skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is my experience as well. The IRS generally knows that mistakes happen, and they generally don't really seem interested in criminally punishing small things. Normally they assess a small penalty payment at worst, and set you up with a payment plan if you don't have the money.
Speaking of personas and apple ... I bet apple vision personas make attacks like this a lot easier if anybody ever uses them.
> assuming an itemized deduction

Only 13% of all US federal tax filings each year itemize deductions. That means it would help the vast majority of filers and not harm the rest in any way whatsoever. Weird thing to be against if someone isn't misanthropic.
... did this get posted because of that meme on reddit? I couldn't figure out why such a cable would exist, or if it really did.
> registered with the state

The government is not a single entity. States do not funnel this information to the IRS.

> Those are both matters of public record

In my state (Missouri) house sale prices are not public record.

> 87% of all filings take the standard deduction in any given year for a reason

Yes I think everyone would be enthusiastic about submitting taxes that are 87% accurate.
Mistake? I’m confused. It’s not a grammatical or syntax issue.

Some of those words are even in the dictionary…
The funny thing is they want to have a tech company valuation and everything you are describing is a tech issue that is easily solvable but they won’t do it.

They are a content creation company/studio now. Their price to earnings (PE) ratio is 45 for some reason and they are part of the FAANG acronym for some reason. I can’t even find anything I want to watch on there and we cancelled it until Stranger Things comes out again. Then we will cancel again. The PE for Universal Studios is 12. Paramount is -7.
Strict routines and places for EDC items can help too.

For other things, like tape measures, buy a half dozen. Put them the first place you checked the last time you couldn't find it.
Automatic != hidden.
Painless != hidden.

The fact that you want to cause extra pain to those who can't pay big money lawyers to simply make a point says more about your political leanings than anything else in this comment.
Settings sync is a thing
>I’ve actually been surprised the more subtle product placement isn’t more common

It's more common than you seem to think, just not omnipresent. Look for beer advertising in any scene that takes place at a bar, that's a scenario where not having it would look more out of place so it's almost always done.
It's a content problem.

I cancelled my subscriptions when I noticed that I'm not using them anymore. Years ago, I remember me and my friends were eagerly awaiting every new episode of Agents of Shield or The Expanse. But when I was browsing the IMDB top movies and top TV series recently, I just didn't find anything I wanted to watch (and that hadn't been in cinema half a year ago, thus old). The result is that recently, me and my friends all watched a lot less movies and instead played more video games.

TLDR: Netflix's low-effort content is losing against video games.
It feels like Sydney, Australia is going the opposite direction & removing fencing to force parents to pay attention. At least that's a change I've noticed with any new playgrounds or refurbished ones.
Guess how it works in third world governments!
My perception (maybe incorrect) is that it's harder to play online multi-player games using cracked copies of games without getting found out and banned. Also the risk of getting some malware with your cracked copy (single- or multi-player) is very real, something you don't really have to worry about with a video file.

Regardless of that, the model is just different: if I can pay Netflix $15/mo for unlimited access to their entire catalog -- and their catalog includes everything I want to watch -- then I'm not going to need to go elsewhere, and I'll be happy. If I do, those monthly subscription fees are going to start to add up and make me unhappy.

But Steam doesn't have a subscription service; you pay individually for each game, and there are pretty frequent sales and discounted bundles. If Steam doesn't have a game you want, you buy it from someone else that does have it, and your cost is essentially the same as it would have been if Steam did have it. (Some games do require a subscription, but that's also not really the same thing as Netflix.)

And the usage is just different, too: if you buy a game, you're probably going to play it for many tens or hundreds of hours, over months or maybe even years. For a movie or TV show, you're going to watch it once, most likely, and that's it. When you think about it, $60 (often less) for a game that you get years of enjoyment out of seems pretty reasonable. But then you look at Amazon Video, where you can rent or buy some titles, and the cost is going to be $3 for an hour or two of entertainment, if you're only renting. $3 bucks for two hours vs. $60 for hundreds of hours? No contest.
StsckOverflow for sure, but at quick glance:

- vh is an interesting choice for units. I’ve been out of the game for a couple of years but I don’t think that’s what you want to use (or vw for that matter).

- fonts are loaded from the device the webpage is being loaded from. To ensure your fonts display on any/all devices, regardless of whether they have the font installed locally, use something like Google Fonts to add a link to the fonts in your HTML.
Both of those numbers are not profit numbers.
> I know there are some fancy arguments around stretching limits of language, but none of them seemed all that sensible to me.

Did you read Robert Kegan "The Evolving Self"? It was pretty popular at HN some time ago. Robert Kegan stretching limits of language and he's got a reason: he introduces some notions like "culture of embeddedness" that you just can't define in a way like dictionaries do, one cannot simply get to a point. Kegan uses another approach, he gives his reader an experience that makes her to understand "culture of embeddedness".

Philosophy by definition deals with uncategorised (or poorly categorised) aspects of our world, with aspects that have no good language to talk about them. Anything that was categorised to a point when there is an accepted language to talk about it is not a philosophy, it is a science or something. Philosophy makes first attempts to categorise and when philosophers found a way then a new branch of science emerges.

When you try to talk about uncategorised things, you just can't talk about it. For example, lets assume that there are no widely accepted categorisation of colors, but you've developed one including names for colors like "blue", "red", "magenta" and so on. How you could communicate your ideas to others? The only way I know is to point to different examples of blue and say "blue", point to red and say "red". You need to lead your audience through experiences of blue/red/magenta while they train their neurons to classify them and only then you can refer to their experiences with words "blue", "red", "magenta" to convey the idea that they always appear in a rainbow in the same sequence. While you keep pointing at different colors saying their names, your audience will probably think, that it takes too long for you to get to a point.

I didn't read GEB, so I cannot say how this reason to "stretch limits of language" relates to it, but you've sad that you know no good reason for such stretching, and I hope that now you know at least one reason for it.
Agreed, that's a pretty terrible location given what defcon is and at its current size.
How about you start sharing yours to demonstrate a no secret world?

You will soon realised it won't work right?
Gorkish, now imagine receiving furrowed brows and the hairy eyeball whenever you tell someone what you do. “What do you mean, it doesn’t have any use?” And then I try to say that lots of things don’t have any use: a sunset, for instance. (I don’t mention that most modern math also doesn’t have any practical use)
I'd guess that the kind of person that makes a NAS wouldn't have been stopped by h.264 sizes. The comment I replied to seemed pretty focused on ordinary system drives.
Yeah...

When companies fail to uphold their side of the bargain, I don't feel a need to uphold mine.
I’d say none. It’s just a coincidence that Chat GPT came out at the end of a bull market.
greed and vultures trying to get their share of the gold, ruining the user experience
And when it was at AP maybe 5000 people were attending? Today it's like 25k.

And AP was tolerant of people treating their property like garbage. Caesars' certainly doesn't.
There were still helicopters and slower ground attack aircraft to do gun defense against, and self propelled anti aircraft guns (SPAAG) like Tunguska, Marksman, Pantsir.

New advanced anti-drone guns like Skynex seem to be expensive and have expensive shells. Yet the range is quite small. Could work for high value targets, not to defend a country against large amounts of inexpensive drones?
Of course you should buy a klein bottle from Cliff Stoll. Mine came with a nice note. You won't find less orientable decor at a more reasonable price.
I had an employer that would do 10% margin on cost plus. Fixed price they would shoot for 300% or 400%, and if they were getting close to losing money they would start begging for more before delivery. They only time they really lost money is when they were trying to get into a new line of business and wanted to build heritage.

If they ever needed to compete on price, they just wouldn’t. Usually their competitors wouldn’t either, there were only a few.
It depends on what artists you listen to. Some artists have pulled out of certain streaming services: famously Neil Young left Spotify after some dispute.

There's also some unfortunate music which seems to be in licensing hell so it never ends up on streaming platforms, but I haven't noticed it with famous artists.

But yeah, for most music you're way less likely to have issues streaming their content.
The aerospace industry does not write complete and correct code. Hate to terrify you, but it's true. Some companies do, some specific areas do. Most are just a step or two above the software industry average in terms of quality, which is not that stellar.

They don't get there by using a lot of formal methods or thinking deeply. They get there by testing the shit out of everything and static analysis tools (which have gotten a ton better since I started in the industry). Some of the programmers I've had to clean up after were mediocre, at best (though others were stellar). The main reason their systems don't kill people is the testers standing between you and their original code.

MBSE has been picking up, and it's a good thing. It's not as big as it should be or always used effectively, but it's helping.
Personally I'd attribute it to lobbyists hitting both parties pretty aggressively, but I'm sure some have this idea. If taxes are complicated then it means it's easy to fit in loopholes (or fair tradeoffs depending on your point of view usually)

The last one though really just seems obvious from a competitive standpoint, you look cheaper if you can say that 5% of the price is not your fault. Didn't this just come up with airline ticket prices recently? Everyone wants to tack on fees and taxes at the end to make their product show up higher in search results.
Sounds like nonsense to me. With sufficient friction, many people pay an accountant or some tax software to maybe do it right or wrong.

If you want to make tax rates visible, just send a simple statement showing taxes owed divided by the tax basis.

Also, spending hours doing a tax return tells taxpayers nothing about what they get in return.
On top of the fragmentation we users have to suffer crap like Netflix or Prime or HBO not streaming movies in 4K HDR Atmos when the movies totally exist in that format. We're in 2024 ffs.
Same here. I still have Amazon prime here in Spain but a lot of content only has the stupid Spanish dubbed audio. And my Spanish isn't that great.

I mostly pirate everything and I have Amazon prime for the shipping so I don't really care but I would really be pissed if I'd paid top dollar.
We Can't Have Nice Software
I think you overestimate the capabilities of your average non-technical person.
I would trust just about any company with information that I want to be available to the public
I mean I hate to say this but it's the stuff they teach in CS and PMI: modularity, abstraction, loose coupling, thorough documentation, version control, and design-for-change.

It's 2023 and there's a long ton of off-the-shelf tooling that makes all of this much easier than it was ten years ago.
The problem with small businesses is getting to them and getting their attention.
I do observe it applying to video games in many circles. This is more true for social (cooperative or competitive) games and in game-adjacent social contexts like Twitch streaming, but it's also applicable to recognizing references and plot beats from widely-known classics or having similar experiences over particular moments or levels, even in single-player. Pokémon, Final Fantasy, Minecraft…
American here, so I’m automobile-dependent, but I most often just put the individual items directly in my trunk, without bags. I do keep a collapsible bin in my trunk that I use when I get home to carry in a bunch of the smaller items. My wife usually tries to give me a reusable bag to use when i head out until I give her a half confused look. then she realizes there’s near-zero chance that I’ll remember to take the bag in the store.
And also you can pick the best format. Not all content is available is 4k hdr atmos in all apps.
> NAR owns the trademark to the word Realtor, with only dues-paying members permitted to use the title professionally.

I don't know whether i should be surprised that someone managed to trademark a job title or that there don't seem to be that many job titles held hostage under trademark law.
Why try to understand Derrida? He apparently never understood himself. As for critiquing him, that is akin to putting toothpaste back into the tube.

Some philosophers should be merely forgotten and, with luck, Derrida will be remembered(?) only as the Ozymandias of philosophers.
That feature causes freezes for seconds thanks to high ping times from India. I also dreaded Ubuntu menu for the same reason.
I've heard it claimed that there's actually a decent number of industry insiders that also participate on the popcorn site because it's the only site where you can easily access certain obscure movies.

Even on What CD there used to be a few actual artists that would directly share their albums.
What do you mean by 2k? Because people should not call 2560x1440 2k, and I've never seen a download that size either.
Some monopoly that wasn't allowed to acquire some robot vacuum cleaner company.
Ehh, I feel like if I go to a poor neighborhood and I see a lot more minor inspection issues than I see lifted trucks in suburban areas. Rust perforation, bulbs out, bald tires, worn bushings, bad shocks, missing panels, etc.
I think nearly all SLAs just give you discounts on the service's bill.

Eg if your service vendor costs you 1000/month and they have a 10-day outage and you lose 10000000, they will credit you 1000 best-case, or maybe 1/3 of that (since it was up most of the month).
This is not true. Besides continuous shuffler machines, most casinos have 6 or 8 deck games that have plenty of 'penetration' (card counter term for depth into the deck that the cut card is placed) to offer an edge if you properly card count. There's also a big game to be played where rubes think they can card count and instead lose tons of money attempting to do so.

The problem with card counting generally is that the casino has infinite money and never runs out, thereby they can sustain large expected value swings... whereas you need an enormous bankroll to handle those swings, assuming they don't throw you out before that happens.
A lot of stuff I want to watch is geolocked and mostly to the US. And this seems to happen more and more, especially with stuff I liked, watched (partially), pulled and now it’s US only. So then I am going to get to get it from bt.
After last year, Caesars likely has a large insurance policy covering against ransomware attacks. That policy probably says something along the lines of "valid as long as you don't knowingly invite tens of thousands of hackers to your property"
Actual communism is different than the communism tried by Stalin, Mao, Pol pot, Castro or any of the self-professed communists......is a hard sell.

It is especially odd given that most of these men were both well-read and wrote a lot about their intellectual commitment to communism.

At that point, it's better to start referring to Marx's academic theories as 'proto communism' or 'communist utopianism' .... the word 'communism' already has a tarnished legacy and it is further solidified by the convergent outcomes from each of those aforementioned regimes.
As you realize, I run this zero-volume business for fun: somehow it attracts crazies and quirkies whose sense of humor maps onto mine.
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I am listening to the Oppenheimer biography and was surprised to learn we were much closer to a surrender than I had known.

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-08-05/hiroshima-a...
Massachusetts Miracle
What if IRS doesn't have _all_ of our tax data?

Then people would go like "but IRS told be to pay X, it shows that they don't know about my other source of income, so I better not tell them". In other countries with automatic payment (India, Ukraine) -- people would not disclose _any_ incomes for taxes, if given a chance. So government makes everyone to pay through a monitored taxed account. But people don't even think that if money come on another, non-business, account, they should disclose that as income. It's kinda assumed that if gov doesn't know, then they shouldn't pay.
I don't have a ton of love for politicking, but security researchers and staff engineers, a lot of the time, are people who either have a career in a really interesting area in infosec and can bring a lot to the table as teachers/presenters, or people who want to get into that area and who'd benefit massively from a place like DEF CON considering how accessible its talks, demos, and villages are to people of all skill levels.

Socialising, learning hacking history, and getting to know the traditions is always a great side effect that the DC crowd's been good at passing on to new generations. Goons still give people shit for misbehaving, speakers still take shots, TOOOL still has some of the best workshops and tutorials on the conference floor and usually has some people who'll talk about breaking open Medecos or Fichets to anyone who'll listen.

I'd venture to say it's against the spirit of the con to try and gatekeep it.

Having said all that (and the irony not being lost on me) -- linecon's definitely getting worse, and I'm worried that DC's becoming a victim of its own success, with its accessible pricing and subject matter being counterbalanced by having to manage a 20-30k person crowd. I don't have a solution for this outside of decentralization, but I don't know if that's a good solution.
> It's just a conference brochure site.

That’s exactly why it should be resilient. A fully static text-heavy site can serve basically unlimited traffic on a free host or a $5 VPS these days.
It doesn’t looks like you can use an SD card.

I can easily see myself buying one of those, adding a 512Gb uSD card on it and ditch Spotify.
(a) recall that I made a utility judgement, not a value judgement: "anger = useless"

(b) That an adrenaline dump provokes a significant boost in cardiovascular performance is true. We are neither fighting anachronistic saber-toothed tigers, nor are we in the wild west, we are in civilised countries in the 21st century. When should improved cardiovascular performance improve any outcomes?
10 YOE with C# and React being the bulk of it. My company canned most of the IT department/engineers in August after getting hacked a bunch the last couple of years. I haven’t seriously started looking until January, but wow.

I posted on that “who’s looking?” thread here on HN I’d say a month or so ago, had one guy reach out for a job working with WPF. I’m guessing if that weren’t enough to turn me off, the pay would’ve been.

I will say the best-paying SWE jobs are never going to be with C#.

I pulled out with one company before getting a final offer, but they said it’d be around $130-140k and it’s mundane C#/React/MSSQL which I’m actually trying to get away from. I don’t know if it’s still the case today, but 2 years ago there were many companies who’d hire you despite having 0 experience with their language (usually something newer like Go).

I’ll just keep on with house projects and reading and relaxing for a while longer. It’s been 5 months and I still don’t need the money. Still, I wouldn’t be surprised if I end up taking a pay cut.
According to my Amazon order history, I've bought 4 copies of The Cuckoo's Egg. One was for me, and I gave the other 3 away to friends/family.

I'm genuinely considering buying another 10 copies so that I have a bunch on hand to give away to anyone who I think would benefit.

Thanks for writing such a great book :)
I mean, it depends on the circumstances.

In the US, where its kind of a possibility... I'm not sure. But I'd be pretty pissed at the parties I feel have an underlying responsibility for the conflict (like, trying to stay relevant to HN, social media platforms that profit off of polarization), so I think I'd lay low, dodge the draft and try to fight that instead.
define "your country"
Similar stories are also seen with other industries and interests, regarding unofficial or local grades which become popular myths and exploited marketing tools.

Examples include the timber industry (e.g. "AAA"-graded wood), the video game collecting scene (e.g. WATA controversy), the grading of martial arts belt colours.
I picked up GEB after seeing a post about it here on HN. Although Hofstadter makes a few connections I was unaware of, such as Escher's artwork expressing recursive patterns, it was really underwhelming for the most part. As others have said, it takes 1000 pages to get to a point, that could have been made in significantly less. My only thought is that perhaps Hofstadters' rambling was an attempt at literary recursiveness, but his execution was lackluster.
Offering worse content while continually raising prices makes it difficult to compete
I imagine a 3 minute delay on everything would work.
Maybe I've been reading books the wrong way my whole life, but I never assume there's a singular "main point" in the text. I mean, why would one waste time writing 100 or 1000 page text circling around some single point for the reader to guess, instead of spelling it clearly up front, and then arguing for it?