skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with the many comments here calling for an IRS-driven system.

But I'd also like to see improvements for the 10-13% of people who cannot be correctly billed by the IRS (I'm one of them). I say this because we're already so close to how it ought to be ... for several years now, I've used freefilefillableforms.com to file my taxes as a self-employed person with periodic capital gains and other stuff. It's not really a great model for how such a website could be designed, but it's not actually terrible and generally gets the job done.

However, it has been intentionally hobbled: there are several places where you must manually transfer numbers from one field to another, or from one form to another. There's clearly no technical reason for this, and the system will also not report any error if you do not do so (making it trivial to have major errors, despite all the data being input correctly).

I can only conclude that it has been hobbled by the same motivations that affect the tax reporting/return field in general.

I'd definitely like to see this done even better, but a good small step would be a bill for force this site to do 100% of what it clearly already can, rather than 95%.
Plenty of smaller companies have these sorts of personnel issues, its just that nobody cares because they aren't worth a trillion dollars or whatever.
According to your "obvious" interpretation, the sentence is:

"We found that people like some features that are already present in social media, like the ability to delete inflammatory content, block users who do X."

Does that sound like a grammatically correct complete sentence?
I think your point is respectfully very American.

Here in the UK we have some the cheapest healthcare in the western world with a nationalised system.

I actually agree that the US government often causes inflation. But that's because everyone in the states seems to love government subsidies and no one in the states likes regulation, price control, etc. Whether you're a government or not, subsidising X without regulating consumption or controlling the prices of X will lead to inflation...

An example of what I'm talking about is American high school. State schools have much lower prices per kid than private. Because the state starts with a fixed budget and works from there. Imagine if instead government required "education insurance" like health insurance. And insurers were required to pay for anything the teacher decided was required...
I have a BS in computer science. I felt like less than 25% of it actually made me a better programmer. At least 25% of it was a total waste of time. The rest was stuff that was maybe academically relevant or interesting to me at least, but of dubious value given the time and financial costs.
Why do we even have to pay income taxes in the first place. Even companies get a far better treatment as they can at least deduct their expenses. Humans are treated worse than a register entity.

And for what? To send troops abroad for some killing, ultimately benefiting only a tiny few.
For health care, infrastructure, police, education?

The whole thing is a joke. Perhaps this move will make people wake up and ask for income tax on individuals to be voluntarly, somehow I still doubt so.
The opening paragraphs are lovely and absolutely not what I'd expected based on the name. This is the America we want to live in.

"We insist upon the right to express our own opinions. But we also believe in the right of others to express their opinions. For the right to speak involves the duty to listen...We know that the truth can only be found through open and honest discussion, and that the common good is served through common attempts to reach common understanding".
Well, technically the Tsardom is also a economic and political system.
This is like asking if you have to learn German to find work. Obviously you should be able to find work in any major language, but it may increase your opportunities (if you want to work in Germany.)
Consider having archive.org save the websites, in case they are not already.
Code as Generational Wealth
The USSR pay a high price because they suffered a massive, brutal invasion for years, against 80% of the German forces. None of that happened to the western countries.
For those who object to a ban on the distribution of "misinformation" and "hate speech" on Google Drive:

https://takeout.google.com/

Google provides a convenient, though not instantaneous, way to download all your content to a local drive. You can then publish it to your own website, problem solved.

Google has the right to impose terms of service, particularly given that their service is free and they believe they have a reputation to protect and legal liabilities to defend from.

You have the right to house your data elsewhere.
Which part of an internal combustion engine creates the forward motion of a car? Is it the fuel injector? The spark plugs? The pistons? Of course it's none of these things: the function of an engine is obviously a result of all of these parts of a complex system working together. It would be silly to claim that internal combustion is some intrinsic property of matter which exists at some level in the metal of the pistons, and maybe also in the doors of the car in a way we don't fully understand.

Consciousness is observably a property of the brain. Consciousness can be predictably altered or removed by interfering with the chemical function at the synapse, or by inflicting physical trauma on brain tissue. Honestly I don't see what is so difficult to understand here.
> Arguably they only paid such a high price due to their industrial underdevelopment which was partly due to their economic and political system.

So arguably it had nothing to do with the largest war of all time waged against them explicitly for their annihilation?
Does it stand to reason that the average person does not have multiple business entities in multiple locations?

You are getting scammed by the government, who have made it burdensome to report all of this income. A tax professional or a service like Intuit are trying to help here. If the government wanted to make this process easier for the small percentage of people like you, they would have done so, but they haven't, because they have weak volition and desire for creativity.
I'd like to see that reseller. A german comparison site list 37+4 Euros for the 3B+ [0] and 39+4 for the 4 2GB [1]. Reichelt, an official reseller, list 37 Euros for the 3 [2]. Amazon lists 66 Euros for the 4 4GB [4].

[0] https://geizhals.de/raspberry-pi-3-modell-b-a1785657.html

[1] https://geizhals.de/raspberry-pi-4-modell-b-a2081127.html

[2] https://www.reichelt.de/de/de/raspberry-pi-3-b-4x-1-2-ghz-1-...

[3] https://www.amazon.de/-/en/Raspberry-ARM-Cortex-A72-WLAN-ac-...

> Amazon sells 16GB SD cards for 5€, and a charger is really the least of your budget problems.

A 5 port USB charger is 25 Euro: https://www.amazon.de/-/en/Anker-PowerPort-Port-Charger-Sing...

You can go a bit cheaper, but not too much in order to avoid brown-outs (very possible with the Pi 3/4, but 1A charger struggle even with the older models).

You can save on the SD cards, if disk performance does not matter, I give you that.

Still, these small amounts add up quickly. When we're talking about a sub-100 Euro project, throwing in 20 euro for the charger and another 20 for SD cards quickly drains your budget. Even with your pricing, a Pi 3+ cluster would run us (28+5)*[3/4]+4+20 = 123/156 Euros - close to double the original estimate and without any cables whatsoever.

I don't mean to say the Pi is overly expensive - it's good value for what it is. But these small project do quickly add up and when you don't play it's strengths, you end up in a situation where you pay more money for the Pi project than more powerful hardware would have cost you in the beginning.
I love that the acronym is tripper.
Could you clarify what you mean with "economic and political system"? Do you count the Tsar's reign and the years of civil war under that heading?
It seems like the question is fundamentally that of whether a given system can perfectly model its own state, but in this context that entails an implicit assumption that the brain's model of body state is perfect, which it is anything but.
The We That Didn’t Work at WeWork
Well you don't know me. I usually leave off a few deductions just in case I get audited. That way the IRS will end up owing me money after the audit. Despite this, there have been a number of screw ups. The latest was in 2017 when they "lost" the cost basis (submitted by me and my brokerage) for my investments and then sent me a bill for over $200k of capital gains.

I have known people who could not be bothered to file their taxes. The IRS would bill them and they would pay. If somebody pays the IRS without question, it seems to set off a red flag and the IRS will immediately follow up with another bill. Also, if you do not file, you get zero deductions and they will base their bill on that.
> This solution isn’t ignored because it’s boring, but because it isn’t rigorous enough.

Well, this sounds like what they could say a thousand years ago: "the (say) Greeks' definition of what the natural luminous celestial body is not rigorous enough, so, let's ignore it and continue believing in the sun as a god."
I appreciate the riff on the intro narration. :)
What was your undergraduate degree in?
It’s a bit of a mixed bag. If the degree becomes meaningless than the hiring manager may apply skepticism to why someone would need that degree.
Founder of Cloudera: too much FU money and was probably bored/coasting.
What does the observing?
True but the USSR was ally of Germany, two dictator states started world war two.
Elon Musk on Tabs vs. Spaces, Vim vs. Emacs, and Light vs. Dark Mode
The CPU (or rather, the entire computer) isn't magically generating out of nothing something new. In a certain sense, there is no OS on a computer per se and apart from human interpretation. It is what Searle calls the "observer relative". This is in opposition to things which have objective reality apart from human observation. By analogy, look at text on a page. Per se, these are blobs of ink on a page. They are text only by convention: the person who arranged these blobs was using this convention when arranging these blobs, and you need to know the convention to interpret them as text.

Too often, "emergence" is one of those "gap" explanations that tries to produce something from nothing. Yes, independent things can enter into interactions and relations that result in states of affairs that they alone could not have produced. That's obvious. You don't get a pile of oranges without a bunch of oranges. But a state of affairs of individual objects doesn't transcend being a state of affairs of individual objects as long as you maintain that they are still individual objects.
If you mean the stock photo at the beginning, that doesn't even look like Houston. It's a suburb of Las Vegas from 2014: https://www.flickr.com/photos/jansgate/12468062583
I was surprised to hear this, I had thought it was about 30k

Found a per-year table, appears to depend on what degree topic
https://student.unsw.edu.au/fees-student-contribution-rates

A 4year engineering degree (likely what the HN crowd is interested in) is about A$32k / US$24k

Whereas law/commerce/medicine is A$60k
The igpu of the 5700G is not based on the RDNA 2 architecture, it is based on the older Vega architecture. It's no step up (in that compartment) than the very first Ryzen APUs, the 2200G. The 5000G series was a big disappointment in my eyes because of that.

But you are right in saying that a 15W APU can't be expected to be very fast.
Well, listen, don’t hate the player hate the game. The game is the game, I didn’t make it.
Holding tax cheats to account benefits all of society that plays by the rules.
That's the exact opposite of what I'm saying.

If by "change the world" you mean narcissistic grandiosity about being in the history books, yeah, that's generally ridiculous. But small things also change the world. Raising kids. Installing sinks. Fixing roofs. Serving a meal. All of these things make the world a little better.

This is distinct from what Graeber called "bullshit jobs". Making sure that you use the new cover sheet on the TPS report that nobody will read, for example. Some people are happy doing bullshit. But trades have the appeal of doing something undeniably real, undeniably beneficial.

So yes, as I said, I believe that somebody who started a solo plumbing business is absolutely thinking of making the world a better place. And I think they do it every day.
There might be other factors too, like changing into pajamas at night (possibly changing underwear or no underwear), and then fresh clothes in the morning?

As for hair, there's a whole "no shampoo" movement, takes a few weeks for the scalp to adjust.
TFTC (TIE Fighter Total Conversion) v1.0
I am not going to pay off my loans
I think it's more like the thing where everyone hates it, but it doesn't matter because US public policy literally has nothing to do with what an average person wants, except by accident, and reflects the desires of the wealthy pretty well.

I wish I were joking or just being cynical. This is a legitimately defensible position. Political science studies have shown this sort of thing: https://oxfordre.com/politics/view/10.1093/acrefore/97801902... . I believe it because it reflects my experience in the US in my lifetime. Nothing happens with government except knee-jerk reactions to things like the Sept 11, 2001 attacks and the TSA. Aside from that, business as usual. The infrastructure crumbles, healthcare costs keep going up, tax code never gets fixed, and on and on. It works fine for the wealthy, doesn't represent or help the people, and never gets any better. That's all, that simple.

Incidentally, I didn't downvote you. I just disagree.
It would be spray painted then the legislature would vote to remove it.
It's a maybe. Simulations (including some degree of initial condition randomization) imply that the orbit may be sufficiently stable.
Sure, if you use incorrect meanings of capital, capitalism, and terrible, then that statement can be true.
On the other hand, degrees are "free" in Europe, and I don't want my tax money spent on people doing masters degrees on "poetry".

The fact that you have to pay for your degree out of pocket may mean that more people will choose to do degrees that are worth something, which is a great thing for society overall. Having said that the prices of degrees in the US are outrageous. A middle ground should be found.
It provides an overview of open source software from NASA that calculates that it is possibly still in orbit.
It really feels like we’re not that far away from space tugs that can latch on to a satellite and nudge its orbit to desired parameters.

Given that it would have to have a high thrust-to-weight ratio, you could probably push things pretty deep, relatively speaking, into the atmosphere so that they would have a high decay rate while the tug can muscle its way back out.
As an outsider who speaks both french and english, and has been to both countries, it always stuck me how similar Americans and French people are. Both sides would rather die than admit they are so similar in terms of spirit an attitude, and this brotherly hate is the main reason they are so similar. It's pretty funny.
Interesting, I'll have to listen to that.
Sounds pretty much like QBism though.
But it’s not an appeal. It would be the exact same process as if you filed your taxes for the first time.

And for most people the tax bill that arrives would be correct. The parts that wouldn’t be correct would be if there are deductions you’re eligible for, that the IRS may not have any documentation of.
I don't think the point is advocating some sort of moral relativism but rather to steel-man both sides in good-faith rather than respond to some sort of caricature of each.
There is a time in everyone's life for balance.

But for some people, there is also a time in their life for irrational overcommitment. I would argue that it's even -- not necessarily healthy, but -- productive, valuable, worthwhile. You can learn a lot about yourself by finding the limits of your abilities, tolerances, and willingness.

GP is oversimplifying. Most "passion" ads do not mean "irrationally overcommit for my profit". They mean "don't bother if you think our project is boring".

There are probably a couple dozen "OMG so worth it" projects that spring to my mind from the annals of computer history. If the project arrived at the right time in your life, and you had the skills and desire to pursue it to the point of irrational overcommitment, the rewards (non-financial) would be lifelong.

Developing the Macintosh is definitely one of those.
Bought a Tesla last year and have driven it on two 4k mile road trips, often on autopilot for large portions of rural America. I've had multiple incidents of autopilot doing crazy things, particularly in areas where (I assume) not as many Tesla drivers go (Wyoming, Dakotas). My car abruptly tried to drive itself off the road, pushed me towards construction cones and concrete barrier, have come very close to weaving semis, phantom braking, etc.

99% of the time it's great, and road trips on autopilot are so much more relaxing than in my previous ICE car. But that 1% is eventually gonna kill me via car crash or via heart attack.
If you are in a field where everything is being rewritten in Rust, then it may be a good idea to spend some time on it. It is not the case of every field though.

Basically, Rust seems like a good replacement for most C++ applications. It offers memory and thread safety guarantees with no or minimal overhead and a speed comparable to C++.

I am currently working on two projects: one in python, one in Rust. I am a proficient C/C++ dev but I think I will ditch C++ in the near future. I am not sure it makes sense to replace C with Rust unless safety is required.

I don't see rust replacing python. Rust is painful to write, it is longer than C++ and python is much more productive when you can afford the overhead.
What is the nature of your income, such that it requires a 50 page booklet? The normal W2 worker does not need such a booklet.

I am not saying that you should tough something out for no reason. I have electricity coming to my house to make my life convenient, which I pay for. I have water coming to my house, which I pay for.

But I cut my own grass manually. Why? Because I felt the prices offered to me were not fair, and that the job was not complex or hard.

Either you pay a tax professional if you feel the work is too complex and the price is acceptable, or you do it yourself.

You can try to fight the government on this one, and you might win (even I hope you do), but at what cost? Certainly it is not cheaper than $39 a year.
My aim is evaluate the metaphysical claims of Indian philosophy from the perspective of the most holistic account of reality that we can acquire in the 21st century. This will obviously include studying other streams of knowledge that has anything to say about reality.

As to why Indian philosophy - this primarily stems from my Indian background. I have always wondered if the claims of Indian philosophy can be validated scientifically. For e.g., how might a Nagarjuna or Shankara have argued for their claims if they were born in the 21st century?

I suppose I don't have any deeper reasons other than sheer inquisitiveness or jijnAsA (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jijnasa) :-)
If you like it.

If you are interested in systems work you will need to know some C++ even if you don’t like it.

What I really want is a theorem prover attached to a macro assembler, that might scratch the rust itch better than rust.
Wouldn’t you just need “the whole truth and nothing but the truth”?
I don’t see the problem, as someone who pays their tax due and isn’t aggressively avoiding paying taxes.

As the saying goes, “I like taxes, with them I buy civilization.”
It could be more of “we don’t particularly want to employ you, and here is a convenient excuse to get rid of you” scenario.
I have a degree. It will go down as the biggest regret of my life and my life has changed drastically simply because I thought getting an education was good for society.
Suddenly ::crickets::
France, my employer reports how much they pay me to the state. I tell the state how much I made, in a pre-filled form of everything they know. That includes salaries, donations, as well as the default 10% tax write-off. I can of course adjust this form. I can also tell the state how much I expect to make this year, and the state will tell my employer to directly deposit a specific percentage of my salary directly for taxes to the state. When doing my tax declaration, if anything has changed, it gets all settled in September. If I didn't pay enough yet, I'll be asked to finish paying it (ex: this year, where my estimation of what I'd make was too low, and I'll owe 1000€ by September). If I paid too much, I'll be reimbursed (or it'll be paid in advance for next year.)

All in all, revenue tax takes about 5 minutes a year for me to check that what they have is correct (since I am salaried, which is the easy path), and maybe 5 more minutes to adjust my monthly tax rate.
> why only some of our neurons are part of our consciousness

Specialization. The same reason a why during ontogenesis some cells became neurons in the first place while other ones, something else.
Its the kind of vulnerability that would normal not get any attention. Its not a remote code vulnerability and has nothing to do with the recent remote code vulnerability other than the fact that it happens to be in the same part of the OS.
I would say it depends. Rust aims to solve perennial issues in software development by bringing as many issues “forward” in the development cycle. The way I think about the tradeoffs personally is that Rust is more "durable" than other languages. Its more rigorous type system and compile-time checks pushes more of your failure case discovery early into the development cycle while you're still getting it to compile, as opposed to runtime testing and debugging. There's less followup patching and bugs to discover because Rust usually makes you handle them up-front - particularly if you embrace the type system.
What does it mean to be "made of math"? This reads like gibberish to me. Mathematics deals with formal abstraction. Geometry, for example, abstracts the spacial characteristics of matter from matter and focuses on them solely while ignoring everything else. (This actually reminds me of Bertrand Russell's structuralist account of physics and how it omits much if not most of reality.)

(Also, Platonism does posit an immaterial realm of the forms in which all material things participate. But this participation relation is problematic, something Aristotle pointed out in the Third Man Argument and something Plato himself knew.)
Same thing as we do now, with 2 extra steps.
He got a sentence twice the length of the actual drug runners!
> But you will not find, in the materialist account, a way in which to account for abstraction in the brain. You cannot account for the concept "square" by appealing to the alone (as opposed to say the image of a particular square).

What's wrong with assuming that abstraction is a function of neural activity which is facilitated by specific neural structures and processes?