skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Income earned for mundane food/clothing/shelter/healthcare costs SHOULD be deductible

That gets into a rabbit hole pretty quickly. What's mundane? Am I allowed to shop in Whole Foods or only eat at McDonalds? What if I care about my health - should I be penalized by taxes for wanting to eat heathy (and therefore more expensive) food? What if I don't eat a lot but I must buy very expensive clothes because of peculiar set of allergies? Managing all those would make each tax return like a PhD thesis and make handling 300M of those infeasible.

> If you're functioning at that level, you shouldn't pay taxes

That is what is happening for low income people in US right now. Lowest quintile pays virtually no federal income tax.

> , all documentable taxes paid should be refunded if your income is below the poverty line

Since it's impossible to prove who bought certain thing, this would be huge motivation for abuse. Do you want to pay 10% sales tax on $100K car or pay a poor person $500 and have them "buy" that car, get the tax refunded and save $10K? Of course, you say, there are title records. For cars. Which need now to be checked (welcome another thousand of government employees, with their salaries, pensions, etc.). And how many expensive things don't even have formal ownership registration? These things get very complex and expensive to handle very quick.

> That's basically what the poverty line is

Poverty line is usually defined as percentage of median income. This is largely arbitrary and handwavy, and used because people need to use something. But it's a flimsy base for the tax policy.

> exactly how the transition from "below poverty line" to "above" should be handled,

This is called "poverty trap". It's a well-known phenomenon, especially in a welfare state.

> Suffice to say we pay representatives to sanely figure out such things.

We do pay them, and pay them very well, but their delivery on the "sane" part is very short of the desired, so far.
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Payment processors frequently conduct "no-capture" test transactions for authorizations of possibly $1, before tokenizing CC info. Arguably, this follows the pattern of an integration test.

Ecommerce providers often follow a process of cycling an immaterial test product through a real credit card for pennies, with a petty cash credit card, to exercise the purchase/refund cycle, end-to-end, depending on the activities of the project. A runaway batch process with an infinite loop of purchases is bad, infinite refunds is even worse.

Sometimes these tests are needed to ensure that the service account exists on the third party system, is recognized, and has limited permissions for a fixed, restricted set of API calls. The tests might be run only during a release deployment, against live production, but more frequently against a third party sandbox host while coding. This is a very common pattern.
I said "no more" to printer cartridges over a decade ago. I rarely print things, and when I do, it's usually black ink on white paper.

I was always running out of black ink, or, because of infrequent usage, my inkjet cartridge/head would be clogged. I was so sick of it. I just wanted to hit "print", and have the printer spit out the page - like I could at my employer.

What did my employer use?

A laser printer. So I started looking into it. The last time I had, such printers were still expensive, but they had come down in price. But even better, because of this, businesses and others were getting rid of their "old and slow" b/w laser printers and upgrading to faster color ones. I eventually found my first laser printer at a computer surplus outlet.

It was an HP Laserjet 6M - I paid $100.00 for it, but it didn't have a cartridge. It was a gamble, but I asked the place if I could return it if it didn't work, they said "sure".

I went to a local ink cartridge and printer ribbon store I knew about (they were an old-time fixture here, they even sold typewriter ribbons! Sadly, they no longer exist), and told them my dilemma - I needed a cartridge to test with, I didn't know if the printer worked. They gave me a mostly used cartridge from their refill pile, and told me to bring it back and they'd refill it for me if it worked! Grateful, I took it home and plugged it in.

It worked perfectly! I ran the self-test, and the printer only had about a 25000 page count - a baby! These old LaserJets are tanks, and that was a very low page count. I took the cartridge back, and got it refilled. Total score!

Some time went by, eventually I upgraded the memory to the max (8 MB using common SIMMs) and got the PostScript board for it (so now it is technically a 6MP). It still chugs away, prints when I want it to, I just have to keep feeding it paper - which is rare, because I don't print much.

I'm also only on my third cartridge; I can get them fairly cheap from multiple places, and still a lot of business use these tanks because they are so damn reliable. It isn't a fast printer, but I don't need this thing to spit out a book a minute, just a page here and there; I can wait.

One of the best computing purchases I ever made.

Years later I found a 5P at a Goodwill with the cartridge. I fired it up in the store, and it too had a very low page count (around 15K). Bought it for $25.00 and stuck it in my shop - I also bought the postscript board for it as well. My original intention was to use it for printing toner transfer PCB art, but costs for PCB fabbing have dropped low enough that it isn't really worth it. So I just keep it if and when my 6MP dies...

I figure I'll pass away long before these workhorses do.
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A friend recently introduced me to IOTA. Its intended purpose is machine-to-machine transfer of value. It does so without fees by requiring each transactor to sign two other transactions. I kind of like how it turns the "ponzi" data structure into a useful workhorse, and pays for its own workload.
Final will be closing all accounts
I use the "I'm not driving" button because notifications come when I'm on the bus and train.
Would be great if this supported my situation, single member LLC (pass-through). Though probably not popular here on HN, the bill's goal is to reduce the burden of taxes on small business and corporations to promote repatriotization of capital back to the US.
Who decided the color scale for the US map was a good idea? Holy shit it is hard to tell the difference
What a strange world.....farmland prices in Canada are about a tenth of that, whereas if anything land prices for housing are typically at least double what they would be in the US (roughly adjusting for earning potential). Maybe we're just on opposite ends of a pendulum.
Regarding the NiceHash security breach
$150 interest on a $500 loan over two weeks does not annualize to 700%. It's closer to 92,000%!
Very interesting. Unsure how reliable the source is, but when you play with salary indicator.. at $250k everything slowly starts turning gray and then red. So this bill truly hits into top % of these that make more than 25k or 125k per spouse.

Only question remains what will the rich do with these savings. Administration says people will hire more and buy more goods that will obviously turn into more jobs and better economy. Let's hope for that!
MoviePass is a data play, right? After signing up recently, I read their terms of service and it seems like they exist in order to build customer profiles and harvest data:

https://www.moviepass.com/content/terms
See "18. Collection and Use of Non-Personal Information"

It's not that I object to this particular instance of this practice. I, for one, am willing to trade my movie-going data for cheap movie tickets. However, I am genuinely confused about how they intend to keep it going.
I ask them to fill it up halfway, then I add "butter," return to the counter to have it filled the rest of the way, and return for a second "butter" round to ensure even coverage.
It should be fixed now! Didn't work too well on a DigitalOcean server w/ 512mb RAM and 100 requests a minute. :)
As far as I understand, the theaters get little to no revenue on ticket sales. But I guess it would still make sense to advertise since it means more snacks will be sold (on average).
> I find it interesting that the most notable names from P0 team aren't native US citizens.

How do you know?

> Even with dual citizenship they won't get clearance easily to work for NSA.

Not being a native citizen doesn't mean you are a dual citizen; those are orthogonal concepts. Dual citizenship are frequently native-born (having citizenship-by-birth in more than one country is a common route to dual citizenship) and naturalized citizens often do not retain foreign citizenship (they formally must renounce it, but some countries don't automatically—or ever—give effect to such renunciation.)
Fixed now. Was getting hugged to death. :)
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Alice doesn't know much about Kissinger, but detests Chomsky for denying the Khmer Rouge. Bob doesn't know much about Chomsky, but detests Kissinger for the bombing campaign. They both live in the same world, they both believe true facts, neither is delusional, but the reality they see is not the same.

If they approached each other from a position of mutual respect over their abilities and PL/SQL knowledge, they would have a chance to fill in the gaps in their knowledge. If they instead publish a series of passive-aggressive textbooks where Bob puts Kissinger in a table of war criminals while Alice places Noam Chomsky in a user's table next to David Duke, they'll hate each other and have no chance to fill in the gaps.
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Make sure you use incognito mode! I hate looking at sites like these. I'm sure this one is probably OK but most aren't to be trusted.

Not only are you giving away personal financial info to an unknown site, you're pairing that with your browser so making yourself a target to every advertiser and scammer in the future.
Yes. The point is, electronic voting systems are not good enough with respect to the trust general population will have in the system.

Consider that there are, and will always be, people on the losing side that argue the elections were rigged. In the paper version, the scenario is so implausible that it's not worth much attention. In an electronic system, where maybe 1% of the electorate can actually understand how it works, and only 0.1% of that 1% have enough access to actually verify it works the way it says it works, it will be much easier to argue that the other side rigged the election. For democracy to work, it's less important who is elected, and more important that everyone accepts the result of the process.
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Correct, but that doesn't change the fact that when most people think about taxes they think of them paying for roads, schools, and emergency services. All lacking in rural areas. This creates the cognitive dissonance against taxes among those folk.
I assume that's where "arresting anyone who gets in the way" comes in
Cinemark is not in competition with MoviePass. If someone uses a MoviePass, Cinemark makes money because MoviePass bought a ticket. The reason Cinemark is losing money is because they have a bad product. They show terrible Hollywood films, have terrible seats, and terrible food. I still go to the theater, but when I do, I go to theaters like Alamo Draft House (Austin), Hollywood Theater (Portland), Manor Theater (Pittsburgh), Broadway Theater (Salt Lake City).
> And they can be more brittle than your actual code.

The brittlest tests I've ever seen have been mock-heavy unit tests. Some of them amount to little more than file-change detectors. Those tests can fail massively even when everything still actually works. They cry wolf so often the team ends up trained to unthinkingly change them so they "go green."

> But I think I get what he's getting at in terms of – ideally – wanting to minimize those kinds of tests by transforming previously unreliable parts of the system into something we can use "as a given" (like integer arithmetic).

A noble goal, but practically not a lot different from saying we should aim for formally verified software. After all, it's what we have for computer arithmetic example: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~jrh13/slides/jnao-02jun06/slides.pd... (2006):

> Intel uses formal verification quite extensively, e.g. ... verification of...floating-point unit[s]...
Did you check stack overflow jobs? What people are currently earning and what people are openly offering now has diverged quite a bit just in 18 months or so. It’s hurting the smaller companies with less budget and it’ll only get worse when Google opens their big office.
This is not accurate at all because it does not include things like the per-child tax credit which has a dramatic effect on the taxes you pay.
AFAIK macOS built in Apache is not started by default, so it is not a security risk anyway
Huh? In my experience at least that is not the case. If a vendor no longer has your correct card details on file (which would certainly be the case if your old card expired and you were issued a new one), then the vendor's charges will be denied by your issuer whether you had a long standing recurring payment or not. I know this because I sometimes receive a 'payment overdue/problem processing your payment' notice from some subscriptions I forget to update when an old card expires.
While it's lower than at its peak, 2016 still beat 1995 in inflation-adjusted dollars, so they're not doing too badly: https://www.the-numbers.com/market/

Or at least Walt Disney isn't: they got 7 of the last 10 top grossing movies of the year.
quote:

c:\dir\ssvn update
This might take a while, so please be patient.

Local Revision: 76032
Online HEAD Revision: 76032

Your tree is up to date.

/unquote

So, can anyone confirm for me that 76032 is the reversion that they're calling 0.4.7?
You might say he brutally raped a child and is a pedophile.

I say he dated a teenager who told him on the 2rd date that she is actually 14 but they both undressed and he 'touched her over her bra and underpants' but drove her immediately home, after she said she didn't want to go further (not making things up - that is the official story in the Washington Post).
Didn't the House version support pass through entities but the Senate version threw it out to reduce the deficit (to avoid filibuster)? Still waiting to see what the rectified version looks like.
I'd also disagree quite vigorously that dishonesty is perfectly constant over the last 50 years as well. You don't have to go that far back to find a time where most politicians were generally concerned with the welfare of citizens, above all other things. Now, for whatever reason, that seems to be a secondary (at best) goal on both sides of the aisle.
I have grad student friends that may have to drop out because they now have to treat waived tuition as income

If this happens, this will be a huge failure on their institution part. The only reason their tax bill might be affected is due to creative accounting practices of universities, who use the tuition waiver as a way to skim more money from the grants. Universities will just start offering education for free instead of waiving the tuition, and will find a new accounting trick to take money from federal science grants in "overhead".
Wow, everyone in that story is a piece of shit.
That’s whataboutism. And why should grad students get special treatment? Most other people making $20-30k (ones that aren’t privileged enough to be in grad school) will get a tax cut.
You are missing the power the theaters lose to MoviePass. MoviePass is almost assuredly not sustainable in its current business model. It is only a matter of time until they go to the theater chains with data saying X% of your customers are because of us, give us Y% of that revenue or we will direct our subscribers to competing theaters.
The correct word is ephebophile in most cases, or a hebephile in the case of the 14 year old. Although, there's no reason to get caught up in silly semantics when one accuser was 14.
Adding three dependents to mine raised my tax bill 20%.

Thanks Obama!
There was a VB 1.0 for DOS, but also a 1.0 for Windows released earlier I believe. VB for DOS was a bit of a dog, IIRC.
Because most people probably only go to an average of one movie a month (or less), and the new service rolls over unused credits? Basically, if you go to 12 movies or less a year, MoviePass is more expensive.
In Germany Sky has been given rights to HBO shows donno why
>reduce the burden of taxes on small business and corporations to promote repatriotization of capital back to the US.

The horror of giving a fair share to the country that supports your corporation.

I think we should fine companies like Apple who bilk the US and refuse to bring back hundreds of billions until they get a sweetheart deal.
I guess just drag the bar around a lot and look at a few different states.
Why wouldn't they use their Nexuses? They even push the updates out themselves.
It was fun? Could you talk about that some more?

Any time someone talks wistfully about a job they'd like to have, it's good to listen.
The media has been portraying this tax bill as a major break for billionaires, but these charts don't seem to show that.
Re "suck it up". I think you brought up two extremes: a stranger, and a loved one. But if my friend tells me to suck it up, I don't get offended, I'll just take it as an informed suggestion. And he'd usually be right. The cons of outwardly expressing the pain of stubbing a toe far outweigh the pros (are there any?).

Thanks again for your responses. A lot of the meditation talk still sounds a lot like "it was great but hard to explain, but you had to be there". I want to try it soon.
Out of curiosity, are you barred from installing software on company computers, because you're either explicitly or implicitly accepting an EULA?
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Great story and something I had to help my parents deal with as well (though not to this extent).

I personally think payday lending should be banned nationwide. The thing is, there are people that depend on that sort of resource or small loans so what is a better way to do this that doesn't lead to bad outcomes?

There was all the hoopla over Muhummad Yunas and microloans back in the day and P2P lending now. I assume there will be some sort of blockchain P2P lending soon as well.

Also, I used to watch Dirty Jobs every now and then and sometimes the environment or role would look pretty gross but I can't imagine having to be one of these people as a job. Swimming in real filth is probably better for the soul than swimming in this immoral filth.
They owed me, unless you are them.
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Ignore the soap example and just focus on the underlying Wi-Fi backscatter technology. There are many applications in extreme low power or no power devices. Most are missing the point.

More details here. http://iotwifi.cs.washington.edu/
At the time, why a young person who is too poor to go to college and has to work should be taxed higher than a college student?
npm install && npm start
How specifically did the request for source code signal to you that the vendor's charging too little? You suspect the customer is worried that the product is really nothing because it's priced so low? High prices from a vendor signal they mean business and ward off fiddly objections? (I'd expect the opposite, higher price => higher stakes => more interest in knowing just what you're purchasing.) That an ML product with source that BigCo would want to read probably has some special sauce that deserves a high price? Just that most small vendors looking at selling to very large customers tend to underestimate the optimal price?

I guess I risk inviting you to reply "Yes." or "mostly yes" with that laundry list, because most are theoretically plausible signals and sort of statements of the same idea, but what was your thought process leading to the conclusion they're underpriced? As someone who works for a vendor this is relevant to my interests :)
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I still can't help but think all of this are sleep paralysis symptoms. Not being able to focus on a screen sounds like they became drowsy by something?

I remember when I took alimemazine once I had severe sleep paralysis. I heard a loud buzzing sound and the day after I felt extremely drowsy.

But in the end all we can do is speculate, which is fun I guess. Maybe all of this is really nothing and they're just finding anomalies because they're looking for them.
Ssems we are not as intelligent as we think :-)
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Wow! I had no idea domestic (infl. adj.) sales peaked in 2002.
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The biggest high income subsidy is the favorable treatment of investment income. That'll probably be supplanted in the new tax regime by the passthrough discount.
Sure they can. There’s a separate shared heap which uses atomic ref counting.
What are you talking about? Lower class people are only able to afford grad school because of tuition waivers. By taxing them as income, only people who are able to pay out of pocket will have access to postsecondary degrees that grant higher incomes.
Many institutions make a lot of money from charging foreign, and out of state grad students the full price for tuition.

If they keep charging everyone else and make education free for employees, the tuition they would have paid becomes taxable income.
(Disclaimer: This post is about GH stars as a metric. Disputing this metric is not denigrating the project, and I actually think the project is pretty neat.)

However, it doesn't tell you how interested someone is in your project--only that they're interested enough to click a button on their mouse. Moreover, it doesn't even tell you much about how interesting your project is; it doesn't tell you what portion of your GH page's visitors thought it was sufficiently interesting to click the button. They might well get another 1K from this HN article; does that mean their project became twice as interesting today?
Seconded. There are some good charts out there that show the difference.
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Thank you for your comment. Can you add, for the benefit of the peanut gallery, what the typical cost of a one year software license you pay for is? I have a good guess but I think HNers need to hear people-other-than-me say it to internalize it.
10 minutes isn't really the drop of a hat. But why do you need your first confirmation in approximately the next 10 minutes so badly anyway, especially when it shows up in the mempool pretty much immediately? I paid around 20 cents on an approximately $200 transaction a couple weekends ago, it got verified after about 4 hours but I was expecting longer, it would have been fine. In the last 24 hours, 36,332 transactions were verified with at most 30 cents in fees. (https://bitcoinfees.earn.com/) The estimated time bounds for a transaction in that pool are 25 minutes to 14 hours.
That doesn't sound like a subscription. That sounds like you're paying $8.99 for a ticket once a month. Why wouldn't you just buy an $8.99 ticket as-needed?
It's not remotely fixed yet, the amount of electricity needed + infrastructure is massive + the electricity we generate is not exactly clean.

And once this is common - you will not be 'shopping' - you will be 'working'.

I worked for BlackBerry and watched the world transform to 'off time is now on time'.

Basically - 'after hours' became accessible to managers - now commute times will be as well.

It will be good for skilled labour/trades. They will still get paid by the hour ... while white collar workers will now be putting in an extra 50 mins a day on average, no extra comp :)