skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The risk just feels too high for existing companies, and even most new startups. You're turning over a lot of control and trying to succeed anyway.

Which is also what leads to the parasocial relationships crypto enthusiasts wind up having with web 3 projects and their founders

The founders need economic incentives and the successful ones do that to great efficacy, and all the other participants have far more risk and fewer resources to make anything with the new protocol, so they dont

It requires incredible privilege to be able to launch something for free, and its equally laughable for web 3 communities to suggest that

So the market moves towards these big token sales and everything else is tolerated fallout
It's misplaced incentives. Often the easiest way to get a promotion is to pawn off a little bit of the soul of the company or brand.
Two parties can both be to blame.
Ah yes, the “trust me, this time the war on drugs will totally work” response.
Hi HN, I've been making simple word games lately. In this one - you have one job, find a word! My wife is really good at it, usually takes her under a minute. I look forward to making more web games, and -as a Swift-app dev- I'd love to write something soon about why web-first.

Please enjoy and let me know if you have any feedback or suggestions!
Related:

IRS tests free e-filing system that could compete with tax prep giants - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35950836 - May 2023 (567 comments)

Call on the IRS to provide libre tax-filing software - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35705469 - April 2023 (129 comments)

60M Americans have taxes so simple the IRS could do them automatically - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35476709 - April 2023 (277 comments)

Lobbyists begin chipping away at Biden’s $80B IRS overhaul - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35381701 - March 2023 (214 comments)

Intuit pouring money into lobbying amid push for free government-run tax filing - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34840039 - Feb 2023 (178 comments)

IRS builds task force to explore running its own free e-file system - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34764952 - Feb 2023 (199 comments)

IRS Free File: Do Your Taxes for Free - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34462122 - Jan 2023 (247 comments)

IRS will look into setting up a free e-filing system - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32753099 - Sept 2022 (408 comments)

The IRS could be on the verge of changing the way Americans file their taxes - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32550841 - Aug 2022 (17 comments)

IRS will study free tax filing options - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32502321 - Aug 2022 (25 comments)

TurboTax’s fight against free tax filing - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31072202 - April 2022 (394 comments)

Filing taxes could be free & simple. H&R Block & Intuit lobby against it (2017) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30856968 - March 2022 (114 comments)

FTC sues Intuit for its deceptive TurboTax “free” filing campaign - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30846071 - March 2022 (587 comments)

Ask HN: How does TurboTax get away with dark patterns? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30409523 - Feb 2022 (122 comments)

Why do Americans have to pay much to file their tax returns when the IRS knows? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30267361 - Feb 2022 (22 comments)

Filing Taxes Could Be Free and Simple. But H&R Block and Intuit Lobby Against It (2017) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30185484 - Feb 2022 (18 comments)

California tried to save the nation from tax filing, then Intuit stepped in - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28944200 - Oct 2021 (283 comments)

The IRS has a big opportunity to fix the way Americans file taxes - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28177289 - Aug 2021 (12 comments)

... plus dozens more: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35970518
Nonsense like "silver platter", almost certainly embellished (unless a "Barnum" or "Wonka" or some shiite was running the bank). The fundamentals, totally believable.

It's incredibly easy (still) to do certain kinds of "social engineering". Terms like "psychological sleight-of-hand" can sometimes make it a little clearer how humans just have blind spots - ways our perception works and doesn't. And, people who are used to being VERY "in control", intelligent / experienced (compared to others in room), etc., can sometimes be the easiest to manipulate in certain ways.

But, really, it boils down, sometimes, to something as simple as "how long can you keep a person talking?" Mitnick was probably in a good position to do these sorts of things - assuming the story is from after he "turned White Hat". And, in this case, the even simpler deal with the numbers is something like "oh, shoot, I had a misprint on old cards, did I give you the right one? What's the phone number on it?" Drop something abruptly like that, at some random point in a conversation, most people wouldn't think twice... Even if their current context involves a heavy dose of thinking about voices and numbers. They might easily enough realize in the morning, but, too late, by then. Further, getting bank account numbers is not necessarily hard either. Could even be as simple as "dumpster diving", back then. Did the CEO always shred every single document, with a "secure shredder" (as much as that's possible) when home? Or maybe burn everything, always?

And, in any case, you're even mixing up aspects of the story. The phone number isn't the bank account digits, it's just all the numbers from 0 through 9 (you can even get one twice, for a 10-digit [w/ area code] number).

I propose that your sureness in dismissing this story, misapprehensions about it, etc., make you an unwittingly "good mark."
It's a improvement, of course. However, people use ChatGPT for many subjects, not just one. For instance, I chat about code, product management, personal life and other things. Sometimes for different projects. The current UX is a bit limiting, IMHO.
The ideal UX for me would allow me to choose or create a new custom instruction set for each conversation. I would like to be able to switch between them easily, and to be able to create new ones easily. What is the context? Is it code? PM? business strategy? etc. What's the project?

It is more like if I could have different personas. Maybe in the future...
technically yes. both those things are a waste of energy that could have been spent bettering humanity. not to mention they were probably made by 'slaves'
> No thanks, I don't want a human connection and asking someone for help when looking up information.

Ironically, at the rate the quality of Google results is current diminishing, you may need a human connection in order to have any sense that the information you are getting is accurate in the very near future.

I think it won't be the worst thing if curation is seen as valuable again.
The Chronicle finally notices SF's drug problem, only to point the finger of guilt somewhere else! Look in the mirror, Chron.

There isn't a "good" answer to dangerous drugs. Fighting a drug war is the worst solution, except for all the others.
There are easy ways to get around this. This isn't actually practical to implement. You could just buy and sell stocks within a second.

> We also can’t have the dirty proles save their way to a higher social class.

I don't know what you mean by this. Rich people spend their money at a slower rate than poor people so the rich would be disproportionately impacted by this. Someone living paycheck to paycheck isn't going to have much money that can expire to begin with.
But at 1 bar delta p, not 400 bar.

Delta P means pressure difference. DO NOT GOOGLE.
FedNow isn't a big issue.

CBDC really isn't a big issue either, because it almost certainly won't happen. Americans are very unlikely to want a system like that.
Source available does sadly not really mean that much. Just means the source code is available. MIT licensed code and code you can see but are not allowed to use can be described as source available. That is what https://faircode.io/ got created for to solve.

Background:
https://github.com/n8n-io/n8n/issues/40
This post does not limit itself to true accidents. Indeed, both people involved were negligent. Preventable harm that you do not prevent through your own choices can very well be unforgivable. Pretending that everything should be forgivable is a heinous thing to do to victims, and they have every right to not forgive or forget if you have caused them irreversible harm through negligence or accident. A victim has the right to never forget how you changed their life.

You do not have a right to be free from the burden you have caused someone else.
Even developing countries! In my shitty country this year I got an email, and 2 days later my tax return money showed up in my bank account. I need to fill out some extra forms to claim my work from home tax benefit, but it's a minimal amount of effort, and it's optional.
> There are arguments for the new format, but the Chrome people seemed unwilling to maintain support for it when pick-up was non-existent

Of course there is no pick-up when Chrome, with its massive market share, doesn't support it. Demanding pick-up before support makes no sense for an entity with such a large dominance.
I think GP is suggesting that some interests want the process of filing your taxes to be annoying/frustrating/degrading/disruptive to increase anti-tax sentiment.

(I.e., most people have already been deprived of the funds for some fraction of the year; what interest is served by making them waste time finding records and jumping through hoops and potentially paying a third party to help them provide the IRS with information that it mostly already has?)
That's not the same thing. For the process referenced by your link, the taxpayer would still need to fill in most lines, only leaving a few calculation lines blank for the IRS to finish.

> If you want the IRS to figure your tax. Read Form 1040 or 1040-SR, lines 1 through 15, and Schedule 1 (Form 1040), if applicable. Fill in the lines that apply to you and attach Schedule 1 (Form 1040), if applicable. Don’t complete Form 1040 or 1040-SR, line 16 or 17.

> If you are filing a joint return, use the space on the dotted line next to the words “Adjusted Gross Income” on the first page of your return to separately show your taxable income and your spouse's taxable income.

> Read Form 1040 or 1040-SR, lines 19 through 33, and Schedules 2 and 3 (Form 1040), if applicable. Fill in the lines that apply to you and attach Schedules 2 and 3 (Form 1040), if applicable. Don’t fill in Form 1040 or 1040-SR, lines 22, 24, 33, or 34 through 38. Don’t fill in Schedule 2 (Form 1040), line 1 or 3. Also, don’t complete Schedule 3 (Form 1040), line 6d, if you are completing Schedule R (Form 1040), or Form 1040 or 1040-SR, line 27, if you want the IRS to figure the credits shown on those lines.

https://www.irs.gov/publications/p17#en_US_2022_publink10001...

Also, it comes with several limitations.

> When the IRS cannot figure your tax. The IRS can’t figure your tax for you if any of the following apply.

> You want your refund directly deposited into your checking or savings account ...

https://www.irs.gov/publications/p17#en_US_2022_publink10001...
Now offering $250,000 rides to space on my carbon fiber vacuum airship.
I'm 80/20 on Musk's Mars thing being a way to get great PR in certain circles at near-zero cost. His periodically erratic behavior is the only reason I allocate the 20. Who else is seriously talking about space colonization and even kinda putting their money where their mouth is? Which money, conveniently, would have had to have been spent for much-lesser goals anyway... I'll be convinced he means what he says, on that front, when he starts spending serious cash on projects that have little purpose other than reaching and/or colonizing Mars. For now, I believe he wanted to own a rocket company, and wanted to have a stated mission that might make recruiting easier and buy him some goodwill points.
Well, one difference is that Teslas sort of are luxury products. Given Apple marketshare in the US among consumers, it's hard to consider their products as luxury goods in the same way.
yeah my thoughts when reading his stuff too. Just because its based in "health" doesnt mean its healthy. Hes still unfamiliar with balance it seems
what? you said perfect markets reduce margins and cause people to make less of something… so the concept of a market is invalid in your opinion? this is completely incorrect. supply doesnt wink out of existence in the presence of demand just because margins got thinner and thinner. sometimes supply will disappear for various reasons, or maybe margins were super thin and some huge player made an irresponsible bet, but the market restores supply immediately in these cases just like all other cases. what you are saying is complete nonsense.
Good question. Perhaps they mean as percentage of federal spending?

https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2010/feb/01/nasa-b...
Right, I'm sure this is boilerplate language provided by a law firm.
They gave it over. Apple does not care about privacy the way it has trained American consumer to think it does.
I'm not sure if you're describing something else, but tax withholding is voluntary. You can opt out and choose to pay your estimated taxes as a lump sum, but that also requires a level of budgeting that I'd argue most people don't have the financial literacy/self-control to do effectively.
PCIe for Hackers: An M.2 Card Journey
" the M.2 specification allows two separate PCIe links connected to the E-key slot; however, no WiFi cards use this apart from some really old WiGig-capable ones, and manufacturers have long given up on connecting a second link. Nevertheless, there are some cards like the Google Coral M.2 E-key dual AI accelerator and the recently announced uSDR, that do indeed require the second link – otherwise, only half of their capacity is available."
The heck is a conslops besides the food at the prison?
༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ homebrew pls
I dont think they realise the hacking I've seen on computers is at the HW level.

Take this PC, a fairly new dell, all patched with the bios et al, and certain websites (dailymail, youtube and reddit) with adverts deliver something that disables the dell mouse.

Only option is to reboot the pc but I have to take the mouse out of the usb and plug it back otherwise the dell usb mouse still wont work after a reboot.

So I love their hubris, but I dont think they see some of the hacking that goes on because its at the hw level.
Free tax filing through the government? Why that’s basically communism!! Free enterprise is the best option for everything!! /s
It's breaking the law because you're essentially being forced to consent to some thing that they legally must give you the option to opt out of. It's not about them doing it, it's about the validity of their request for consent.

If I hire a hitman to murder somebody, but the hitman chickens out, I'm still guilty of having hired a hitman, even if nobody died.
Yes, I'm sure you have wonderful reasons for wanting to legislate your morality. No, that person offered zero in the way of concrete suggestions, and it staggers belief to see how you would even think that. The immediate subject at hand is not government funded education but family structures, and I was pretty explicit about the solution; since you seem not to have the correct context I suggest re-reading this discussion more carefully.
“ChatGPT, don’t treat me like an idiot. Remember that and thanks”
I don't get it. The government could just ban the things it doesn't want instead.

Also, nothing stops people from buying the goods in question by using a payment service provider/bank that provides a layer on top of the CDBC and automatically circulates the money for you behind the scenes to avoid the expiry.
As someone from a country with ludicrously (needlessly) complicated tax law: Unless you have a really complicated situation, you just get a pre-calculated form on a government site you basically just have to look at and approve. That covers about 90%+ of everyone.
Can you elaborate what douche mobile means? And example of a non douche one?
Controversial take for all of you:

US taxes arent complicated because of tax software lobbiests. In fact they are already very simple if you actually value simplicity. But people dont - they value paying the least in taxes as possible (as they should).

You can dumbly supply a small amount of information and be in complete compliance with the law. Virtually all complexity comes from proving ways in which you don't owe taxes and calculating how much. Thus, reducing complexity necessarily increases taxes for most cases. That means reducing complexity will always have lots of normal people rationally opposing it.

Tax complexity reductions need to be accompanied by tax cuts across the board.
I view this type of thinking as the conspiratorially minded's version of "trying to solve social problems with technical solutions".

If there were political motive and will to implement such a system, it could be done without a CBDC and certainly without modernization of ACH (heh).

Conversely, if there's not political motive and will, then the presence of a CBDC doesn't change that fact.
I am reminded of a conversation on Security Now where Steve Gibson recommended that each website that has traffic inside the UK to have a red banner at the top of the page to sentiment of something like, "The UK Government is forcibly watching traffic on this website."

Watch how quickly that turns the conversation around.

This argument lawmakers have here is entirely built upon the straw man. I understand the deep yearning to protect children but all this won't make the criminals stop using the tools that are currently legal. They will continue to use them. Making them "illegal" won't make them stop using them because they can still be acquired.
Monero. It's not perfect of course.
Not as a moon-landing-denier, but as someone with an interest in epistemology: claiming thousands of people witnessing launches is not indicative of a moon landing, just a launch.

By staking the existence of the entirety of Apollo missions to something that is logically proof of a small part, the validity of the larger claim is diminished to someone who is not already invested the validity.
afaik food stamps/SNAP/EBT is a charitable thing though, right? ie, the recipients are not trading labor for it, right?
And the US still continues to hesitate to forge stronger ties with India because of Cold-War-era (mis)alignments. It should be Canada, UK, India; instead India doesn't even feature in the top 15 closest American allies.
b/c the 'writing' part is at the end of the process of gathering the news.
While the average content of gold and platinum-group elements in an iron asteroid is many thousands of times higher than their average content in the crust of the Earth, that does not mean that these metals are easy to mine.

Unlike on Earth, where various processes have concentrated the precious metal into some deposits where they are much more abundant than on average, e.g. in alluvial deposits in river beds or in magmatic sulfide deposits, on such an asteroid the precious metals are dissolved in iron and spread uniformly through all the asteroid.

Therefore even if the total amount of precious metals is very great, a huge quantity of energy is required for its extraction. For instance, in order to produce one kilogram of gold more than four hundred tons of iron will have to be processed (e.g. by first producing hundreds of tons of some acid used to dissolve the iron and the other non-precious metals).

So it is very unlikely that we will see any such mining operation soon. There are other metals much easier to mine in such a place, e.g. iron, nickel, cobalt, germanium, chromium, gallium, manganese (but which are not worthwhile to be brought back to Earth).
> "Every time Software is used to fix a [Electrical/Mechanical] problem, a Gremlin is born"

Early in my career, I was confused by seemingly-crazy questions in the Hacker Test (https://www-users.york.ac.uk/~ss44/joke/hacker.htm) like...

> 0133 Ever fix a hardware problem in software?

> 0134 ... Vice versa?

But after spending years developing embedded systems, I don't even blink at such questions. Yes, of course I have committed such necessarily evils!
I read that Portugal derailed the program itself, underfunded and privatized it and it’s a shadow of what it was when it started.

I imagine it’s important to support the drug infrastructure so to speak - support for addicts, non-police-centric ways of dealing with the potential addicts etc. drugs are the devil, but they do come with their share of problems, which you can’t expect to just vanish upon legalizaton.

Government/ society gotta put in an effort comparable at least to that of the anti-tobacco etc.
Wow, the difference was greater than I expected. 1/4 greenhouse gas emissions & 1/2 water usage between least and greatest animal consuming groups.
Thanks for this, this narrative is being repeated a lot and should be challenged more: "The WAR on drugs failed so therefore we must totally 180 on everything."

Obviously being very hard on drug dealers didn't eliminate drug usage, however we are not comparing it to the counterfactual of different drug strategies. Maybe the war on drugs did save people's life and prevented a large amount of drug usage.

OR "disproportionately punishing people of color"
Are they also disproportionately affected by overdoses or as victims?
I mean it's entirely fine, at least that's what the company decided.

The snark is mostly arising because I recently wrote a little tool to do an inventory of our private docker registry, because storage was getting difficult to manage. After a whole bunch of messy data collection and setup, it sets up a graph of the layers in the registry, assigns images and tags to owners. From there it backpropagates "ownership" of layers - if a layer is only referenced by images attributed to one team, that layer belongs to the team, else it's marked as mixed.

Before doing that, people were enthusiastic about making image builds more efficient, tagging smarter, collecting faster. A great atmosphere I'm finding myself enjoying more and more in the company, which is great.

However, doing the analysis pretty much showed us that 90% - 95% of the storage used in the private registry was used by these python/ml docker images. We found several projects whose CD images were not being garbage collected by the setup for 2 years or so. This wasn't great, but the entirety of their images took up less storage than like 2 base images of the ML stack.

It's the thing we have to do, but I reserve my right to make fun of it.
oh thanks for this! I had no idea, and it would have been better than nothing at all!
I'm not sure what we are misunderstanding from each other. I'm saying google could very well be blocking it's deployment in chrome because it is not the implementation they originally came forward with if they are that petty and NIH.
> Sharing your greatness more often results in some narcissist or psychopath (clinical, not conversational) taking credit for your work. In an era of social media infested domains, derivative work leeches off your effort and its more likely someone you've never met will become known for whatever you invent.

i make demonstration and breakout boards and release the designs in the _hopes_ that someone influential will start cloning it

one epaper demo board has led to countless companies emailing me asking how they can take their board clone and make it do the bespoke thing they ultimately wanted to make, since the original seller usually has no clue

so maybe give up 90% of your sauce? the last 10% are circumstantial to the taster anyway...

easter eggs are a great way to prove provenance if it comes down to it
Hot breasts should be safe!
It is not difficult to recreate industries with blank checks.

Especially for chemical precursor kinds of things where it isn’t a complexity problem but a scaling problem.

When you don’t care about cost things can be scaled up rather quickly.