skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've really 180'd on this over the past two years. I've always loved business models that allowed free access, but now I'm very much focused on a business models that are sustainable, and without relying on being able to sell my data to keep the lights on. A service I can pay for access, in a sustainable business arrangement, is my new preferred model.
Enron is one of the most famous examples: https://www.finance-monthly.com/2017/10/the-top-10-greatest-...
Also, if your income is under $72,000 you can use the TurboTax website completely free through the Free File program: https://apps.irs.gov/app/freeFile/browse-all-offers
Also check out this new instant answers thing if you are interested. i'd love to get back constructive criticism:

https://www.gigablast.com/search?c=main&qlangcountry=en-us&q...
https://www.gigablast.com/search?c=main&qlangcountry=en-us&q...
https://www.gigablast.com/search?c=main&qlangcountry=en-us&q...
And Larry Sanger co-founded Wikipedia, doesn't mean we should trust him.
How useful is the computation code though? The computations themselves for the cells on a 1040 form are not that complicated and well documented in the instructions. The hard part is getting all the right numbers into the source boxes.
Maybe it's "bull pucky" to you, but I have vivid memories of my parents agonizing over taxes as a child. The agony they went through is much ameliorated now due to advances in technology.

And thank you for the link, but this news segment basically is big on opinion, low on specifics. Feel free to link me to a detailed article on how non-U.S. countries handle self-employment or dependent tax issues and whether/how those things are easier elsewhere.
Your first claim, I'm suspicious this can be done after a certain scale. If DDG is sending queries from millions of users, it's much harder to untangle them.

Your second query, absolutely, Microsoft is getting very good aggregated data from their API, which is useful to them, but that's not really a privacy violation for individual users.
The pitch deck that Sequoia Capital uses to train new investors
It is an unclassified federally-funded document -- as I understand things, it is therefore in the public domain.

Because many eyes often make bugs shallow, there is a pretty good chance that a public release of the code will find errors that both find funds that are owed to the government and exonerate people who have been incorrectly billed.

What better purpose for the American Fuzzy Lop?
Intuit (owner of TurboTax) was sued over this because they had some of the darkest patterns imaginable around FreeFile. They blocked search engines from finding it using robots.txt. They would show a page where only 1 tiny link brought you to the free site, while all others switched you back to the paid one.

Pro Publica did some excellent reporting on this in 2019 and they seem to have made it one of their pet projects.
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The HN crowd is way above me when it comes to math, but I'm going to chime in here w/ a question, come what may.

I read about this a couple of years ago when I was doing basic arithmetic instruction at home to supplement my 5 y/o daughter's schooling. We were just doing basic numeracy activities at the time-- playing with physical representations of a number line, etc. I wanted to have some idea of how to approach multiplication when we got to that point (which we did about a year later).

I was flummoxed by the whole "multiplication isn't repeated addition" debate because of my own arithmetic education nearly 40 years before. The "light bulb" moment for me was reading an article that described multiplication of real numbers as scaling. I'm a embarrassed that, at >40 y/o, I had such an epiphany. (Then again, math has never been something I've had great intuition for.)

I knew that her teacher was likely going to introduce multiplication as repeated addition and I felt like I wanted to have the first word on the subject with her.

With that in mind when we got to multiplication in our home activities I pulled the physical number line analog out again (a board w/ some small nails in it) and used some elastic and rubber bands to illustrate "stretching" a number as multiplication of an integer by another integer (granted, for small numbers only-- I only had the patience to drive so many nails). I did a little bit of "shrinking" an integer by multiplying it by a fraction (because fractions are something we have covered extensively, if only as an excuse to have cake!) to show that multiplication is can scale a number to be both larger and smaller.

It seems intuitive to me, but I'm a rank amateur. Was this a reasonable strategy? Did I do more harm than good?
There's a TON of power generation alternatives that look much better both from the "trying to not give you a lot of cancer" standpoint and the "efficiency is something we care about" standpoint. Most RTGs make about 3 to 6% efficiency, while a random Amazon 100w solar panel will give you 15/22% without most of the risks.

The main reason this are used vs (or sometimes along!) other technologies is that they function rather happily in super crappy conditions we don't -unless some world-ending event happens soonish- usually have on Earth.
Not every farmer feeds their cows corn/grains. Find a local farmer that raises their cattle on pasture and reward them for their efforts.
Free File is made by Turbotax. It's likely to discourage the government from entering the space.

dig freefilefillableforms.com

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
freefilefillableforms.com. 300 IN SOA a18-64.akam.net. nadmin.intuit.com. 2020102802 10800 3600 604800 86400
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The problem is not their opinion, its their inordinate extrajudicial power to extend punishment indefinitely upon people which have already paid their debt to society, at the behest of corporations.
Don't give turbotax your money.
If you want free, high-quality tax prep, consider Credit Karma (https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/03/07/when-ta...)

The difference is that they're using your data to target financial products at you (just like any other free service). But they don't sell your data at least.
I don't think you're missing anything, most just people fundamentally don't understand the markets and like to say all kinds of inane things.

Moreover if short selling was banned, people would just express the same view by selling a equity swap.
> cryptocurrency mining is mostly done using ASICs

Bitcoin mining is mostly only effective with ASICs, but cryptocurrency is more than just Bitcoin.
Yeah but that was far as I understand a loose connector.

I think my thought is that with conventional turbopumps you're uncomfortably close to fatigue and thermal limits. Where with electric pumps you may much farther way.
I use an accountant. It has worked for me for many years.

I'm grateful to be able to do that.

On another note, I used TurboTax, like, no exaggeration, over 20 years ago, for the last time.

They kept my email, and migrated me to one of their current accounts, and, on a regular basis, I get spammed by them to "reactivate my account."

The problem is that there is absolutely no way to respond, and ask them to remove me from their spam list. They try to get me to log in, instead, and the login attempts are always rejected. I have tried to contact their support, a couple of times, and received auto-bot responses that are basically repeats of the worthless footer in the spam they send me.

It's annoying. Not "jump off a cliff" annoying. More like "persistent mosquito" annoying.
Used to be a plain Firefox extension back in the days.

It was really simple, something like:

- You clicked a button in the toolbar or right clicked and chose menu option

- a dialog showed up, you chose how often it should check the page and how big differences it should tolerate and clicked OK.

- once every hour or 4 times a day or twice a day depending on your choice Firefox would download the page locally, compare it and tell me if there were changes.

Yes, we oldtimers mostly complain about TST, but there were an entire ecosystem of brilliant extensions - so brilliant I figure it would habe been hard for me to believe today if I hadn't experienced it back then.

That's what you can have when you have brilliant people making brilliant software to empower you :-/

Edit: seriously, I would pay $20 a month for someone who would fix the new Firefox. If someone made a realistic Kickstarter I'd support it right away and then monthly if necessary.
Companies Buying bitcoin is a trend.
As people bought btc.
I think this is kind of marketing.
Haha
> teaching students one thing, and then later coming back and saying "well, that thing you were taught before isn't actually correct..."

My kids are learning multiplication. I honestly don't feel like they're being lied to, or confused about what they are being taught. Yes, they start with addition and subtraction as crutches (e.g. `9 x N` is initially taught as `10 x N - N`). It's certainly not how I learned (I had to do rote memorization of the tables), but hey they can recite tables now too.

Easing into multiplication via addition doesn't feel wrong IMHO. In fact, at later grades, I'd have to learn about associative/commutative properties anyways.

My daughter in particular has a somewhat peculiar story: she is in kinder and learning multiplication from a game[0] that her older brother started playing, and the way they introduced multiplication is by telling her that to calculate the area of a rectangle, she needs to literally count the number of blocks that compose it.

Is it "wrong"? I guess. Blocks aren't really proper units, but she gets that a rectangle made of 4x5 blocks has an area of 20 blocks, first by stumbling n' counting, then adding rows then eventually just memorizing the multiplication fact, so mission accomplished? Things build up from there, first without the grid, then into area of more complex polygons, spin off into word problems, etc.

IMHO what helps kids learn is just repeatedly seeing where the memorized mechanisms can be applied and where they can't. Eventually multiplication becomes second nature and the addition/subtraction crutches come off.

[0] https://www.prodigygame.com/
You don't have access to the alternate universe where they didn't introduce a loyalty program to compare prices. Grocery prices go up naturally due to inflation so it's impossible to disentangle.

Groceries are also one of the most price sensitive items people buy and grocery stores run on incredibly thin margins so it's dubious to believe that a grocery story has much control over their pricing, independant of a loyalty card. If they could raise prices after the introduction of a card to increase total profits, why couldn't they have done it before then?

Far more likely is that they're using the extra revenue from the card to lower prices for you and gain market share from their competitors but the lower prices are swallowed up by general price increases.
I don't attach value to web3/cryptos but I kinda recognize that there is way too much wind behind it to ignore it. It can be a total empty bubble.. and burst into nothingness, but I believe that some of it will stay alive and evolve into functional and useful ideas for another wave.
Speed up test suites by explicitly defining Elixir protocol implementations
No, because jQuery normalizes all sorts of DOM stuff. Part of the reason it is 30kb. What I've done is basically syntatic sugar and is only 74loc.
I don't understand. Why can't you have one without the other?
There might not have been shares available to short but a hedge fund could still sell a lot of options. If you sold call options anywhere near the peak you could have easily closed your position by now and taken pretty much the entire sale price as pure profit.
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You're probably using Firefox anti-tracking capabilities or something similar, that's what caused issues for me on both Paypal and Amazon.
Government works generally are automatically not subject to copyright under 17 U.S.C. § 105, available at https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/105

However, that doesn't necessarily mean they're public domain. Trademark law still applies, for example.

Additionally, not everything the government uses, even exclusively, was produced or is owned by the government. Often, government contracts allow the contractor to retain control and ownership of the intellectual property. The government may also have copyright transferred to it and retain that copyright. A legal issue I haven't researched is the line between a work that is a government work under work-for-hire principles, and therefore is ineligible for copyright protection, and a work for which the government contracts and for which copyright is subsequently transferred.

Before attempting to FOIA the source code of a piece of government-exclusive software, I would first FOIA all government contracts for the creation of that software. Then you'll have something to go on when crafting the FOIA request you really want.
I have read the introduction (only cursorily). What bothers me is that they may be conflating

C as C-vector space, which is R (as R-vector space) tensor C (complex dim 1).

with

R^2 as R-vector space, tensored by C (complex dim 2).

Because when they "add a real qubit", they seem to be adding a degree of freedom which you do not have when you have just one C-qubit.

But -I repeat- I have only looked over the intro.
Flywheels are not silent and have unwanted gyroscopic effects. Getting even more impractical, you could store energy in a spring like a wind-up toy.

A pure electric system is much simpler as the motors are the regenerators and there is one energy store.
Well, since the thing it is "necessary but not sufficient" for is me to be convinced you aren't tracking me, it does not. I use them as the best current alternative, but as I alluded to in my first comment, I'd be much more comfortable with them if I could give them some money.
(+1 for the New Parkway. They've also been doing pretty great 'food crates' to make ends meet while they aren't playing movies...)
Mind that there also is a reason why Brendan Eich is no longer at Mozilla.

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-26868536
Good. Imagining a world where Lockheed no longer wants to sponsor the cluster-munitions ethics conference and that's viewed as a negative.
This is mostly a restructuring to shed some debt before a big capital infusion.

Alamo's business model in a post-pandemic world is still a huge money maker.
The new new math isn't just multiplication is addition, it's addition and substraction.

39 x 40 = 40 x 40 - 40
Somehow, the IRS compares the tax return I submit with what they expected. It is that entire machinery that is in the public interest to be visible and audited by the public.
This might be true if you have a hit product with multiplayer functionality, but for regular Indie games piracy absolutely leads to lost sales.

I implemented anti-piracy techniques into my Indie PC title and saw about a 20% improvement in sales as a result.
The continuing series of qualifications "it's kinda like this, for what you're talking about" gets pretty rough there, even when explaining, say, Kubernetes to adults! It can be a confidence crusher.

There's also the flip side response which is always asking a lot of questions about "well then what are the other sorts of numbers" and eventually getting shut down "we're not talking about that now" which comes back to the "who decides what you're smart enough to hear about now" question in its own way. Or "oh the teacher doesn't actually know what the difference is, or why this isn't 'true' 100%."

Despite the cutesy name, I don't think omission of detail is the same as lying. It's often impossible to tell 100% the truth. You probably don't even know it yourself!
Netflix launches ‘Fast Laughs,’ a TikTok-like feed of funny videos
A space hurricane over the Earth’s polar ionosphere
Among other things, pushing everything through the message bus allows for global message ordering, and security policies down to the individual message. Rewriting the internals would work in an embedded situation like that where every application is linking against the same version of libdbus, but that is not really the case on a desktop system, where there are multiple different D-Bus protocol implementations.

If applications have hard performance requirements, most D-Bus implementations do have support for sending peer-to-peer messages, but applications have to set up and manage the socket themselves.
Non-fungible tokens??
Sure, all I'm saying it is much more likely than not that his returns are due to skill.
Founder here, we've been hard at work getting an API going so that people can get programmable email addresses. It's been a surprisingly complex project, because email has a lot of legacy around it.

Would appreciate some feedback and tough questions!
I think Minecraft is a pretty unique case based on it being incredibly successful and it being a game.

The article was written in 2011 but even back then he had over a million individual sales. I forgot how much it cost back then but at $20 you're looking at $20 million in its first year. As a solo developer I can't imagine a world where I would be upset about piracy if I had multi-generational wealth after incrementally developing a game for 2 years.

His story is really inspiring tho, it definitely has a ship fast mantra about it if you follow the timeline of its first public release to 1.0'ing.

But it being a game is also interesting when talking about piracy. There's a lot of ancillary value in having more exposure. If someone pirates your game but streams it or creates videos around it and those videos get millions of views there's millions of chances someone will buy the game. It becomes organic advertising. Also, the value isn't something you can copy (like a book or video course) and reap the rewards from. The value is the experience of playing the game.
It's anonymized and the ad targeting algorithms are run client-side, with the relevant browsing data never leaving your device.

How is that not a big improvement in privacy for ad targeting vs the current system?
> Niko, for example, plans to continue posting ideas to his babysteps blog before they are fully formed, and he is counting on the Rust community to continue to poke holes in them.

Well, I guess personal notes/braindump counts as contribution now as well. Can I use that for my CV? :D
I feel like this largely depends on the book. A novel between $10 and $20 that you may get multiple reads out of is better than a $100 university textbook that you only need for one year. The former you can bite the bullet on, the latter becomes harder to justify.
Economic research[0] disagrees with you.

“””

We show that stock prices are more accurate when short sellers are more active. First, in a large panel of NYSE-listed stocks, intraday informational efficiency of prices improves with greater shorting flow. Second, at monthly and annual horizons, more shorting flow accelerates the incorporation of public information into prices. Third, greater shorting flow reduces post-earnings-announcement drift for negative earnings surprises. Fourth, short sellers change their trading around extreme return events in a way that aids price discovery and reduces divergence from fundamental values. These results are robust to various econometric specifications, and their magnitude is economically meaningful.

“””

[0]https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2021/01/sh...
Thanks Artur! We've been very happy to help your team automate their GitHub emails
Yes. They really are. Here is just some over the table stuff: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2010/10/congress-corpor...
> I don’t understand why Bitcoin mining gets singled out

Because then he'd need to name an actual different reason to hate on bitcoin that hasn't been debunked
Because you'd need higher weight in wall thicknesses if using weaker 3D printed aluminum instead of aluminum sheet, bar stock etc. Which actually has a coherent grain.
But why use bitcoin? It is completely inferior to a lot of the coin technology that came after which can be used as "moneY' and not a store of value. I think that ultimately this will be its downfall and something else will replace it. Unlike gold it doesn't have any inherent value and isn't necessarily forever. It's almost impossible to lose a few tons of gold, whereas bitcoin can be wiped out (on a national "store" level) with one dumb (or insane) wallet holder(government official)
agree though i’d say they usually don’t make much money from selling shovels. but their stock soars when they announce they are selling shovels
> not in the elementary school student's understanding of "repeated addition".

Pi isn't particularly well understood by elementary school students either.
Microsoft's new Mesh platform turns your remote coworkers into holograms
imgui tends to get much love around here. i have to say, the most interesting aspect of the swift language ecosystem for me is swiftui. they really nailed declarative ui. the web should really steal that model.
No mention of TaxAct on this post; is their marketshare really that insignificant?
> 'tracking' is a broad term

Right, in this context though it's referring to users themselves being tracked. Tracking how well the results to a specific query did doesn't require any sort of user-specific data. You're just logging stats about the results themselves, not the user.
Exactly. It's not the user paying for it, it's whoever would have been on the other side of the trade without the pay-for-flow.
Our studio was looking to four wall our new film using their locations later this year to do our US screening tour. I hope most of them survive as without proper theatrical venues, appreciation for Cinema in the U.S. will wane.
> I'm sorry, but that's not what I'm saying.

Sorry for misunderstanding. I'm still not sure I'm following though.

> You are comparing me to a slave owner?

I'm certainly not saying you support slavery. But I am comparing the line of reasoning to reasoning that has been used to justify other unsavory things.

> The difference of course here is that black people are just as smart as whites.

Presumably the slave owner wouldn't think so.

But even if the enslaved people were less intelligent, how would that justify slavery?
Sure, but that would require a significant shift away from our current deduction-based approach.

Good luck prying that out of the cold dead hands of boomers (and eventually Gen X)
> We can’t rely on the market to protect our privacy. Government regulation is needed.

Oh yeah? How about if you sign a contract that says you'll never sell my info? Do I still need the government to protect me?
The main problem was majority of the GME interest was on Robinhood platform. So other brokers were able to get away with deposits or shorter blocking.

The next squeeze will put pressure on the other brokers given the movement of accounts out of Robinhood. I feel this works out in favor of Robinhood and as they don’t need to deal with gambling style traders.
Do we know that they don't?