skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because of Grover Norquist and his organization (ironically named Americans for Tax Reform). Their "Taxpayer Protection Pledge" taken by most Republican lawmakers (95% before 2012), locks them into supporting his policies. The problem is that he views any attempt to simplify tax filing just like a tax increase (presumably since people will be less upset about paying their taxes), and uses his influence to lobby against reforms like this.
In case you were confused by the headline... no relation to curve.fi
The new version of the Mirai has a fuel cell that weighs 25.5kg for the fuel cell and power converter and a 5.6kg hydrogen capacity, so proportional to the weight of the cell the fuel is significant, but proportional the weight of the vehicle, not really.
> By taking 3 times as usual and then another .14 approximately

First, "taking 3 .14 times" doesn't make sense, at least not in the elementary school student's understanding of "repeated addition".

Second, pi is irrational, as you evidently realize since you say "approximately". There is no way to add 3 pi times.

> If you’re asking how to do that exactly, first tell how do you even add pi to some number exactly? Let’s start with one, 1 + pi:

Add 1 to the 3 and keep the part to the right of the decimal point the same. Addition is commutative.

Basically, your argument is that multiplication is repeated addition as long as we're willing to adopt increasingly perverse interpretations of "repeated addition" as we expand the scope of the numbers we use. Wouldn't it be better to just admit up front that multiplication is not repeated addition, although the two are similar for some types of numbers?
Freedom in the World 2021: Democracy under Siege
Oh I know the political implications of changing BTC are high, but the main arguments against changing anything to do with Bitcoin are its security profile. I agree that BTC is the most secure chain. But, if the mining reward dries up to the extent that it is less secure as transaction fees take dominance, then the community will have to sacrifice one of their sacred cows: 21 million supply or proof-of-work. Neither one of those are easy to change, but if necessary, it will have to.
The paper didn't attempt to examine if the benefits of the model outweighed the costs. They calculated the total energy used and called it a day.
Towards Causal Representation Learning
> Okay, so it isn't 3 tx/sec. It's a bit more than that. Not an order of magnitude more, or two orders of magnitude, or the five orders of magnitude more to have the throughput required for everyone on earth to be able to transact once per day, say to buy lunch.

> You talk about BTC as a settlement layer. A settlement layer for what? The lightning network? Laughable.

Personal opinion: I think the part you are missing here is that lots of transactions shouldn't be occurring on the base layer. Remember that every transaction that occurs is stored in perpetuity on every node in the Bitcoin network. It should be expensive for a transaction like that to occur, and we should create incentives that limit the creation of these as much as possible.

Why is it "laughable" for the lightning network to use BTC as a settlement layer? I think it's perfectly reasonable to have second and third layer networks that sit on top of Bitcoin acting as transaction networks, while the main BTC chain is used for larger transactions or to settle large batches of transactions from other layers.
This is exactly how South Korea does the taxation. Employeers are required to report employees' incomes and also deduct the tentative tax. The final tax is set by the year-end settlement where you can put documents for income deduction and tax credit to the National Tax Service. Common documents (e.g. credit card expenses count towards income deduction) are electronically available in one place and it is not very hard to get hold of other documents if you are an employee. In the end you pay or get the delta between the tentative tax and the settled tax.
Another vote for FreeTaxUSA. They are totally free for federal returns but I happily pay the $6 for the ‘Deluxe’ service level to support its development.

Been using them for years now after getting tired of TurboTax’s $60-100 fear racket.
How the heck did Toyota get their own TLD?
DuckDuckGo and Brave are also owned by an ad company. Or do you see that differently?
> The lightning network? Laughable.

Why is it laughable?

The whole world doesn't need every little transaction to be permanently recorded on the public blockchain.
Does SMS deduct balance? Or you can SMS for free?
Oh yes, definitely. There are a lot of regulations for market makers.
The map of which species have spread viruses to other animals is awesome. Also, the restraint in only including 5 data graphics (two of which are illustrations for comparing size, which is as natural as you can get) is commendable. Graphics can be easier to understand than numbers in text, but text is easier to skim while reading.

The only nitpick I'd have is the use of log scale for the body mass to longevity chart. It spreads out the data points, but complicates comparisons. And log scales aren't well understood by most people who don't make charts for a living.
You can't actually use the word "corrupt" to describe what the legislators are doing, that's painting them unfairly.

All they're doing is lining their own pockets with millions from TurboTax et. al to make sure laws are favourable for those big companies. But because it's perfectly legal, and there are no thugs with guns or drugs or "bad members of society", it's absolutely not corruption.

/s
Or sad, depending on your point of view.
'Facebook has a blind spot': why Spanish-language misinformation is flourishing
If TLS is compromised, you cannot trust the subresource subresource integrity checksums. It's better than nothing but there is no good solution.
OpenHD. If you fly wings and 135ms latency doesn't bother you, you can build it yourself. Of course, it uses Raspberry Pi's proprietary Broadcom SoC h264 encoder, so much for open :)

Is TBS locking their proprietary protocol they use to differentiate themselves from commodity Semtech ICs good for the hobby?
Honestly, there should be some sort of never-forget meme about Google removing the + operator when they started up their stupid social network that failed and then never put it back >:(

Just checked wikipedia, and it seems it'll be ten years ago this June that google stole + and forced quoting upon us for pure vanity reasons.
God, I miss this. I hope that it comes back. Spent so much time in these rooms. Turntable was really years ahead of it's time. Can't believe nothing has come along to fill that gap.
Use this IRS tool to find which service lets you free file.
https://apps.irs.gov/app/freeFile/
> Right now, the system we have is pretty good.

Not compared to other countries it isn't. Not by a long shot.

Video with transcript below:

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/dreading-taxes-countries-s...

Get the heck out of here with your bull pucky
Absolutely. And with the tax companies, it turns out that it's very cheap to corrupt a US congressperson.
The US Dollar is supposed to be a Medium of Exchange and a Unit of Account. It is also being used as a Store of Value for countries with unstable currencies. Demand for the dollar causes trade imbalance, wealth inequality, and political problems. I think the Fed is doing a fairly good job in managing the dollar. It has becoming more political as the problems are moving closer to the source.
*a biased cognitive test
> multiplication by 1/q

Is not repeated addition. You can't add a number to itself 1/q times. At least, not unless you're willing to adopt increasingly perverse interpretations of "repeated addition" as you try to cover more and more numbers. See my response to wruza upthread.
tl;dr Recruiting article
The crypto ad system is their best feature. You get browser ads instead of website specific ads and so any website can get money simply from users using brave. Also you can choose which websites get some of your specific ad money. It feels more like the money being made off of you is also being spent by you. Taking power away from big tech.
I had a lovely experience with freetaxusa this year.

They're not entirely free, but they're still very cheap and transparent about their pricing. They don't do the login thing where you hook into your banks and pull in documents automatically, but... honestly those aren't that useful and I'm not sure I trust those on turbotax.
DJI seem to have diverted their supply chain from hobbyist FPV to this new drone. Supply for all DJI FPV gear has been very limited ever since they filed the "V2" goggles (for the Drone) with the FCC.

I'm hoping they keep their hobbyist/DIY FPV system going though, as it blows everything else out of the water. Analog video is well, bad, open source alternatives are either abandoned or mediocre, and the Divimath/Fat Shark system is not even comparable in terms of quality.
There is an official version hosted on Brave's website (and linked from the announcement): https://brave.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/goggles.pdf
Most countries have their version of the IRS "file for you" without any of those difficulties. Everyone reports tax information to the central authority which determines how much you owe. Even complex things like 1099-B, 1099-Div etc. Which is how the current system works anyways, it just eliminates the hassle.

There's almost no scenario where the IRS cannot do this stuff. Think about this fact: your W-2, 1099 investments and most other financial information is already reported to the IRS. They have it already. Absolutely bonkers that people accept anything less than just being sent a bill or check once a year.

> Right now, the system we have is pretty good.

Yeah, big disagree there. If you've ever done taxes in another country you will realize how idiotic taxes are in the US. Australia is literally, 10 minutes per year, and even complex things like investments, stocks...
Evolution drives autism to occur much more frequently in boys and men
No-one is forcing you to stop eating meat, and yes in fact I have a powerlifter vegan friend.

You're clearly brimming with emotion, and you seem to have drawn your own conclusion that bill gates is forcing you to stop eating meat. I'll be honest, that's a new conspiracy theory that I've not heard.

Why don't you think about it logically. What would Bill gates, a man who statistically only has 13 more years to live, gain from stopping you from eating meat?
It's very exciting. So far Brave is not so popular in the cryptocurrency space compared to its peers. That will change I'm sure.
> The Brave Search team acknowledges that not all filters will show results that are agreeable to everyone. "There will be Goggles created by creationists, anti-vaccination supporters or flat-earthers," the paper says. "However, the biases will be explicit, and therefore, the choice is a conscious one."

What could possibly go wrong?
It's a very hard realization to have. I applaud you. I was vegan for a couple years, until I devleped tooth problems for the first time in my life, which spooked me and I quit. Now I just try to moderate my meat intake, consume the less-in-demand parts like tongue (nobody raises a cow for its tongue), and buy from sources that impose less, albeit clearly still substantial, suffering.

But that said, there's so much great vegetarian food to be eaten!
Personal attacks are against the rules of hackernews
Services like Privacy.com offer single purpose credit cards which can help mitigate the linking of an account to a payment source.
This looks that you're using very aggressive power settings in the kernel (powertop, tlp?), and doesn't seem related to PulseAudio at all.
Would love a "what's going on here for dummies" summary if possible. From what I gather someone is claiming they broke RSA encryption?
Are accountants prohibitively expensive in the US? I don't use any tax software myself in the UK - I just pay an accountant $250 once a year and he does it for me (using some software I presume.) It's not really on my radar as things worth trying to automate or use software myself for, let alone building my own software! I'd have to be able to do it in just a few hours to be cost effective.
I gave JACK a try more than a decade ago, and I remember how cool it was to be able to pipe the audio from one application to the input of another (unrelated) app, possibly adding effects or transformations in between. But JACK never became "mainstream" so I never got to use it for anything serious, but I miss the flexibility it offered even for non professional use-cases. What I wonder is if PipeWire will allow this kind of routing or patching of audio streams as well.
Much obliged--thanks! Added it to Monday's queue.
How to post article on thenexthint.com?
https://www.thenexthint.com/
Thank you, that actually appears to be much more user friendly than I would have imagined. When I think of government websites I think I'm still stuck in the mindset of government websites 10 years ago (aka absolutely horrible). I've been surprised at how good things have gotten regarding them a few times, so I guess I need to snap out of that mindset.

While looking over the requirements and supported forms I didn't find anything about student loans (form 1098E), would you happen to know if that method is compatible with them?
Yes, I’m talking about the dos version, SCOR4.exe, as the windows version is a buggy beta release where the author died before being able to get it stable.

Plus keyboard use is more efficient than mouse.
"The Perseverance rover has initial funding to operate for one Mars year, roughly two Earth years."

So wire the rover money after 2 years ? no wonder Elon is into Bitcoin
> At any rate we have to impose that n·0=0, which can't be writen cleverly as "repeated addition" and worked up backwards.

n * 0 = n * (1 + (-1)) = n + (-n) = 0.

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The 0-element in a Galois Field works identically btw. In GF(5), the 0 element is 5 (5 mod 5 == 0).

n * (5) == n * 0 == n * (1 + (-1)) == n * (1 + 4) == 0 mod5.

For example, if we take "n" == 2, 2 * 5 == 10 mod 5 == 0.

2 * (1 + 4) == 2 + 8 == 2 + 3 (mod 5) == 5 mod 5 == 0. Etc. etc.

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This property literally holds in all fields and rings (but not groups).
The lost sales argument generally only works in isolation.

Imagine if Adobe, say, had come up with a way to do perfect DRM so that it was impossible to pirate Photoshop back in the days when it cost several hundred dollars.

It's probably true that a huge number of the people who pirated it back then would not have bit the bullet and coughed up the hundreds of dollars for a license, and so them pirating it did not represent a lost sale to Adobe.

But...I doubt most of them would have thrown up their hands and said "I can't pirate Photoshop...so I'm just going to give up on graphics editing!" or decided to just do their graphics editing all in MS Paint.

A lot of them almost certainly would have bought some other commercial graphics editor that is much less expensive than Photoshop, such as Pixelmator Pro for around $40.

That's where the lost sales from piracy turn up--in the sales of the less expensive alternatives that people would have turned to had they not been able to pirate what they pirated.
(The question as to how - and why or why not - we could go from the Aeolipile to full blown steam engines, I've always found fascinating ...

... what other things / proceses / materials / frame of mind made the steam engine possible vs. this.

What made for an industrial revolution in the 1800's vs. the 1st century AD).-
The use of the phrase "virtue signalling" has ironically mostly become reduced to signalling.
i use plain http... just like the homepage in your profile.
Unless you count that one time I accidentally searched for weather details on my watch, I have use Google search ONCE this year. DDG is absolutely fine right now.
And again, unless you count my Android Auto (Google Maps) searches, I have use Google search maybe 20 times since August 2020.
They probably have this running in a well walled off VM so it doesn't really matter to them for the most part I would guess . A customer will report it if files get corrupted or something looks fishy I suppose.
Where are the contributions ?
We could not care less. Stop steamrolling and trying to capture all the value of initiatives outside of your conglomerate.
> people who have counter-narrative to the Bitcoin propaganda aren't financially incentivized to be negative about it

They are incentivized to be negative about it, because whether you like it or not, not buying into it has real opportunity costs. If it ends up becoming the global currency, then you'd be left behind.
"tech/SV" in no way missed out on Defi, they own a pretty big part of it.

Check out a16z, sequoia portfolios or check out the founders of the top defi projects...

> "Crypto is what comes after Silicon Valley"

yet some of the biggest success stories to come out of crypto are "Silicon Valley" (or close enough in this context) companies such as Coinbase ?
Yes, but not anymore than standard fpv goggles (with no tracking) would give in this case anyway.

Yes, we thought of that as a possible improvement ("future work"). It may be harder to get the stereo cameras to match up, is my guess. But for a single camera setup it's probably not too hard and already exists for 360 videoes. So I guess if one's capable of streaming the video it shouldn't be too hard.

And stereo cameras arent really that useful. We explored it, and found that when looking at stuff more than a few meters away it made no difference. For inspections (which was what our drone was made for) of close stuff it has some merit, but could still probably be handled by some IR sensor or other computational stuff adding an overlay to the video.

As for vr sickness, the most jarring experience was flying behind yourself like a 3rd person shooter haha.
The armies against HVAC come in the form of ever-increasing insulation and efficiency requirements. Modern construction methods are far more energy efficient than even a few decades ago and they’re increasing all the time. New construction is remarkably efficient from a heating and cooling perspective.

Contrast with Bitcoin, where the inefficiency increases with each new miner that comes online, all without producing any more transactions per second. Ironically, the mining power only seems to become more centralized over time, which was the opposite of what was intended by going to proof of work.
I came here to write something along these lines. For the simplest cases, filing is free and really easy now. Everyone who needs TurboTax now would need something roughly as complicated until our entire tax regime is overhauled.

Adding to the types of really common situations where you do have to provide context the IRS doesn't already have:

- side-hustle contracting (IRS doesn't know what expenditures are for the business)

- stock sales (your broker may not know your basis)

- home improvements eligible for tax deductions

- sold a home (IRS won't know your basis or selling price)

- did you move for a job? IRS won't know whether you are eligible for tax deductions.

- crypto gains/losses

- inheritances (basis again)

I'm curious whether other countries have simpler tax codes that permit simpler filing?
In the UK vast majority of people don't do their own taxes. Your employer pays the tax on your behalf directly from your salary and updates the tax office as to how much you make. In turn, the tax office tells your employer how much tax to pay from your salary, without any input required from yourself.

In fact most people I work with don't even know there is such a thing as a tax deadline every year or anything like that, because....why would they? if you are a normal full time employee there is absolutely no need to file your own taxes. HMRC has all the information it needs to tax you year on year.

>>what you can deduce from it (expenses you had to do in order to acquire your income)

Well, at least here in UK there's practically nothing you can deduct from your taxes if you are a "regular" full time worker, so that solves that issue.
There's no need to lie to children. Telling children "multiplication is a separate operation on numbers, but it works like repeated addition for the counting numbers you're familiar with" is not a lie.
> friendly and polite people governed by a violent mafia

...which was installed by the CIA.
Probability, Mathematical Statistics, Stochastic Processes
I didn't read dragonwriter's comment that way. If someone is black, say, and has experienced some examples of blatant, overt racism, that affects who they are. If I want to interact with them as them, well, that's part of "them". I can't treat them like someone who has no race, who therefore had no such experiences. Ditto for any other race/ethnicity/national background.

I suspect that you think dragonwriter meant that I should assume "hmm, black person, therefore has been on the receiving end of racism". I didn't read it that way. I agree with you that it would be wrong to make such an assumption (or any assumption based on their race). But I think dragonwriter's point is different: Their race has shaped their lives in certain ways. Don't ignore that part of who they are.
....and someone rolled back your edits. because it's not peer reviewed.
whether the markets affect a company's viability depends on their capital structure, of which the public offering is a part, as well as how leveraged the company's various income streams and assets are. it's not as simple as having enough income to cover expenses, although cash flow is a crucial part of the calculus.
Something something kool-aid :)

https://youtu.be/EHgJMSLrwQc?t=1486
It was meant slightly in jest; but looking at Activity Monitor on my 32GB RAM Macbook Pro, it looks like I'm currently using ~28GB. I have Docker & a few Node.js processes (webpack builds, typescript compiler, language server, etc) taking about ~10GB between them, and then a sea of "Google Chrome Helper (Renderer)" processes each taking between 100 and 900MB. There are at least 20 of these, and then also the usual suspects with Slack, Skype (yes), Finder, etc.

Honestly, I could probably do with 16GB right now, but I'm planning on keeping this machine for at least 5 years; it was worth the few hundred bucks extra to future-proof it.
The economist's answer:

If that were so, there wouldn't be so much money spent on lobbyists by companies.

I guess there's a reason they call it "the dismal science."
> if you have an empty bag, and add an apple, 1 is the cardinality of that bag. If you add another apple, then the cardinality is 2.

The artificiality is high here -- would you trade your bag of "2" apples for someone else's bag of two apples without asking about the size and quality of the apples? While counting numbers are wonderful things for examining things like "sets" it seem to me to be kind of silly to assign any "reality" to them.

Discrete identical things are pretty much nonexistent at human scales. Continuous identical things, however, are numerous, where continuous here is not strict, but practical.

This is not realistic as a foundation for mathematics. But I think the idea of using propositional logic and set theory was a mistake that we are only now starting to correct. Intuitionalists and category theorists (and finitists, frankly) are leading us in a better direction now.
They'd just assume you want to take the standard deduction--which isn't a bad assumption for a lot of people these days.

My taxes are admittedly at least somewhat complex but, even if I did them myself, I'm not sure how much effort it would save if I had to do a bunch of additions and corrections. Pre-filling would mostly be useful if you could just check your W2, maybe a 1099, some things like dependents, sign it, and file it.