skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Come on - you didn't "simply list facts" you stated wildly confident and extreme opinions and then you labeled them facts

They are facts:

1. "Gated community is centralized by default" is a fact.

2. "Literally no new thing has come out of this" is a fact.

3. "Not to mention use cases where you wouldn't want to advertise your membership in a gated community" is a statment that has a fact in it: "use cases where you wouldn't want to advertise your membership in a gated community"

And in the comment you're replying to I've also stated some facts besides just opinion.

> There are interesting conversations to have on this topic, but it's hard to have them with someone only willing to engage in this way.

Please show me a single "interesting conversation" where anyone from the crypto community has anything to say beyond "there are new interesting new things you just have to believe in possibility that someday maybe this will happen".

> It requires some amount of willingness to be uncertain of what you currently believe and you're not.

I'm definitely uncertain about many things. Once again, there's a difference between being uncertain and blindly believing in snake oil. It's on the sellers of snake oil to prove their wild claims, not on me.

> The more you reply, the more you confirm my initial suspicion of bad faith.

Yup. More comments without zero substance on the "interesting new capabilites" and "interesting discussions".

> I'm not some blind crypto nut (at best I'm cautiously optimistic), but I find it hard to engage with the baseline anti-crypto hostility on HN which makes interesting conversation hard.

If there was any such interesting conversation, "not blind crypto nuts" would have already had it and had, for example, links to such discussions. In over a decade no such discussion has materialised for very obvious reasons.
I recently had to go back and file an amended return for one state and file a return for an additional state for the past 5 years. It made my life a lot easier to be able to just install the past 5 years versions of TurboTax Desktop which I had saved the installers for. I was able to run through this whole process using the tax rules that were in place at the time.

Not sure if this would have worked on a web version or not, but I was pretty happy to have this option available to me.
Just buy a MacBook.
I've been using the networkQuality command on MacOS (a command line tool). It has a few interesting options so see its man page.
They also do not invest in their workforce the way other Bay Area companies do. For example, they do not really encourage engineers to grow outside hired abilities and make it almost impossible to find time to work on anything except the Radars (tasks) put in front of you. Plenty of managers would proudly say out-loud they would prefer someone go build a new skillset outside of Apple and then come back. (This is jokingly referred to as your "next tour of duty" as many engineers actually do come back.)

They also make it challenging to switch teams internally, you basically compete for the same role an external candidate would, and you interview as if you were an external candidate.

All of that makes it very easy to get burnt out and so either you are someone bought into the "cult" of Apple and couldn't see yourself working anywhere else, or you peace-out once the rose-colored glasses come off.
Not the Wizard format, but https://sites.google.com/view/incometaxspreadsheet/home is a pretty popular project along those lines.
So cool!

Spend a good 30 minutes already.

I was a bit confused about the map shrinking at first, as it wasn’t explained in the tutorial.

This was my longest and most satisfying victory so far:

http://pounce.sh/?replay=1210431955
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severance_(TV_series)
Laws != ethics

And simply put, my vote does not matter. The similar chucklehead gets put into office, and does the will of the monied elite. And yes, I do vote, as little as it matters.

https://www.vox.com/2014/4/18/5624310/martin-gilens-testing-...

I'm not a millionaire. I have no PAC's to my name. I do not hire or otherwise fund lobbyists. So, my only time to exert any sort of control on this system is to vote. And congress (state AND national) has only about a 3% parity with what I vote. Had I been in the monied interests category, I would get about 75% of what I wanted.

So indeed, piracy it is. Reverse engineering and talking how I did it is. Sharing "illegal number" it is. I have no other course of action.
https://www.barebones.com/support/bbedit/faqs.html#littlesni...
- Adventure

- Dungeon/Zork

- Rogue/Hack/Nethack
>"because only humans have the insatiable appetite for destroying each other."

Chimpanzees 'go to war', and so do some non-great ape species like ants and termites. Interestingly, some ant species conquer other colonies and essentially 'enslave' the defeated worker ants using pheromones. It stands to reason that belligerence would arise elsewhere in the universe because it has on Earth several times.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gombe_Chimpanzee_War
The US system is intentionally designed for companies like TurboTax to make money off of you and to be a political tool.

There's a lot you still have to report yourself, like cash payments or sales, crypto currency, dependents, charitable contributions, and so on.

It's not like the IRS magically knows everything. You're acting as if people only avoid tax fraud because the IRS has a general idea as to what you owe and they keep it secret from you. People are generally pretty decent. The people intentionally committing tax fraud are gonna try whether the IRS keeps your taxes secret from you or not.
> This, the observation that Republicans were morel likely to be suspended than Democrats provides no support for the claim that Twitter showed political bias in its suspension practices. Instead, the observed asymmetry could be explained entirely by the tendency of Republicans to share more misinformation.

Interesting - a difference in outcomes that is not caused by bias, but by different behavior. Could this explain other apparent "biases"? Such as hate speech suspensions [1]? Or police shootings [2]?

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/11/21/faceboo...

[2] https://www.clarionledger.com/story/opinion/columnists/2016/...
Bit watered down dont you think, considering some of the things that appear on Reddit!
I think this might be the project page now: https://invent.kde.org/sdk/kdiff3
I always figured the best way to take your filthy crypto lucre to an fiat is through NFTs. Mint something stupid and sell it to your banned wallet for a ridiculous price. If you just send it from one wallet to another there is no plausible deniability and that transaction will be tracked and scrutinized. Just like laundering fiat through fine art you have to have something that can be subjectively valued and sold.
But is applying a blockchain the answer? What happens if someone steals your wallet or you lose it or the password to it? What happens if someone dies without giving someone access to their wallet? Do those lots now sit vacant? Sure, there's some legal cruft around this, but much of that cruft is actually there for a reason.
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> ad blockers themselves are a potential vector for malware

In practice, ublock origin and you're good.

I am glad to see we agree that adblockers are justified.
Most civilized countries have strong authentication methods which are behind easy and cheap APIs for Google and others to use if they really care about restoring access.
Most people are fine with "just works". I want more

BTW got a huawei matebook as of late. Pretty decent - tries to look like a macbook too
Interesting project. Sent you an email about a collaboration opportunity.
I've been using other distros for more than 10 years on PCs (mostly Fedora).

By a twist of fate, Ubuntu is now the distro I use the most. The reason being that I had a bunch (well, three) of old Apple machines that I wanted to wipe-install Linux on, and Ubuntu was the only distro where everything worked out-of-the-box.

Perhaps I was doing something wrong with the others, but the Apple HW support is quite good.
…and how many people will quite Twitter-style social media entirely during the transition? That alone may be of great societal benefit.
Ahh yes, let me just run curl ... | bash
'I felt more joy than I thought possible'
Is there a shortcut for cmd? I don't have that key.
> Should I just take a couple of weeks' vacation? I'm kind of lost at the moment.

clearly an option for OP. why do you think its otherwise?
I run a pass-through entity (S Corp) and also have investment sales to list and I've been using FreeTaxUSA for three years now. I don't think I've paid for federal yet and state (single, CA) is always $15. I used to pay at least $60 for TurboTax for many years prior.
It definitely is. It happens with over-achievers but it also happens very frequently with under-achievers.

In jobs where people have quotas it is very visible, seeing people scrambling to finish it all by the end of the month, to the detriment of their free time. But this is also the "secret" of some over-achievers.

It's absolutely unhealthy.
Could you please give an example what could be better holistically / what other company does it well?
Just... do that thing that nobody does on a normal basis, nor should they be expected to. Just. Has to be one of my favorite words.
Is there a way to change the output format? I find that "||||||| merged common ancestor" to be very noisy, visually.
I don't know why you are downvoted. I agree. Personal experience says that Apple is not a great place to work at for PMs. I am curious to hear other folks chime in to round out the discussion.
> The language wars largely ended, with the more popular languages folding in a lot of the more (at the time) esoteric features.

> DSLs have fallen out of favor.

External DSLs have largely fallen out of favor, in a large part because the “esoteric features” that have been widely adopted include those that enable very expressive internal DSLs.
What's the relevant value of putting your house on the blockchain?
With server side movement, player A do not send coordinates. The server does the movement of players.

Imagine you are talking over the phone to someone who is driving, given them directions. That is server side movements. If you suddenly stop talking, the car doesn't just stop, nor does the traffic. All you have accomplished is that the driver is no longer getting any further instructions from you.
Yet there are businesses like TaxDown and TaxFix trying to get in the middle (just look at how much they're spending on ads in Spanish TV).

I seriously hope they fail, and also that they're never able to influence the powers that be / the whole process with Hacienda (they surely would like to make it more complex, more like filing a return in the US).
Now if ever I wanted to spy on the neighbours whilst not spying on the neighbours, this is it! LOL
>If we are going that route, we should also desolve the NYT for using shaky evidence to sell the war in Iraq.

The NYT didn't actively goad an army of millions of conspiracy theory lunatics into systematically harassing, stalking, doxxing, and sending death threats to dozens of families who had their kids murdered at school. Imagine getting on national television crying for your dead son, and having this scumbag profit to the tune of millions off of calling you a liar. This has nothing to do with free speech. The guy deserves to rot in hell for what he personally did to those people.

https://www.npr.org/2019/12/14/788117375/his-son-was-killed-...

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/this-sandy-hook-f...

https://abcnews.go.com/US/sandy-hook-shooting-conspiracy-the...
Making the world worse so you can benefit is *evil*. It's evil when individuals do it, and it's evil when corporations do it.

It doesn't matter that a certain choice is better for the corporation. It's still immoral for the corporation to harm people.
A similar thing happened to learnyouahaskell late last year and it was also down for a while (a few weeks IIRC). Fortunately, it's back up now.
> Why isn't it all web at this point ?

They would lose sales if it were. People are sensitive when it comes to their taxes. And I imagine a good number of accountants use Turbotax in the back. There could be legal issues with them uploading clients’ tax information to a third party’s servers.
one possible 'correct' answer for something like this would be iowait caused by slow disk performance on a degraded raid array that was still operational.

as one of many possible theoretical scenarios.
Hah, joke is on you, MacOS becomes closer to iPadOS every release!
At least hair loss and going grey is genetic. I am sure being overweight etc plays a major role, but I wouldn’t rule out a genetic component to most signs of aging.
WOW, this thread exploded while I was away. Thank you all for your kind responses. I'll read every single comment.
Initially, I set out to have more time for my passion projects, which meant spending less time working for money, which, in turn, meant lowering my upkeep costs. I started unsubscribing from one thing, and then another, until, one day, I noticed that it has been days or weeks since I'd used money.

I wondered if anyone else was doing this thing, and I found freganism, "The Man Who Gave Up Money", etc.

And digging deeper into this, I realized several things after pondering them for a while:

a) I'm now operating in large part on my karma, and using money is almost always a karma negative. When I exchange one dollar for something, I'm setting in motion a whole chain of events to which I am karmically connected, most of which are negative.

b) When I work for money, all I get is the money. If I work for an employer for five years, all I have at the end of those five years is the money, which I am, honestly, not capable of managing well, something I have accepted about myself after so many years. On the other hand, if I abandon money, I have time to work on my relationships, something which pays infinitely better.
Show HN: Cloud Infrastructure as Data in PostgreSQL
Does FreeTaxUSA have data integrations for banks and other financial services?
All you write, are normal for young people.

You will not believe, if I will list all things I've tried in my life (I don't mean drugs, sure, but you may need consult with doctor) :)

And I must say, I every day feel the same things, and constantly doing things to achieve calmness, but got it only for moments.

All these things because hormones, they will become less active approximately after your 40, but you will also have less energy.

This is nature, or God, if you prefer. We are created as collective beings, one person is not strong enough to withstand real life consequences.
So solution, to find some good group of people, with strong life values, better offline group, and to make balance between your work/business tries and this group life.

If you feeling absolutely sure in environment where you live now, you may try to start some your own project, or you may start build your community, but this is harder than join already established community.
Living in Freedom with GNU Emacs
>Asking your government to adopt policies that is actively against the interests of most of the people in the country is immoral

My point was that this is something we all do. I have never met a single person who was always on the side of the greater good for every single political issue. I don't think voting or lobbying for your own interests is inherently immoral. If it is, basically all of democracy and capitalism is immoral.
you have to take it consistently and its incredibly hard to get off them because your body adapts to producing low levels on its own. Its almost impossible to convince your body to make more T once you get off them. You are dependent on them for a lifetime in worst case.
What right wing view point do you feel can't be shared?
These bodies are from ~600 years ago. Versus pyramids that are 3500-5000 years old.
The iPad format is really convenient in situations where a laptop can be a drag.
I think GP was talking about market cap, not number of employees.
I'm thinking of doing this and I haven't yet figured out how to migrate all the accounts I have associated with my GMail account. Do you have any suggestion/tips for a fellow potential immigratnt? :)
Why Atlassian Failed So Hard
> Guest are fine, but don’t let anyone live there. Kick them out if
necessary.

My friends spent years bootstrapping and maintaining a local hackerspace.

Most of their problems could be traced back to people trying to live at the hackerspace. 95% of people were trying to use it as a hackerspace, but 5% saw it as an opportunity to do some combination of sleep, shower, eat, and relax among interesting people for significantly less than it would cost to rent somewhere. It gets even harder when the person in question is friends with so-and-so, who will try to defend having them live at the space while they're down on their luck.

I was never heavily involved with the space, but having watched their struggles I would agree: Nobody lives there, nobody stays overnight, no exceptions. Maintain a hard line against this and enforce it early.
People've been saying that since I started using macOS around 2010, and I still don't know what they mean.
If you're savvy enough to know why that's potentially dangerous, you're savvy enough to pipe to an intermediate executable file to inspect the code.
ah damn, I visited it not long ago (a month maybe), almost no activity but still up
Engineering productivity is not measured by LoC but by business outcomes, that's also what the author of the article is arguing about.

I'm not so fond of the phrase "software engineer" in that it's not a hard engineering discipline such as civil engineering. But companies need software developers who think and act like engineers. Engineers in general solve technical problems by applying methodical design, problem solving skills and having technical expertise.

Unless one works in a nonprofit or academic area, engineers are solving business problems for companies. Modern software companies with agile methodologies push engineers close to the business side, allowing them to add the most business value. Of course, many businesses suck at this and treat engineers like factory workers instead of creative individuals.

This varies a lot, depending on whether you're at a 10 person startup or at a FAANG company. Usually if the company has decent management then they have clear expectations of every position. In your case, this could be number of tickets solved or any other metric, but usually not lines of code. At least, I hope. :)
Study: studies of misinformation are biased against conservatives.

Not that i care either way but both sides can lie with statistics
Excellent commentary on all the other reasons Uber succeeded. One other comment I'd have is that taxi services are spectacular in some places. Get a black cab in London or Tokyo and you're overwhelmingly likely to experience a better ride than Uber can offer. But the list of similar cities is extremely short; it just happens that a lot of these doomsayers live in them.

One also doubts that the guy writing this article ever needed to take a cab anywhere.
totaly true, also ideas from QY70 and other trackers.
We have a struggle with the SPI Flash and free memory in general on the teensy. Apart from the dynamic custom samples and cosmetics in the UI,i think it is already usable.
I started at being all-currency, the typical job-apartment-cat type scenario, and I gradually found replacements for each things I needed to function, sometimes with an uncomfortable transition in between.

If you want details, there are some in my comment history.
Older versions of the software are useful for reviewing historical records and calculations in context.

Last night while preparing my 2021 return I opened up the 2020 software with my old return to review what I had done in the prior year.
We used to ask the same question. TBH I haven’t read the f’ing article yet but… I’d summarize this as load=Run-que length. Number of run-eligible processes blocked by something where something is usually IO in a low CPU utilization scenario.
Like that, but also they keep renaming things. And when it's only two lanes max and any faster device will support two lanes, there's no reason to put lanes in the name.
> But the comments here about bright light deterring crime are important (and true). Not sure what a solution is that deals with that AND helps us sleep better etc.

Every French home and apartment I've ever been inside (mostly in the Northwest) has been built or retrofitted with shutters that block out almost all outside light. They're installed on all the main windows including on living room and kitchen windows.

It's just part of the nightly routine to walk around and close them. (Or, in the case of newer electric shutters, just to hit the main button to close them all.)
This seems likely. Compare to this image from their website: https://www.cytopia.net/images/jimmy2_2.png
I bought my iPad Pro 12" given the form factor in 2020. Here's my two cents on coding on it.

It's a brilliant form factor for writing. Get a Bluetooth keyboard and place the iPad vertically it's perfect to write with. I also hoped to code on it. I do connect to a raspberry pi to run Emacs. Coding on it depends on what you want to create. If it is backend servers, parsers, or anything that can be tested on your remote machine it works really well. The moment you want to do web development or create iOS apps you hit a wall. The form factor is great but the software is terrible for coding. Great for consuming, and occasionally for some productive work.
> because I wasn't actually thinking about the data in the forms

Then that’s not a cognitive task, or at least one that requires the full brain. I would venture a guess that you might have been able to complete that task faster if you weren’t also listening to the books, or your error rate might have gone down. Or maybe you didn’t fully comprehend the books. Or maybe the material wasn’t too involved and missing some passages here and there didn’t make a difference.

> who gives a damn whether or not it's multitasking or real multitasking or optimal behavior?

Because attempting to multitask causes long term damage. One could say the same thing about drinking or drugs, and it’s clear that short term enjoyment can have negative long term effects.
I don’t think they do. Hardware specs/features are almost always broadly known well before the announcement.
This sounds like a nice system.

Does it also tell you of its own volition if the tax office owes you money instead on a return without you having to declare anything? For example, if the tax office knows where you work as an employee and where you live, and the tax code has provisions that stipulate that an employee gains a tax advantage of 0.xx€ per kilometre commuting distance between his home and his place of work, does it factor that in or doesn't it? Because that would actually be _nice_.
> I wonder if the comments were the same back when transitioning from the 68k to the PPC.

Pretty much. There were exceptions, things like early image edition programs that were slow on PPC Macs because of 68k emulation, but for most people it wasn’t an issue and anything advertised as Mac-compatible ran just fine. Again, in the worst case emulation corresponded more or less to the performance of a high-end 68040 CPU (without its maths coprocessor, which was an issue sometimes).