skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I take it that you send the forms by mail then ? Because efile would need network access, and that is half the reason I'm using the tax software in the first place.
>Another joke Dr. Kharrat tweeted urged the Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen to attack Dubai’s Burj Khalifa, as reported by French newspaper L’Orient Le Jour.

I'm gonna be honest how can anyone actually think tweeting that is a good idea.
The problem with not using Snapchat is the network effect: you miss out on socialization when you're the only one in your friend group that isn't on it.

The problem with not using those banks is that I don't think there's any banks that aren't hostile like that, and keeping all of your money under a mattress is a worse choice than compromising on this principle.
It's a B2B ecommerce site. Our annual revenue from the site would put us on the list of top 100 ecommerce sites [1] (we're not listed because ecommerce isn't the only businesss we do. With that much potential revenue to steal from us, perhaps the stakes are higher.

As described elsewhere, rate limiting doesn't work. The bots come from hundreds to thousands of separate IPs simultaneously, cooperating in a distributed fashion. Any one of them is within reasonable behavioral ranges.

Also, caching, even through a CDN doesn't help. As a B2B site, all our pricing is custom as negotiated with each customer. (What's ironic is that this means that the pricing data that the bots are scraping isn't even representative - it only shows what we offer walkup, non-contract customers.) And because the pricing is dynamic, it also means that the scraping to get these prices is one of the more computationally expensive activities they could do.

To be fair, there is some low-hanging fruit in blocking many of them. Like, it's easy to detect those that are flooding from a single address, or sending SQL injection attacks, or just plain coming from Russia. I assume those are just the script kiddies and stuff. The problem is that it still leaves a whole lot of bad actors once these are skimmed off the top.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_Internet_compa...
It was the location of the movie "Sex and the City 2". The UAE has put a huge effort into internationally branding themselves as a luxury tourism destination. I imagine there are loads of visitors who have no idea what the laws or legal system are like.
After finishing the tutorial, for 10+ games I was under the false impression that a powerup is immediately used at the spot where you acquire it. I think if powerups are named "weapons", it should be less likely to cause this fusion for future players, because the word "weapon" implies that you can carry it around.
Certain things like Gatekeeper are a non-starter for some people. I certainly won't buy a macOS-based machine in the future because of it. Back in November 2020 there was an outage in Apple's cloud that handles Gatekeeper verification. Users were not able to launch any non-Apple-Inc. signed binary for an hour or two. I imagine because OP says they main Linux issues like that are completely unacceptable. Imagine not being able to open Chrome on Windows because Microsoft's servers can't respond to verify the integrity of the binary. Absolutely insane.
How does the mobile web app compare?
Have you tried including the recaptcha v3 library and looking at the distribution of scores? -- https://developers.google.com/recaptcha/docs/v3 -- "reCAPTCHA v3 returns a score for each request without user friction"

It obviously depends on how motivated the scrapers are (i.e. whether their headless browsers are actually headless, and/or doing everything they can to not appear headless, whether Google has caught on to their latest tricks etc. etc.) but it would at least be interesting to look at the score distribution and then see whether you can cut off or slow down the < 0.3 scoring requests (or redirect them to your API docs)
I appreciated the gifs, personally. Added some humor to the article. Maybe there's a way to have them not autoplay or something.
I wonder whether you could work around these precision issues using the viewBox attribute, but I expect most of this software would just strip it out.
Ask HN: Favourite Movie Poster(s)?
I was 11 when I first saw her...

"Burn! You're Acid Burn!"

I stood no chance haha.

https://imgur.com/a/yPmQ7FL
google "UAE Sonapur" for some documented examples of the near-slavery condition that some of the imported workers from Pakistan, India, Bangladesh live in.

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=uae+son...

https://gulfnews.com/uae/sonapur-welcome-to-the-dark-side-1....
I agree it’s not perfect. It’s also significantly better than nothing.
Looking at that page, it appears we load a font from Google for about.you.com. Thanks for flagging! We'll get rid of that.

We do use CloudFlare for our CDN, DNS name server, JavaScript caching, and DDoS protection. We're not planning to move off of CloudFlare any time soon, but we've worked with them to ensure that they do not store user queries in their logs (completely masked out), they redact the last part of user IP addresses so no individual IP address is stored while keeping the benefits of bot detection and DDoS protection, and their javascript analytics tracker is turned off so there shouldn't be anything CloudFlare client-side.

Thanks again for the time you took looking into all this! It's great to have people out there that care enough to look and report what they find. Much appreciated.
Perhaps. But all the core protocols of the web were done using government money and standardized as a public good. I don't see why social media protocols should not have some base level standard of interoperability, given their importance in society.

I don't begrudge FB and Twitter their success. But I think that, as with the previous generations of captains of industry, it is time that the winners take into account the public good.

Something like the living web standard for social media would be nice.
I didn't even realise LG did a laptop, it looks like a nice machine tbf
Cool. I live next to a park in Somerset, UK. The birdsong in the morning is currently near deafening. The summer house at the bottom of our garden happens to have mains power, a PoE switch and an AP. It sounds like it needs a second Pi (the other runs a TV)
Thanks; I'll definitely have to give that a try. And I'm quite curious what workaround they came up with.
I had the reverse problem. Had several Dell XPS's both of the 13" and 15" variety. All had issues the made them unusable. Meanwhiles the Mac's I've had have never had a SINGLE issue.
Ask Martin Luther King. Ask Mahatma Gandhi. They seemed to do all right.
This is HN so I'll be slaughtered for this reply, but someone definitely tried to fix the banks issue a little over a decade ago.

But yeah, fair enough! I choose to just not chat to those people, but I totally get that it's not that easy for some.
Macbooks are abysmal for window management, for example. There are some lightweight tools that can manage some placement but they are neutered in one way or another. Deeper integration requires disabling BIOS-related security which I am personally uncomfortable doing, and still doesn't offer full control like you'd get on other Unix systems. Most of the OS is similarly untouchable.

Another example is Safari and its extensions ecosystem: an Apple license is required for publishing and as such even basic tools (stylus etc.) can require the user to purchase with no guarantee of developer support in the medium to long term.

OOTB the biggest example is the Mac-style hotkeys, its a persistent and extremely annoying problem for new Mac users and is, from the outset, unfixable via any sort of configuration, BIOS or not. Concretely: CTRL + T for new tab is now command + T, however switching tabs is still CTRL + Tab (Mac control is more like alt, in this case).

It's an eternal reminder that you are now stuck doing things the Apple way even if it's just relearning all of your hotkeys.
‘Nation state’ is the appropriate term of art in the context of cyber security. The fact that a domestic service appears to be attacking an area that is seeking autonomy makes it more relevant.
And what were GCHQ, MI6 and NCSC doing to protect our prime-minister
at this time?

We have a problem in democratic nations. I've written about it here
[1]. Bruce Schneier has also addressed it in his own way.

Our lack of any framework for civic cybersecurity is a disgrace.
People in future ages will look back on our time as a wild-west.

A solution can only come from a ground-up awareness through education.

[1] http://www.icicte.org/assets/icicte2019_5.4_farnell.pdf
I’ve experienced burnout. (Probably while producing a lot of the docs you consumed learning go, btw ;)

Like I said, I agreed with my parent post’s points on just working 9-5 (on average I probably work less than that), but I just think it’s important to try to do things really, really well, but within the constraints of having a balanced life.
> if voting could change anything they wouldn't allow you to do it.

They don't have to disallow it, just make it difficult and inconvenient. The loud part is "election security". The quiet part is "voter suppression".

Like, why the hell do so many states only allow a SINGLE day to vote? I can understand not trusting the mail-in voting that Oregon and some other states do, but certainly we can all agree that letting the polls be open for multiple days with long hours would be a good thing, right?

> "Let's start by making voting days holidays"

I hate that there has been such a push for this. It's not going to increase turnout. It will not increase turnout from people that work emergency services, and will lower turnout for people that work customer-facing jobs like retail and restaurants. Just ask your cashier how easy it is for them to get Labor Day, Memorial Day, or Independence Day off of work. They will laugh in your face.
I'm wondering about the demographics of the victims of a $182M heist like this.

Is this more like 182 very wealthy people (i.e. worth $10s to $100s of millions) losing $1M each, or is it more like 1820 people losing their $100K life savings into this?
Snapchat is in control of all the things you listed. You're agreeing with the person you're insulting.
It’s quasi-passive voice—a sentence grammatically in the active voice but where the subject is purely passive. Such as “honey is sweet” is really an assertion about what happens when a person tastes honey.

The “people” here are purely passive; the sentence is an assertion about what an implicit actor should or should not do with respect to people.
Would love to learn more and connect you with one of our product managers that looks after configuration and pre builds. Email me at geoff@gitpod.io? Thanks.
> If you care too much about privacy, GrapheneOS is the way to go

Not so sure about that. If you care about SECURITY than GrapheneOS is pretty much the best choice on the market, comparable only to iOS or bare Android on Pixel Phones. Everyone else isn't even reasonable to compare against it.

But wether it's more private with sandboxed Google Play Services vs Lineage OS and MicroG or iOS is not such an obvious choice to me.
Meh. The small company I work at has seen its fair share of weird macbook failures, I don't think that - among high end machines - they stand much above the crowd.

Funny screens, overheating, broken trackpads, the infamous keyboard.

They are definitely more annoying that you can't swap the disks if they need sending off for repair though.
Ask HN: How to Desktop Automate for Locked Down PC-HDMI Capture and Extra PC?
My wife has ridiculous amount of manual tasks to do across a bunch of non integrated software every month.

Some of the software is out of date, there is 4 different apps/databases plus excel she needs to click through on to process a single payment, plus checking. She now has the tasked swollen to the point she has to do at least 300-400 every end of month and it is now taking many hours of her time. Mostly unpaid overtime...

So it is entirely able to be automated, except the PC is the most heavily locked down thing I have ever seen, you can't run portable apps, install browser extensions etc etc. Plus everything you try that is verboten sends a report back to HQ and after not many reports questions are asked.

Business is not interested in solving such problems, their answer is "just spend an extra 20-30 hours a month riding the mouse". Well you can guess what I think of that.

So I think to automate this task with an external PC, HDMI capture card and maybe an Arduino or similar to generate mouse and keyboard commands, controlled by USB (serial) commands from the external automation PC.

Obviously with this method it is all shortcut keys and image matching for mouse co-ords to press, so Sikulux or some custom Python maybe.

Has anyone done this? I searched for quite a while and could not come up with any specific examples that anyone else had done anything similar.

I can't see why it would be a big problem ,other than setup time and some potential fragility, but payoffs would be big. I'm surprised not more people have not had similar problems, am I missing something?
Have you manually filed taxes before? For the average person it’s quite easy to fill out the required forms.
There was another thread on this topic a day ago [0] that may contain more information.

As an affected customer, it just feels bad to basically be "ghosted" by a company like this. The capital firm that acquired the company seems to deserve all the blame (I think it is Richmond Capital and Rob Lilleness who assumed the role of CEO & Chairman).

My most fervent wish is that the very robust underlying technology ([1], see Protocol) lands in the hands of a group that can make good use of it and hopefully return it to market.

It's all a shame, really: the products were/are fantastically diverse and reliable, but the company was run into the ground.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31056027

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insteon
> Asking your government to adopt policies that is actively against the interests of most of the people in the country is immoral, regardless of the reasoning behind it.

To solve the problem, you can either liquidate all immoral people, or harden government against the desires of immoral people. Eliminating Intuit would just result in a new company picking up where they left off. Blaming and condemning Intuit is a no-op and a waste of time.
Appreciate the clarification. I am familiar with RANS modeling to a reasonable extent but not with a lot of the modern developments. We're still kind of at the stage of trying to find something that works as well as Prantdl's mixing length model, or maybe a k-epsilon model. Additionally, while our processes are turbulent, the turbulence differs significantly from classical turbulence.

For instance, turbulence in Hall thrusters is likely to be governed by an inverse energy cascade, where small disturbances magnify to larger and larger scales and the dissipation occurs via convection at device-scale instead of by diffusion at kolmogorov scales.
shape rotator (also numbercel) - STEM type person - engineer stereotype good at visualisation (can pass minds-eye shape rotation intelligence tests).

wordcel - stereotyped humanities or liberal arts person (or sales?) - word with suffix of cel (meme templated from incel etcetera but without that original meaning).

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/cultures/wordcel-shape-rotato...

https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/wordcels-numbercels-defi...
But the difference between compiled vs interpreted languages is correct as stated.
Yeah, good points to consider. I think the sites that would be scrapped the most would be where the data is regularly and reliably up-to-date, and a large volume of it at that - so not just one scraper but many different parties may on a daily or weekly basis try to scrap every page.

I feel that ruling should have the caveat that if a fair cost paid API version for getting publicly listed data then the scrapers must legally use that (say no more than 5% more than cost of CPU/bandwidth/etc of the scraping behaviour); ideally a rule too that at minimum there be a delay if they are republishing that data without your permission, so at least you as the platform/source/reason for the data being up-to-date aren't harmed too - which may then kill the source platform over time if regular visitors somehow start going to the competitor publishing the data.
Author here, yes, I fully agree about all you said especially certifications and dogma. How can you have a certification, in something that is a list of half a dozen goals? By getting a certification in something else, that isn't Agile!

> managing people instead of about satisfying customers.

I wrote another article that somewhat alludes to this, it's linked at the start of this one. If I'm not helping people, either customers, or developers by making their jobs easier, then what exactly am I doing as a professional?
Agile was never good. Agile is a marketing word used to sell useless training to even more useless managers.
> The problem with space imagery is that almost everyone who wants it has a niche use case

But this is a good problem. It's like saying "the problem with motors is that everyone who uses them has a niche use case" (submarines, cars, airplanes, industrial machinery...). Or that "the problem with microscopy is that everyone who wants it has a niche use case". And indeed it does! Microscopes for biologists are different to those for chemists, engineers, medical doctors, physicists, etc.

The concept of "space imagery" is extremely wide. It is natural that earth observation satellites become specialized. I wouldn't be surprised to see in the near future some "CH4" or "CO2" satellites that acquire light in a handful of extremely narrow particular bands on the short wave infrared spectrum that are useful only for observing plumes of these gases. Right now, people use hyperspectral imagers (which have a dense sampling of some parts of the spectrum) and throw away most of the image data.
I wonder how many of the people that can afford these trips care about any of that?
Raku has an extensible grammar supporting all the things you mention.
I kind of reactivated my blog recently and I'll certainly not overshare. Planning to post about what I've merged in my open source projects and/or any other useful snippet. Maybe some insights in a talk I've found worth sharing. Things that are okay to share and useful to remember for my future self.
Valley companies embrace flexible work policies to help fill hundreds of jobs
And there's also the issue that it doesn't seem to have any concept of priors. Every now and then I give Siri (and Maps) a try, and it's always something like, I ask it to "navigate to [name of local business]" and it starts navigating to a business with the same name ... but 2000 miles away. Even though it does have that business on the local map...
"The second stage of the Falcon burns up in the atmosphere. Their Starship project is attempting to fix this."

Just in case: Starship is a whole new rocket, not just an evolutionary upgrade of extant Falcon 9 to full reusability.
Gonya be rich, ke?
Agreed. Wouldn't US or France do the same if someone publicly suggested similar violence for WTC or Eiffel?
True.
But on the other hand an experienced developer usually can give a reasonable estimate. An if he says: "about two days maybe a week" then that is you best estimate. Using story points is just another complication.

And points do not stop anyone from holding you to account, if that is what they want to do.
The question is then what phone exists that is immune from this? A flip phone? A Nokia 1011? I might be completely misinformed but seems like SIM card and the underlying OS is vector. What happens if I use a cell phone from late 90s and early 2000s? What is there to hack with those flip phones? JavaME over the wire? What if the cell phone dates even further?

Legitimately curious what options is there. Could If you are someone of interest then it seems like having a smartphone is an automatic liability. What then solution is possible since sending and reading a simple text message is enough to escalate privilege?
> It makes sense to have a tax authority to fill out their own tax forms.

That's all that is being talked about with #1.

> I don't think it makes any sense to have what amounts to a nationalized TurboTax that interprets tax laws outside of their own jurisdiction.

No one is suggesting that.

> States' tax laws are not just federal taxes on a different form.

Typically, a component (often the main component, with the state firm being smaller to capture special situations that cause variations) of state tax filing is exactly federal tax documents (not on a different form.)

Getting the state to prefill their own forms is a separate policy decision, but it's generally smaller impact in time/effort per filer as well as smaller impact in # impacted.
Even though I generally agree with your point about the topic, calling people "autistic nerds" isn't cool.
Author here, I too have never seen it mean anything else either. Occasionally replace Jira with Azure DevOps at some places, but overall yes the sentiment is the same.
The point is no language is inherently compiled - people just choose to compile it. Any language that can be compiled can also be interpreted.
Add “my Windows has ads for crapware even though I paid full price for it and bought direct from Microsoft” to the list.
Your intent as the original owner of the data is important! You have to explicitly give Linkedin the right to display your data. It's in their Terms of Service. If Linkedin does something with your data that is outside the ToS, then that is on them, but if they do something within the ToS that you don't like then maybe you should not have provided them with your data.

As for whether the data should be public, that's a decision we each have to make.
For the 2nd part, I have done scraping and would always opt for an API if the price is reasonable over paying nosebleed amounts for residential proxies
A small correction: L'Orient-Le Jour is a French-language Lebanese newspaper, not a French newspaper.
I appreciate the feedback and will try to get better at listing my tasks. One thing that I will struggle to copy is figuring out the best schedule that works for me.

Our team finds it hard when there is too much flexibility in the schedule when working remotely. If you are more of an individual contributor, flexible schedule works, but the setup of our team is not like that due to the nature of our projects.

To solve this, our company set working hours that we would follow. However, not all comply with this since some of my co-workers are still going out for long errands.

There is also a lag due to technical issues and the overall setup of remote work where you don't know what's going on with your co-workers. Questions that would typically take a minute to answer if you are working onsite take minutes or sometimes hours to be resolved.
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It doesn't exactly exist in market as a product yet but the Intel NUC Laptop Element may promise to do this. From the marketing material I have seen it's basically like a cartridge that presumably you can slide into any kind of chassis. On the go it could be a 15" or 17" laptop chassis being sold along side with a Desktop chassis for at home.

I'm also considering the same albeit a bit different - a standard NUC or even a Chromebox that I bring to work and use at home - all over USBc. And for in-person meetings where I need a device I have a thin and light Chromebook in my bag.
Too late. President Trump already publicly gave away information on the capabilities of US spy satellites in 2019.

https://news.yahoo.com/trump-tweeted-classified-satellite-im...
I'm not normally one to say "Bro, read the room", but...

Bro. Read the room.

The entire comment section answers the question of "why all of the hate".