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I am not a normal case because I don't live in USA. The USA government estimates 50-80 hours to complete all my forms.

I have foreign income and foreign businesses, my partner has foreign income from two countries. The tax law is then based on tax treaties, most tax preparers do not have sufficient knowledge to complete a return, and tax software doesn't handle these cases.

The tax treaties are not clear, tax professionals will disagree on interpretation, and tax benefits in one country will not apply to another.

Then there is a thing called AMT, alternative minimum tax, which is a second way to calculate your taxes that you need to submit as well.

They changed the FBAR page recently, no longer an interactive PDF.
Correct, it first did it in a spreadsheet, then filled out 59 pages of returns and supplement forms and I printed and posted it. It also filed my FBAR.
I'm also in a non-trivial tax situation, GPT Sol did better than my specialist accountant this year. It needed a lot of steering from me and about 2B tokens, but that is better than spending $3-4k in preparation fees. Total time to prepare and handle steering was still less than I normally spend on tax prep with my accountant.

I think what helped is giving it 100+ pdf and csv documents of my full situation so it knew everything about me and could cross-reference with all my bank statements.

Re:PingCap TiDB Leaks on Thursday October 22, 2026 @05:14AM (#50193073)
Oh, maybe they combined savings plan discounts and private pricing?
Re:PingCap TiDB Leaks on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @08:10PM (#50174443)
AWS private rates gives PingCAP ~47% off list price. Wonder which services got the biggest discounts? Unsurprisingly for a db company the cross-az traffic is 15% of their bill.
This is similar to how wind and solar actually work, except CfD payments are taken from consumers directly rather than indirectly through taxes. Price at £5 in summer - wind still gets £90. Wholesale price in UK has little relation to actual cost.
Re:Citroen revives the 2CV for an electric age on Monday October 12, 2026 @05:26PM (#50063281)
Selling Renault 5 in actual colours is smart, everyone notices them against the sea of grey.
Re:Citroen revives the 2CV for an electric age on Monday October 12, 2026 @05:21PM (#50063232)
Gives me hope for an inevitable electric Mazda mx-5 to not suck.
Re:3rd Yandex Cloud Data Center Was Hit on Sunday October 11, 2026 @06:36AM (#50041676)
It's in Moscow, they have strong air defences.
luckily in UK (and probably EU) jam, jelly, and marmalade are all defined in law with specific sugar to fruit ratios.
Re:Our $445M Series D on Friday October 09, 2026 @02:50PM (#50025066)
They said they are profitable aside from funding purchase orders, they don't need capital to fund growth. If they said they raised in order to grow faster and that they were not profitable then I would agree with you.
Re:Yandex Takes a Second Data Center Hit in 48 Hours on Friday October 09, 2026 @01:46PM (#50024156)
20PB in 48 hours over a 1Tbps connection. Seems big enough for a lot of customers to recover their data or preserve backups.
Re:Our $445M Series D on Friday October 09, 2026 @12:55PM (#50023355)
They can likely fund the purchase orders for 10% while they grow. Sounds cheaper than giving away a percent of all future profits. This is very common.
Re:Yandex Takes a Second Data Center Hit in 48 Hours on Friday October 09, 2026 @10:43AM (#50021226)
Seems like a mistake to stagger these hits, doing both in the same hour could have taken out backups before they had a chance to replicate elsewhere.
Re:Our $445M Series D on Friday October 09, 2026 @10:39AM (#50021188)
I'm surprised they didn't go the debt route, trade finance could cover their customer orders. I know they are risk averse in case companies back out of orders, but bringing on more shareholders is its own form of risk.

Is something else going on here, are they locking in orders from AMD and other suppliers beyond their current order backlog?

Re:Fakecloud: Local AWS cloud emulator for integration tests on Sunday September 27, 2026 @05:17PM (#49870948)
Funny fact, DynamoDB local fails about 100 of my conformance tests. Mainly around error message formatting and text. Just be careful about parsing those.
Re:Fakecloud: Local AWS cloud emulator for integration tests on Sunday September 27, 2026 @01:17PM (#49868684)
Here are some bugs: - `ADD m.a.c :inc` update expression wrote a literal top-level m.a.c attribute but didn't change the nested number. - TransactGetItems returned fields not requested. - update expression can update the same key multiple times.

In total my conformance suite found 583 failures out of 1279 tests.

Re:Fakecloud: Local AWS cloud emulator for integration tests on Sunday September 27, 2026 @01:08PM (#49868580)
"46 at true 100% conformance". This is factually incorrect. Inspected their DynamoDB service and it comes nowhere close to implementing the full api.
Alternative theory - the board and new CEO understood their actions had high risk of termination and needed compensation for that risk.
Re:SAML: A Fractal of Bad Design on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @05:31PM (#49808418)
In a JWT this is simple, the signature checks the entire sig and data sections. In XML signatures it checks whatever it says it checks, a list of URIs, which may also be transformed.

So it is possible to have an XML signature that points to an element that does not include some important piece of data.

Re:SAML: A Fractal of Bad Design on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @04:28PM (#49807604)
SAML is even worse than the article describes, problems like needing to check what the signature actually signs. But I'm optimistic about the future, instead of relying on libraries that do a lot, such as general xml parsing, we can support a subset of SAML and only the dialects of the top ~10 providers. Extreme niche providers can be added ad-hoc and only if the deal size makes it worthwhile.
Re:macOS 27 Golden Gate: The Ars Technica Review on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @05:09PM (#49733059)
When Siracusa wrote the last review.
Re:There is no 10x RBAC on Saturday September 12, 2026 @04:24AM (#49670229)
They could have embedded Cedar into their system without adding on-premium burden.
Re:Object storage is all you need on Thursday September 10, 2026 @01:40PM (#49647547)
My complaint is about your customer's choices, not yours. The customer solved their problem, but they also created the problem in the first place by building on an abstraction that hides capabilities they need.
Re:Tell HN: OpenAI keeps re-enabling the 'allow training' setting on Thursday September 10, 2026 @01:05PM (#49647005)
https://openai.com/index/advanced-account-security/

> Automatic training exclusion. People working with especially sensitive information may opt not to have those conversations used for model training. With Advanced Account Security enabled, that preference is automatic: conversations from those accounts will not be used to train our models.

Re:Tell HN: OpenAI keeps re-enabling the 'allow training' setting on Thursday September 10, 2026 @12:28PM (#49646421)
Documentation is not complete, it also protects your data from being used in training.
Re:Tell HN: OpenAI keeps re-enabling the 'allow training' setting on Thursday September 10, 2026 @10:10AM (#49643999)
Turn on "Advanced Account Security", that prevents model training from being turned on.
Re:Object storage is all you need on Thursday September 10, 2026 @08:43AM (#49642831)
> the database is the last thing you want to re-invent

good news, FoundationDB is already invented, and just slightly more tested than others on the market.

CO2 does better with large temp deltas, like hot water tanks. Radiators don't produce large deltas - the inlet to outlet diff is typically under 10 degrees. But they run at higher pressures, making the manufacturing more expensive.

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