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EnderWT··on Thomson Reuters Launches Its Own Frontier Model
Per Business Insider [1], it was built on Qwen.

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/thomson-reuters-builds-ai-mo...

EnderWT··on The FCC is about to ban 21% of its test labs today. I mapped them all
The search site they point to (https://markready.io/labs) also lists incorrect locations on the map for labs. BUREAU VERITAS CONSUMER PRODUCTS SERVICES, INC. shows on the map in Littleton, Colorado but is actually located in Littleton, Massachusetts.
EnderWT··on Muse Spark: Scaling towards personal superintelligence
https://securebio.org/biotier/
EnderWT··on I'm reluctant to verify my identity or age for any online services
There's already a spec for this (ISO/IEC 18013-5) and it's been implemented in a variety of jurisdictions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_driver%27s_license

The person gets to see what information the service is asking for and can approve or deny. This'll likely end up being the future of how citizens access government services online.

EnderWT··on New accounts on HN more likely to use em-dashes
Hah (or maybe sad face), found bots replying to bots: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47137227
EnderWT··on The Age Verification Trap: Verifying age undermines everyone's data protection
ISO/IEC 18013-5 (Personal identification — ISO-compliant driving licence — Part 5: Mobile driving licence (mDL) application) is a potential solution for this. https://www.iso.org/obp/ui/en/#iso:std:iso-iec:18013:-5:ed-1...

It would allow someone with an mDL on their device to present only their age instead of other identifying information.

EnderWT··on We can't have nice things because of AI scrapers
They're not talking about downloading the web pages. The data is available in a bulk download: https://listenbrainz.org/data/
EnderWT··on Fallout from the AWS outage: Smart mattresses go rogue
Do people really like these AI-generated articles?
EnderWT··on SEC approves Texas Stock Exchange, first new US integrated exchange in decades
From: https://www.txse.com/trading-membership

> TXSE’s primary matching engine is located in Equinix NY6 in Secaucus, NJ, with latency equalization across NY4, NY5, and NY6. Customers outside these buildings will experience additional latency. The disaster recovery (DR) matching engine is hosted in Equinix DA11 in Dallas, TX.

> Customers may connect to DR either directly to DA11 or through TXSE infrastructure at 350 E. Cermak in Chicago. Cermak connections will have traffic backhauled to DA11 over redundant TXSE circuits. Backhaul from Cermak to the production data center is not available.

EnderWT··on Women dating safety app 'Tea' breached, users' IDs posted to 4chan
This is mDL (mobile driver's license) here in the US, but it's a new technology and not widely available or adopted yet. https://www.nccoe.nist.gov/projects/digital-identities-mdl
EnderWT··on Tell HN: Help restore the tax deduction for software dev in the US (Section 174)
The IRS released guidance back in 2023: https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-drop/n-23-63.pdf

It starts on page 23.

Plenty of analysis online by tax firms but I'll quote from this one: https://insightplus.bakermckenzie.com/bm/attachment_dw.actio...

> Generally, activities treated as software development for section 174 purposes include, but are not limited to, the following.

• planning the development of the computer software

• designing the computer software

• building a model of the computer software

• writing source code and converting it to machine-readable code

• testing the computer software (up to the point that a taxpayer places the computer software into service or determines that the computer software is ready for sale or licensing to others)

• producing product master(s), if the taxpayer develops the computer software for sale or licensing to others.

> Activities that are not treated as software development vis-à-vis software developed by a taxpayer for use in its trade or business are as follows:

• training employees and other stakeholders that will use the computer software

• maintenance activities after the taxpayer places the computer software into service

• data conversion activities, except for activities to develop computer software that facilitate access to existing data or data conversion

• installing the computer software and other activities relating to placing the computer software into service

EnderWT··on IRS Direct File
You used Free Fillable Forms, not Direct File. Direct File is a web application piloted in 2024 with a larger release this past year. The URL is https://directfile.irs.gov/
EnderWT··on Thomson Reuters wins first major AI copyright case in the US
https://archive.is/mu49I
EnderWT··on Reddit.com appears to be having an outage
> According to Reddit, the blackout is responsible for the problems. “A significant number of subreddits shifting to private caused some expected stability issues, and we’ve been working on resolving the anticipated issue,” spokesperson Tim Rathschmidt tells The Verge. https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/8/23754780/reddit-api-update...
EnderWT··on SEC Charges Oracle a Second Time for Violations of Foreign Corrupt Practices Act
The $8 million disgorgement fee is the estimate of the profits gained from these bribes.
EnderWT··on Lessons from a Professional Password Cracker
You want companies to store passwords in plain text?
EnderWT··on Credit Karma fined $3M by FTC for misleading consumers with credit card offers
More information direct from FTC: https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2022/09/...
EnderWT··on Woman ‘dehumanised’ by viral TikTok filmed without her consent
It's not even an act of kindness. It's a prank.
EnderWT··on Job interview questions engineers should ask, but don't
I always recommend https://www.keyvalues.com/culture-queries for ideas on what to ask because you can narrow down the questions to the aspects of the job that are important to you.
EnderWT··on I fucking hate Jira
We've automated this in our propriety system. After an amount of time with no activity, change requests expire and someone can resubmit if they're still valid, otherwise they close after a number of days. They also get a notification in advance in case they want to investigate validity before expiration. Has worked well for us since our software is decades old and the number of change requests are substantial.
EnderWT··on Contra Wirecutter on the IKEA air purifier
On the first point in the article, there is a definition for HEPA which for ISO is 99.95% efficiency. The Ikea purifier doesn't meet this. It meets the EPA standard, hence the designation of E12 (99.5%).
EnderWT··on Coinbase Announces 18% Layoffs
Coinbase has over 5000 employees. They hired 1200 employees in the first three months of this year. That's about the number they had in total just 2 years ago.
EnderWT··on U.S. forgives 40k student loans
This NPR article goes more in depth about this: https://www.npr.org/2022/04/19/1093310151/student-loans-inco...
EnderWT··on Persepolis of ancient Persia rendered in WebGL
The Down key also works.
EnderWT··on FTC sues Intuit for its deceptive TurboTax “free” filing campaign
Many states already have ways to file online for free. For example, Illinois: https://www2.illinois.gov/rev/programs/mytax/Pages/il-1040.a...
EnderWT··on A “Sideways” supply response in California winegrapes
The study mentioned in the article may be new but the effect was already known in 2009. https://winesvinesanalytics.com/features/article/61265/The-S...
EnderWT··on Five U.S. lawmakers accuse Amazon of possibly lying to Congress
Link to the letter: https://judiciary.house.gov/uploadedfiles/letter_-_amazon_mi...
EnderWT··on Google CEO allegedly sought to keep Incognito mode issues out of spotlight
https://archive.is/EaQ69
EnderWT··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2021)
Your resume needs a lot of work. Check out https://www.reddit.com/r/EngineeringResumes/
EnderWT··on NDA expired, let’s spill the beans on a weird startup
It's the same with large state contract I've seen as well. They key personnel may actually be provided in the request for proposal even before the agency signs a contract.
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