skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've said something similar when mentoring engineering managers about how to let go of certain decision making. 90% of the decisions a team makes will have very little impact on the success of the project, but the other 10% do. You only learn from experience which decisions are the 90% and which decisions are the 10%.

It's how leaders need to operate to survive if they want to avoid micromanaging, honestly.
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> You basically have it right.

GP doesn't even have Silver’s model right (he describes the “nowcast”, which was never the headline forecast model), so if he is right that that is what Taleb is referring to, that would be a pretty damning indictment of Taleb’s critique.
I can understand the concern about getting your account banned, but: if after 12 months, your startup can't afford $250/month for support, you probably have bigger problems.

To put it another way: do you think the level of support that Google would be able to provide is less valuable than a few percent of an engineer's salary?
Are you sure it’s not recency bias? Like when you learn a new word and hear it everywhere?
When a highly-respected group of reporters like ProPublica run a story, it’s reasonable to assume they’ve done more research than the average commenter. In this case:

https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/1957...

> The Secretary of the Treasury, or the Secretary’s delegate, shall continue to operate the IRS Free File Program as established by the Internal Revenue Service and published in the Federal Register on November 4, 2002 (67 Fed. Reg. 67247), including any subsequent agreements and governing rules established pursuant thereto.

https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/FR-2002-11-04/02-27909/s...

> during its term, the IRS will not compete with the private sector by providing free on-line tax preparation and filing services to taxpayers
What they receive is only part of the calculation.

What your opponent will receive in the next election or primary is a bigger issue. And that implied stick is much cheaper than giving out carrots all the time.
The downside, allegedly, is that the IRS may not operate in good faith and take all of the appropriate deductions, etc. If the tax code were vastly simplified, I think all of the objections go away.
(edit: "Scooter" is overloaded. Think "Vespa", not "Razor".)

I didn't have a radar gun on him, no. But I was doing about 50 passing him, so ...
Get rid of your TV and IP block the top five most interesting places you could watch videos online.
You still can change the return if you don’t agree.
> There are some things missing, like .... moving emojis, etc.

Isn't that a feature?
I agree. I have tried Chromium at times, but the weight of Google hegemony always sends me back.

HOWEVER! I run it in a VM on a Qubes host, with UMatrix add-on and a Google Analytics blocker. It has no access to a GPU. It crashes, sometimes, hundreds of times a day. (Most usually this is a tab crashing, but frequently enough the whole thing goes.) Nothing else on the machine is even slightly unstable. At the moment, 66 is entirely unable to bring up a Google Maps tab for more than a half-second; it draws the map, then BOOM.

Frequently it can bring up a page, but then crashes at the first hint of scrolling.

Looking back, this seems to have started sometime around 60 or 61, and got really bad around 63 or 64. I really would like to see an end to its crashing.
But new, younger adults can enter the segment, which I'm not seeing.

Point being it's a generational concern. It isn't something a new generation of parents are concerned about in the same way.
It a/b tests well for some metric they love
Perth... but I see the same everywhere. Currently in Port Macquarie and the same strange subdued anger is here.
As it did for the people of Hong Kong. At the time of the handover it represented 20% of China's GDP. Today it's just 2.9%, although that's 5X per capita.
This is nice. Not perfect - I wish it was FLOSS for one, and the icons are a bit clunky. But much better than the alternative.
Instead of actually thinking of how the system works or how to change it, we get this stupid law from stupid people. Classic government.
Aside (but not really): guessing this is you?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6P1rjJuD_M
A totally awesome set of lectures... highly recommended.
Gitlab too does this, along with free unlimited private repos & published static sites; html n Jekyll n all. Just a happy user.
I've mostly been under the impression that the big wins for machine intelligence in farming is weed and pest control.

Although a Mexican friend of mine said strawberry harvesting is utterly brutal. He also said harvesting grapes is easy work compared to anything else.
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Yes it was, I added it as example of sites of historical significance destroyed in our life time.
They are necessarily violating the tos to work on the tool - how else are they testing it?
Indeed. Somehow this doesn’t occur to people though when they get behind the wheel of a 3000lb death machine and decide to start looking at their phone. I personally find the prospect terrifying.
In Brazil, our IRS provides the software for free and it gets better every year. There are some talks about not having to declare anything if your revenue situation is simple, in a few years.

I don't trust our government as much as the US population doesn't trust its government but this level of paranoia only leads to inefficiencies. Now instead of a central authority providing codified norms in software, you have countless tax filling vendors providing theirs, lobbying, etc.

Same with right to bear guns against the government. I guess it's the old shovels and gold digging, there's someone profitting from your hopes and dreams, or in this case, fears.
Great... how long till google gets bored of this and cuts all theses services leaving their customer's screwed?

After seeing how google handles products and their sun-setting I would never trust my production environment with google.

The only product I ever integrated our production environment with was google maps/places and we got fucked over with a 5x cost increase.

Seriously who would ever trust google over AWS or Azure...
I used to spend a fair bit of time in a non-tech IRC (we've moved to Discord since) and the amount of intelligent people who simply could not get the hang of NickServ was astounding.
Maybe I misunderstand your argument, but doesn't that linked page have a section "How the forecast has changed"[1]?

[1] https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2016-election-forecast/...
The situation is even worse for foreigners in the US. As a non-resident I have to use websites with horrible UX, it's totally confusing and I have to gather all the documents and print the forms to mail it to the IRS.
> where I would expect it to break down would be recollection of colors...

Could that not be explained by simply storing that information as "textual" data? As in: using spatial imagery to recall the layout of a room, and basic knowledge to recall the color of the walls.

> ...touch, sounds, tastes, or smells.

These other senses are considered separate from the topic of Aphantasia. It seems there are many people with good visual imagery, but none of the other senses... as well as people with zero visual imagery, but some or all of the other senses.

I have zero across the board, unfortunately.

Could you explain your taste or smell imagery? My recollection only goes as far as "I remember liking this dish more than most things".
> It is statistically more dangerous than driving intoxicated.

It might cause more deaths/accidents, but how many more people are driving distracted compared to driving intoxicated?
If that is indeed accurate, a lot of their jobs will be automated too. Few roles are truly 'safe' but the ones I'd write a script to solve are definitely less so.
As of a few years ago, the average cost for a winning campaign for the House of Representatives was about $1.5M. The average cost for a winning Senate campaign was a bit over $10M.
To be fair, American exceptionalism has little to do with the glories of our IRS.

Our tax code is also absurdly complicated- https://www.businessinsider.com/2014-how-many-pages-in-the-u... as an example. As I've said elsewhere, some of the most significant opposition to the IRS pre-filing taxes is trusting that it operates in good faith - or at least competently - and appropriate applies all deductions that a person is eligible for. Simplifying the tax code would go a long, long way to alleviating most people's concerns, I think.
"People aren't buying huge SUV's because they've analyzed the data to determine that the relative impact of their consumption isn't worth buying a smaller vehicle."

Just curious how you know this to be true.
Sure, if all you have is a W-2 and no kids.

The rates referenced are only for ordinary income. But it's not just the rates... it's the base. Most people do not understand that different types of income are taxed very differently.

In addition to ordinary tax rates, there are 3 different capital gains rate (0%, 15%, 20%), Then there's the 25% depreciation recapture rate and the 28% collectibles rate. Then 3.8% Net Investment Income tax will be added to that, but only the amount over the threshold not the full amount of your investment income. Don't forget the capital loss limitation. How do you apply the rate if you can't deduct more than $3K in a year regardless of how much you've lost?

Which brings me to passive income & how only passive losses can offset it.... and how you can't deduct the any passive losses if your AGI is > $150K.... unless you're a real estate professional. Oh but if you have passive rental income, that could be subject to the 3.8% tax on top of your ordinary tax.

Even if you just have a W-2, you may also have to pay 0.9% Additional Medicare Tax on certain wages...how much depends if you're married or not.

And even in you only have ordinary income, what you're really looking for an effective tax rate. But to determine that, you have to take into account the tax credits which you may or may not get depending on your AGI, & a host of other factors. And then how much of your deductions will actually count towards reducing your taxable income. High state tax folk are figuring that out now.

Then there's the lovely 20% Qualified Business Income...which you might get, or you might not. depending on what type of business you have and if you pay wages. But if you have REIT or PTP dividends (read investors), you get that deduction no matter what...which means that your actual rate on that income is really 80% of the nominal rate referenced.

Hopefully you're getting my point: It's a myth that you can take "income" & multiply it by the marginal rate in the table to calculate your actual tax liability.

It's so much more complicated than that. ... Oh, and then tax reform sunsets in 2026 & we're right back to the 2017 tax law more or less.
American tax is significantly more complex than other countries - I would guess more than any other country - due to challenges such as county + state + federal taxes and interactions between them.

Source: worked on a payroll system that had to be heavily rearchitected when we tried to deploy it in the US.
that would be so nice, wouldn't it? Millions of people prosecuted for tax fraud, because they had to choose between paying the gov later or paying for food/rent/healthcare NOW.
Google “darpa tDCS”. It’s been used to improve sniper performance by the DoD.

TLDR Low levels of current introduced through the brain increases synaptic plasticity.
> and I can anonymously buy as many certificates as I want
Can you pay an accountant to do your taxes instead? I do that in the UK and they cost less than the prices I see online for US tax software. I just give him a pile of pay slips and receipts and he does whatever he needs to do to fill things in.
That’s an excellent point — I can name multiple cases when Ellison personally sold $x00mm deals to CEOs at (quite literally) baseball games, and Nadella has made personal pitches for Azure for major opportunities, but are Page/Brin/Pichai going to do c-suite grip and grins? Doesn’t seem like their strong suit, and it would require a strategic-level bet on enterprise that I just don’t think they’re willing to make, given the fact that adtech is their major cash cow.
And yes, the kid on his bike is a problem. More of a problem, in some ways. This was in my neighborhood, so speeds were low all around. But I had to time passing him very carefully, and I was very aware of how much he was weaving around the road, however slowly. And this kid will be on a scooter next. Then in a car. And having his phone available at all times will be even more second-nature to him. Maybe he'll get lucky, and truly autonomous vehicles will be a thing before he gets himself killed or badly injured.

Maybe.
They also created the KKK to accomplish with terrorism what the legal system and social norms couldn’t rig for them. That really persisted unabated into the late 50’s, and to an extent still exists. The violence has been reduced, but the economic devastation remains. There’s a reason that you can use zip code as a proxy for race in America.
The perrenial misunderstanding about lobbying in the US is that it's about money. It's not. It's about access. The money spent by lobbying firms is almost always in pursuit of that access. AKA buying a $10,000 plate at this donor dinner gets you a sit down with the Senator.

Not only do lobbyists get more accessible they get more credibility. The lobbyists are high paid lawyers at respected firms. They have degrees from respected schools. They have worked on the issue at discussion at lemgth. So when citizens are stacked up against these people they seem comparatively crankish.

This provision isn't in the bill because Intuit bribed someone. It's because that 6.6 million bought a lot of sit downs with committee members. Sit downs in which lobbyists told a convincing story of how it would actually be better for everyone of the IRS couldn't do this. Honestly they probably made some process argument for this. Something like it would get challenged in court anyway and be a big waste of money. Or about how you should make it illegal so the Executive Branch won't do it on their own and they'll have to take congressional input. And the lobbyist almost certainly believes whatever line their feeding the politicians.

It's like most broken things in life. No one is evil stuff just breaks.
Thoughts on Brave browser?
in a perfect world, the congressman would turn the tables and say "you either contribute to my campaign, or else I, along with 20 other senators, will vote for a tax against your industry in particular".
Big donors are a high return-on-time for busy politicians. I donated the max (2*$2700) to a few candidates during the previous midterm elections, and was (naively) surprised to be invited to have brief 1:1 meetings with each of them. Money speaks depressingly loudly in politics. Corporations have to go through PACs, but many have their own (Intuit has their "21st Century Leadership Fund" PAC, which you can view here:

https://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/lookup2.php?strID=C00361741...

Not all candidates accept PAC funds, but enough do.

It's disheartening.
that might depend on simplifying the tax code, which might be orders of magnitude more difficult

Actually, it would be trivial to simplify the tax code. It couldn't be done overnight, it might take a long weekend. All you have to do is come up with a very simple tax scheme with no complexities and no loopholes. Why couldn't a simple tax system be contained in a 10 page law?

At first make it optional for anyone to switch to the new scheme. After a few years, start a 20 year phaseout of the old system. Tell the holdouts that, first year of phaseout, they must pay 5% of the tax required by the new system and continue to pay 95% of the amount calculated by the old rules. After 10 years it becomes 50%/50%. After 20 years the old system is gone completely. Holdouts can switch completely to new system at any time, but once you switch you can never go back to the old system.
This thread and TFA is blowing my mind. I've never been able to visualize things the way that others seemingly could but I never took the time to actually be conscious of that fact.

> But then, perhaps, in this case, ignorance would be a bit more blissful.

I'm not sure how I feel about this right now, but it's not going to be bothering me for a while...
I'm sad that delivery pushed back from Q2 to Q3, but happy that it can make phone calls.

I wonder if it will run Signal. Maybe the desktop version?
It's not just mobile.
This comment covers that scenario well, I think: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19619798
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And water is wet
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It is literally 1040-EZ.
If I read this right, you can still use the free service the IRS provides if you make less than $66,000.

Has anyone used Turbo Tax or H&R "free" versions to file? I can't use them & last time I tried they charged you to submit your taxes electronically but otherwise it was simple & easy.

I also know many cities offer services to help people file simple taxes for free.

I believe this bill also states the IRS cannot send debt collectors after people making less than $66,000.

This bill may not be as bad as it looks. I don't expect the IRS to make software for complicated taxes as that's a very difficult challenge. I question if it's necessary to bar it, but I'm guessing that was to keep their deal with the Free File software.

Either way it would be nice to see representatives state their position & reasoning behind this bill. It seems it has wide support across the aisle which is rare these days.
I have aphantasia but can draw fairly well, as long as I'm looking at what I'm trying to draw. But I can't draw anything from memory (because I have virtually no visual memory, it's very, very, very vague and fuzzy).
> American tax is significantly more complex than other countries

Yes

> such as county + state + federal

Plenty of countries with this, aren’t there? Germany, Australia, Switzerland, etc?
Many here who work for companies like Facebook probably have blood on your hands as a results of your pursuits to "increase engagement".
This is why congress should be a conscripted service.

With a limit of two terms.... should only be able to vote to keep a certain person in office, but all persons in office should be selected just like jury duty.

Want to know how fucking retarded the world is. Do this. but at least it will diminish corruption from the likes of Pelosy and others who spend DECADES in their positions...
Yup, once every so often we get a letter from the IRS about a discrepancy. Every time, they are correct.
The problem with your solution is that voice assistants excel at practical tasks which aren't at the root of phone and social media addiction. These are people addicted to the dopamine rush of validation and acceptance they get from social media like FB, IG, and Twitter, as wel las personal text messages. It's an addiction like nicotine, small effects repeatedly played out over time. But it gets to the point where they are dangers to all of us when they are driving on top of all the other social costs (worse performances at work and school, for example).
This is incredibly interesting. About a year ago I began to acknowledge that I can't really force an image into my head, and if I try I can sort of get a vague impression of it, but it doesn't have color or anything. When I am free thinking I think my mind is able to conjure all sorts of images, but when I try to focus in on it, the image vanishes into that vague impression. And sometimes it is weird, I can think about all of the details and have sort of a distant detailed image of whatever I'm thinking about, but I can't bring it to focus. It feels like the uncertainty principle with my mind.

But it was a strange topic, so I never really discussed this topic with anyone. Based on what I am reading, I don't think I have aphantasia, or maybe it is a spectrum and I have it to some degree. But it is refreshing and also kind of sad at the same time to hear that others experience visualization drastically differently.

I'm still very much a dreamer and a thinker and haven't had any issues with my ability to visualize things. But hearing about how some of you are able to bring up vivid images sounds pretty magical. I do wonder if some of this is about how we as individuals explain things. Maybe what I am experiencing is actually normal but others describe it in a different frame of mind than my own.

Regardless, it is an interesting subject.
Assigning new works to the public domain is a pain in many jurisdictions, but if a work originates in the US as public domain, it is in the public domain everywhere.

Note that this doesn't apply to non-USG-made derivative works, though.
Well, to tell you how useful the book is. I own 3 copies and keep them by my desk. When people ask why I tell them so I can read it 3x faster.
My old home state of Georgia is stepping back in time (and not in a good way) on a couple of legal positions recently, but I'm pleased & surprised they, like Ohio, have adopted "no phones while driving" about a year ago. From what I know from friends & family they're backing it up with enforcement and people are changing their habits.
How would this even work? Say I decided to buy two billboards with different designs selling the same product, and put a different phone number at the bottom of each. Looking at my phone bill at the end of the month, I have a count of how many responses I received from each billboard.

Have I just committed a crime?
Considering Oracle was pulling any liberal arts graduate with a pulse off the street to manage the programmers, I believe it.
One of the most interesting things about the AS system, to my mind, comes from a case where a motorcyclist was fined for attaching a helmet cam -- AS1698 does not permit modification of helmets. (Whether or not attaching something via a sticker is modifying the helmet is still up for grabs.)

Regardless, he fought his case up to the county court and won, based on the argument that it was not sensible to expect the public to adhere to an AS that was not publicly available.

https://www.mauriceblackburn.com.au/about/media-centre/media...
> Neal, received $16,000 in contributions from the two companies in the last two election cycles[.]

This statement is false. If you look at Open Secrets, $16,000 lines up exactly with what H&R Block and Intuit employees donated to Neal in 2016 and 2018. H&R Block and Intuit have tens of thousands of employees--it's not surprising that many donated to a Democrat with a high-ranking committee position.

Fun fact: By the article's parlance "Google" gave more to Neal in 2018 than Intuit. Gasp--Google must be in on the tax filing scam too!
You saying that has flipped me over the edge, I think perhaps I'm somewhat aphantasic too.

I can picture things to some extent, like I can imagine the Mona Lisa, but not really the full image, just more like a sense of the painting, with a myriad of elements of the painting floating like words in a word cloud. I can't see it in the setting of the Louvre really, indeed it's struck me all my mental imagery is basically black, like an edge detect effect - I can imagine a bit of white wall if I try, so perhaps I just need to practice.

I've been painting for some time, but always use imagery to paint from - so many times I've said something like "when you try to think of a rabbit you just can't remember what one looks like" and no one has ever said "can't you just picture it?"; but it strikes me that I can't.

I do have a relatively good ability to make up stories, and have always loved fiction books. My memories aren't really pictorial though; so I guess I can fantasise about being in a situation in the same way as I can recall being in one.