skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Totally agree. I used to love contracting as a programmer and with Obamacare, I could count on getting medical benefits. Unfortunately, it became impossible to work for most companies because they fear contractors being re-classified as employees by the government. Now I work as an employee and have to suffer through company "culture", annual reviews, pretend loyalty and other BS instead of just charging for my services.
#1: you're going to die, and while you can stave it off by living a certain way, there's ultimately nothing you can do about it.

#2: gum disease is correlated with age. Alzheimers is also correlated with age. The connection between the two correlations is age. That means there is basically no evidence gum disease causes Alzheimers any more than heart disease or having wrinkles on your forehead causes gum disease.
This USA tax thing has always baffled me... it is the exact definition of why we pay taxes: for the government to provide services that are common to the country´s citizens.

There´s nothing more common than tax collection: rich, middle class or poor. Why wouldn't citizens demand a public tax filing process? Even in Mexico we have an automagical tax filing process that makes:

a) The great majority of the population who perceives a salary not needing to file taxes.

b) For the rest of the people, those who don't do anything fancy, just click one button in a portal to do the filing, and everything is calculated by the tax authority.

c) For the small percentage that do more complex things (I'll say it is between 5% and 10% of the population) still can do it in the portal for free, or hire an accountant.
So in Canada I pay about $15 CAD to file for my household. It takes 20 mins and is submitted digitally.

Is this the equivalent of the issue in the USA or is it more expensive or something? I get that free filing is kind of obvious as a right, but the online service really does give me $15 of value so I've never thought to be upset by it.
I gladly have given up single family homes with garages and yards, in order to raise my kid in a dense city. There is nothing inherently family-unfriendly about cities or density.

You're approaching the idea from a perspective that has been tainted by a false consensus bias. If the desire for single family homes was really as pervasive as you believe, then heavily restrictive zoning that is intended to preserve SFH zones wouldn't be necessary in the slightest...you could dismantle the zoning system completely and nothing would change. It would never make financial sense to tear down single family homes and build apartments and condos if nobody wanted to live in them and everybody wanted to live in single family homes.

In reality, increases in allowable density are almost always accompanied by increased actual density.
I've heard similar tales about the JRE as well. Cross compilers and obfuscators found many, many patterns that the spec 'allowed' but the runtime did not.

I think the biggest tricks I know of in obfuscators is abuse of overloading (calling all functions 'a' until you run into a collision on argument types, then call those methods 'b'), which decompiled is still gibberish to most of us. The nastiest one I saw was that someone realized that keywords and symbols are reserved in Java but not in the JVM. So they started naming things "int" or "{".

I wouldn't be surprised if that's now old hat for decompilers though.
Just let the kids smell some rotting piece of food inside their mouth after flossing. Guaranteed they floss every time from then on.
The Decade in Review as a Software Engineer
The positive story is that it safe harbored service providers.
demonstrative of the western world’s idea of freedom; anyone, with sufficient ruthlessness, can aspire to become the feudal lord.
The states can do their own application. If you're issued a W2, the issuing party will usually send a copy to the IRS and your state's tax office.
Follow the strategy of games like Fortnite and League of Legends. They offer extra cosmetics in exchange for money.

If you haven’t played these; things like “skins”, or armor packs, in game dances, etc. Are offered for purchase. They are explicitly for cosmetic enhancements and not game advantages (IE: changing your characters color won’t make you have a higher attack damage)

If you go large scale you could also do what battlefield did and rent out private servers, where people got to host private games with their customized settings.

Lastly, this one I don’t agree with as much, but you could offer quicker lobby times/higher priority in queue.

Ps: You can also do DLC’s with extra maps or something.
Having better-proven software is a precondition to having more software. Especially if you expect that things like program synthesis are going to be increasingly important - who wants to "synthesize" buggy code?
> The only reason labor unions are legal is that certain unions have outsized political clout

That assertion, at least, sits somewhere between tautology ("sufficiently-powerful interest group is the only reason sufficiently-powerful-interest group's interests are advanced!" I mean, yes, that's... true) and blatant trololololing. Perhaps well-expressed "wrong think" would also have been punished, but this ain't that.
I'm not sure I've ever heard of anyone having this problem aside from that large server update a year or two ago and their "desktop experience". Can anyone tell me more?
I'm glad that HiDPI monitors exist for people who value them. Personally, though, they don't bring me any substantial value, so I don't see the shame that lower resolution monitors still exist -- I'd rather save a few bucks by buying one of them over HiDPI.
I suggest you change "HN has always been at war with TurboTax" which unless I'm mistaken is a reference to 1984, in which history is rewritten retroactively[1]. To me this phrasing seems to imply that half of your links would be strong support of TurboTax.

Since this whole subject includes a lot of doublethink (such as the fact that according to a video someone posted in this thread, the Free File Alliance is a front group to hide free filing), I think it would be better not to include phrasing that suggests doublethink. I could be misreading your comment, though.

It seems that you might not have been aware of this reference? (But the other people responding to your comment are picking up on it.)

[1]

>To hide such contradictions, history is rewritten to explain that the (new) alliance always was so; the populaces are accustomed to doublethink and accept it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four
How to Track Your ₹2000 Currency Notes (2016)
Cualquier recomendación para Chile?
I don't think Uber/Lyft want to pay for contractor's benefits. It doesn't provide any advantage to them to foot the cost of that bill.
What they seem to want is a contractor they can treat as an employee in terms of time worked and tools used.
What's the alternative? An individual employee negotiates one on one with... an entire company? The companies have all the power, unions are an attempt to not be completely trodden upon.
To clarify: No, I'm not willing to become a "whistleblower" for simply following a long-time law in a stable western-european country. I chose to trust the existing legal systems in this case.

And to clarify: I actually do trust the legal systems, in this unnamed country.
99% of what I watch on YouTube is how to videos by people with about 20 total videos. The biggest one I watch is Colin furze and that's about 3x a year when it shows up here. He's like 2000x the size of my next watch.

I will say a lot of stuff is much better produced these days. Proliferation of good cameras and editing software and even the big producers using smash cuts makes that so.
Fusion is already working. Not well enough to be commercially viable, but it's already working. ITER will produce more energy than it will be using - albeit only enough usable energy to break even. It's not a matter of making it work anymore, it's only a matter of getting it to work well enough.

But maybe all we will ever need are solar panels, after all the sun is providing way enough energy as is... for now.
> While I agree there is a money problem, it's not quite so simple as just "paying people off".

Sure, it's paying people off with more steps, and keeping them when they are so they keep providing the services you paid them for.

> Money paid to a PAC is very much separated from the politician. They can't so much as coordinate with the PAC.

They can't so much as explicitly and officially coordinate with PACs. I'm sure a second of thinking will reveal the flaw.

> So it's more about having money to get reelected than a simple personal bribe.

You're the one talking about personal bribes. And I still fail to see how the fig leaf of "campaign donations" is anything more than a bribe with more steps. “Oh they’re not getting money they’re getting the means to make money”.
Can these life forms glide at arbitrary angles?
It's actually only the 6th time it's been discussed. Every other time it got 0 comments.

The most recent time it got any sort of traction was 4 years ago.

Seems reasonable for HN to allow that.
Yeah. TubroTax is around $40 to file. CreditKarma offers their own version which is free. The controversy is that the IRS bound its own hands in saying it couldn't make its own filing software.

I see no problems with private companies charging a Fee to provide a better service.
Sue the state for allowing it? Honest question— Is that a legal argument? If laws don’t exist, how can you sue the state for not enacting them if it doesn’t violate a constitutional right...
In a perfect world labor unions would be illegal is not a market-based opposition.
> There is no reason the IRS shouldn't have a simple, online fillable 1099EZ that makes the calculations and validations for you.

It is largely due to Republicans that we don't have such a program. Voting matters. https://priceonomics.com/the-stanford-professor-who-fought-t...
It was, but just like with airbnb and renting out your house when you were on vacation, there's not enough supply to support an industry that will supply the enormous returns VCs are looking for. So eventually ride sharing started courting full time drivers.
in a perfect world labor unions would be illegal under antitrust laws as forcing companies to pay workers more than what a free market dictates inevitably increases prices.

That's not a perfect world. That's just a world run in accordance with a bizarre selectively free-market economic masturbation fantasy. It's only "perfect" if you've got some kind of quasi-religious belief dictating a morality such that said selectively free-market economic masturbation fantasy is defined as "right", like some kind of madman who thinks Ayn Rand was God's final prophet.
"I'm still looking for work".."was basically just servicing a shitty monolith built in Ruby"

I hope you take this a a constructive criticism. Most dev jobs are shitty monolith in <replace with a old tested server side language>. If you are unemployed, especially if you are umemployed, you need to get a bit more humble and forget about latest shiny tech. Find a company/team that is solving real problems and then go make a difference for them. Tech stack is a nice to have but don't expect it always to be the shiniest.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21919988
Uber Elevate: Who will make money in air taxis?
Why a Cadillac XLR Brake Light Can Cost More Than a Used Corolla
Tip 0) especially for older people: Get an ok from a physician before starting on a running program. I horked both Achilles pretty badly a few years ago by trying a walk-->run progression I found on the web. Didn't rupture but came pretty close.

GP and later a podiatrist both said they wouldn't have recommended running had I asked. Been dealing with tendonosis ever since.
It already is too late for much of the of mass suburbanization in the US. They are not finanically sustainable.

https://www.strongtowns.org/the-growth-ponzi-scheme

A bit of a read in a 5 part series but well worth it.

Strongtowns.org refers to suburban sprawl as the "growth ponzi scheme". Low density sprawl requires more infrastructure with less density to pay for it. The density of suburbs can never hope to pay for the renewal of roads, water, sewers, schools without massive transfer payments from denser areas. By the time the bill comes and the illusion of growth has stopped, the center of development has already moved out to the next ring of farms to pave over for subdivisions, shopping plazas and highway expansions.
TurboTax will be remembered as a classic example of extreme capitalism.
Very valid issues here.

Although it has improved, Windows Update is still shockingly bad compared to any decent package manager used on Linux in the past 10+ years.
One positive point as the article points out is compatibility. This is the single reason Windows remains the staple of industry software, across almost all industries. It's particularly relevant in light of recent Mac OS X dropping 32-bit support. There are a lot of professionals whose livelihood depends on these older apps that either will never be updated or will take a very long time to do so.
Apple hasn't done a great job of supporting MacOS over the past few years. Catalina in particular has been a bit rocky, but every time I look seriously at Windows as an alternative it falls short.

It's quite sad to me that my choice of OS has essentially boiled down to "Sucks less, costs more".

It's been a few years for me, but maybe time to start seriously looking at Linux on the desktop again.
I know entrepreneurs who have used them to take down phishing sites that mimic real corporate websites and feature the photos of those involved in running the legit company.
> When you use these services the cost is the monetization of your data.

True. And if not using the services meant that those companies wouldn't spy on me, then I would have no complaint -- I already don't use their services. But it doesn't.
My criterion is: Does the comment show an understanding the benefits of contract-work relationships and potential downsides of AB5-style laws? If so, it's a substantive contribution, even if it condemns employers/promotes legislation.

If not, the commenter is contributing nothing but how boldly they can speak against a perceived evil, and is rightly dismissed as mere virtue signaling.

Is that an unfair criterion?

(This is a special case of the Goldilocks heuristic, that you shouldn't trust someone saying that "X is too low" unless they have a model for when X would be too high.)
Literally today it opened a PDF file with Edge for me. And, of course, file association page does not have a searh box to help find .txt among hundreds of useless and unassigned extensions.
Kids getting abused to the point they run away. I wonder what the percentage of the returning kids (by Greyhound bus) wouldn't use the service if they could start their own life anew and in an economy that would actually allow them that opportunity. I assume from how the economy is shifting to needing a degree for competitive entry. The ones abused by their parents are staying even longer with them and until their degree is finished to afford the whole process.
One of the sad things behind the story: Bill Campbell was Chairman of the board at Inuit while this was going on.

His story is inspiring. I’m a capitalist at heart. But I’m not a monopolist or a crony—and hope not to become one.

The best among us aren’t perfect. We should take this as a cautionary tale.
The word "virtue signaling" is a loaded phrase that appeals to the "virtues" of right wing and libertarian minded people. It signals that you are against what progressives find virtuous.
> Or they could just leave.

Who? Google or the employees
When you tax a corporation it comes from the revenue and holdings of that corporation
I don't have a citation for loneliness per se, but suicide rates for young people are much higher in rural areas, "even after controlling for a broad array of county-level sociodemographic, economic, and health care system characteristics."

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/fullarticle/...

Of course, there's always the issue about whether suburbs and exurbs count as rural or urban, which leads to people talking past each other.
One thing known to speed alcohol metabolization is fructose. That's not to say consuming fructose will make you "sober", though, as the first metabolic byproduct of alcohol - acetaldehyde - also has CNS effects.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1854373
Have you checked if your local waste disposal is actually recycling cardboard anymore? Most are just landfilling it like everything else.
the US is just a very small part of the planet. thankfully.

real progress has been happening elsewhere.
Start with researching companies. This will be manual but quality work. I would literally google "companies in travel and aviation" or something like that. Then spend 20-30 mins on each company. Rinse and repeat.
>By waiting until the end of the year to veto the bill, Cuomo has left the legislature without an opportunity to override this veto, meaning the whole process will have to start again next year.

That's because 96% of legislators said yes to legalization.

This is the very definition of a broken, scummy system.

Good faith actors penalized by one guy who is more powerful because of some arbitrary rules
So graphs like that should be read together with information about how the bush management changed over time. See this long thread for example: https://twitter.com/JediJeremy/status/1208997157346242561

I believe in recent past we've gone through: "everything's burning, let's put it out", "we've had massive fires, let's do planned burns", and now "let's defund organisations that can do effective bush management". This will explain some of the changes visible. The current area is due to the buildup nobody managed - neither by government organised burns, nor fire stick farming.
I agree to an extent, but exactly how far back should we go in terms of backward compatibility? Should we expect modern software or hardware to support 16-bit?
They're both good. For a less lopsided plot We the Living is good

I think Atlas Shrugged is more likely to be what draws criticism to Ayn Rand. It plays more on extremist ideas that the elite class should cull the weak. The Fountainhead exemplifies the idea that one should master their craft, that all good work is art, that there's a real beauty to "form follows function" which requires one to actually think about what they're doing. Around the time of reading The Fountainhead I got into a debate about the architecture I took in writing nobox, a minimalist window manager

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=103499
As a junior developer trying to create a profitable startup - the answer is you typically need some capital to pay living expenses before your company takes off. This can be 6 months to a year (take minimum expenses in a medium cost of living city, maybe 20k for 12 months). If you're starting from a savings account of $2,000 after college you're going to need a get a junior job and save that $18,000. The other option is to seek funding, which is a great idea but not garunteed when you need a solid plan to pay rent in 2 months.

You're right - ideally if you can create a profitable startup there's no need to knock down doors for a job. That's the dream I'm chasing and I'm sure a lot of others are too.
China's reunification is the answer to the Taiwan question, needn't be peaceful
Thanks for this - that's exactly what I was hoping to find when I clicked into this.

While I didn't find a whole lot of the content I had intended, I think what I did find was interesting, none-the-less. The general opinion here seems to be "news sources suck[0]", especially if it has anything to do with politics/politics-masquerading-as-economics[1]. And community-driven sites tend to become dominated by the fringe of one political persuasion or another. HN does a good job, here, though a look at "new" yields a few headlines who's content can be summarized as "Your politician iz teh satan11", they rarely bubble up, and the ones that do -- even the ones that (headline-wise) I'd probably never click through in another context, I end up appreciating more often than not.

[0] I tend to agree with this and blame much but not all on the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/65213-briefly-stated-the-ge...

[1] Replace "economics" with anything else. HN's policy against political-related posts aside, I think this community tends toward skepticism and a lot of political is facts/truth twisted to fit an agenda/bias (intentional or not).
Something small I like about Windows: when I plug in Ethernet, it actually shows an Ethernet connection in the system tray. OSX seems to have a special icon for tethering to iPhone, but not Ethernet of all things. It just show the wifi icon, even when Ethernet is connected. Grr.
Last time I was looking at efficient camp stoves I ran into this guy:

https://www.bioliteenergy.com/products/campstove-2

The idea of putting my phone, or any lithium battery really, that close to fire... this plan is not for me.
Fusion researchers are people who have irreversibly (or nearly so) committed their careers to something. They have a very strong incentive to not admit they have wasted their lives. It's touching you think that asking such a person if fusion deserves more funding that you'd get anything but a "yes" answer.

In general, you don't want to ask a person in field X if X needs funding. You might ask them what's the best way of spending money in X, but even then you better phrase the question carefully to avoid conflict of interest.
> Part of this is due to the obstinate nature of some 8 US states that refuse to expand medicare

Medicaid, not Medicare. Medicaid is the federally-subsidized state-run program for the medically indigent.

> part of it is due to multiple healthcare providers such as Kaiser walking out of the open marketplaces proposed by the Obama administration during his term

Kaiser has ACA plans at all levels from Bronze to Platinum in the California exchanges. If they've walked away in other states, it's probably because of state policy, not a fundamental corporate opposition to participating in ACA exchanges.
Any other resources you would recommend? I read that physics is particularly time consuming for example. Thanks for the replies so far; it’s very fun to see your work
I bet Wine is actually more compatible than Windows itself. Especially if you just look at software up to the Windows 7 era. Can you run Windows 3.1 programs on a modern 64-bit OS? With Wine it can be done.
An actual argument I've heard from TurboTax shills is that tons of people underpay taxes now with the self report system, and having the government pre-fill forms for you to rubber stamp would effectively increase taxes on the working class.
My workplace is the same. Windows or Mac. I was on mac, but enterprise support for mac is awful and was limited to 16GB ram. I moved to Windows and installed Hyper-V so that I could have Linux VM's and have 64GB ram. That is where I do all my work. Hyper-V still needs a lot of refinement, but it works.
I would definitely notice a 5mm plastic fiber in my food. At least occasionally.
It would be nice but that's on a per state basis and would need to be provided by either third parties like Intuit or state governments.
I would love to do something like that to HotSpot but with W^X being a thing I don't think it'd be easy with these Unsafe tricks. I'd probably have to do some JNI hackery...
I’m glad they were able to unionize but why should they deserve to have similar or same benefits as Google workers? Sorry to be blunt but they are cafeteria workers working for Bon Appetit. If I were Google I would just close all the cafeterias in order to avoid further precedent setting actions. The meals are going to get taxed by IRS anyway so might as well bite the bullet now and get rid of free food entirely.