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Tell HN: TurboTax Dark Patterns
Just ran into something new and extra scummy this last week when doing my taxes with TurboTax. I have been using TurboTax for several years so am used to avoiding the normal upsell dark patterns. This was something new.

So, when going through the data entra process it prompts you towards the beginning to authorize sharing of your data. This page has a big “Skip for now” button. No big deal; I click that and it goes to the next step. I think to myself good on you Inuit. You made your pitch, I said no, and you respected that and moved on.

Then almost at the end of the whole process in the Review step just before File it asks again. Prompting me to sign and authorize Intuit to share my data with other parts of the business and third parties. Only this time there is no skip button. The only visible way to move on is to review and sign; authorizing data sharing. The way to skip this is to click the “File” step all the way in the bottom left hand corner to move past that screen.

Totally unintuitive and for a less technical user unlikely that they would know that they could do that.

Anyway just wanted to warn others. My taxes are pretty complex but next year going to do my research and find somewhere else to do my taxes.

Edit: punctuation, phrasing, typing on mobile is hard.
It's a fair comment. The name isn't great.

Fortunately scuttlebutt is the protocol, which I guess is fine.
Unfortunately I can't access descriptions without another API call.

Thanks for pointing out the floats issue. It'll probably be OK because I round to the nearest integer when displaying and only use the extra precision for sorting, but I might round to 2dp on the server side to avoid wasting bandwidth on all those zeroes - I presume floating point imprecision compresses poorly.
Ask HN: What would you want to ask Gemini 1.5 with 1T tokens?
Gemini 1.5 pro has been impressing people with text. Video. Audio. I'm curious if you want to ask what would you ask?

Any book? Any long video ? What else!
For Parker's, there are just so many options. However, it can be extremely pricey to buy-and-try or your local store may not have many in stock.

I started with the Parker 51 by trying out a clone by name of Jinhao 51A.

My suggestion is to look for the knock-offs like Jinhao and buy a few of them (you can get 4-5 pens for the price of the cheapest Parker). Then you can try them all and whichever you like most, when you choose to upgrade, buy that variant of Parker it was trying to clone. Or maybe the Jinhao ends up good enough for you and you stick with that, nothing wrong with a nice affordable pen!

Also, the Jinhao's make pretty gifts for small occasions, they're very colourful and elegant, if you upgrade away from them, can gift them to friends/family.
I'm a little disappointed that there is not a single mention of Psychologist John W. Pilley (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_W._Pilley) nor Chaser the Border Collie (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaser_(dog)). Pilley did an extensive amount of work including teaching Chaser over 1000 nouns. This was repeatedly verified in trials.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGlUZWNjxPA

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/27/science/chaser-border-col...

https://www.akc.org/expert-advice/news/remembering-chaser-th...

edit: Added another link to the AKC article on Chaser.
> properly seasoned pan

Important operative words in a world where the unknowing are too quick to apply dish detergent, scrub brush, and elbow grease.
yeah i see ads for 14g all the time and for some reason that stuck in my head as an ounce but 3.5 grams is an eighth of an ounce so 5 is slightly more than that. either way more than 5g is a reasonable amount to have on you if you are going to buy it for a longer timeframe.
The High Cost of Eating Out in America
So does any of that activity actually generate value for regular people or does it just redistribute wealth from investors and speculators
to be fair, the comment they were responding to is just some weird flex without substance, fishing for attention.

a good thing about being a bitcoin millionaire is that you can prove it while remaining anonymous, in like three clicks
Ask HN: Open-Source SaaS App Builder Recommendation?
How long does it take you to build an app? App should have sign-up/sign-in, basic functionality specific to app, payments, settings.

For example, someone posted https://typeprompt.com. This is a nice example of what I am looking for.

From my extensive research, there is AppSmith, Tooljet, Windmill.dev, lowcoder, Budibase available.

These tools are limited. They either limit number of users, don't provide SSO. None of them allow removal of logos even in the open source software.

Despite all no code hype and solutions, do we have anything that can put together a functional app without restrictions?

I would love to get your suggestions.
> Coincidentally in the example the results are the same , but they need not be.

The questions is whether we should draw different conclusions when the results are the same. I don’t think that anyone has any issues with drawing different conclusions when the results are different!
Hence why NVidia is also investing into GPUs JITs for Python.

One advantage of CUDA, that Khronos/AMD/Intel realized too late, was the polyglot support that NVidia started to push and support since CUDA 3.0.
Yes but also 33% of those surveyed have heard of a fake study and less than 1/4 of them were aware of the DEFUSE proposal
Imagine you have a machine that rolls a d20 and lies if the die comes up 1-19, and tells the truth on a 20. Should you trust this machine usually? No. But if you can _see that the die comes up 20_ then you should trust it. The fact that it sometimes might lie doesn't mean that you should distrust the machine if you can see that in this case it's telling the truth.
Lots of professors getting fired, or not promoted, guy who wrote the google memo fired, lots of censorship, canceling. You’d have to be intentionally lying to not notice this
Byju is a product builder - he delivered tutoring services as a service.

He was a fairly good tutor, going by his early stuff - he made YouTube videos for competitive exams that were fairly successful in their own right. I would go so far to state that Byjus pioneered the coaching at mass scale model for education in India, specifically for competitive exams.

Where he floundered, was falling to the VC-led growth at all costs trap. Byjus are notorious for unscrupulous marketing tactics geared towards parents and abuse of employees to further their bottom line. They spent way too much on marketing, including at the FIFA World Cup and the IPL. After all of this growth, hubris caught up with Byju and brought him down.
Dismissing the Summa Theologica as “borderline schizophrenic nonsense” makes me believe you’re just trolling here.
It's cool but what's the point for a normal person? Useful for warehouses and manufacturing but I don't see myself ever needing such things
Can you explain why? Do you think the CIA has stopped doing these things?
Hmm, I'm now struggling to remember basic developmental psych, but there's definitely a phase at which linguistic children struggle with things having two names (it can't be both "dog" and "Rex") but I think you're right - this phenomenon is subtly different to class inclusion. But either way, dogs can do something with language comprehension that speaking children can't, which is the bit I find really interesting
I have a Pilot Kakuno that I keep refilling with Noodler's Black. All my favorite pens have been cheap.
There is nothing in this world like a Great Pyrenees puppy at about 8 months. They're SO big, but SO dumb and cuddly. They're the perfect thing, and the embodiment of joy.
eevblog, vogons. Both full of enthusiast, subject matter filters out casuals.
I'm pretty impressed by what's been put in place to ensure good governance of the project. They have already become a project of the Commons Conservancy, which is a 'fiscal sponsor' organization, and they have a very geographically diverse initial board (seven board members from seven different countries across four continents).

Whatever the technology, this is a serious committent to community-led FOSS, which already sets it apart from the Flutters, Xamarins and Ionics of the world, which are primarily profit-making ventures with an open source aspect on the side. Projects founded with a strong mission and rigorous planning usually cause positive changes within the other ecosystems they touch, even if they don't end up standing the test of time themselves.
It's just not that they're implementation specific, but they're also side-channel timing attacks. Not that they shouldn't be discovered and fixed, but this sort of thing is kind of inevitable in the first days of a brand-new protocol, and I don't really think it deserves a named vulnerability. I can't imagine it won't be fixed in short order.
The Illustrated Stable Diffusion (2022)
Thanks, I do agree with this, and I am rooting for them. Would love to find out at some point that it's turned around.
The company I work for has a service that sends phishing test emails to everyone that you are supposed to report. I take great joy in reporting every legitimate email that is at all sketchy just for the inevitable email back from the security team informing me that they reviewed my report and it was indeed a legitimate email.
FYI, one of the original Twitter devs (Rabble <3 ) is one of the creators.
Tokens itself matter only to an extent. What matters is quality, coherence, and truth, contexual and cultural awareness.
Oodle maintainer here, we had two people that hit the issue offer to run some experiments for us. Neither were doing any overclocking before and both tried numerous things including resetting to BIOS defaults and also updating their BIOS (there was a known [to Intel] issue affecting some ASUS boards that had been fixed in a BIOS update in spring of 2023, and we were asked to rule it out.)

This issue doesn't affect every such machine, but both people affected by the issue that consented to run tests for us still had the issue reproduce after flashing BIOS to current and with BIOS default settings for absolutely everything.

Among the settings enabled by default on some boards: current limit set to 511 amps (...wat), long duration power limit set to 350W (Intel spec: 125W), short duration power limit also set to 350W (Intel spec: 253W), "MultiCore Enhancement" which is extra clock boosting past what the CPUs do themselves set to "Auto" not "Off", and some others.
Yes, this is addressed in the original article... there are multiple "lawful" ways of adding integers which all give the same results, and likewise in probability all "lawful" ways of analyzing data should give the same results. If you have two different ways of adding numbers which give different results, one is not lawful.
Buying bitcoin in 2010 absolutely wasn't inaction, it was a painful process. The problem is identifying when not to do anything. Tell me one thing to do once in 2024 and then forget about it until 2038. Subscription to an AI service? Nah...
To think I used to recommend Avast to people over paying for Norton or Mcafee (RIP)
For Eve, change the Compatibility option to use Proton Experimental. It's rated Gold on ProtonDB.
> grim economic insecurity ==>> really nasty governments ==>> lots of war and other evil-at-scale.

my personal view (pinko commie in my birth country but centre-right in my adoptive) is that "societies without grim economic insecurity" are public goods and hence governments should provide them.
I think it highlights why this jerk was rude and short about it. They want to avoid high maintenance customers because it impacts their short term metrics of how many they can churn out and directly affects their compensation. There are presumably zero repercussions for them personally - the worst case maybe is some long term reputational damage for the bank.
Mistral AI Heading to AWS (Bedrock)
Just a quick note on this, it's not entirely appropriate to blame selective breeding "in general" for those issues. Quite often those issues come from specific selective breeding practises designed to make the dogs more "fashionable" by breeding specific aesthetic attributes over healthy dogs.

That being said, there is an enormous community of extremely passionate breeders around the world who are absolutely dedicated to breeding HEALTHIER dogs, especially in breeds that are known to have issues due to poor breeding.

We have a Boston Terrier we got from one such breeder after spending over two years looking for someone we trusted to do the process right, and we are so happy we did. Not only do we have an amazing pet, but we know we are activity contributing to the process of improving the overall health of the breed, even though it did cost us more to do.

A few things to look for in order to pick a "good" breeder.

1. How many litters do each of their female dogs have over their lives. If a breeder is expecting them to produce more than two (three at the most) litters, that's a red flag.

2. Do the mums deliver naturally, or via C-section. We only learned through extensive research that some breeds (often including Boston's) almost all have to give birth via C-section because they've been so extremely bread. We specifically looked for a breeder who's dogs a born naturally. If the pups are so extreme in your they've been bread that the mum can't get them out naturally... Something has gone too far.

3. Is the breeder a "purist" when it comes to the breed. Now this is going to be the opposite of what most people expect, but you WANT a breeder who is 1930's levels eugenicist when it comes to their breed. Fundamentally, most of the issues from breeding come about through mongrelisation of the breed. Low quality breeders cross-breed dogs to introduce "cool" or "fashionable" new traits, without caring about the million other genetic inconsistencies they're bringing into the mix at the same time.

A great example is with Boston Terriers we learned. The breed spec for them is VERY clear, they have a white base coat with a black or extremely dark brown "tuxedo" style coat covering their lower body and a portion of their front-legs.

ANYTHING that has colours other than those three, is a cross-breed for fashion purposes. There is no such thing as an "albino Boston", or a "patterned Boston" etc etc, these are marketing names people came up with for mongrelised versions of the breed which will almost always have major health issues.
This is the problem as old as time. For one thing as you gain more experience your experience is deployed on gnarlier, more poorly defined tasks, which are naturally more difficult. For another, as yoy get exposure to higher level concerns you begin to care about them more. So no wonder it doesn’t get easier - hopefully the paycheck gets fatter over time
You have to actually then coat it with anti-scratch coating, you have to make sure people carefully clean the device in ways that don't destroy this coating, and the result--as you admit--still gets scratched, and routinely it is these scratches that cause me to eventually get new glasses. I don't think "treat this device with the implicit care that you treat your primary pair of glasses" is fair, as even if I carry around a second pair of glasses they tend to get scratched as they don't have any of the automatic protections my primary ones do (due to being on my head or only put down for limited periods of time).
Actually maybe not Experimental. Just use whatever ProtonDB recommends
I find it hard to believe that all the heavy-weight data processing and GPU computation really make a constant factor reduction in search steps worth it.
>I keep hearing about Scuttlebutt for a long time but haven't seen anyone actually using it? Why?

It's called Scuttlebutt, meaning it can never be remotely popular enough to function as a worthwhile social network.
I did not read the paper, so I cannot comment on the "solid grasp of class inclusion", but regarding the capacity that you described in your comment, I have a 2-year-old and it's been a long while since she has mastered this (book vs this book, toy vs toy, fruit vs an apple and so on). As far as I know, most two year old have already acquired this concept.

(EDIT I see the other comment says something similar and you have replied)
Funded by the German government's sovereign tech fund [0]. One must really highlight that this is really some good spending of my tax money.

[0] https://www.sovereigntechfund.de/
It's saying that custom can obtain the force of law. This is relevant to the Right to Roam, because some areas are open to public use by custom, and this can challenge strict interpretations of property rights. I think mjh2539 is trying to gain a rhetorical toehold for traditional Commons rights. Since those rights are traditional and very old, it somehow seems fitting that the argument should be expressed in old-fashioned Catholic theological language.

I appreciate that an intensely "conservative" cultural form is used here to make a pro-populist argument for "liberal" rights.

This lines up well with the kind of stances that the Anglican Church ended up taking in theology. That Church follows both Scripture and Tradition. (By contrast, and generalizing a bit, I think an extreme Protestant stance would tend to value only Scripture.) This feels like a more secular version of same.
Dinky Toys!!! I had Eagles, ships from UFO, a Klingon ship...loved them!
How to Freeze-Dry a Website
Decades ago I visited a fellow Amiga user's house. He had an overclocked 68060 Apollo board.

He was so happy with the speed. Would not stop telling everyone, and talking about it. Yet as I watched him demo it, it rebooted every minute or so. Most unstable thing ever.

Sure it booted in 2 seconds, and he just went about his merry way, but.. what?! Guy could have still overclocked a little less and had stability, but nope.

Some overclockers are weird.
Part of the motivation might have been that he set up WEB for Pascal, which does enforce an order of declarations. Once he started working more with C, perhaps there was less reason; but he found that he enjoyed working in that manner. I haven't looked at anything released in that format for years, though.
>You call it whims, but I don't know of any bank that doesn't offer those protections. Generally the terms are that you have to report it w/i 30 or 60 days. Maybe some of the smaller credit unions?

That's been my experience as well. Although my bank almost always declines debit card transactions if I'm more than 50 or so miles from home, making the use of credit cards much more useful when I travel.
I was discussing LLMs with a non technical person on the plane yesterday. I was explaining why LLMs aren't good at math. And, he responded, no, chatgpt is great a multivariate regression, etc.

I'm using LLMs locally almost always and eschewing API backed LLMs like chatgpt. So I'm not very familiar with plugins, and I'm assuming chatgpt plugs into a backend when it detects a math problem. So it isn't the LLM doing the math but to the user it appears to be.

Does anyone here know what LLM projects like llama.cpp or gemma.cpp support a plugin model?

I'm interested in adding to the dungeons and dragons system I built using llama.cpp. Because it doesn't do math well, the combat mode is terrible. But I was writing my own layer to break out when combat mode occurs, and I'm wondering if there is a better way with some kind of plugin approach.
> have played out
LiFePO4 can be had in the "portable solar generator" space, and some of them have enough input/output capacity to function as a usable UPS. All that they lack is comms for status and automatic shutdown.

It seems like a fairly recent shift -- heck, the whole solar generator concept is a fairly recent shift -- but maybe it's an indication that LiFePO4 devices are becoming more common in the consumer space.
I agree with this. I don’t like new twitter but old twitter had a chokehold on society that did a lot of damage.

And yeah this is a lot of why I really hope trump isn’t elected. It’s going to bolster a far left movement like it did last time, to a really scary degree. That and undoing environmental policy, I feel like it will unravel this country
Makese sense, thanks.
You have created a fantastic site. Endless combinations.
I did the same thing! Started with an expensive dyson, then bought a chepo online then last one is a big home filter on a box fan. I think the box fan is a little slower but works 90% as well.
Meaningless drivel.
I agree, but I think this is largely the fault of OS Vendors, who design deskop creation frameworks that are usually some combination of hard to use, not very stable, not powerful enough, ugly, or not cross-platform.

I'm sympathetic to the argument that OS Vendors shouldn't be held responsible for their libraries being used outside their OS, but that's clearly what (most) developers want, so (in my opinion) it's a requirement for a popular library.
I see the future of chatGPT, “Here’s my take on that topic, also let me show you “this product”(insert link) that will make doing what you want much easier”
Populism doesn't call for the abolition of elites. Populism calls for elites to not disregard the concerns of ordinary people.

Perhaps you're thinking about anarchism or communism.
> ... my management ... talked up a promotion that then was suddenly delayed until after the project is finished

That's a really bad sign. :(
It's poorly worded for sure. Perhaps the object lock servers:

* run on an immutable operating system,

* enforce strict (local) whitelist-based firewall rules,

* pull, not push, data from other servers,

* restrict remote administration to a physically isolated network,

* or disable remote administration entirely.

I feel like that's as close as you can get to the benefits of air gapped environments without the drawbacks of servers directly exposed to the network. Or, well, unless there happens to be a 0-day in the TCP/IP stack. It depends on the threat model I guess.
I’m a noob.

Question 1: Why would VC and private equity have a stronger claim as compared to a retail investor in this case? My guess is that “retail investor” here means customers of FTX, who were investing in crypto. VC/private equity has a stake in the company itself now after buying shares, so I guess they come first in the chain — is that right?

Question 2: If a “retail investor” somehow obtained shares of FTX, would they have the same strength of claim as VC/private equity?
As a practical matter, you may not be able to live in those vast federal lands given the need to eat, but they certainly exist and--to the degree there's car access--you can probably spend a lot of time there if you want to. Probably more than a lot of European countries if you want to.
Thought experiment: if their record label pulled their album because of copyright concerns on the album cover, would you be ok with that?

It’s what Valve does for games.

The annoying part of AI is that there’s so much potential, and much of it is being limited by gatekeepers. Bands are spiritually the opposite of big companies, and even they can’t escape criticism. At least they’re still able to make things (for now).

The only reason this isn’t a huge deal in the music space yet is because all AI music workflows suck right now. Once you can make full songs and craft them to what’s in your head, it’ll be yet another round of outrage plus court cases.
> why didn't the colonies recognize rights of way based on well-established use?

Because that would have been at odds with colonists' goals of seizing the land from the people whom it previously belonged to, and who were using it.
I'd never even heard of pornhub until you degenerates told me about it. I had to look it up. Apparently "porn" is short for "pornography"?
> We got away with coasting on our upfront investment for six years, but it didn't last forever.

The analogy I reach for is fitness. If you were super fit for years, you can probably take a year off from exercising and still do that all-day hike. You'll probably be slower, but you'll make it.

But eventually the lack of investment will hurt.