skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ideally, you support potential candidates and existing representatives who will push public policy to enable the IRS (with help from the US Digital Service and 18F) to provide for tax filing directly to US taxpayers. This is the Path To Assured Success (public policy enabling and funding the IRS to directly support tax filing).

I can't imagine anyone having the will and resources to write their own tax prep system and then providing ongoing support for it though. Gonna take deep pockets and someone who really hates the professional tax prep market. It isn't a weekend project. This is a long, thankless grind.

https://www.warren.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/senato... (Senator Warren Leads Colleagues in Reintroducing Legislation to Simplify and Decrease the Costs of Tax Preparation and Filing)

These are the people you help get the bill passed:

> United States Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) along with Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.), Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Tom Udall (D-N.M.), Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.), Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.), Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), Cory Booker (D-N.J.), and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) today reintroduced the Tax Filing Simplification Act to ease the tax filing process for millions of American taxpayers and reduce their costs. Last tax season, American taxpayers spent an average of 11 hours and around $200 preparing their tax returns -- a cost equal to almost 10 percent of the average federal tax refund. Representative Brad Sherman (D-Calif.) is reintroducing a House companion along with Representatives Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.), Don Beyer (D-Va.), Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), Tim Ryan (D-Ohio), Katie Hill (D-Calif.), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.), and Jackie Speier (D-Calif.).

Please call your representative and ask them to support this legislation. That is their job; to support the legislation you want enacted. It will take you at most ~15 minutes, and every call is tallied by congressional assistants.

https://www.commoncause.org/find-your-representative/
Not sure about other States but IL has a free State tax filing site - https://mytax.illinois.gov
Finally somebody gets it!!!! This is refreshing!
Capitalism at work here. A majority of lawmakers are for sale and apparently half the country doesn't care about it. As long as these companies keep stuffing the pockets of elected officials there will be no reprimand.
I imagine that establishing the technical relationship with the IRS is one of the bigger challenges, particularly for open source.

Gotta love the "HN Weekender" moxie, though!
> It probably takes only a weekend for me to do this

The tax code is very complex, and nobody could replicate these systems in a weekend. And even if you did, it would be out of date in a year.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19799649

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19782394
That's a very interesting architecture for compiler. Is that code in your github repo?
It's alright to flag stories (and hold off on commenting) if you feel they're getting more than their fair share of coverage.
Can you figure out why CNN, MSNBC and Fox are different from the people banned in the above article?
The same thing that we are supposed to do when we need to make up a new password every 3 months. Absolutely not add 1 to it and call it a day.
It's not clear to me that those three things are examples of the old being against long-term interests of anybody.

First, I don't know if there's a clear age divide on opinions on those things. Perhaps there is, but I haven't seen data on that either way. Subjectively, it doesn't appear to me that this is the case.

Second, it may very well be that the stances people are taking on those issues are because they see those stances as being positive in the long term. (I'm not considering "the housing crisis", because I'm not sure what you mean by that in this context).

You and I may (and it sounds like we do) disagree with other's assessments on these things, but that doesn't actually speak to motivation.
Mostly innocents? That's not supported by the numbers I was looking at.

Could you point me to these numbers? It looked to me like killing a whole slew of extremists for extremely minimal collateral damage.
I actually see the just-a-git-project aspect of the Nix/Guix distribution maintenance a massive win on transparency grounds. I agree that I'd like to see a bit more dedicated "ownership" of key components, but I see that more as a lack of manpower meaning that many people have to spread themselves quite broadly.

But at the same time I'm quite hopeful that this model can produce a maintenance culture that's less territorial, arcane and officious than is my impression of e.g. Debian's methods and processes. As much as I love Debian, of course - but it definitely feels like yesterday's approach.
playing a lot of scrabble -- our regular play includes a list of two-letter words on paper, in pencil, nearby to settle disputes (not visible during play). The arguments get heated ! .. (our list is smaller than the official list of two letter words, based on mutual agreement of real-world use). Personal opinion is that the official list is already too broad, and makes the play "muddy." Dictionary exploration is nerd-fun! We use a 1950s Webster's Unabridged English (which webster? have to check) and a 1980s Oxford American-English; both have their quirks ! happy SCRABBLE™
He has a current active large social media following.
You are overlooking the most significant item. Why was all the information in the war logs classified in the first place? The power to classify information is only legitimately used for very narrow purposes. The war logs show that the US government used that power inappropriately to deliberately deceive the American people about the war efforts.

The men and women of the armed forces risk their lives over these wars. The public funds them with taxation. The wars have cost as much as 7 years of a 50% tax cut for everyone earning under $500K. That is such a large number that any social program, any infrastructure challenge is dwarfed by it. The post 9/11 wars are the biggest financial fraud in the history of the world.

We found out thanks to Assange that our leaders hid information from us so that they could continue stealing our money to wage a war that was very different from what they claimed it was.

We place a great deal of trust in our leaders, and Assange showed that it was not deserved. Still, none of the leaders who did this have been brought to justice.
> No one is entitled to online speech, believe it or not.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_Internet_access
It's 4981 years of hotel here (16.5€/night). There is no secret to discover in homelessness. They have housing and/or drug and/or mental disorder problem. They need to stop using drug, a good psy with a working treatment and a house. House is the simpler to fix. Let's start with that.
> Have these things plus the app store really only generated 21 billion?

Considering why the number was revealed, Google had every incentive in the world to understate as much as they could get away with. Plus, how is $21 billion profit not a great thing for them? The revenue number was north of $30 billion.
+1 for The Body Keeps the Score.

Before reading it, I discovered that a regular sauna practice (alternating cold hot cycles) had major benefits on my trauma symptoms, both developmental and acute PTSD from a near death experience. Then I read the book and was gratified to find this approach studied/explained/validated. These days I recommend it to anyone with mental health concerns, which is basically everyone these days as far as I can tell.

This book on developmental trauma looks good as well, thanks for sharing.
So did the real estate market around 2007....
i'm glad i read this comment before the article
didn't u send code to your servers before? that still happening??
>by the only scalable constant energy source left: gas.

What makes you think coal and nuclear are scalable? Gas has been the only option from the start and simply switching from coal to gas already results in a 50-60% CO2 reduction.
That's why it's a good idea to pay the IRS with tax dollars to create their own free efile facility.
You seem like a self-starter. So consider taking a year off, moving to a cool city, and just getting a job in an industry that interests you. Try to move up the ladder. Try a bunch of stuff. If you're getting some traction, just stick with it--you might be way better off than your friends in 4 years (real work experience and no debt). If not, you can try applying to college again in a year or two.

Good luck.
Exactly what I was thinking when I wrote my down voted comment. FB et al are enabling a public forum. If a town is built with a public town square the city can't subsequently decide who to ban from it based on their views, only if they are drunk and disorderly, a public nuisance etc.
I would say that's subsumed into the cost of hiring someone. The amount of drama/overhead that is tolerable depends on how much it costs to replace them. If you're going to spend a 5 figure amount interviewing someone, as a recent HN submission pointed out, you have an incentive to try and fix a few issues before you give someone the boot. If you can just literally hang a sign up and open your door and get qualified people coming in to apply, then you'll probably get rid of someone who's the least bit of trouble.
'I don't think it's entirely fair to replace "anti-Semite" with "Republican" or "Democrat."'

I'm not claiming it's "fair". I'm claiming the rhetoric still fits. Nothing about it was specific to "anti-Semites". I'd bet at least 5% of the people who read that would agree to the Republican one, if you could ask them, and I feel here on HN I'm being fairly conservative with that number. (Especially if we're specifically referring to politicians, and not the general rank and file, in which case I'm stroking my chin and eyeing the paragraph pretty seriously for both the Democrat and the Republican paragraph... but then, the common factor there is politician, rather than whatever specific platform is in play.)

And what that rhetoric is is an excuse. If you don't want to engage, don't, but precisely by your lack of engagement you are in no position to judge anyone's true motives or whether they're just pulling your leg or whatever.
Read up on Namecoin and see if you still agree with that statement. Blockchain for DNS is a pretty brilliant solution, IMO.
My first question would be: am I to encounter code like this in your company?

If the answer would be 'yes' i would leave. If the answer would be "we'd be happy if not, but it could happen" you'd get bonus points for being honest :)

It is not hard to understand what is going on in this "loop", but this as much a red flag as it gets.

Addendum: this question is on the level of language syntax. There is no deduction, no problem decomposition, no deeper understanding of complexity theory etc. involved. It is just a matter of understanding the order of evaluation of terms in a for loop.

If you fail on this test, it wouldn't tell me much. If you succeed, same.
I used CK the past two years and started getting a ton of robocalls and credit card offers. Not to mention my college that never had my phone number previously started calling me on a weekly basis hounding me for donations.
Can you say more? Like there is none what?

If there are any changes to this doc - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/compliance/gd... - you would be able to check that immediately, and we would never change our data collection policy without changing that document... It's the law!

Disclosure: I work at Azure on machine learning but not VS Code
How would you know if you failed in identifying someone as not being able? You wouldn't hire them so you wouldn't know when you were wrong
I don't think I could connect Jones or Yiannopolous specifically to anything, just as I couldn't connect, say, Andrew Wakefield to any single specific case of parents forgoing vaxines.

I also think the ideas that Jones and Yiannopolous promote are easily seen to be harmful. Yiannopolous has promoted violence against journalists and associated himself with white supremacist movements. Jones has promoted the harassment of many victims of crimes and generally undermined public trust of institutions (including limited support of anti-vax views). I suppose it's up to you if you feel those ideas could cause harm - I feel they (and other ideas both have promoted) do.
Funny how most of you doesn't seem to understand that it's not the banned people who are dangerous. It's Facebook.

Stay off the platform and encourage others to do the same.

Read news from respected news outlets and remember that there are always multiple sides to a story.
Solving this problem is much, much deeper than writing software.

For absolute starters, think about what happens when someone gets audited after using your software. ( For the purposes of this exercise it doesn't matter at all "who's right".) Look in to laws related to offering tax advice, and then call a lawyer. Actually, call several...
Doesn’t the medical establishment consider trans people to be “sick,” in that they have the disorder known as gender dysphoria?
Can you give me a specific example of something that you think would be very complex? Just to make sure I'm not missing out on something obvious.
> That's not fair of you to say I am being disingenuous.

It is. You have heard of PJW. Enough to defend him here. So presumably you're aware of his views, which is what he's known for.

> I really don't want to get into nitty gritty debate over people like PJW

But that's what you've done.

> I don't see how believing in the illuminati, chemtrails, soy causing feminization, or that 9/11 was an inside Job are dangerous in the same objective sense that promoting racial violence is.

He stops short of promoting outright violence precisely because he knows that will get him kicked off of places. What he has done is portray muslims as boogeymen, saying that they are all rapists, that they turn cities into ghettos, and that the west needs "islam control." If you don't think that's dangerous, look into the anti-semitic conspiracy theories that spread throughout europe before the holocaust. Very similar language.
I actually wrote an abstraction layer that normalized it a bit. Not nearly as cleanly as the DOM API eventually did, but enough to get work done (for the most part). Still had to do things like have a white overlay set/unset on the screen for NN to avoid visual flickering, etc.

document.all, the way IE worked had a few advantages... Layers in NN didn't allow you to break apart a form into child components you could hide/show was a particular issue. So you had to mirror values in/out of the child layer portions of the form. That was about the most common and painful problem between the two imho.

Another was when IE 5.0.0 broke the older API for dealing with changing the children of a <select> node. Which was fixed in 5.0.1, but 5.0.0 was on every Office 2000 and Windows 2000 Disc, and what a LOT of people had. That was painful to deal with too.
What an amazing turn of events, I didn't think Microsoft was going to implement this so soon after their feedback on the issues relating to it. It's going to be incredibly useful :) No more spinning fans.
Could you submerse a human in a tank of water? I've heard that acceleration in water will be experienced as water pressure.

That would be pretty bulky and costly to include in an aircraft cockpit, but I wonder if it would solve the G-force problem.

I'm not sure if this would actually be better, though. 7 Gs of acceleration would be experienced as 7 bar pressure, equivalent to water pressure at 60 meters underwater, which is quite deep. Rapid changes in pressure between 1 bar and let's say 7 bar would probably be more uncomfortable to experience than regular G-forces.
What it means is "Trust the intentions, but verify the results."

It's just that "trust, but verify" is shorter and more memorable.
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Have you heard of Standard Oil?
>Paul Joseph Watson spewing misinformation about the extent of the refugee crisis is dangerous.

Is it any more dangerous than the lies politicians spewed about it in Europe though? We know that a bunch of those politicians straight up either lied or didn't know what they were talking about. We have had terror attacks carried out in Europe by refugees or asylum seekers that have killed people. Some sources even claim that quite many people have died [0], but I am not sure how credible this is.

[0] https://www.heritage.org/sites/default/files/2018-06/BG3314....
Anyway the shape is like a droplet.
It's much more feasible to fix the signals API to work well in a multithreaded world than to roll back the clock to the 1980s and get people to stop using threads.
I sort of got them for free :)

g-fu adds task isolation though, more along the lines of Erlang than Go.

Remixing Lisp is one of the most interesting things you can do in software as far as I'm concerned.
Delivery is prioritized by price paid. The only way to get delivery on a tesla model 3 is to add every option which can basically double the cost of the car.
> He also incites hate against muslims, which I'd say, makes him pretty dangerous.

I'm sure you could easily say that, but whether you can justify that is the real question. Because if we're just going to censor people based on groundless rhetoric simply because we don't like what they're saying or thinking, well there are quite a few dystopian ends that follow that line of thought.
correction: it turns that i was wrong and airplane mode on lineage does not turn off gps.
"Generate DOCX and PDF files from word templates" Add this sentence to the website. Majority of the page explains billing details. It doesn't explain enough what the service does.
This is super interesting. What was the specific argument for company towns? I'm not a lawyer, but I could imagine an argument where since the company town took on government functions, then it therefore should be treated as such with regards to constitutional protections. Am I close?
"They" out and attack trans people and intentionally-and-maliciously spin up their literally-not-figuratively crazy followers to inundate with death threats the parents of kids who died in school shootings.

Where I come from, having a speaker own the results of that sort of thing isn't particularly controversial and I would think that you, specifically you, could find it within you to be better than this.
> nobody except you is suggesting [avoiding all use of virtual memory]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19807322

> Anonymous mappings

> typical apps should avoid mmap whenever possible

All virtual memory is either a user-mode wrapper around mmap, or sbrk (which is functionally a kernel-mode wrapper around mmap).
This looks really cool, but unfortunately has really limited arm support.
The downvotes are telling.
Even US-approved CAR T-cell is currently so toxic with a high chance of severe adverse effects that it should only be used as a last resort treatment. From a linked article:

“Right now it is heroic medicine,” he says — a grueling treatment deployed only in people for whom all else has failed.
“Patients are taken sometimes to within an inch of their lives.”

I feel like China's health care system is currently in a strange/incapable position to decide when all else has truly failed, not when plenty of basic medication is impossible to get, or not covered under any insurance.
"Mediocre" is virtually always considered "poor" in the USA, even though the literal definition is "middling or average." Anyone would consider going to an average restaurant, but we'd avoid one someone described as mediocre.
Alright, semantics. I still think a 17 year old could and should be aware enough to simply delete their past posts if they're trying to growth hack their website thing, even disregarding the ethics of it. But honestly and personally, I don't expect much from someone attempting this online stunt.
this looks super neat!

I've been wanting to make a graphql server framework that can run on lambdas, and will perhaps look into integrating with faast.
That all may be so, but in my experience these firms are also populated by a lot of "Hedge Fund Analysts," which is usually a temp gig for unemployed people who went to expensive schools.
"I'd say almost 0?"

It's definitely higher than that. It is a pretty easy thing to avoid, you'd think, but some people fail.
Upvoted.

As for why some of us defended Google there was a long time where they - IMO - were very nice.

Big contributors to a number of good causes.

Fired sysadmin who looked into data of someone he knew, even of he had a good reason, because trust came first.

Old AdWords/AdSense with somewhat relevant text only ads wasn't too shady IMO.

... at a time when Microsoft had a
CEO that said Open Source was like cancer.
Etc.

Looking back my guess is it went wrong somewhere around the doubleclick acquisition.
This promises to causes a big shakeup of the Scrabble meta, two letter words are the lifeblood of high-level scrabble play and `K` is a juicy, juicy letter (points wise) to have an extra 2 letter word for.
I've heard anecdotally from people working in non-profit agencies assisting with tax preparation that there was extensive lobbying to prevent changes that would make it easier to file for the earned income tax credit.

The average return for those applicable is ~$2,500, which is a huge amount for people who qualify, lost so Intuit and H&R block can better market their product.

https://www.eitc.irs.gov/partner-toolkit/basic-marketing-com...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2019/04/30/research...
It's invalid for the compiler to vectorize scalar operations with unknown alignment if those vector operations require alignment. (That said, on x86 many AVX operations work fine unaligned, and are just as fast as the aligned versions on recent microarchitectures.)
No idea, was just messing around. If one really were to do this, the best way would probably be to trick them into employing you, and then verify from the inside (and even then, good luck!). I do believe it's going to be an issue in the future, if it isn't already one. Even as a government, how do you really make sure that company X erases the data?
> The tool currently works for processors with an out-of-order backend, for which there is a scheduling model available in LLVM.

Which targets does that include?
I suppose you’re aware that it’s not unknown for members of the trans community to “call on their fans to harass private citizens”. Would you like them banned too? In fact, Milo has been the victim of many such calls for harassment.

To be clear, I had personal interactions with Milo many years ago when he ran a technology magazine in the UK. I’ve never met a more unpleasant individual and I would be happy to never hear from him again, but progressives working hand-in-hand with corporations to ban obnoxious individuals is a slope I don’t want us to start sliding down.
> the book informs the reader where puck is going to be (from Satya's POV)

Satya became CEO during the beginning of 2014. And, the book was published on September 26, 2017. So, you read it when the puck was in transit.
Do I really need to deal with IRS? I know several softwares hand you over a filled out form that you submit online to IRS. Won't that be good enough for a alpha or v0.1?
Nice-looking JSF apps with PrimeFaces 7
> It is exerting editorial control in this case.

> Hence, they should be liable for the speech that they do allow.

I see this sentiment often on HN, as if the latter somehow logically and necessarily follows from the former. It doesn't, and if that is what you advocate then you should justify it with proper arguments.
I feel like at least 1-2 times per week until next tax season and perhaps daily once W2s start coming in for 2019. Free tax filing seems one of the biggest issue people are facing in USA.