skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let's start with that fact that <$64K AGI is the high end and not applicable to all online filing services. The state that you're filing in and even your age are used as filters for qualification as well.

Then how about the fact that offerings are only applicable if you're filing 1040EZ. For example, if you so much as claim student loan interest or itemize deductions, that's automatically 1040A at a minimim and disqualifies you from the free offering.

Then there's actually getting your tax return. If you don't provide an ACH bank account and routing number, you'll get charged to have your return credited. You'll also be solicited to purchase crap like bonds, insurance, or donate to some charity. Another common tactic to nibble away at your return is to offer to get paid by the service provider (as opposed to the IRS) for an upfront cost. I won't even touch on the dark patterns employed in this process.

To e-file, you'll also need to know your prior year's AGI or PIN. This is important when coupled with a model which tries to get people to "push and forget" without keeping any independent documentation. There's no doubt in my mind that many people go back to same provider not because of superior service or competitive offerings, but because their information from the previous year will automatically be pulled to enable e-filing. If you weren't diligent enough to keep good records and want to try a different provider, you'll be charged for a digital copy of your previous years' filings.

Now go do your own homework.
you can white list it, so it is usable, I just refuse to whitelist it :)
However, we want to bring something better to the web not something that is detrimental in hopes that thing itself becomes better.

Go is not a good fit.
If I change jobs in the middle of the year and my income is high enough I might overpay social security taxes. There is no way to recoup that with the 1040EZ.

The solution to this is to do away with FICA taxes and fold collection of that money into the general tax tables (including the employer side of FICA which a lot of people forget). You may or may not be in favor of this idea?
I have a one bedroom apartment next to work in a fairly urban location. This fits my wife, my MIL, and our newborn. It doesn't feel small at all (helps that this is more space than we had in China, but still...)
What does Nintendo Switch and iOS 9.3 have in common? CVE-2016-4657 walk-through
You can leave a convent. You can't leave a jail. I also don't know too many nuns getting shanked or brewing toilet-merlot in the convent. Also, most go on errands in the city without an armed guard and manacles.
I ended up on the self-employed version due to my side hustle. I'm pretty sure this was included there.

You don't have to pay until you file, so you can poke around for free and see if it includes everything you believe you need.
My brother went through a Stem Cell Transplant for CIDP. He went from being nearly wheelchair bound to being able to run. Look into Dr. Burt from Northwestern in Chicago for a domestic way to get this done.
> cadres of spy-nuns

My favorite turn of phrase on the Internet this week. If I ever get around to working on a game I'm going to borrow the idea and give you credit :)
What amazes me is how few people value the value of profits in our system. The US is responsible for ~40% of the world's output in terms of medical research, which is 10x the country with the second largest amount of output, England.

Profits provides the impetus for many of the medical advances invented here in the US, and many of these advances find their way to other countries. Because of profits, the US is essentially the medical R&D powerhouse for the world and every human in the world benefits. We help make more care options available to more people are lower prices sooner.

In a way, the US is providing socialized medical care over time beyond its borders and for more people instead of having it just be socialized in the present.

Until I hear solutions that acknowledge this very important detail, I'm going to remain skeptical of all comparisons with countries with socialized medicine and attempts to take the US in that direction. I learned long ago to be skeptical of anyone criticizing any system where they can't point out the value of that system versus the others they prefer.

Making the US healthcare system function like the socialized medical systems seen in Europe risks destroying the profit motive and therefore jeopardizes improvements in medical care quality, speed, options, etc. for everyone everywhere.

I far prefer a system where some lose out in the present in favor of a system where far fewer people lose out in the future. This is essentially the trolley problem. We can provide care for X people in the US who don't have care in the present or we can provide care for several times X people in the US and elsewhere in the world in the future.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/matthewherper/2011/03/23/the-mo...
The bottom quartile didn't get zero care. The poorest of the poor are all eligible for Medicaid or get ad hoc acute care from emergency rooms.

The people who get shafted are the middle-class or working class people who are stuck with contracting gigs or shitty employers who face financial ruin if they get sick. Your average truck driver, for example, is far more likely to die from preventable heart ailments due to the nature of the job and the inability to access medical care, even with insurance. That's a big reason why CVS Doc in the Box and Urgent care is a thing.
explanation starts around 38 minutes in the audio
What? How did he get elected then?
always lots of different opinions on this, HN seems very React biased... which I use in a couple of products, but I find it a bit verbose. I'm finding Vue ( with Quasar ) quite nice
That's not the point of the article at all, nor of Intuit's lobbying. Even with the current complexity of the tax code, the IRS could easily auto file your taxes for you if your income is below a certain very high level and you do not have any special complications. Such a system would work for 98% of Americans. This has nothing to do with what deductions are available or whatever complexity they introduce into the system. There is simply no reason whatsoever not to implement return-free filing, beyond the large dollar amounts tax industry lobbyists spend on the Hill.
>If "everything in existence depends on something else" is a valid generalization, introducing an entity with out such dependencies is a cobtradiction.

Sure, but Aristotle, Aquinas and Leibniz did not this that this was a valid generalization.

>the Big Bang works fine as an uncaused cause on which all other events in the universe depends

It would not work fine as an uncaused cause, since it is not purely actual.

Also, it's worth noting that the unmoved mover argument doesn't actually make any reference to the universe as such. It starts with any given instance of motion and then argues that this motion must ultimately have originated from an unmoved mover. Neither the universe nor its beginning in time is ever mentioned. (And in fact Aristotle thought that the universe was past eternal, and Aquinas was neutral on that issue.)
The last time I commented on an article about Bolt Threads, it was June 4, 2015, and the articles said that Bolt expected its products to be available in 2016. I was skeptical.

Article here: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-06-03/a-bay-are...
HN thread here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9659712

I guess that technically they're just a little late, but honestly an ultra-limited run of ties without any impressive spidersilk properties makes me think that not a lot has changed in the last almost-two-years.

We'll see if Bolt can actually make a real serious product. As the article points out, there have been a lot of swings at this particular pitch.
The Atlantic ran an analysis of where the costs go:

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2009/09/how-ame...

Essentially, it's a mess of perverse incentives that are unintended side effects of heavy regulation.
Have you ever sat down and read the reasoning for why things are the way they are? Why the accessors can't / don't go traversing through it's parents and only goes down?

It feels like many people who argue against these things are only the ones using them not the ones developing them or actively interacting with the repercussions of those developments.

It's a completely different world when you're creating something and using something.

One person might use that thing vastly different than how you would and the repercussions of their implementation can do a lot of damage to others.

Something to keep in mind.
We should limit all speech by corporations when it comes to their influence in the government.
This is on Heat Street which is kind of like Brietbart-light so it shouldn't be surprising that it takes this spin on things. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_Street
Likewise, I haven't been to that hive of scum and villainy for a while, but as I understand them, this kind of thing is literally for the lulz.
Synopsis: An entertaining but somewhat sympathetic view of the essence of Goldman.
> Quite a lot of it. E.g. my charity donations aren't.

I think you missed the point.

IRS will know about your charity donation shall you decide to give this information to TurboTax for TT to lower your tax burden. IF you don't want to lower your burden, don't give it to TT and don't give it to IRS, problem solved.

So at the end of the day it doesn't matter if you provide something to TurboTax and they forward to IRS, or IRS will have it directly from you by adding this information to your online tax form on Gov site.
Elixir feels nothing like Ruby to me, except for some superficial similarities in the syntax.
Being that a performant and efficient GPU is appealing to a lot of existing systems, if y'all can get that far and be competitive with it then that would be an interesting development.

Phones are pretty homogeneous right now with only a couple real competitive hardware solutions implemented, but if Windows 10 proper can really make the transition to phones then we may see an explosion of increased processing demands of those devices over the next 7 years.

Best of luck!
It is odd and would be a damning set of metrics. People actually migrate away from the Deep South because their spin on Medicaid is garbage and there's no providers.
Or maybe it's just the market's way of telling employees and employers that it's a big beautiful country that doesn't begin and end with a small peninsula on the West Coast.
I grew up in the suburbs, and wish I still lived there. I live in a city now, having moved for work, and regret it. The city is hard to get around in, and it's crowded and expensive.

Happy to answer any questions if you have them.
Habits for Effective Python Learning [video]
Every country has a somewhat complex and unique tax code. Filing taxes is however much simple in some other countries compared to usa.
I've thought about this somewhat and I'm inclined to agree. The crux of the issue with the general public is people think of it as being 'intelligence' in the sentient human sense and take 'artificial' to mean a computer. So a sentient intelligent computer. Whereas really artificial is referring to the simulation (of intelligence), especially when it comes to something like machine learning.
Lots of people don't vote.
Dynamic styling with JavaScript seems to be the best approach, allowing the browser to interpret that opens the doors to multiple security vectors. Not that JavaScript / Cookies already don't. But there would be a lot more.
The Wiki entry[0] for the secure trucks reads like some kind of Tom Clancy fiction. They allegedly have automated weapons systems that will kill attackers even after all defenders become casualties.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safeguards_Transporter
Same. Whenever I go to the US and they give me pennies, I just give them right back. I have zero use for pennies. I also really wish they switched from dollar bills to coins.
2016 (https://designintechreport.wordpress.com/2016/03/13/design-i...)

2015 (https://designintechreport.wordpress.com/2015/03/15/design-i...)
also

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1961_Goldsboro_B-52_crash
New Hater Dating App, reviewed by dating app professionals. Ye or ne?
I use TurboTax Self-Employed and it works pretty well for me. It handles everything I can think of for my 2 LLCs. It takes some time though. If you have all your expenses already worked out, then it's not too bad.
Well said, came to say this.
Foreign tax credits to balance out foreign taxes for overseas income is another thing that nixes an 1040EZ. That's a pretty tough one to argue against.
While originally written with a focus on "intellectual property" and predatory EULAs, Tom Scott's terrifyingly-plausible Welcome to Life: the singularity, ruined by lawyers[1] becomes even more frightening when adapted to your "born-into-debt" scenario.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFe9wiDfb0E
Then apparently a full 75% (rather than the merely 62.5% I thought) of the WHO's scores are nonsense, and not indicative of health care quality.
For self-driving cars in motion you don't need a monster GPU - the hard part of training is where you need a supercomputer; the "in driving" requirements are mostly about making a prediction in a short time on a pre-trained network (if you use deep learning). As for LiDAR, you reduce scanning radius to distance you can handle in realtime.
Why assume when you can read the report?
> You can leave a convent.

Yes, you can. I did not claim you can't. But even though you can there are quite a few cases of institutionalization in convents. And the convent I visited had nuns that had not been out in society in a long time, quite possibly longer than the jail sentence mentioned.

> I also don't know too many nuns getting shanked or brewing toilet-merlot in the convent.

On the contrary, plenty of convents and abbeys engage in brewing! Trappist beer for one.

> Also, most go on errands in the city without an armed guard and manacles.

No, but back in the day they tended to be chaperoned. Nuns are a dying breed around here, the history I'm recounting is when I was 6, 46 years ago, but still if someone has made their vows and is reconciled to life as a nun I seriously wonder how effective jail would be, I'm pretty sure they would not be too impressed by it (compared to someone not used to solitude at any level).
There is absolutely no defensible reason to not allow gay marriage. Who cares if some people have a religious reason for not approving of gay marriage? If they don't approve of it, don't do it. But freedom of religion should also be freedom from religion.
Depends on the product.
I've seen businesses run at 10%, and others at 0%.

Until you have a massive, public facing product that sells internationally across many facets of customer - you've probably never experienced the hell of CB management.

Typically, you'll get:
- Stolen cards (obvious ones)
- Stolen cards (very insidious ones - all customer information, proxies that match the customer address, etc). Typically the only way to catch these guys is to have a hugely expensive 'express delivery' option, and manually filter each order that comes through on this option.
- Dumb thieves (chargeback the day after delivery)
- Smarter thieves (chargeback the day after posting)
- Horrible people (chargeback months later)
- Idiots (Unable to use a product, so chargeback)
- Assholes (Weaponise chargebacks to blackmail you)

Words to anyone struggling to fight CBs / fraud:
- Use machine learning, ie SiftScience (or similar) to screen all transactions.
- If you use Stripe, use their Radar feature.
- If an order gets one flag, place it into a review queue, and manually process it 24 - 72 hours later. Emailing a customer smokes out the majority of fraud.
- If an order gets two flags - blackhole the order (refund the card, if charged)

The biggest thing is making your fraud processes opaque to scammers. If your site returns true/false responses, they'll just keep hammering until they find a combo of cards / proxies / etc that works.
The only way around it is to shadow-ban:
- Send blackholed orders to an approval page.
- Send blackholed orders an approval email. Train your customer service to know which orders were banned, which weren't.

If scammers have to wait 1 - 4 weeks to know if their order worked or not.. they will move onto easier targets.
I concede the point. It is a myth to which Friedman cannot even claim originality.

Stout has more to add: https://works.bepress.com/lynn_stout/3/
Vernon and few other California town's officials have been charged with corruption according to the City of Bell wiki page.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_Bell_scandal
Thanks, I think I'll give Self-Employed a try.
Does this operation have a wikipedia page?
>Lots of people consider use upvote to signal agreement and a downvote to signal disagreement.

That's true, but unfortunate, because a lot of non-inflammatory posts made in good faith get downvoted to where they get marked [dead] simply because they express unpopular opinions.

I tend to try to counter that phenomenon through upvotes. I won't hesitate to upvote something I disagree with if it appears to be getting unfairly downvoted.
A corollary to the law is that when black markets don't exist, substitution takes place, e.g. prohibited alcohol is replaced by gasoline, glue, paint etc.
This just makes no sense. If somehow the minimizer wasn't able to further process it, maybe it's just because it was already quite thoroughly processed and you will loss some information if you continue? That's totally unsound approach. What does that extra fee bytes of saving do to loading time anyways? Probably very little, yet you risk very real degradation and broken behaviors.

Not to mention the author even admitted to not being very proficient in CSS and doesn't even want to learn JS because he "dislikes it too much"... The whole description of the process is basically dragging something on out of very little substance.

In general good laughing material though, just as he acknowledged at the end of the article, I guess.
I grew up (and now live) in what are called exurbs today. I do appreciate the access to the city. And appreciate the pros (and cons) or urban living, which was never a good match for my employment options. I've never been a big fan of classic suburbia although the one time I lived in such it gave me a 5 minute commute to work. So there was that.
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/490575/Former-spy-Margaret-...

Close, but not quite...
There's a certain amount of that which occurs under the Paris treaty, and individual rules in Tokyo and the U.S., mentioned on the FOC Wikipedia page.
isn't that what highschool is meant to be?
Robots can only reduce costs of the production, but to earn any money corporations first need to be able to sell their products to someone, they need consumers. And you can't have starving, homeless consumers. You need to come up with some jobs so that majority of people still can earn money every month, so that you can sell them things regularly and finance all those fancy robots with a stable cash flow. Without that the whole economy as we know it would break. Not to mention that there would be a revolution or something long before that point. Transition, of course, will not be nice to many currently poor and unskilled workers, they'll be victims of the progress and this will continue for the few next generations for sure. But it's just a transition, jobs will eventually shift to something new, as they did before.
Strong Towns has written extensively on this. Their conclusion is that our infrastructure is not affordable because too many roads are built to non-dense areas that do not have the tax base to support them.

Federal highway dollars get dropped in to build, but then no dollars are available to maintain.

https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2017/1/2/five-ways-feder...
Yep, they are pretty good.
> There is simply no reason whatsoever not to implement return-free filing, beyond the large dollar amounts tax industry lobbyists spend on the Hill.

It's not all Intuit lobbying. Many politicians of a particular faction oppose return free filing because they want to keep tax proxess as painful as possible to make people emotionally susceptible to anti-tax and, more generally, anti-government rhetoric.
This works, until they put 'temporary' holds on you.
The holds seem reasonable at first (ID check, business verification, etc) - but can / will drag on for weeks / months.

All the while, the funds in your account add up - yet you can't touch them - and you have to deliver product to customers.

It can get very uncomfortable, very quickly.
I thought I was safe with your advice, but still found myself recently with 6 figures held in a PP account.
They still seem to have capital to operate and seem to be following through with a sale: https://ties.boltthreads.com/

"5-years in the making" is a long time. But I'm not sure the entire process was a failure. They probably have some excellent domain knowledge of value to many bigger firms as a fallback.
Context: NZD0.05 is worth about the same as 0.05USD ‡†

‡ Purchasing power to a citizen of the corresponding country, rather than exchange rate (exchange rate only makes ~30% difference).

† probably quite a good approximation given years difference.
We are all aware that the US spends a lot on healthcare. The article we are discussing provides a good explanation of why.

The fact that health care and health outcomes are minimally correlated is well known; see RAND, Oregon, and lots of non-RCT studies that generally fail to find much correlation (e.g. this one, which made the rounds recently https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/25135... ). I'm not sure what the relevance of that is to this article, however.
The fun thing is that the way our current economy works only encourages this kind of thing, with for example retirement funds depending on stock prices to go up. My favorite is Medicare and drug prices, with Medicare drugs often funded by budget deficits that increase the money supply.
The article casually mentions universal basic income (UBI) as a possible solution, but it's not, at least not for this issue.

It is plausible to implement UBI (assuming political will to do so, which is debatable in most places) or some other wealth transfer solution in an advanced, wealthy technological society, where you tax the mostly automated production of goods and services to provide basic needs for all those people who are not necessary for economic production; even as the math of UBI doesn't IMHO really work out right now yet, it's plausible that it will in the coming decades with growing automated productivity and all those people becoming actually economically unnecessary. Especially with the re-shoring discussed in the article moving lots of production capacity back to developed countries, reversing globalization and international integration, making them more self-sufficient.

However, it seems quite implausible that this re-shoring will result in the developed world funding an UBI for these two thirds of all workers in the developing world. I don't see the political will being there for at least a generation if not much more - there will be painful debates about doing UBI for their own people, where in addition to moral imperative and nationalism you also have a practical reason for the elites and producers to spend a small fraction of their wealth for 'bread and circuses' to ensure local social stability around their homes; but any proposals to do the same for the whole world simply won't fly.

It seems far more believable that these countries will rather choose to invest some resources in "building a wall", literally or metaphorically. Currently, importing labor is economically useful for many developed countries for demographic reasons; but as labor becomes useless, we can expect them to follow their interests and restrict migration even as the desire for migration grows.