skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>As their fictional mom, I’d like to offer some advice. Retire, step aside. Maybe find a new hobby. Ask someone smarter and more educated, thoughtful, and civic-minded to decide on the future of your companies.

Trash. Really, who is the author to speak so condescendingly? I don't look up to these "tech bros" any more than she does, but this just reads like the results of a writing exercise rather than what someone would actually think or believe...
The phrase "compliance car" is generally used to refer only to low-range, lower-priced cars sold only because California forced them to. The Bolt has a much longer range and is higher priced than GM's previous compliance cars.
Most of the rest of the world does this.

If you only have W-2 or 1099 income, the government already has all of the data necessary to complete your taxes using standard deductions. If you have other income, itemize, or have other circumstances, you can continue doing your taxes as is.

It is curious that some proponents (in the US) of lowering taxes intentionally make taxes more complicated so as to make people more opposed to taxes in general.
Regardless of whether or not one agrees with your position (that our society could benefit from even more X in the water/air/food supply), it would need to be the stated purpose of distributing X in order for it to be acceptable. If the increased distribution of X is simply a side-effect, then it is unacceptable (even if the end result is viewed positively by some).
This guy consistently hates on people who suggest fast.ai as a resource, without giving any reasoning.
Seems that it should be a two-level interlock, as is found on some high-end sportscars. The regular key allows for regular driving, but the Valet Key limits it to just over walking speed -- obviously sufficient to park & retrieve, but no good for joyriding.

I'm quite surprised that this was overlooked in post-9/11 security reviews.
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In every country I'm aware of where the government does your taxes, you have exactly that option to accept (whether explicitly or through inaction) or to correct. I don't know anywhere that forces you to accept the government's calculation without a chance to provide your own.
I'd like to not have to fill out a dozen captchas just to comment on something.
Cloudflare already does that automatically.
It is not that simple and there are deeper issues. If buying out politicians was easy Google and Amazon would have easily raised H1B cap by now. Just like in immigration there are multiple forces at play in taxation too.

The powerful anti-tax group (which I support) is against this simplification problem. We believe making it simple would also make it simple to raise taxes and people will not realise how much money they are paying to the government. This reduces government's accountability in spending.

I think IRS must send us a bill each month and we must write a check to pay it. It is both simple and also people feel the pinch of paying taxes thus supporting measures to reduce taxes over time.
Try using it. Very slow. No matter where you are. I understand that some people have no choice other than to use it. so I stopped using it to leave whatever bandwidth there is in the exit nodes to them
Can you show me the source for this? My understanding was that the $10,400 was the minimum taxable amount of income, not the minimum required to file.

Edit: looks like I was wrong. That number matches what turbo tax is saying[1]

1. https://turbotax.intuit.com/tax-tips/irs-tax-return/does-eve...
Possible utility is why I upvoted the story and your comment. I commented in case you weren't aware.
Right, applications have advanced...they are calling fsync (or similar expensive I/O operation to ensure consistent database), like, every time user clicks. These features are often poorly documented and understood, with huge overhead that IMO could be avoided if OS+apps were designed with consistency features in mind.
Cloudflare spent a lot of energy and effort trying to fix this problem for visitors like you: https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-supports-privacy-pass...
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> It's the worst kind of selective enforcement - random enforcement.

Very similar to the way police behave w/ regards to speeding tickets. Set extremely low speeds that don't make sense on highways. Allow most people to go 10-15 above. But then also sometimes choose random people to screw over when it's the end of the month and they need to hit their quotas.
Those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

They had a utopian vision, but like all those before them they failed to take into account that there are a lot of 'bad actors' out there, to be polite about it.
I've been trying to use the Tor browser lately and so far it's been a mostly futile endeavor. Between these captchas (which take 1-2 minutes to solve) and other automated "bot" detection, most of the web is unusable. You might be able view it, but good luck interacting with it in any way. That's when you run into the "Sorry, something about your activity seems fishy" messages.
YES! I WOULD!

It should be they prep it, and I can verify and dispute it if I think they did it wrong.
Just write one (or many) blog entries somewhere. People in the academy publish papers just because they are evaluated by the number of publications. Your blog will have much more reach than any specialized journal. If you still want to have a PDF mixed with the ones made by the academia, upload something to arxiv.
Not exactly.

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Willful failure to file a tax return is a misdemeanor pursuant to IRC 7203. In cases where an overt act of evasion occurred, willful failure to file may be elevated to a felony under IRC 7201.
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If you have boring taxes this isn't a problem anyways. It's extremely simple to file if all you have is a W2. It can be done in about 10-15 minutes without any special knowledge.
Uplink was fun but I'd say this game has far more "hacking" in it. You have to do things like:

- crack passcodes
- manipulate tv station tapes
- soft-mod console disk firmware
- dial-up various hosts using a programmable modem interface

etc. Obviously it's all in a toy world but I'd say it's much more like what I'd imagine a hacking game should be than uplink.
Where do you see that?

https://s3.amazonaws.com/atrfiles/files/files/Federal%20Pled...

EDIT: OK, found this

https://www.atr.org/taxpayer-advocates-issue-joint-free-file...

https://reason.org/wp-content/uploads/files/ba148cd5babdda39...

https://s3.amazonaws.com/atrfiles/files/files/041111lt-wycoa...
> I trust Apple more than other companies.

Any particular reason why? Apple always seemed quite anti-user to me with "you are holding it wrong", walled gardens, incompatible ports,...
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I have thought a lot about this over the years, in particular because I went to high school with Dustin Moskovitz, who was Mark's roommate and cofounder at Facebook. Dustin and I are only the barest of acquaintances at this point, so nothing I say should be construed as inside information.

Mark started Facebook when he was 18. Being the CEO of Facebook is the only real job he's ever had, and it's been a rocket ship since Day 1. Kudos to his brilliance, but it doesn't change the fact that this is literally his first job.

It's a very unique situation he is in - running a company that took over 1/6th of the world being the only job you've ever had. Perhaps that does deserve some sympathy.

But you learn from being exposed to a variety of situations. You develop tremendously more perspective by getting out and doing different things. You are forced to consider things you never would have considered if you had not moved onto something new. It gives you a much deeper view of how most of society works.

If this were a mom-and-pop grocery shop, it wouldn't matter so much if the boss had been doing it since 18. There are other competitors who can step in if you suddenly start selling all of your customers' purchase information to the local banks and real estate agents.

That isn't the situation with Facebook, though. They are too powerful at this point. The author of this article is correct in saying it would be best for society if someone more civically minded were running the company.
Being at the top of the local heap technically is maybe lonesome, but if there is trust and a good working relationship with the non-technical senior team then that means a lot of independence you might not have in other situations.

On the other hand 3.5 hrs is a long commute - and that is time in your life being taken up for not much value. Have you considered moving closer to work and taking up a side technical hobby? If your main goal is financial independence, an extra $70k gets you there a lot faster than without.
Like a 1099? The government has this data as well.
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Agree completely. They mention that they were "arbitrarily chosen" and list luck, timing, etc. The fact of the matter is that it isn't arbitrary at all and hard work, talent, risk taking, etc. are all very strong filters. Sure, there is always some element of luck and timing, but give me a break. They make it sound as if building facebook is only slightly more difficult than finding $5 on the ground. This was clearly written by somebody who has no idea how tech startups succeed and more often than not fail.

Also, why take a shot at the fact that they are mostly men? Completely gratuitous and betrays their ideologically rigid way of looking at things.
It's a fair question, but what does such a person do now? I don't think their options would diminish.
It's only the same amount of fuel savings if you burn the same amount of fuel, right? The amount of fuel saved between 10mpg -> 12mpg may be roughly equal to an improvement of 30mpg -> 60mpg, but being able to go e.g. 600 miles (one 10-gal tank) vs 300 miles could be the difference between buying one tank or two (or: 1000 or 2000 over your car's lifetime).

Wouldn't that mean 30mpg -> 60mpg is more likely to save fuel on average because people are need less fuel to get them where they're going?

Or did I just get bamboozled by the trick?
In the UK you don't pay 45% until 150,000 and only 45% on any amount over 150,000 as it's tiered.
In Finland and many other countries they already do this.

They send you tax report already filled and all deductions done based on information they know. You check it for errors and correct if there is need and send it back. If you don't send it back, they just assume the default was OK.
Think of it this way.

There are about 125 million households in the US. 80% of those households obtain money via: W-2, Retirement (Social Security, 1099-r), bank interest via 1099, dividends or other investment income via 1099, contractor income via 1099 and similar. 13% of taxpayers can file a 1040EZ (aka simple enough to use a phone IVR)

100 million households can be freed of a needless administrative burden. Why not?
I've been addicted to games and now addicted to playing soccer, albeit less so probably due to being older with more responsibilities. And I see lots of similarities between the two very different kinds of games and the "addictions" to them. Even health-wise, it's hard to say if playing games all day is worse than getting tackled into hospital. I've met many people who were going for pro-sports when they were younger that destroyed their health and/or hurt their career prospects and had to re-invent themselves.

How do we distinguish what is a healthy hobby/persuasion, and what is an addiction?
GE has really taken a significant step down under Jeff Immelt's tenure (how much is his fault is up for question). It certainly is no longer the place to go for managerial excellence. The people that are good, leave. The managerial rotation system leads to managers that make decisions for the short-term. The decisions just need to be good enough for the manager to get a promotion and then it's someone else's problem. Other issues have been being late and a dollar short to most things, requiring GE to spend $$$$ to be a late entry.

Source: Multiple family members have worked for GE
I run dedicated onion addresses for my sites and check the CF-IPCountry headers and just redirect Tor users to the Onion site.
I review a bit (less than I did), and I occasionally publish (each time with the expectation that everyone will pick it up and start saying how important and significant this paper is, but each time to watch it being cited twice if I am lucky) so... fwiw

There must be a result or at least a clear contribution. Sans the result it's really a poster or a think piece, but really you don't have a publication. A publication is to demonstrate a new piece of confirmed knowledge; an observation, measurement, analysis or proof.

The quality bit is "how good is the way that you are conveying this new knowledge" is it sewn up, is every doubt closed, is the detail all there?
Depends on the location. In the Bay Area a large portion of the cost is having your capital tied up for like 5+ years while trying to get your project approved.
So you're saying that if they have a verbal agreement about a written set of terms, they have an agreement?

It sounds like exactly what I'm saying...other (nonverbal) evidence supports the existence of the verbal agreement.

Saying that a verbal agreement is a contract is like describing gravity as an apple falling from a tree. It's technically true but ignores the complexities that go into what can make a verbal contract enforceable.

(And I say this based on actual practice litigating contracts...)
It's the most effective solution, not just the easiest.
The reasoning against many simplified tax filing proposals is that many of them reduce transparency and arguably raise taxes in an indirect sense because it makes it harder to file for deductions. I agree with that if you keep the current underlying tax system but just "simplify" filing.
Under GDPR, publishers are adopting CMPs for fear of losing out on ad revenue
I pretty sure almost everyone would agree that having the IRS fill out a return and send it to you for approval would be better (except for the Norquist zealots that think the IRS would "hide" deductions from you).

Most tax filers have a single W2 income and use the standard deduction, so the IRS would just send you a form that has that.

For the rest of us who actually don't use the standard deduction, at least it would help me know which forms the IRS has and what they think I owe them, so I don't forget anything, or can correct things. I've had incorrect 1099s filed against me and had no idea for years until the IRS notified me of a discrepancy.

So yeah, there is no downside to the IRS doing my return and then letting me amend it.
GM doesn't get California credits for selling Bolts outside of California and the other states that follow the California standard.

Isn't the Leaf about to stop being the world's best-selling electric car?
Many boring people don't know this -- people pay $500 to claim the earned income credit.
> “If you’re a typical American and you get this packet from the I.R.S. that says, ‘Here’s what we’ve determined your liability is,’ no one is going to challenge it,” Mr. Ellis said. “People are scared, intimidated or otherwise occupied in their lives, and they’re going to just accept what the I.R.S. sends them.”

Patronizing and offensive to Americans
It seems to have a pretty coherent thesis to me.

"They started with some good ideas, some luck, great timing, got lots of people to believe in their rosy vision, and they won the unicorn lottery. Little did they know or care what problems they were creating. And now, they’re being asked to solve — or acknowledge, or something — some really big issues"

I'd go so far as to say that it doesn't offer any solutions because, as it alludes to, there really aren't any. At least no top-down ones. That's the scope and scale of the problems created. They're some of the oldest kinds of problems, ones we've been trying to tackle more or less since organized society began. Exacerbated and accelerated by devices that allow us to make mistakes faster than any other point in history.

I think these systems deserve a bit of bitterness and hatred. I'm really not sure where you're getting 'wealth envy' from. This is the same lament that occurs with any kind of dramatic power imbalance. When the wealthy and powerful become so powerful that they stop being private entities and start being society-altering juggernauts, the rest of the people will complain about being trampled. This seems fair and right to me.
After a quick glance through their comment history, it appears they figured out this one neat trick called "homelessness".
> I'll take the current political climate over that which generated the French Revolution any day of the week.

The question is, are those two climates really that different?

> people spying on me to actually literally control my behavior

You've essentially defined advertising industry. It's a very insidious form of control, but just because it doesn't involve threats of violence, doesn't mean it isn't there and isn't working.
wouldn't the energy efficiency be low? effectively: light source -> PV panels, focus etc are bound to be difficult (long distance so parallel rays, any tiny deviation... well schlieren photography) and then there's diffuse scattering
and it's a beautiful country on top of that! sign us up
The fact that the IRS sends out their preliminary calculations for citizen to base their own filing on doesn't affect the total error rate for any inherent reason, so ideally nothing new would happen.

That said I'm sure US congress could find some interesting way to involve for profit companies in the process that makes everyone even more miserable than the current system.
The Moveable Feast Machine is a "robust-first" computing architecture designed to create vast distributed self-healing machines out of unreliable parts.

Here is a self healing city simulation in the Moveable Feast Machine. He causes a disaster in the middle of the city with the "nuke" tool, and it smoothly grows back and seamlessly repairs. He cuts holes in the wall around the city, and the grey goo molecular nanotechnology urban sprawl spreads out and takes over the entire world!

Robust-first Computing: Distributed City Generation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkSXERxucPc

Self-Healing Wire in the Movable Feast Machine:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmPnjBhkbF0

A Robust Self-Healing Membrane in the Movable Feast Machine:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oq0uvF4mm7Y

Growth of self healing membranes in the Moveable Feast Machine:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8zVYuV3AQw

Intercellular Transport in the Movable Feast Machine (Two cells are interconnected by self-healing wire):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YucCpYCWpY

A NAND gate in the Movable Feast Machine (A NAND gate constructed of self-healing wire, using Message particles to represent quasi-electrons):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5NVk12i3cM

The Movable Feast Machine is a robust, indefinitely scalable, computing architecture:
https://movablefeastmachine.org/
You can still trade stocks and there are events to do that.
> We believe making it simple would also make it simple to raise taxes and people will not realise how much money they are paying to the government.

In other words you think people are too dumb to do the math, but yet are smart enough to make intelligent protests against taxes when they have to write a check?
I feel the same way lately. Occasionally I'll fire up a game, play for a while, get bored, and go back to programming. Then I get bored programming because outside of my work, I can't think of what to make... besides games. Or things tangentially related to games, like music synthesizers or things that draw cool effects on the screen.
Captcha's are very overused. I cancelled my PlayStation Vue service because the website
kept bugging me with the worst of the worst Google captchas every couple days or so (not using Tor). Unreal that anyone thinks those are a good idea just to log into a service someone is paying for.
Yeah tails was so broken with CloudFare I had to give up on it. Many sites showed the annoying captcha and, if you got past that, still refused to show content because it was presumably served from a separate domain. If you looked at source and copied the urls to the images and tried to open them directly you got another CloudFare captcha.
You didn't respond to any of the logic in the comments above.

Yes, you need some minimum of civil society infrastructure for paper ballots to be categorically more secure than electronic ballots.

But the article is about the US. In the US, paper is simply safer.
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This thread is very defensive.

Being angry at the hubris of zuckerberg and other tech bros is completely appropriate and justified. When rich nerds try to solve large complex problems from within the algorithmic confines of their solipsism, they inevitably run into the endless irregularities of the real world until the only option they have left is to destroy every irrelgularity with force or implode because they can't.
>>> The bigger problem is becoming abuse of cheap VPS and seedbox services (and anon VPNs)

Cloudflare have the solution for that. You can ban by AS number and by country code.
> I would not trust IRS to do my taxes but I am happy if they send me a draft and I have to just sign or make corrections

That is how it works in Spain and Sweden. But, in the end, the tax office will randomly select people and check their tax applications. If you did something wrong they will send a correction so you pay the difference plus an interest rate. But even then you can send allegations to justify your original tax application. Only if they reject the allegations you need to pay the difference.
Hell, I'm about to smash this stinking iPhone and go back to a flip phone. Better yet, a 2 meter amateur radio HT.
Is there any board that allows 256GB ECC RAM for Threadripper 2? So far for TR I've seen only 128GB; for more EPYC was necessary.
I'm sorry but I just don't buy it. There is no indication that Zuckerberg wants to change anything about how Facebook operates or that he has regrets for how things have turned out. On the contrary it seems he has no respect for human rights and doesn't give two shits about privacy, except his own of course. I can understand that running a multibillion corporation turns you into an unsocial prick but the problem with Zuckerberg isn't how he behaves towards those who are close to him (see Jobs) but how he treats society. For him everyone is just an audience for an advertisement. Just last week we read that he wanted access to bank accounts. There's obviously no such thing as remorse for him, everything is up for sale.
Seems a great idea. If you manage to do a US version and an international version would be great.
Presumably in the "reduction or elimination of deductions and credits" - simplifying the tax code would require those kinds of changes.
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I wonder if this is more wide spread. I was a very loyal customer of Dell but my last XPS (9350) is a disaster. Reading this kind of reviews makes me hesitant to buy a new laptop.
Wouldn't it be so much easier if they just sent you all the corrections first so you could just dispute them once? :)