle even down at 10^-3 Torr. In fact, the high-pressure, higher-heat phases of Hydrogen aren't that interesting, but the high-heat "moderate" pressure ones are. There is no escape from consequences of the material itself.

> The propellant is extremely rarified and not particularly hot

This type of statement is where you hide blind spots from yourself. You are going to extreme effort to confine, detonate, an exhaust fuel at just the right time. I would wake up everyday asking, how is my fuel less like a rarified gas and more like a hot, dense fluid. Like, your answer is in some tricky phase of the noble gases. There will be some kind of confinement or effective erasure of expected confinement. It will look like all secondary effects once you discover it, like, "oh, neat phase, water also expands when it freezes, now it makes sense". Why is this whole topic mystified? It seems only as hard to understand as air conditioning.
Agree, finished taxes with Freetaxusa and figured out backdoor roth conversion, included freelancing income, dealt with a schedule k-1. So much less obnoxious than TurboTax, which I have also used but which makes me angry for all the reasons discussed in this thread. Yes, Freetaxusa charges for the state return, but it's also the case that I can't file electronically for free in my state at all (?????). Spouse wants to do paper on principle, which I acquiesced to last year, but.... our paper federal return from last year has literally still not been processed (check was cashed 4/8/2021).
The Bates Method has been “debunked” and is even considered dangerous [0]. In your case I would suspect that it isn’t the eyes that have improved, but your brain got trained to apply better “error correction” when reading small print. At least that’s an effect that I observed on myself after my eyesight worsened: At some point my brain learned to compensate by improved pattern recognition, but sometimes it messes up, a bit like an ML model, and “sees” details that aren’t actually there.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bates_method
It's different in that it allows a contrarian farkwad (or someone with O.D.D.) to disagree with anyone they wish.
I have a fairphone and had mostly Samsung Galaxy devices before.

I was blown away when a phone that I bought didn't actually contain all kinds of bloatware. That this is not just forbidden is beyond me.
Thanks for taking the time to write this out, great info.

There are two hallmarks of an application that differentiate it from a data service:

1. Earth observation is a minority of the data that it manages and maintains

2. Users are not just presented with information, they are prompted to take action

I would argue that levels L3 and L4 are probably falling into the same trap as the data feeds I described in the blog post. Do you know if USGS publishes download metrics are available for each dataset associated with Landsat, for instance? I bet if you made a ratio of time/investment to downloads, you'd find L2 outperforms all other categories. But I could be wrong; I have never seen the download data and don't know the relative levels of effort to produce each dataset they offer.
You are paying for it one way or the other. Either through a direct hardware purchase or a higher monthly fee.
> The code is run by Apple’s built-in WebKit framework

If this is true of enough code for there to be something worth updating like this, then why even have a native app and not just a Web app?

> add [...] tracking

> force users to upgrade

How lovely.
What if you book a flight say between Australia and Europe. After swapping planes in Hong Kong, on the way to Germany there's an in flight emergency and the plane lands in Dubai.

And you had been previously critical of the regime.

Now what?
What Casey is making is more like a reference guide to "if you encountered a similar problem, here is how I worked through it". Hundreds of hours of live video content is good source material for resolving a certain kind of coding bottleneck where there are no standard solutions. But it does also mean that most people, looking to solve standard problems in standard ways, had their questions answered at the very beginning, and the stuff that he's implemented since then pushes at the boundaries of his own knowledge. He doesn't have an ideal lighting or physics solution that he can clearly articulate step by step, but he also doesn't want to cut it down and leave those things unaddressed for the sake of making a consumable tutorial. So a lot of these later videos are plodding forward, revising, doing something a little hacky, coming back to it to change the approach.

And I think that's valuable in a different sense - for people who want to pursue engine dev in depth, this is ideal content. They want to see that grind taking place and how someone with a lot of experience approaches things. What they should and shouldn't prioritize. It goes well outside of the usual bounds of "education", which tries to package up testable knowledge, and is more akin to seeing a top athlete's workout.

Casey asking "why wouldn't you use UE5" is not being combative or ranty: it's an honest ask of what problems need solving that aren't accommodated by what is clearly the technological leader in most of the traditional metrics(render perf, hardware usage, asset pipelines for high end 3D, source access), but are accommodated by Unity. It does show his blind spot, which is that he isn't able to envision the larger span of production metrics himself - team familiarity and inertia, particular pieces of tooling and UX, etc. - but he's also trying to fill in that blind spot here.
> It would risk giving away information on the capabilities of US national security assets.

But the actual satellites can be seen with the naked eye, and their orbits are known. The resolution is a linear function of their height, so it can be easily inferred, or at least bounded, by that of a "hubble" at a much lower height. If they are really worried about this scalar piece of data, they can easily blur the images before transferring them to ukraine. Not that it makes a lot of difference to see a column of tanks at 30cm or at 15cm pixels.
Yeah, I am basically horrified about everything about the idea of visiting the UAE, other than that they have interesting cities and nice beaches. I would never consider taking a vacation there.
To be fair, the US is hardly a good example for a civilised/normal Western country.
Time to revamp the black berry.
I think that's a common problem for most games - at least it is for me.

The cool thing about Dyson Sphere Program is there is so much to do in it, you can create your own end game scenarios.

Also just because the blueprints are there, you don't have to use them. It does feel like cheating sometimes!
I'm curious why the line was retired, as the brand recognition is still so strong.
Depends on who you are I guess. If you're gay or trans, you're in for a very bad time. While they probably won't actually punish you (besides roughing you up and throwing you in jail for a bit) if you're a foreigner from a large, western country, you're still not exactly "fine".
I've been developing professionally for about 10 years in the US, and I feel like just in that time frame, the culture is shifting more in this relaxed direction. The really intense work ethic was pushed by the startup culture. People thought they could be the next Zuckerberg. In recent times, we've seen countless startups either fail, succeed and become evil Big Tech, or fail and become evil anyways like Theranos. On top of that, when startups finally get their big payday, the developers often get screwed over, so what was all the sacrifice for? Working normal hours is just much healthier unless you really have some realistic goal that you're sprinting for.
> and bash environments
You mean zsh on mac, I think.

You may try Fedora, for me it just works (with an AMD graphic card), and Gnome is pretty usable, even ergonomics these days.
Keep in mind GOOG gets half that money. 100% if it's on my videos they departnered me from because I didn't meet their new goalpost of 1000 subs but then later decided it's still acceptable puts ads on. Asshats.

https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2475463?hl=en
Thanks for the explanation!

The thing I still don’t understand is why (edit server not cdn) caching doesn’t work - you have to identify customers somehow, and provide everyone else a cached response at the server level. For that matter, rate limit non-customers also.
The article wasn't from today it was from two years ago, the title was also changed when people complained. However, it was referring to party primaries from the article (https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/02/18/fix-prima...)

"For decades, the conversation about nominations has been about the conflicts between party elites and everyone else. Today, that conversation is counterproductive. A better approach is to think about how voters and elites could best play their different roles: to make their political parties more representative"

Here's a selection of headlines that counter the implication that the paper is there to help Bezos

"Worker-led win at Amazon warehouse could provide new labor playbook
The unionization of a Staten Island facility at one of the country’s biggest employers shows how workers are emerging from pandemic with new tactics and energy"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2022/04/02/amazon-la...

"Amazon’s anti-union blitz stalks Alabama warehouse workers everywhere, even the bathroom"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/02/02/amazon-...

"Jun 1, 2021 — A Washington Post analysis of Occupational Safety and Health Administration data shows Amazon's serious injury rates are nearly double those at higher rates than other firms"
"https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/06/01/amazon-..."
Yep. Twice.
Posted a link upstream.
> I have to point out that thunderbird has had IRC and XMPP support for ages so it is not out of character to add another open instant messaging service

Sure and Thunderbird should relegate both IRC and XMPP to community maintained plugins. Ultimately developer time is a zero sum game and Thunderbird is wasting finite resources on fluff while neglecting the core of what's supposed to be an e-mail client.
The Johnson government has been widely but toothlessly criticized for using WhatsApp on personal devices to conduct affairs of state (and deleting messages, failing to hand over messages to investigations, etc.). My personal opinion is that they don't care too much about this type of thing (being hacked by UAE, etc.), and are preoccupied with more selfish matters. It can be quite profitable to be the butler to Gulf, Russian, and UK billionaires.