skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With this reasoning, even external review will not help, because the company can change their practices right after the review.
The intent of certain lawmakers is to make sure that the filing and reporting of taxes is onerous as a lesson about the illegitimacy of government taxation.
Must be LispWorks. Nothing else is anywhere near as expensive.
The topic is always British, European, or American. That's why it's valid to bring up other similar historical wrongs in this discussion without dismissing it as whataboutism. The "strange" focus on only the historical wrongs of a few particular groups of people impeaches the discussion of this sort of topic due to the obvious implicit bias that selects which groups should be held accountable.
I mean I did say it's only a little surprising.
I do blame companies (and people who work at those companies) for spending their time trying to figure out how to waste as much of their fellow countryman's time and money as possible every year. Just like I would blame people for trying to get away with legally polluting waterways or any other public resource.

>The fact that TT (and H&R Block) have impressed upon reps that they will participate in Free File, it mitigates their need to make a government-sponsored program.

It's a half assed solution so they can say they did something and give them political cover.
Ahahahah that's not what I meant!
Is the distortion correction applied in the feed to the operator, or is it applied in post?

With such fast movements in close quarters, I would love to see a global shutter.
Ant Group tussles with Beijing on sharing customer data – FT
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.

BTC might have a future as a store of value like gold, and it deserves credit for establishing cryptocurrencies as an entirely novel asset class. But I think other, better protocols will be used for those coffee transactions instead of hacking on a secondary layer to BTC.
Shaming electricity usage is just ass backwards. Future humans will take more electricity without question especially as AI ramps up (massive rendering). The key is to transform all energy to cater to that need. Neither one of us will determine what people use as a hedge, the market will.
There are so many things I like about this - leaning in to the idea that spreadsheet formulas are a functional programming language, and enhancing that with inferred static types, plain-text persistence, (semi-)structural editing.

And then they go and re-enact Tony Hoare's billion dollar mistake, for no good reason that I can see:

> Some language such as JavaScript uses the concept of an "undefined" value for uninitialized variables or missing property. For simplicity's purpose, we have avoided this concept, treating instances that would be undefined elsewhere as either an error or a blank value. For example, all uninitialized variables start with a blank value. All data types can take on the value of blank.

This is the same spurious "simplicity" seen in Go, and I don't understand the appeal - especially coming from a team that clearly "gets it" when it comes to the importance of expressive types.
It started off as just a shorthand tool for creating elements:

```
div("ClassName", { childNodes: [], etc: {} });
```

Then it grew into having a state management system. And now it's easily the best framework I've ever used... super fast, light weight, extremely malleable, easy to understand.

I keep intending to release it, but I know just how much fun it is putting something out in the world... I don't want this project to turn into my life.
I have used the MailScript solution, cli and api, for a project. I never thought someone would make such a easy to use integration for email sending.

I would say there's no other so easy solution out there. I will follow the project close with great expectations!
Ask HN: Can a solar flare destroy the Bitcoin Blockchain?
Hey HN, potentially silly thought exercise here.

Humor me, please.

Considering this:

https://www.thegamer.com/how-ionizing-particle-outer-space-helped-super-mario-64-speedrunner-save-time/

Is it crazy to think a massive but not life-threatening solar flare could corrupt the blockchain?

I mean, we all know a solar flare could potentially disrupt electrical grids themselves that could still be repaired, but could it flip enough copies of blockchain to render the network useless?
In plain english, no I don't think I would particularly consider -3 a number. If I say someone gave me a number of horses I don't mean they stole my horse. I think it is the right call to include them in the mathematical definition though. Unlike complex numbers they are almost always useful (they are needed to turn the object into a field, which is needed if you want everyday operations like subtraction to always remain within the set), have a much more intuitive definition of multiplication, are a smaller generalization, etc.
Just pointing out that you dont know what you're talking about and/or blatantly lying for an underlying bias/goal.
The other wastes of electricity are also problems we should address.

The difference is that while regulations and tech advancements are improving power efficiency everywhere else, proof of work systems incentive ever-increasing wastes of electricity.

What other system is designed to get increasingly less efficient over time, while paying people to be inefficient, as a core principle of how it operates? Cryptocurrency almost stands alone in this regard.
I don't think the inviting was where it went wrong, but in having a criminally bad UX that deceives those same naive users. Like executing your purchase as a margin buy without making clear it is a margin buy that can be sold out from under you:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25962906

Or the suicide from the kid who didn't understand his position wasn't actually extremely negative.
I never got over being lied to about electron shells and the 2-8-8 "rule".
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A well written Tumbler wouldn’t connect any of your money to your own wallets, it’s not hard to think how an algorithm would do this. Just keep an internal ledger and make sure the money doesn’t come back to the source.

Ross probably could’ve even made his own tumbler. Giving out his money to anyone that sends him some would be a naive way to think about it.

In terms of amount, I don’t think it would be hard with all the illicit activity on bitcoin to launder even this amount of money, but it’s not like he would need all of it right away.

Anyways, this is in response to “isn’t this a public ledger?” To which the answer is, “not if you make part of the ledger private—outside the blockchain—it isn’t.”
Yikes that's bad - I'm sorry! I made up a story around a wrong assumption. I try not to, and I tell HN users several times a day not to, yet it's still incredibly easy. I've added a note to my comment above, and I'll try to remember this case for similar occasions in the future.

Re personal attack - if you go after what another person is saying that aggressively and use the second-person pronoun a lot, it starts to bleed into personal attack. Particularly "you’ve found nothing out of sorts. Got it" struck me as attacking the other person's integrity.
> Lost sales don't exist

That's easily disproven. When SWIM was young, he used to pirate lots of games, most of which he wouldn't have bought, but some of which he would have bought if there had not been a working day zero PDX release. In this manner, SWIM saved some money to invest in weed instead.
Calling the halving a significant energy usage decrease is the opposite of what happens after a halving. A halving means miners are paid half as many BTC for discovering new blocks, then prices increase, which means that miners can afford (and typically must to stay competitive) to pay more for mining equipment and electricity to mine blocks profitably.
I don't particularly want to spend ages trying to find "perfect" when roam is "good" enough. The chances of roam disappearing over night are pretty slim and I take weekly backups of my data from them. Worst comes to the worst I'll dump it into a directory and grep for what I'm looking for.
Hostile comments in which direction?

It's an interesting perspective too when you realize:

- people who have counter-narrative to the Bitcoin propaganda aren't financially incentivized to be negative about it, and obviously their commentary will be negative

- people who own Bitcoin are financially incentivized to speak positively about it, while also suppressing those with a counter-narrative

That Bitcoin has a future that isn't going to lead to regulatory capture trying to cause the rest of society to adopt it, so they can realize the unnecessary wealth transfer from later adopters to earlier adopters, isn't so clear - that is if you've actually thought through it.
Free and Open Hospital Price Database with 1400 hospitals and 72.7M prices
Unless you really screw up[1], or are intentionally trying to screw the IRS[2], you don't have to worry about an audit. The IRS's goal isn't to bring down their wrath upon you, their goal is to accurately collect the taxes they are due. If you pay too little, they'll ask you to pay the difference. If you pay too much, they'll refund it. Really: I once used the single-payer tax table instead of the filing-jointly tax table, and they sent me a nice letter explaining my error alongside a big check.

[1] http://achewood.com/index.php?date=02102004

[2] http://achewood.com/index.php?date=02272003
I hope we start terraforming Mars in my lifetime.
Elon calling it stupid is great:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFPnT-DCBVs
I’d argue it’s the presence of neurons, brains, nervous systems that make the difference.
A bit slower than GTX 1050 mobile
Businesses need credit to get anything done. With a low stock price, businesses need to put larger collateral, which could be more than a bussiness's liquidity.

The stock price does matter
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How would you see multiplication by pi as repeated addition?

By taking 3 times as usual and then another .14 approximately. E.g. for 2, it is 3+3+28/100, roughly 6.28. (edit: if you’re confused by /100, read it as “two places next to a point”)

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:
> But Turbotax is free for 1040EZ filers. It's only in an instance where you would otherwise just hire a tax accountant that they charge you.

This is incorrect in practice. Through dark patterns and otherwise, an extremely small minority filing without paying even if they should be “eligible” (which is itself an absurd position).
This. You can't kill TurboTax with tech, it has to be done with policy. TurboTax is in this position because they lobbied their way to it. Any tech solution will just be further lobbied into oblivion.
TurboTax is disgusting. I used them for a few years in the past due to their great marketing and easy to use website. But they pulled a bait & switch on me last year, at the last minute (after I had done everything) I was required to pay north of $120 to actually file.

The problem isn't that they want money to use their software, it's that they're not upfront about it. Free is thrown in your face about 100 times during the process and then they surprise you right at the end after you've already invested a bunch of your time.

My taxes are dead simple - I just don't trust myself or care enough to file without some software assistance. This year I'm using a different company who appears to be much less shady and will never use TurboTax again. I hope TurboTax making my money once was enough to lose me as a customer for life. In reality I hope the company ceases to exist in the near future, but that seems unlikely.

I'm excited at the prospect of free & open source tax software - for next year maybe.
I kinda disagree, shorting messes with the supply/demand curve by "creating" more shares.

If person A has a share, then B borrows it to short and sells it to person C, now both A and C are effectively holding the same share. Put another way, two people have had their demands met by a single share, increasing supply.
Layer1 Launches Bitcoin Batteries to Stabilize Energy Grids
That's what they're system would be in essence, you'd get a piece of mail saying this is what you'd pay taking what we know and using the standard deduction. If you want you could calculate any itemized deductions and resumbit.
I have a nephew who looks like Chris Hemsworth and when he travels to a new town, doesn't bother with a hotel. He just shows up at a singles bar and waits for an overnight invitation, and his usual problem is choosing among them. The price he pays for the bed is not burdensome to him.

To him, I'm the strange one for bothering with the hotel. I don't think that the attractiveness 1% are much less oblivious of their privilege than the financial 1%.
If, like OP, you are concerned about the closed nature of Roam, you could make that converter instead of a replacement for Roam.

You could say openness is “a feature, not a product”, and it’s a feature that could be retrofitted.
But if the sociopolitical benefits of cryptocurrency are so great, then the electric cost is worth it.

It just seems like groupthink to me. Where are the armies of people against air conditioning or disposable medical tools? Both are pretty wasteful yet clearly worth it.
This is prevalent in Northern Europe
Indeed!

There is much to be learned by occasionally breaking the rules.
Only free for federal. Also doesn't seem to be open source so who knows if they're logging your social security number and other info.
What is the cost per middle class job saved? I'm sure someone has statistics on this.

The logic seems to go that the Fed should contract out job creation to private companies, which in theory produce economic growth. But this creates a feedback loop, where public revenues generated by said growth goes back to private companies.

The ultimate, hidden truth of the world is that it is something that we make, and could just as easily make differently.” - David Graeber
Democrats have the entire government now, President, senate and the house. Democrats had filibuster proof majority when Obama was president.

Why are you just blaming Republicans?
This is mildly important. It's someone that claims to have communicated with Schnorr.
Did you build a startup yourself using the book?
Why is this marked as a duplicate? What is it a duplicate of?
It ends up becoming an instant droplist for me. If I can't navigate how I want, then I won't visit the site until it's resolved.
What other families have benefitted from colonialism and slavery? Is this family the worst example or simply the highest profile? It seems like there are a great number of people and even entire families living lives of luxury due in large part to historical wrongs. Would you like to pursue the quixotic quest of righting all of these wrongs through property seizure from their descendants, or are you simply concerned with the highest profile such family to make a point?

And if you believe the British Crown isn't a political entity that is part and parcel with the government of the United Kingdom but instead just a culpable family that needs to be stripped of their ill gotten assets, then perhaps the Commonwealth doesn't exist at all.
Mars has volcanism but not tectonic plate recycling. That’s an Earth thing. There are large parts of the surface of Mars that are MUCH older than any significant surface areas of the Earth for this reason. And that’s my point.
This (or a similar project) came up in a discussion i've had last week. After a bit of research my conclusion is that their definition of "publications that scientifically prove the process of isolation of SARS-CoV-2" isn't the same as the one used in academic publishing as there are multiple publications that do that. A german one [1] literally has a section titled "Isolation of an infectious SARS‐CoV‐2 virus".

The one I read required a double blind controlled study that injects the isolated alive virus into multiple humans/at least primates which then have to develop symptoms. I guess if somebody did that they would move the goal posts again.

On your page I can't even find a definition of what they would accept as "scientifically prove the process of isolation".

[1] https://www.embopress.org/doi/full/10.15252/embj.2020106230
Honestly bitcoin core will never need to use it, I will die before,

It is not possible to adapt bitcoin as there is no governance (or a flawed one either accept what miners and few devs want or fractionate the community creating bch) ,
It is software, software needs to adapt, by definition.

I think the implicit idea that bitcoin will never change helps to grow now, as we get false sentiment of stability,
But we are at the mercy of devs/miners.

If you think this is a concern, take a look at decred, is was born to be the best store of value, because it can adapt and evolve through governance, so it can last in time.
Refuting it puts a massive burden on other people since finding the fault in complicated proofs can be very involved. Providing a PoC puts a burden on the person making the claim. So at a minimum not providing a PoC is a very selfish approach.
The IRS can simplify the process, sure. And if you are living alone, have no children, and don't care about taking advantage of any special credits or deductions, then a "file for me" button would be fine. (Though the process for those taxpayers is already in a good place--I filed my taxes for free in about 30 minutes this year.)

But if you, say, have children, the IRS will not be able to "file for you" in any meaningful sense. Whether you are allowed to claim dependents on tax returns is a complicated question that is highly fact-specific. Happily, the IRS does not have cameras in my house checking to see if my children are living with me. I have to report that information to the IRS myself.

Drive for Uber? Your taxes are also gonna be pretty complicated, and there's no way the IRS can do them for you. After all, they don't have any information on how many miles you drove for Uber and what other business expenses you might have had.

Right now, the system we have is pretty good. Most people qualify for free filing, and free-file tools get better every year. At worst, there is an issue of consumer education (psst, you might be able to find a better/cheaper tax filing option than Turbotax).
Right, but that’s what swap is for. It doesn’t necessarily mean that you need more than 16GB.
We’re building this at Superadmin, specifically for e2e tests. We’re a little bit early but would love to collect feedback. Can we get you in as an early user?
Break-up pi in whatever means you think is reasonable.

3 * (3 + 0.1 + 0.04 + 0.001 + 0.0005...)

Aka: 9.4245...

You know, how we've been multiplying 3 * pi for our whole lives. We split pi up into an infinite sum of component numbers (3, 1, 4, 1, 5, 9, 2, 6...) and then combine them together by individually multiplying the parts (3 * 3 + 3 * 0.1 + 3 * 0.04...)
unpopular opinion.

The core issue is that Linux userland is a complete utter f*kin mess, and these apps that run on it, cant even depend on the correct libc being installed.

The root reason is the linux kernel refuses to fix EVEN known kernel bugs in that it will "break" userland. This is a policy that has been proven to be a serious error, however it takes a long time to show why its an error.

Docker & k8s would not be needed if the userland was done right. Fixed at both the kernel and user application level. FreeBSD has jails, but its not even the same in purpose and ablities.

Kubernetes is complex, even google says that now. The real fix to these issues that the linux kernel and userland will need to be engineered, not shattered in 1000 pieces. Will this happen ? no, not with redhat and linus. Thus, in the next 5 years there will be a rise of BSD or a fork of linux, that will end the current rule of linus.
Feels like this should be in the public domain. Any reason for it not to be?
Quick summary, he's found a faster way to factor numbers. He hasn't found a way to break RSA that isn't equivalent to factoring the modulus.

(As far as I know, it's still just a long-standing conjecture that breaking RSA is as difficult as factoring. RSA always uses odd exponents. The Rabin cryptosystem is similar to RSA except that it always uses 2 as the public exponent and is provably as difficult as factoring, but if the modulus has 2 prime factors p and q, then by the Chinese remainder theorem, the output will always be a quadratic residue modulo p and also a quadratic residue modulo q. In other words, the number of possible plaintexts is 4 times the number of possible ciphertexts, so decryption gives you back 4 possibilities and you need some convention that only one of those was a legal message.)

Unfortunately, this is a faster factoring method, so it also applies to the Rabin cryptosystem, the Blum-Blum-Shub pseudorandom number generator, and Rivest's time lock puzzles (repeated squaring modulo a large composite).
I'm not sure DDG can be considered an example of the default position in the search market.

Granted, OP didn't explicitly state they were discussing the most common behaviour in the market, but it remains a stretch to take them to be be stating a law that must be strictly true for any social construct that could be called a market.
pi isn't a counting number like you teach to children.
I have a strong intuition that if you price things fairly, if you're governing well, people will be willing to pay - and that piracy ultimately happens because either 1) society isn't providing enough foundational resources to the largest cog in the wheel of capitalism (consumers), or 2) to my first point: things are overpriced, or say - someone paid for a movie ticket - and then they feel like they've already contributed enough - but want to watch it and download it later, etc.

I also have a growing intuitive that "piracy" being legal is the counterpoint to the capitalistic system unfairly gouging/extracting excess value from society.

Also an unrelated intuition: ads are a virus related to greed and control which bypasses regular, natural trust and growth mechanisms, e.g. word of mouth learning/education of products/services/communities that normally would warrant analysis, curation, by trusted community leaders - and then those community leaders would meet and share, that knowledge then shared with each community; tribes of people who didn't do this well, who didn't have a good sense of trust or this kind of hierarchical structure for sharing/learning, would have arguably been more easily killed off by other tribes, dis-ease, etc.
The usual proposed method would be the IRS calculates what you owe based on the standard deduction because they don't know about most donations or possible deductions.
wasn't he transphobic and racist? I remember seeing a lot of news about how bad he was online.
The pros: I earn 150k.

The cons: I don't earn 200k.
> Am I missing something here?

Sorry, I should have said substitute b = pi or c = pi. Or see the sibling post by iio8999.
Further: I rely on “government services” every day that are essential and delivered reliably. Even on the tech front - my municipal parking app is fast, free, and pretty much flawless.
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The original comment I was referring to mentioned that paying for a service does not free you from tracking, and used groceries as an example.
That is a poor example because you are being compensated for your opting in to tracking.

A better example would be something you pay for, and you’re still tracked with no compensation.

Does that answer your question?