skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess this is why some wish to vote for Elizabeth Warren. This kind of crap goes on all the time. FWIW I think TurboTax is pretty useful and because it saves time worth paying for in many cases. However someone with very simple taxes, like working a job with no itemized deductions they should be able to file an online 1040EZ or = for free and in a few minutes. It's very simple. This is probably why the whole money-in-politics thing is so powerful as well.
On GitHub: https://github.com/evildmp/BrachioGraph
Brazil has started offering pre filled income tax declarations.

However, they require a digital certificate to download (probably for privacy reasons) and I don't have one so I couldn't test it.
Ask HN: How do you go about storing/organizing your notes? Platform agnostic
I'm looking for solution to keep all my notes in the same place. Currently I do have several text files, google sites, evernote, wiki, even my blog with several how-to's.

I'd like to have everything in one place, accessible offline for reading and searching, preferably with markdown support.
Is there a video somewhere of this in action?
Malformed .BSP Access Violation in CS:Go Can Lead to Remote Code Execution
4chan raids don't really occur in this day and age though
The exact conditions that would enable a simple FOSS tax software or portal is what TurboTax has been lobbying to make sure stays broken and can't easily exist.

Also, taxes in the US are really complicated, and while our governments know how much we owe, the burden of determination and filing is placed wholly on the citizen.

Should we be able to log in to our IRS profile page and track and manage our taxes ourselves throughout the year? Yes. Is this techically possible today? Also yes. Would this make TurboTax and some other bloodsucking middlemen less TurboRich?

Well, you can see why it's impossible.
Your argument is the same one made by this satirical political cartoon from The Onion: https://i.imgur.com/XCPFpnd.jpg

Not talking about these issues allows the underlying bigotry to fester unchallenged.
In Australia a sort of spreadsheet-like app is published each year. It pulls in data from a variety of sources (banks and employers mostly, IIRC), fills in everything it can and then lets you do the rest.

Windows only last time I did it (7 years ago?), things may have improved further since then.
Thank you, very helpful. That explains why I have to have my .bash_profile source .bashrc for use with tmux, as it executes bash as a login shell. I knew I had to have this but wasn't 100% on why until now. Note to self, RTFM!
The only super-influential one I remember was when moot was named Time person of the year. That was /b/ though, not /pol/.
There seem to be a lot of extremely left-biased el-reg articles coming from the SF office.

e.g: "James Damore's labor complaint went over about as well as his trash diversity manifesto"
So Google has made it official that they're a manufacturer of spyware. All that stuff should be illegal right off the bat since it merrily spies on people who never gave their consent.
What parts are the "weird parts of filing a tax return"? Not trying to come across as combative, I'm just genuinely curious.
Careful, somewhere along that line you might even come to a conclusion that Haskell is world's most advanced imperative language, with the reprogrammable semicolons and whatnot.
I can get 5.2 GHz from Intel using 8 cores. That's like 10% extra performance.
I only reach for Ramda when the built in Js functions can not accomplish what I want to do, or it would be very messy/hard to reason about. Now that’s very subjective, but I hate when I see people using lodash/ramda map to just map over an array. There’s a lot you can do with the built in methods and they will probably be the superior option
They have displaced a meaningful chunk of an industry that mostly sells virgin plastics. They were early pioneers in developing recycled-plastic clothing. I still have a jacket of theirs made in about 1995.
Cool concept!

Has anyone built anything in Aquameta? Would like to see some success stories.
Yes, the key is that loops are always unrolled so the number of iterations (number of copies of the hardware) is fixed. But whether the output of each iteration is used or not can be entire dynamic, potentially resulting in something very similar to a loop in software.
do you have `media.mediasource.enabled` set correctly? Normally you cant let the video load all the way through unless it is in progressive mode
Turbotax is my cheapest option to doing taxes.

My tax lawyer would cost me probably $40,000 to do the same thing just for the hours and their obsession with analyzing parallel legal theories and case law. I use my tax lawyer to construct the whole business model before any tax filings actually have to occur. Yes I could also consider a different lawyer and cpa for actually filing the tax return. They would also be more expensive than Turbotax and I would be paying two lawyer then.

Reading comprehension gives the biggest advantage with taxes. It is worth it for me.

The IRS is more of an ally than an adversary when you are using them to basically approve exactly how you wont pay them taxes, in advance.

Barrier of entry is pretty high to unlock that level, I dont mind, its what I always aspired to do.
I don't think so. If only poor people use X because wealthier people have Y, then X will suck. If Y is prevented by law/ordinance, then X will get the attention and investment it requires to keep the wealthy people happy, and most but not all of those improvements will be relevant to the poorer people. (As opposed to the split situation, where X will get the bare minimum necessary for housekeepers and store clerks from disappearing entirely.)
Nine years in hidden room: Bar patron spilled his secret
What's the supporting evidence to suggest that's the case?
You’re right! It’s Signaltap II.
Are you suggesting there's proof that Google Assistant on Android devices is always listening even if it's turned off in settings?
I agree. The article just doesn't seem to acknowledge that these other manipulations exist, or reference any of their other work on the subject. It's written as a standalone piece, and when taken as such seems to blame all the ills of the US tax code on the tax preparation industry.
Yes.

If one Yubikey were lost, stolen, or damaged, you would then revoke its access by removing the corresponding entry in ~/.ssh/authorized_keys.
Amazon needed to create AWS to be able to run all that perl performantly (joke).

Actually, a lot of programming language improvements have come from trying to make lisp performant.
All of this is well and good. Now find folks who understand the entire stack and can support it.

Tell me you are saving money after you hire them :)
Feds Shut Down Largest Dark Web Child Abuse Site
The United States Department of Justice said today that they had arrested hundreds of criminals in a global crackdown after taking down the largest known child porn site on the dark web and tracing payments made in bitcoins.

With an international coalition of law enforcement agencies, federal officials have arrested the administrator of the child sexual abuse site, 23-year-old Jong Woo Son of South Korea, along with 337 suspects who have been charged for allegedly using the site.

The site in question is "Welcome to Video," which operated from June 2015 until March 2018 and hosted over 250,000 sexual exploitation videos of children, toddlers, and infants, which comprised of roughly over 8TB of data.

According to a press release published by DoJ, the Welcome to Video site hosted more than 250,000 unique videos, and almost 45 percent of the videos contain new images that have not been previously known to exist.

The operation also resulted in the rescue of at least 23 children residing in the United States, Spain, and the United Kingdom, who were being actively abused by the users of the Welcome to Video site, which operated on the encrypted Tor network.
This is "whataboutism" at it's finest. This article is on Intuit. It's focused on Intuit's bad behaviour. ProPublica has other articles on the issues you are complaining about.
Had the chance to see it live once in Amsterdam thumbsup
I've been inclined to think it has something to do with communication and community-forming tendencies. It seems that a number of other species, including Octopuses and African Grey Parrots, have pretty significant intelligence for animals. Yet their greater intelligence than most other animals doesn't seem to get them a really game-changing advantage over them. Human intelligence, or perhaps communication and organization in combination with them, has given us a series of game-changing advantages in a row, so many that our civilization is utterly dominant over any area where we choose to be.
Anyone know how/if Dapr is related to Orleans or whether there is any cross pollination between the teams?
Frequent electric shocks seem to be the way to do it then.
You may want to check Balsa, but it is self hosted and may not be quite there with your requirements if you don't want to host yourself (https://github.com/balsa-team/balsa)
Getting bored while your app launch? Let me show you how to use TurboModules
This is not that simple. It wasn’t a first past the post election in any area. It was based on overall majority for the whole.

As it happens a majority of people in Wales voted for leave but that's not the same as "Wales voted leave".

The 38% who voted leave in Scotland count just the same as the 47% who voted remain in England.

If more people had voted remain in Scotland (38-62) or Northern Ireland (44-56) we wouldn’t be in this situation today.

(The same is obviously also true for people in England and Wales).
do you also have some kind of frontend for it? how do you see what's the flow of money and reporting? does it work with kibana out of the box?
Living with an “Invisible” Disability
It's my understanding that higher quality plotters/3d printers/mills' accuracy and precision come from higher quality motors (e.g. stepper motors instead of servos). Will it be possible to someday just put cameras on the plotter which watch the current print and self-correct as needed? That's basically what our eyes do when we write/sculpt/carve.

Will cheap motors + cameras + software eventually meet or exceed the quality of expensive high precision motors/controllers?
Incidentally, it's this exact type of situation that caused the founding fathers to include the second amendment in the first place.

"On April 14, 1775, Gage received instructions from Secretary of State William Legge, Earl of Dartmouth, to disarm the rebels..."[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battles_of_Lexington_and_Conco...
Not really. Everyone is aware of what is automatically reported to the tax authorities.
To the Phoenix newbs, don't forget to learn how to write a GenServer!
There are dozens of alternatives. However, tax prep software needs to be certified for correctness, and that's expensive and onerous. This is made harder due to the many many different tax jurisdictions in the US.
Linux is not slow. I wrote a device driver that ran on Linux ARM and was capable of handling thousands of external events per second. This was over 10 years ago when ARM systems were much, much slower than they are today. If your TV is slow, it's not because of the Linux kernel. Bad apps run on every operating system.

Solaris may have been used for embedded applications, but was never "ideal" for them. We called it "Slowaris" in the 90's for a reason. Those 3 to 5 minute boot times really got to you...
True! Also the mixing of upper and lower-case directories on ~ is a red flag.

Offtopic, but this kind of one-line conditions are typically best written as

test -d ~/dev/go && export GOPATH=~/dev/go

then it is easier tho change the sign of the condition (by using either || or &&)
It's understandable. Elixir is one of those languages you won't really appreciate until you've experienced the problems that it addresses.

You're getting down voted mostly because of your tone (IMO) but the appeal if Elixir is just a reality of experience.

When I found it, I was 15 years in my career and when I dove in, learned it and saw how it addressed so many short term and long term issues that appear in application development...the balance was the closest thing I'd seen to perfect.

But if I hadn't experienced the pain, I would never have appreciated it all the little details.
Not being funny but i have a nest and i don't remember anything i the set up about any microphone at all, also i don't remember anything about agreeing to share personal data.

I assumed it would be uploading usage and stats as nobody respects privacy but that is very different to actual recordings or images ffs.

i live in the EU so this seems a pretty clear breach of GDPR no? i would have needed individual opt in consent for each of these (i would have thought)
In Israel employee taxes are calculated and paid by the employer.

Only self-employed, people with side-jobs or people who make over a certain threshold need to file their taxes manually (and in that case things are a bit complicated).

Healthcare, pensions and benefits are paid as part of the paycheck if you are employed (they are universal and mandatory, so not the same as in the U.S.), there are no other deductibles that a regular person can claim.
Machine Learning would eat all CPU/GPU/memory/disk you could possibly throw at it. Right now training some Deep Learning model with a lot of preprocessing and all my Threadripper and Titan RTX cores are at 100%. If you use Docker a lot with multiple independent microservices/containers running, or VMs, or just compiling large code bases, the more cores the merrier (unless there is some bug in CPUs that prevent them from scaling properly).
I assume this would still be a crime, and you'd be held responsible for lying on the past forms in discovered. The only difference is, this is optimized for making the common case easier - the case of typical income of regular, honest individuals.
Yes there is lots of research on this, years ago I was in a project with a group (CASA) at UCL (Leeds) where this is one of their main topics of study - https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/casa/ . If you google e.g. 'agent based simulation pedestrian' you'll find 100's of papers doing this at various scales, as well as dedicated software packages to simulate for studies of shopping mall layout, sports stadium layout etc.

Years ago I entertained starting a business in this field - it was essentially exactly what you say, doing analysis for events as part of their risk assessment to see if event locations are safe under various patterns of (aggregate) visitor movement. At the time (15ish years ago?) that wasn't really done for anything but the largest events. The idea never really went anywhere but it's an interesting topic I still think about every now and then.
Are you saying that Intuit isn't lobbying to keep the current tax code, and tax filing, complex? Do you have information that refutes this article?
It's online via mygov these days. took a couple of steps back initially since it was missing functionality but I think it's mostly there now.
All Web based now, no thick client. It still pools in all of your data from various sources as the old e tax client did. It was only Windows too from what I recall. It's all been centralised in myGov for a few years.
Engineering is only 100 people or so. I've been here for a while, there are no such things. Unless they're making a point to exclude it from me only, for years.
https://youtu.be/Rn4X2ZgZvsk and https://youtu.be/u4Jh1daCl60
Predators, Prey and Parental Controls: How to Protect Children Online
universities are tax exempt non-profit that can receive tax deductible donations. they are not institutions designed to make profits. i suggest you and others look into all the things that are tax exempt.
Open source software can be paid for. With a bit of funding, I bet an OSS-clone of TT could be produced and the organization can host and offer e-filing for a nominal fee.

I think the IRS will actually pay a service fee to small companies that file the free federal returns for individuals.
This article is about the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.
I wasn't aware that the fixes for spectre and meltdown had no impact on performance.
"One longtime CME trader who has been watching with disgust says he’s never seen anything quite like these trades, not at least since al-Qaida cashed in before initiating the September 11 attacks. "

Is there any actual evidence supporting this 9/11 claim? I don't see how they could print this without doing basic fact checking.
You need to think a little beyond velocity of money. Velocity of money causes inflation/deflation. Printing currency reduces interest rates which indirectly causes more borrowing which indirectly causes more spending, thus increasing velocity of money.

All of this still isn't related to the article which is talking about unequal distribution of wealth.

Sure one way to solve this unequal distribution is handing more money to poor directly by printing, but thats bound to cause inflation.
Is it unfeasible to pursue expansion of dual/two-party consent laws to cover this in some way?
Meh. Economics is far more guilty of that than any of the other social sciences.
At best, you are claiming that swebs' argument was correct because there is a different argument for the point he claimed has been demonstrated - but that is, as you say, "a very different thing." My original objection to that argument stands, and you have agreed that it does!

> Demonstrating the opposite is an very different thing from failing to demonstrating a difference at all.

Who is making any claim about demonstrating the opposite? You can see from my original post that I agree that spacetime is expanding; I merely disagree with swebs' argument for claiming to know that it is.

>> What set of measurements and calculation do you have in mind that avoid this circularity?

> Any measurements that would actually work, I think.

In that case, you will have no difficulty in stating, or providing citations for, the actual measurements and calculation that get the job done - if any such set of measurements exist, that is. Otherwise, your reply is equivalent to "I don't know."

My point is that I do not think that there is any set of deduced remote measurements that a) show, as a certainty, that space itself is expanding, and b) can be deduced without implicitly or explicitly assuming a position on the issue. Current cosmology expects that the large-scale measurements will show the same results as from Earth (e.g. the same Hubble constant, if and only if you derive it using the same assumption about space itself expanding), but the absence of a difference between there and Earth would fail to satisfy a).

Furthermore, I notice that you have still not made clear which redshift measurements support your claim that the issue has been resolved experimentally. A citation would be sufficient.
It says in the article that Patagonia is investing in companies researching making artificial fibers out of plant materials. That's probably the answer.
Modern fingerprint readers rely on the conductivity of your finger, so a cut off finger (or the finger of a dead person) can't per se unlock a phone.
> I’m no chemical engineer

I am a chemist. :)

Its standard petro-chemistry as long as you NEVER put PVC plastic into the digester - then you get dioxins. Which are nasty.

In principle, you can distil the diesel and capture the methane gaseous fraction to heat the next batch.

The real challenge is the variable inputs has a huge impact on the diesel recovery - which is why you need some scale to smooth out the variances. On a small scale its often not economical.

But farmers do this all the time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrolysis
Anxiety Almost Killed Me. It Also Gave Me My Career
for clarification: that was meant to be a joke.

dhh is David Heinemeier Hansson, co-founder of Basecamp. they basically run their company just like you, i'd recommend reading their posts.
I have never heard anyone propose that DoH should be running in front of authoritative resolvers. DoH is strictly a recursive DNS feature where the client contact the recursive resolver and the recursive resolver on the behalf on the client goes and gather the answers to the query. People can disagree on the terminology here but I call that a proxy.

With DoT there is little reasons to not apply the same technology to authoritative resolvers. Conceptually it is almost as simple as supporting both UDP and TCP, and with the low number of root authoritative servers you can even store locally the address and certificates as part of the operating system. Since a lot of TLDs already have signed roots for DNSSEC it is even a pretty simple move forward to imagine a TLS support being enabled by them and the root. I would be amiss to not mention that Bind already store address and root zone keys of root servers as part of the install package.

A bit of a tell is that there is an RFC for authoritative servers running DoT. It is called aDoT. There is no RFC for DoH, and no one is talking about aDoH. Authoritative servers running DoH is not on the map, but aDoT is. Again we can disagree on the terminology but this is the reason why I see DoH as primary a security tool for proxying DNS request while DoT can be used for end-to-end.
That is the exact opposite of the problem here. (Cultural) Anthropology doesn’t want to be a science and its professional association doesn’t support people who do. Political Scientists and Economists do their best with very messy data and extremely limited ability to do experiments to do science, and sociology researchers mostly do the same though there is a greater continent of “scholar-activists” and faculty outside research universities have lots of plain activists with Ph.D.s.

Archaeologists, linguists, physical and biological anthropologists and a tiny minority of cultural anthropologists try to develop true, new knowledge about the world. They’re scientists as much as epidemiologists, geologists, cosmologists or anyone else who has lots of data, makes predictions and has a theory that can be falsified.

Social science is science, and anthropology can be too. Not everything is physics or chemistry.
Oh, a thought occurs to me:

With the rules being set out for "put this but not that" into `.zshenv` and other files, would it be possible to write a linter or checking tool to help enforce good style on those files?
Also, don’t forget... huge props to Chris McCord, the creator of the Phoenix Web Framework which is the main reason for me to completely come on board in the Elixir ecosystem.
AFAIK, it is mostly developed in-house, at least the original version was developed by the Bavarian tax office. In my experience, if government software (for schools, tax offices, political participation, etc.) is developed by an external company, the primary objective of the company often quickly transforms from "creating usable software for all citizens" to "drain the most amount of money out of the infinite resources of the federal government".
Normally I'd say "never attribute to malice that which can be explained by incompetence," but I really do think Google could fix this if they wanted to.

It still sucks because they don't want to fix it. Google makes their money off of people giving up info for ad targeting, and a user who only contributes one or two manually saved locations probably costs them more than they stand to gain.
Their efforts to block return-free filing is the important issue here. Filing taxes, even on paper, would be orders of magnitude easier if the government had to pre-fill it before sending - removing the complexity that makes tax filing applications necessary for most.
I find that firefox + ublock is still far slower than brave on android.