skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Note the proviso, taxes should be automatic "for a lot of people." Will taxes be automatic for Warren Buffet? No. For GE? No. For Suzie Q. Public? Yes.
Great, so we're on the same page that investigating Oxman's academic output was an effective tactic for BI. Now if we're just going to focus on the social impact, I guess it depends on what it is that you'd like to see "moved forward". The people behind the campaign against Gay, including right-wing activist Christopher Rufo, have been very open and explicit that this was about advancing their agenda and that plagiarism was a means to an end [1] so you'd have to be pretty credulous to pretend that this was initially about academic honesty.

Rufo and Ackman managed to shift the Overton window and have achieved their goals, for example, by getting mainstream press outlets like the NYT to publish "just asking questions" articles linking Gay's ousting with DEI. Given that this was the original motivation for this whole thing, from my point of view, BI did a great service in pushing back on this agenda, and looking at Oxman as an exemplar of a white academic (recent academic who became famous for her academic work, whatever) was the perfect way to do this.

[1] https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2024/01/04/msnbcs_al...
Not anymore. That was the thing the last time this was (erroneously) reported.
Correction: 180,000,000/~5,000,000,000
Is Lemmy the new Usenet?

Looks like there is quite some action already:

https://lemmyverse.net
To answer your question: wait times can be lower because, if the traffic is low enough, ALL cars just wizz through, at the cost of slowing down while entering the roundabout. Whereas, for the intersection with traffic lights, a significant number of cars will hit red light and have to wait for a minute or two.
In our case it means 100% plastic free. It's much harder, but it can be done. For example: https://mover.eu/products/merino-techfleece-jacket

Materials
Face fabric: 100% merino wool
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Tax law enforcement is not the same as the end user experience of taxpayers.
That is correct. However MDD was manufacturing key military products (F-15, F-18) and it was doing bad financially, going bankrupt and jeopardizing the fighter plane production and maintenance was a "national security" problem that forced the Boeing acquisition of MDD.
Don't know about tor but people don't order hits over bittorrent.
companies pay you for a job and they are not interested in seeing religious or political talk at the work place. sorry but you are paid to WORK and workplace only WORK should happen there. religion, politics, sex, anything that is not WORK has nothing to do there : keep that for after-work, having a drink with friends or relatives or whatever.

what the F do you think you are paid for ?
Sometimes I entertain the idea that inanimate objects have consciousness too and it's pretty disturbing because it would mean we are doing pretty much everything wrong.
Right. And this is just in phones, which are already a pretty locked down ecosystem.

In general, there would be more implementation problems the farther we look away from there: what about things like laptops, particularly laptops with Linux, or raspberries pi, or heck, an Analogue Pocket… there’s a whole range of computing devices; locking down all this stuff would be a huge pain-in-the-butt process. Rather than have some legislatively confusing mess where every device manager has to wonder if they are responsible for implementing some giant DRM scheme, we’re better off just letting the market handle it.
Not to forget Herbert "Herbie" Hancock with the probably still best use of a vocoder in a pop song ;)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlKFeaeS1vc
Precisely. They'll spend $80b to hire "agents." They won't spend a time to make the system actually easy to use. They're not underfunded, they're just incompetent.
In Austria, they have begun winning contracts with public agencies. Their offering is just good, not least due to their top notch battery tech.
In 2023, more than 1.4M electric vehicles were sold in the United States
Oh! I was keeping my thoughts scoped to the output of existing tools. Beyond that doesn't seem worth considering in this particular context.
IRS funding is objectively efficient. Every additional $1 spent on IRS budget brings in $5-9 of additional funding through enforcement.

https://www.cbo.gov/publication/57444
The problem is Polygon's general unreliability and lack of end users. Almost no one I know ever has any cash on Polygon. It's either Solana, ETH, or something like Arbitrum
I am adding WebRTC sources to OBS. Does that makes things easier?

Then you can push+pull into Broadcast Box and use OBS on both sides!
I think some of this has to do with the people making experimental music. All the noise artists I know would be pretty averse to the idea of government grants to work on their music, it's just against their whole ethos.
The broader point that John is making, and was central to the thesis of the standard is that we have to entirely rethink the software engineering paradigms, and generally engineering paradigms to include at every step a question of human centered externalities.

That is just not something that’s built into anything post Norbert wiener cybernetics shift in the late 1950s, 1960s which was just totally blown out of the software side of engineering.
The deprecated attribute in C23 does much more than marking obsolescence
They did just get a big boost, but this was after years of stagnant funding, as the link in the comment you replied to shows.

Comparing government agencies' efficiency to private entities' is tricky since they tend to have different goals and constraints, but I'm not sure 87,000 agents is that many considering the number of households and business that have to pay taxes, and the number of non-profits that don't pay taxes but still file financial information.
Or Macs Book Pro?
Have you tried gnumeric?
And EASA, which is also politically controlled, will not do it because the US government pressure.
That would explain why there are so many stop signs in the US suburbs on intersection with excellent visibility and little to moderate traffic (at least, that's what I see in US movies). Must be super annoying to drive through. Where I live (Poland), stop signs are an exception, used only in circumstances where a mere yield sign is deemed too unsafe.
> That's handy, because I am looking for a fast Linux with small memory footprint, but reliable.

You might want to look into MX Linux. It's a Debian-based distro that offers a good balance of performance, package selection, administration tools etc. I'm running it on my 10yo Thinkpad right now and it's very speedy without relying on ancient software versions.
having driven my share of old pickups, the frames aren't going to be up to the task of carrying any significant load with this kit installed. Might be fine for tooling around town with your girlfriend, but that's about it.

IMO it would make more sense to sell the kits as a complete rolling chassis, with a brand new F250 frame, and let coachbuilders slap on whatever body they want.
The World Wide Web has all of that...better not tacitly support it.
The kids could also pay an adult to get past the age verification check for them too.

Once you get to a state where the kid is unsupervised, is determined to break the rules, and has money to help them do it, they're going to succeed.
What makes you think that this was the only door he forgot to lock? There is clearly a pattern here with Boeing QA, doors, bolts, etc
Growing up under Soviet occupation, this was a recurring theme: the West will fall, there crisis and socialism will win!
Soviets and socialism are fortunately burning in hell, my country is back in West where it belongs for more than thousand years and I can freely laugh at these doomsday prophets.
Turns out, that's not even what's happening.

In the 1950s, the citizens paid 50% of the treasury revenues. Business paid 25% and excise taxes covered the other 25%.

Today, the citizens pay 85% of the treasury revenues. Business pays 7% and excise taxes cover the other 7%.

They're not trying to "get rid of taxes" they're "massively shifting the burden onto the individual."

This, by the way, isn't a republican vs. democrat problem. This is easily observable by noticing how both parties do the same things once they have "power." There is no real difference between the "parties" on this one.
Ask HN: Contacting Google
I acquired the Google Pixel tablet for the new year, intending to replace my aging Lenovo Smart Screen Display 10, mainly due to its inability to play Netflix. However, the experience as a smart screen is atrocious. In every aspect, its software performs less efficiently than Lenovo's (Thank you, ChatGPT, for helping me express this more politely).

I cannot comprehend how such a product made it to the market, as if no one tested it or conducted any form of QA.

My questions are:

How did such a product make it to the market? (Speculating is fine, but having concrete information is better)

Do you have contact information for a real person at Google whom I can reach out to? I want to communicate the issues and offer free QA
No doubt. The last sentence in my post is doing a lot of heavy lifting.
I just assumed it was a really really big car when compared to a horse. It must provide ample head room for a human if that's the ratio. I guess it could be a Shetland pony or something if I were to be generous, but of course it's just bad AI.

https://carnewschina.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/04-Yangw...
Until 1980-1990 I would completely agree but with the more recent history of basically everything I am not so sure anymore.
The agents being hired are mostly just support agents answering the phone. And on net the investment in improving the IRS is a net positive on revenue because they can more effectively go after folk who are cheating.

It's amazing how some folks will be ardently opposed to "defunding the police" ... except for the tax police.
This reminded me of this unrelated incident:

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/apr/17/philadelphi...
Do you have a source for that? This lists a number of others: https://simpleflying.com/aircraft-types-zero-hull-losses/
Endorsements are about to get interesting
I guess but it’s $127 for information I can read in its entirety for free already. I’m sure if they had a more nominal price around $10-20 they would get a lot more purchases. After all it’s really an aggregation of existing texts.
Both can do 1k km on 75l, so apart from the Volvo‘s smaller battery, where‘s the difference for the end user? I think it’s a waste of materials to build such cars, but given the weight the consumption seems impressive.
It’s not a hole in the airframe. It’s a plugged emergency exit door that failed. I guess that’s what they check. The bolts there.
This claim is not correct in several ways. The $80B was not earmarked for hiring agents; that was an additional $80B for the entire agency spread over 10 years. While some of that money might be used to hire additional agents, it will also be used to upgrade old technology (the IRS still uses software from the 1950s), make fixed capital investments that have been long-deferred, regulate third-party tax preparers, provide better customer service, crack down on tax evasion and improve enforcement.

Additionally, this funding needs to be set in the context of an agency whose budget has shrank 20% over the last decade and whose staffing is set to further shrink through attrition and retirements. The IRS Commissioner testified that the IRS would have to hire 52,000 employees over the next 10 years just to keep staffing at current levels [1].

Finally, the Treasury has argued that this $80B investment would (conservatively) lead to an additional $700B in tax revenue over the next decade, so this spending ends up being entirely revenue-positive [2].

[1] https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/written-testimony-of-charles-p-...

[2] https://home.treasury.gov/system/files/136/The-American-Fami...

Edit: since this is Hacker News, I thought it worth pointing out that most of the IRS' software is written in COBOL. I can't think of many things more inefficient and cost-ineffective than continually making bit-part upgrades to 60-year-old software written in a language almost no one knows anymore because of a lack of predictable (human and financial) resources needed to rewrite it.
While I agree with your statement of not giving states too much power over the news, it overlooks the special organizational structure and paints a false picture. The highest controlling body of the öffentliche-rechtliche is the Rundfunkrat which is structured so that it represents "a cross-section of society". It includes organisations like unions or churches.

The Rundfunkrat appoints the Intendant who in turn has autonomy when it comes to programming.

I'm not saying that there's nothing to criticize about the structure but it was especially created in this way to provide checks and balances and not giving politicians direct control over the news. When some tried that in the past it made the news [2].

I think a right wing government would have an easier time defunding and replacing it with its own propaganda channels instead of using it for propaganda.

[1] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rundfunkrat
[2] https://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/zdf-anruf-wird-zu...

Links are in German.
Yeah I did some research on this a while ago because I had the same thought, diesel/electric drive-train seems like a no-brainer for trucks, and maybe even other vehicles. Basically a generator in an electric drive-train, with the possibility of introducing batteries too.

Sadly the main drawback seems to be cost; as is evident in the pricing of the startup's product. More than that, until gasoline vehicle externalities are properly priced in, the cost of any alternative will be exorbitant in comparison.

There have been some concept vehicles, and larger commercial vehicles; but they never caught on. It seems like electric will win before diesel/electric has a real chance. I always thought it'd make the most sense on motor homes and the like, where people tend to bring a small generator for electric appliances anyway.

https://wikicars.org/en/Diesel-Electric_Hybrid
Awesome thx
An MRI cannot diagnose ADHD in an individual. MRI's can see trends and variations in brains of large populations. For example, an MRI of 1,000 people with ADHD might show a different sized <insert brain parts> compared to 1,000 people without ADHD.

However, a single person could have the same size <insert brain parts> as the average of 1,000 ADHD people and still not have ADHD, and a person could not have a significantly different sized <insert brain parts> and have ADHD.

To date, there is not a single biological marker nor empirical test that can be used to diagnose ADHD beyond a reasonable doubt.
Inspection will involve this plane, every other plane around this door/panel, and current manufacturing. Records and maintenance logs will be inspected until they know what happened and why, and then check where it could occur on these planes and others.
The W2 doesn't count as voluntary, unless you bear witness against yourself, by filing for a return and identifying yourself as a taxpayer –waiving your 5A rights.
You mean we’re killing things?
No, bad case of language barrier. Thanks for asking for clarification, its an equally unpleasant misunderstanding as people feeling insulted by the use of the generic you.
It's funny, because I went full Bitwig after being dissatisfied with the lack of certain workflow features in Ableton Live (for example, no customisable shortcuts, crappy bounce workflow etc.)

...and while I loved Bitwig, and while Bitwig is vastly superior on a technical and workflow level, I had this epiphany about music making: It should be about making music.

It's not about having shortcuts or having better ways of doing things. The problem is that I ended up spending more time customising Bitwig and playing around with all the cool things it could do, that it kind of took the focus away from actually making music.

Basically, I'm the kind of person that likes to tinker and that's a huge distraction for me. I think what makes Ableton Live so valuable to me, is that there is no tinker.

It's the fact that it is so bare-bones in a lot of ways, that makes it work for me and allows me to focus on making music.
Back in the day IE, and most other default browsers of the time, were damn near unusable. Firefox was pushed by sites, techies, and even Google (pre-Chrome). There is no such push currently. Chrome works either well enough or even better for the vast majority of people. The ones talking about going back to Firefox for ideological reasons are a niche crowd with reasoning different than the last shifts.
Cargo-Dist for Any Language
The biggest downside to pair programming is that unless you are a strong communicator and feel like investing the energy, great ideas get averaged down to well.. Average.

It doesn't have to be the case, but because of averages it typically is.
If the engineering of this plane wouldn't have been that great disaster would have loomed.[0]

No question about that.

[0] https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/a-matter-of-millimeters-...
> And you?

And me what?

> Your past comments show...

Do you play any role in this "showing" phenomenon, human not at all prone to cognitive error?

> ...you are religious...

Indeed I am - have you any interest in which religion I practice/ Because it matters.

> ...and as such there is no point of replying with much else than this.

Do you present (or even better: perceive) this as an opinion, or as a fact?

If a fact: from what source do you derive your omniscient knowledge of What Is?
You’re correction is welcomed.

I believe my point still stands though.
Weird how you can be a "key manufacturer" yet "go bankrupt." Perhaps they should have just been auctioned off and other investors given an opportunity to create new lines of business out of the incompetent mess they had become. Taking the mess and wholesale buying it into another company and then keeping the management that created the problem in the first place is astronomically dumb.
Yeah, I think there have been a few tractors that have used them. I wish it was an option over hydrostatic transmissions.
There's certainly room to debate how the IRS is spending its money, but they've spent some of it on responding to taxpayer questions, resulting in a decrease in wait times and other improvements: https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy1421. These are their own metrics, so it's possible they're being gamed in some way, but it's not true no money is going toward helping taxpayers.
My biggest issue with that binary log format is that they are just reinventing a DB without being aware of it. And as they discovered, building a DB from scratch is hard, there's corrupted logs even in my own personal machine now.
I think it in general refers to a (seeming) lack of awareness/acknowledgement of non-stem topics like philosophy, theology, ethics, history, etc.

I'm not sure I would phrase it as STEM itself devaluing non-stem (I mean it's an acronym for subjects) but, rather society in general devaluing these, example, how hard is it go out, get a philosophy degree, and practice/write that and live comfortably with that occupation (no external sources of income). History/Literature seems to be much the same
Two of those are manufacturing mistakes, and it seems likely the door one is as well. Not that that helps the passengers, but they're not systemic design flaws.

That anti-icing system is deranged, though. They effectively installed a timed detonator on the engines and want a safety exemption for it.
> Like so much in Garriott’s early games, simply because it sounded cool; certainly this title has no more bearing on the game’s plot, such as it is, than does the name Ultima.

I mean, the name doesn't even have a bearing on the game's genre, let alone its plot. I'd say Ultima was a space shooter if I'd only heard its name.
Ah ok....humans are interesting eh? So much potential, but so determined to fail.

edit: wait a minute....wtf am I quoting from here? None of what I quoted now exists, yet there's no edit indicator on your comment....hmmmmm.
> Two Americans today, whatever their sex and race, have virtually everything in common with each other compared to anybody from 1800, let alone 800.

Define "virtually everything"?

The rich, white, and men have had massively different resources and societal privileges in each of those eras.

Even today it seems obvious to me that to be rich or white or male each brings benefits at every stage of life which can drastically change ones life experience: food security, personal safety, education, job prospects, and romantic opportunities.
Amazon was the one that came to mind with prime air/drone delivery https://www.cnet.com/tech/computing/amazon-hires-former-boei...

I guess it all really started with everyone’s favorite CEO of GE, Jack Welch. It seems like he created the blueprint for the cost cutting/stack ranking/MBAs/profits over quality that we see today.
How Norway Destroys It's Nature
MBAs can only pull this off when there is no competition and they are in bed with the regulators. You can very easily get Boeing back on track by splitting them into multiple competing businesses, but we all know this won't happen.
Most workers are already hopelessly alienated and don’t give an eff…
got to keep these subsidies going - need at least 10 years worth, in order to lower the price of EV's so average consumer can be buy them. In parallel, there needs to be a national plan to roll out charging infrastructure throughout the country. It's an expensive, long term investment which needs to survive at least two election cycles, but it will be worth it
Don’t you love it when you’re reading an article and you’re engaged and interested. And then they pop up something “not the article” in your face, breaking your flow?

I fucking love that. It makes me want to hug them in the face with my balled up fists or maybe something sharp.
Why have we decided that the way to delight our audience is to annoy the fuck out of them?

Let’s all take a moment to reflect on where we went so wrong since I can’t recommend that you click the link and try to read the article.
Shift+F10 is the standard shortcut to open the context menu in Windows regardless of presence/absence of the Menu key.
I have no idea what "wash sale" is. I only heard that term when I was reading the help page in TurboTax, which I'm effectively forced to use.

Seriously, I doubt there is more than 100k people in US that have this "wash sale" any year. I'm so tired of every time someone suggests automatic tax filling, there is always one guy bring up some tax term that 99.99% people never heard of. Sure, if auto tax filling doesn't solve your wash sale calculation, feel free to go back to TurboTax. Let the other 99% people who have one job and no other complicated tax situation skip this yearly nonsense.
I am very impressed by the engineering and design of my Bambu Labs printer. To me that outweighs a large number of stories about ballpoint pens. I've bought far less impressive machines from China too of course. But from here it looks like there are many industries where their actual delivered capabilities are at least as good and sometimes better than anything I can buy elsewhere.

DJI is another such example, and both companies clearly reflect technology with military applications. China does have the capability for leading edge tech. Whether their social system exploits it effectively is another question.
IRS already audits at least 10% of the returns. They should have the entire tax system implemented as a software. It is madness that this part was hidden from the wide audience.

As many software projects, the internal system may not be appropriate for external use, but still they should have components very long time ago.