skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As an American living overseas, I'm forced to file taxes every year even though I pay the IRS $0. It therefore seems very silly to pay around $100 a year for tax software.

In previous years, TurboTax's free option was pretty great. This year, my only real option was TaxSlayer, since the others required a US mobile number. It worked, but it was very primitive compared to TurboTax. I could've e-filed IRS forms directly, except I also needed to file state taxes, which directed me to use private software.

A very stupid system of filing a bunch of paperwork through private companies just so I can pay/receive $0.
I'm glad to see you highlighting that one can burn out while also having good work-life balance. Before it happened to me, I certainly was under the impression that burnout was simply a consequence of putting in too many work hours, but it's not quite that simple.
Look to dark net markets for answers. They have to solve this problem in one of the most adversarial and dangerous environments possible, with zero legal recourses to mediate disputes.

The key thing they do is include a third party in the transaction, usually the market itself, who mediates disputes along with a reputation system for sellers. They mostly do it in a centralized way, where the market holds your payment until the buyer confirms or the seller can prove they held up their end. This is a problem because the market can and often does exit scam, so some do this in a decentralized way with 2 of 3 multisig transactions, where if the buyer and seller have no dispute, they can release the money, but if they do, a third party arbitrator can come in and mediate.

Also, higher layer payment protocols like the lightning network effectively clear instantly and trustlessly, with no need to wait for any block to be mined, and are great for minor value transactions.

Finally, replace bitcoin with gold in your question, and ask why that worked for thousands of years.
Just as an example iPads have usually better screen than laptops, so if you work outside in a sunny place at a caffee place, iPad may be a better device to bring with you.
Is there any chance something is deflecting the rotating particles onto the axis? Similar to the particle jets emitted at the poles of black holes and other large objects - I don't think that process is fully understood either.
+1 for the import. Even if you only do a couple trades a year it can be annoying to type that in. If your broker does a LOT of trading, it is not possible to use FreeTaxUSA.

I LOVE the company and the product though, please pass along kudos. what a breadth of fresh air after years of using Turbo Tax. I now tell EVERYONE I know to use them.
> This sounds crazy but why not let go and allow them to decide their own fate?

Because is my country also, and they want to gag me and to steal me.

The sovereignty of a country relies in all citizens, and the citizenship came with some inalienable rights. In the same way as Nevada couldn't wake up tomorrow and decide that they will became part of China and the rest of the Americans can't enter or live there anymore. Changing the fate for every citizen would need to consult every citizen in the country about what they want to do, and the immense majority of us don't want to lose part of our country by a bunch of crooks. Period. Is called democracy.
What engines do you use as iOS game dev? What's good and what sucks?
A picture is worth a thousand words:

https://s.w-x.co/staticmaps/wu/wxtype/none/usa/animate.png
Milton Friedman once commented that property tax is particularly unpopular because it's the only tax for which people still have to write a check[0].

That said, we could make income tax more visible without requiring tax professionals. (e.g., end withholding and send me a monthly tax bill; show the money go into my bank account and then back out, whether automatically or forcing me to write a check.)

[0] https://youtu.be/yS7Jb58hcsc?t=120
A laptop can't do all the things an iPad can. Other things, it can, but it's worse for them. It's not as practical to add on hardware & software to make a laptop able to do those things, as it is to add a keyboard and pointing device to an iPad and try to attack the problem from the other direction, if you don't strictly need some of the things that a laptop can do but an iPad can't (local virtual machines, for example).
except the bank robbers clearly broke rules.

these crypto heists exploit loose rules.
It’s a great point.

When you get to the edge of knowledge, ignoring obvious things and glossing over tends to rule the day.

Knowing what we know about people, it seems absurd to think that people just went poof, “civilization” has arrived! There were a lot fewer humans in the past, and hundreds of generations are lost to time. But the narrative of the pageant of history, often leading to the <insert nation here> greatness of today doesn’t work with “I don’t know”
I like those little business-reply-mail envelopes. I tear up everything and put it in those envelopes and send it back. They DO have to pay for those to be returned.
They don’t like you either
Hackerrank!

I needed to brush up on some interviewing skills and it was a nice way to focus on just the very basics of syntax. Once I was comfortable I started 'golfing' in the language on hackerrank for fun, and then I moved onto making some fun toy applications in a legit dev environment.
I agree. Koan is supposed to be strange mind worm that contradicts your normal experience, sound of one hand clapping sort of thing.

Come to think of it, the AI peeps might be able to make a few. They stay stuff like, does a submarine swim? Pretty close.
It wasn't a trick question. I'm not asking it in the same tone as someone would ask 'What can C do that Java can't?'.

I believe that Rust can be as low level as you want. If you have to fight the language to accomplish something, it's because you're probably trying to do something unsafe, and Rust will let you do that if you pay the price.

I was looking for examples of real cases where Zig is a better option than Rust. And while Zig is a lovely language, its main points against Rust are that it lets you do unsafe things more easily, and it's easier to learn.
First of all, be honest with your teammates and boss. It's okay to tell you've burned out.

I'm sure they can relate and help you going through this and covering you while you're trying to recover from this.

This will also help them understand that they should avoid disturbing you during your healing vacation and make sure you will be on work-free mindset.

Take as much time as needed. Even unpaid leave if needed.

Wishing the best
There seems to be a trend of 'let's socialize this company: it's a public utility!' that is getting stronger. The problem is that people who say this haven't lived in a socialist country and bore the brunt of the ills of 'socialization'. Almost everywhere that governments nationalized corporations, they have turned into cesspools of corruption, inefficiency, and almost no accountability towards (paying) customers or society. I am willing to bet you wouldn't see Russians, Indians, Cuban expats, Venezuelans and others (who lived through the vicissitudes of socialist centrally planned economies) arguing for this.
BirdNet is a great app.
Yeah I’ve been trying various filters off and on for two decades.
This functionality is built into Cisco IOS. Can you tell me what exactly is expensive about implementing it alongside the other configuration?
how would you see it as an advantage?

How would I see presenting myself as a trustworthy employee who won't pull the wool over your eyes? Pretty favourably tbh.
The Billion Dollar Code tells the story about an artist and a hacker who build Google Maps before Google Maps. It plays in Berlin, Germany in the 90ies and I really liked the vibe of the whole mini-series. Also the combination of Art and Technology and getting the most out of current technology makes it a good "hacker" series.
It's also infamous for relatively low pay and a culture of brutal overworking, and during the jobs years, seemingly a fear of the CEO.
I hate titles like this. What makes it "official"? What public office made it official?
10x is about the meta, and meta can be the tools (or frameworks, metaprogramming, etc.).
Both of those, but also additional mass due to extra plumbing and such. It's definitely a thing we could do but it's not without it's problems. Also, Hall thrusters don't tile well as they're annular/ring-shaped devices. There are linear thrusters which would tile better but they tend to work fairly poorly.
In case people aren't familiar with Ur (I wasn't): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ur

> Ur was an important Sumerian city-state in ancient Mesopotamia, located at the site of modern "Tell el-Muqayyar" in south Iraq's Dhi Qar Governorate. Although Ur was once a coastal city near the mouth of the Euphrates on the Persian Gulf, the coastline has shifted and the city is now well inland, on the south bank of the Euphrates, 16 kilometres from Nasiriyah in modern-day Iraq. The city dates from the Ubaid period circa 3800 BC, and is recorded in written history as a city-state from the 26th century BC, its first recorded king being Mesannepada.

The pictures of the Ziggurat are really impressive.
This isn't really a good argument though. We live in a society and society is defined by our shared cultural experience. For better or worse, these media companies in large part define our cultural experience. Humans are social creatures, and naturally want to participate in a shared cultural experience.

Asking people not to consume media would be like asking them not to converse with other humans or not have sex. Sure, you can survive without those things, but it's not really a life worth living.
On the flip side, let's also not forget that the earliest civilizations (so to speak) were also rather different from later ones in some striking ways. Put simply, they were a lot more literal-minded, and didn't engage in as much abstraction as did their descendents. Ancient fertility statues (even as late as classical Greece and Rome) are grotesquely over-endowed; ritual sacrifices of food and symbolic objects have in many places taken the place of sacrificed slaves or wives. Mesopotamian city states would fight wars because, like a frat prank, one would steal a statue of a god like Marduk from the other's temple -- only, there was no notion that it was a statue, rather it was the god. Early Egyptian murals speak to the power of kings by showing piles of dicks their soldiers had cut off of defeated enemies (unlike Egyptians they were uncircumcised). And there's the whole mummification thing, which betrays a certain literal-mindedness about immortality. So yeah, it's a spectrum - but both before and after the "rise of civilization"
One meaning of "daemon" is that it's a supernatural being that is kind of halfway between a human and a god.

Daemons often run with privilege, and so are (god-like), but are not the operating system itself (god). Daemons can do things on behalf of the human user which no program could do that the user could write and execute under his or her privilege level.

Maxwell's demon is really a demon in the evil sense because it perpetrates something "wrong": it causes all the gas to move from one compartment to another, thereby wrecking god-given thermodynamics.
Learn marketing from oldschool fundamental resources, like books from Kotler, and also learn some sort of mind bending, like "The Artist's Way" book, to train your brain to see breadcrumbs of information in obvious things, and to free your mind from abstract limitations.

And just now begin classic business circle - try something - gather information on what you achieve - make conclusions - try again.

And accept fail - humans are not computers, we constantly make errors.

Sure, you need strong support to withstand all these things - find good girl, find some community with strong life values, and establish balance between your work/business and life.

I understand, all these parts of life puzzle are not easy to achieve, you may need to cut much from your old life; you may seen once, that you must to move to other district or even to other city or even to other country, but this is real way, it worth it.
I take my sleep very seriously and consider myself lucky to keep a good schedule, but there are things you can do to make it happen. Also, getting quality sleep is like being fit, meaning that if you follow some principles you will get the desired results. The hard part isn't knowing what to do. It's doing it.

The main factors are schedule and quality.

1. Schedule- figure out how many hours you need. For me, it's about 8. Maybe you need 9, 10, or 6. Decide what time you want to get up, and start trying to go to bed at the appropriate time. Don't deviate or give up. This is where discipline matters.

2. Quality- don't sabotage yourself. Don't consume caffeine late in the day. Caffeine has a half life and chemistry doesn't lie. Just because you think you can sleep with caffeine in your system doesn't mean it isn't harming quality. Try to wind down your mind with reading or stretching. I'm not entirely sold on the effect of blue light, but to each their own. Alcohol should be avoided too, if you're serious about good sleep.

Finally, the most impactful motivator for me is how much my life improved once I started treating my sleep with respect. As I've gotten older, I noticed that the quality of my daytime cognition is far better with good sleep patterns (go figure). In the long run this will pay dividends. My colleagues still believe they can function just like they did as college students. They don't.

Emotional balance: giving yourself some personal time instead of waking up and immediately going to work will improve your mental health. All of this provides a positive feedback loop which will motivate good sleep habits.

I'm in bed at 9, asleep by 930, and up by 530 without an alarm. I leave for work at 730, so there is literally no stress to wake up by a certain time.
Of course. That's why at the moment I only use it for very long term savings and speculation on the future state of civilization.

You need to hold a bit of your local fiat because that's still the most important thing to have for immediate term purchases. Have enough of that and a fiat based income steam such that you don't have to worry about the short term fluctuations of the market price.
Vine > Tiktok

Vine was shut down by twitter.
I'm with you -- I consider myself a curious autodidact and voracious reader.

After opening Yet Another Twitter Thread that has turned an intellectually-satisfying meal into individually-gift-wrapped teaspoons fit for a toddler, I gave up and closed it.
The difference, in my mind, is that you are suffering under your neighbour's actions directly and the person on the other side of the argument can do something about it.

Arguments about when/if Ethereum will switch to PoS are different, because neither you are I can do anything about it either way; it comes an argument merely about predicting the future.

If you are talking with your elected presentative who wants to vote against a PoW ban who is holding out for a switch, then that is a different story.
I'm on H&R Block, which I used to be pretty happy with, but it's also getting a lot worse. Much slower, pointless UI changes always in a bloaty direction, navigation is less functional, more upsell garbage, more expensive, etc.

I've kept coming back until now out of habit and because they've got a lot of data on me they can prefill, but maybe I should look at FreeTaxUSA now.
Err... We're literally this close to wipe out ourselves.

I'd still take the discovering of an advanced civilization any day.
I really hope the first pictures won’t be a ”better” pixelated dot that is better because this one is way further out in space and never seen.
allusive (adj):

1. Containing or characterized by indirect references.

2. Figurative; symbolical.

3. Having reference to something not fully expressed; containing an allusion.

4. Containing or making use of indirect references or hints.

5. characterized by indirect references

Sounds about right for Google tech support really. I'll allow it.
>But it can't give you a new kind of phrase, of a "kind" that didn't exist in the training set.

Can you give a concrete example that doesn't involve math (which GPT is a bit handicapped at, because of the way its encoded)? I feel this is a bit like 'moving the goalpost'. It seems to me plenty of humans only ever repeat things they've heard and aren't coming up with novel, complex abstractions or ideas...
STIR/SHAKEN is a step forward.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STIR/SHAKEN
Interests align - those who keep the secrets are better off for keeping them (not just for punishment of breaking NDAs, but the fruits (pun intended) of revealing something wonderful).
Because the corporations are acting amorally while the politicians are acting immorally. Corporations are not obligated to better society. Politicians are. The corporations are ignoring something that is outside their responsibility. The politicians are ignoring something that is within their responsibility.
>Remember the old issue with VLC in the App Store?

The issue with VLC in the App Store was that an older version of the App Store T&Cs had standard EULA language that said you weren't allowed to pirate the apps on the store; which contradicts every version of the GPL ever.

VLC worked around this by relicensing their iOS port to MPLv2, whose copyleft is apparently weak enough that the App Store EULA does not conflict with it. I'm not entirely sure why.

This, however, is a moot point. Apple fixed the problem by letting you just write custom EULA language specific to that app that says the GPL overrules the App Store EULA for that app. This is how iSH legally ships an entire x86 userland full of GPL software on the App Store, for example. Even things like the Installation Instructions requirement (either GPLv2 or v3's) is satisfied by the fact that Apple hands out free development accounts like candy and will likely continue to do so for as long as the App Store exists.
yes, it is. I'm not hiding it. those are human emotions.
Cryptocurrencies and smart contracts exist within our society as well, they're not subject to an alternative reality.
I wonder how you steer that thing. As in, earth is a pretty small target from a few light years away. In the case where you want to visit some planet peacefully, you spend the second half of the journey decelerating so you can do the needed corrections easily due to your lower speed, but if you are close to your target at a significant fraction of light speed, it's hard to change your course.
But how likely any humans will be in a position to learn the results?
Just to be clear, I did not suggest that every minute outside of work/sleep/etc. is or should be "owned" by a social network. Rather, that is just the total, raw addressable market (at least to my naive mind).

Though I do think the developed world would be better off if people consumed less media (and social media).
Update: This is wrong. Ignore it.
The poison pill is not diluting any individual shareholder disproportionately. What it is doing is issuing the right to buy shares at a steep discount. For example, if shares of Company XYZ are currently trading at $50/share, the board would issue all the company's shareholders the right to buy stock at $25/share. Economically, everyone should exercise their rights since this is a good deal. The issue for the hostile bidder is that it can become quite expensive to actually fund the exercise price to maintain their ownership interest. The company now also has more cash and so purchasing all the remaining stock that the hostile bidder does not own will become more expensive/difficult.
Probably it started thousands of years ago, but recently it has certainly changed and become a new and terrible thing with social media.
The only issue here is how to support a free tier.
User events – but not quite yet [Linux Kernel]
I'm from Italy, very similar country, very similar work ethic.

I agree that, if anything, it's people like me who are weirdly obsessive about their jobs to be the odd ones out.

I have a couple drifts about that, though:

- I spend 40+ hours a week in front of a terminal. That is a lot of time. Trying to do a good job and finding interest in what I do is at least in part a self-defense mechanism: if I'm invested in what I do, I'm more likely to be happy at work and have positive relations with coworkers.

- It mustn't become a way to fend off productive change. Refusing new good practices "because we don't want to learn" or "because it's good enough as it is" is incredibly stupid and self-destructive. Unfortunately, there's overlap between "it's just a job" and "different = bad" attitudes.

It's certainly okay if one is just in for the money, it's none of my business to investigate people's motivations. But if you want to do this job for the rest of your life, 35 years times 48 weeks a year times 40 hours a week is a lot of time, so it's not an attitude I'd necessarily encourage.
Correction!! The model costed around 10M not 10B! Thanks for raising that. Mistake during copying from the second slide :(
https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/02/investing/exxon-shareholders-...

in this case yes. wonder why they dont
I'd recommend reading the book https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Engines_of_God
Yes, of course, thanks!
I'm not going to speak to the legal technicalities, but I can tell you some major differences in the situations.

- The poison pill is aimed at any investor trying to gather control, not a specific one. (At least legally)

- The poison pill is 100% avoidable. It triggers off some future event. This is similar to many other grandfather clauses like building codes, where things are changed going forward.

- 49% bought in thinking they were getting a share and a say in the company. Diluting them away is stealing and fraud (morally, not legally.) So, for instance, would be selling all the companies assets to Company 2 run by the same CEO and board (and who own 100% of Company 2) and letting Company 1 go bankrupt.

The situation is actually identical if Elon were to suddenly tomorrow purchase up to 49%. In that case, it would be the 51% diluting the 49%.
I don't think those final two things are necessarily contradictory. It's very possible to have high theoretical IPC that applications cannot exploit.
There were plenty of people talking about the topic on Twitter after they decided to block the Post story.
Yandex founders rode business jets when preparing for IPO. They are/were nice guys. Segalovich sometimes played freesbie with us devs in the cloister.
This video https://youtu.be/5MxH1sfJLBQ was posted here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30729109 about how the actuators work on the James Webb telescope. It's a great watch.
Because being able to differentiate uniquely different offerings by different designations is only of value to marketers?

There are differences that warranted the incrementing of the numbering - mainly the vastly superior USB-C connector over the gawd awful USB-A, Micro, Mini and that other one that I can never remember the name of.
As a former strata treasurer: believe me, we wanted to. We had the votes, city had a nice incentive. But our building -- and indeed most high rises in the West End built '59-'73 -- simply didn't have enough wattage and when we asked BC Hydro for more the answer was an absolutely staggering amount of money since you needed to dig up the street and the house property to get the cables in. (And be God merciful on you if there are trees to mess with because the city won't be -- it is probably easier to get a license to kill than getting a permit to replace trees in the West End.) And it's the same amount of digging for 50A or 500A so it only makes sense to ask for as much as you can and BC Hydro has little left until the new substation comes online and now it seems that won't be before 2029.

Times like these, you need to consider if you had a spare 50A (we didn't) would you spend that on another drier or an EV charger?