skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for that feedback, having source material links in the comments is definitely a good idea.

I've added an issue to track that based on your feedback:

https://github.com/ustaxes/UsTaxes/issues/458

And another issue about floating point:

https://github.com/ustaxes/UsTaxes/issues/457

I have doubts about the floating point issue just because all values on the tax forms are calculated using floats and then rounded to the nearest whole dollar. But if there's even a possibility that an intermediate calculation could flip a x.49 to a x.50 and change the rounding, then I agree we should switch to a library.

About the contributor guide, we just tried to write it to be as welcoming as possible to new contributors. With respect to "'ask in discord' for the actual content of the tax calculations", I'm just not sure what you mean. That document isn't really relevant to tax calculations. We will give the document another look though based on your feedback.
One thing that is often overlooked is the vampire drain on EVs. In my experience, Tesla’s can use anywhere from 1-3 kwH every 24 hours sitting idle. The loss is due to keeping monitoring and connectivity on. It’s not an exact science, but if you let your car sit for days then you can expect to have less range than when you left it.

Yes, they’ve made improvements (there were claims of 10+ miles of range lost per night on Model S). There is a deep sleep that seems to kick in after awhile. You can turn off mobile connectivity to help save watts.

Overtime, these little losses add up. It’s not something the car tracks, either. In fact, Tesla’s odometer omits the vampire drain and only shows you energy used while driving. You need a separate energy meter on the charging outlet, or a smarter charger that measures all power being used.
But regenerative braking isn't as hard as normal braking. If you relying on it you will generally have longer braking distances.
Knowing you can’t rescue what happens and the uncertainty of the end result absolutely made photography more exciting again when I started shooting 120 film a few years ago. There’s something boring and unexciting about a technically perfect digital photo.
>Canada’s Business Immigration Program, specifically the investor stream, is a primary cause of the housing crisis, according to Gordon. This “cash for citizenship” program has allowed wealthy individuals (net worth $1.6 million or higher) to come to Canada.

https://the-peak.ca/2016/05/vancouvers-housing-crisis-caused...
> Hmm, should changing the windshield and sunroof due to damage count as “maintenance costs”?

I am OK with the classification used in the article. A head-on collision would certainly be repair, not maintenance. But chipping a windshield or roof is IMHO maintenance, because it is expected to happen with a certain frequency and you can't really avoid it.
It's not harsh. He sold cars claiming they can do FSD in the near future. He claimed he will have a million robotaxis in 2020. He claimed Teslas will pay for themselves in a year's time working as taxis for you (a bold faced lie even if FSD were here today).

Windows Vista and software in general are not even remotely comparable: they are not sold today with the promise of features tomorrow - they are generally sold when they're ready. Even pre-order games are usually refunded if they incur too huge delays or ship with significantly altered features (see Cyberpunk 2020).
Can you cite examples of prepay SIMs that charge only $1/GB without any strings attached? I've travelled overseas and have looked into local SIMs and can't really recall any that cheap with reasonable restrictions (e.g. valid for a good period of time). For example I recall one local SIMs marketed at the airport to foreign travellers I looked at that offered 40GB valid only for a few days making it more worthwhile to choose a different (marketed to locals) plan with lower data caps that lasted for a month as I was there for a week.
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Afaik zero. YT assumes autoplay is always enabled and counts a view as soon as link is visited.
also see:

https://basecamp.com/guides/how-we-communicate
-80%

Ended up moving back in with my parents to work remotely for the pandemic. Its been pretty nice. Realisticly I might have gone the rest of my life only seeing them 2-3 times a year around the holidays and I think that would have been really sad
the maximum safe integer in JS is 2^53 - 1. [0]

if you can find a way to use only integers within that range, you can do it safely in plain JS.

for example, units of integer microdollars (one millionth of a dollar) allows you to deal in amounts up to $9 billion without exceeding the safe integer limit. if you want a larger range than that, you need to make a corresponding reduction in precision (such as using millidollars).

or, switch to a full-blown bignum / arbitrary precision library.

0: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
Rubbish. Your feed would be full of whatever your friends post.

Unfriending is easy. You see what you want to see.
Are you saying you have a $5/3mo SIM that allows roaming in Japan? Details please?

That's cheaper than most plans in any country, let alone roaming.
My comment is just about how 'unknown' the funds are. I think https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28004444 is a better comment thread for criticizing this practice.
That program hasn't existed in years.
I haven't seen them mentioned yet. However, I've been quite happy with my Haworth Zody.

Haworth are renowned for ergonomic quality, but aren't a stylish tech brand. For that reason you can usually find great deals, especially second hand.
The article does say that those costs aren't included in the maintenance total.

But considering that they replaced the entire windshield (and sunroof glass) for what they describe as a stone chip, I'm inclined to believe they may have been overpaying or overdoing maintenance anyways. AAA suggests the price to repair a windshield chip would be around $100, and that replacement isn't necessary if it's smaller than a quarter.
What Are the Pitfalls of Investing in Cryptocurrency?
Disclaimer: I’m not a professional in this area.

I recall reading that one of the causes for myopia, from an environmental and habit perspective, is reading in low light. Having sufficient lighting available reduces the strain on the eyes and could prevent or reduce the development of myopia. You could perhaps look at increasing the lighting when you read printed papers or reading them in a natural sunlit environment with hardly any shadows.
That's exactly what the article does. They don't include the windshield replacement cost under maintenance, they tally it under "repair & damages"
Calculate it both ways and display decimals or integers in cases where it makes a $1 tax difference!
Try the English pronunciation: https://www.google.com/search?q=cock%20a%20doodle%20doo%20in...
The point was on "sins", so I didn't comment on the legal basis, but the moral one.

To me robbing someone of 1% of their capital doesn't look worse than CEOs throwing around their social weight and followers against random people for fun.

The real world consequent of the latter might actually be worse, like whole life ruined levels of worse.
> Why isn't there an option to get images in a standardized format that is wide-gamut with lossless compression?

Compression isn't the only mechanism by which you can lose information in the process of going from RAW to something standardized and hardware-neutral. So simply using lossless compression doesn't actually mean you're preserving everything. If you really want lossless compression, you probably also want to preserve information about how the raw image was transformed during demosaicing, denoising, white balancing, etc., all of which are somewhat subjective instead of being exact 1-1 transformations where there's a single right way to do it.
Note: “equity” in the title doesn’t mean “ownership” (as usually on HN) but rather the woke meaning of “forced equality”.
Low light quality and depth of field are very different. And also this brings a lot more choice for vintage lenses when you go FF with a FF body.
Check out how much flak VW is getting for using drum brakes in the rear of some EVs.
>In fact there seems to be a link between the two (intelligence and predisposition to mental illnesses)

I don't think it's real. I attribute it to a selection effect.

Of all the people with mental illnesses it's necessarily the particularly smart or talented ones that you hear about.

The more of a handicap something is, the more extreme other abilities have to be to cancel out and produce a notable accomplishment or even an average, comfortable life.

People who aren't brilliant in some way, aren't going to be noticed, and have little to gain by sharing their experiences.

I used to volunteer for a mental health advocacy non-profit, and they had a poster listing all the famous people that supposedly had some sort of mental illness. I didn't find it inspirational, because I suspected on the one hand it was kind of reaching for many of them, and on the other, it had the unintentional implication to me, that if you aren't Einstein you can only pretend to be, or be nothing.

Society fixates on geniuses with mental illness for another reason - they are likely to be able to describe their inner life much better than the average person. But they might not be representative.
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I don't know if it's generalizable. Processing raw sensor data requires a knowledge about the dynamic range and knowledge about non linear characteristics of the sensor. Bitdepth isn't the only differentiating factor between raw sensor data. 0x100 doesn't mean the same for 2 different sensors. Also, there is an assumption in the article that the data is linear, but that's not true of all sensors. Some compand their data and there is hardware in the camera to relinearize the sensor output.
In Australia if I recall correctly, foreign buyers are only able to buy newly built homes. Canada would benefit from a similar rule, it would stimulate more housing and not impact the demand for existing homes.
I've found the most comfortable and healthy bed is no bed at all, been true for me for over 20 years now.
People are focusing on the mention of email but that's just a detail. What Newport is really onto here is horrible state of office organization, of which having to deal with email is just a symptom.

The hive mind arises because instead of having 1 or two people handle things like coordinating a meeting, everyone involved has to coordinate with everyone else.

> Rather than strategic thinkers, managers work as human switchboards, answering and forwarding dozens of emails on any and every topic to keep the system from seizing up.

You could take out "email" and replace it with "slack threads" or "text messages", or just about any other tech, and you'd still have the same problem: there's no sane organization any more, just a bunch of people running around trying to connect and work with each other.
Space Station 13 is another game with a lot of serendipitous emergent gameplay but with a slightly less steep (but still insane) learning curve and multiplayer antagonist fun.
Agree. WFH a couple of days a week is largely nonsensical. Employers still need to pay for office space. Employees need dedicated work space in their homes and additional equipment while still needing to be located relatively close to the office.
Ideally an open-source project where hundreds of contributors can add small contributions based on their specific knowledge might produce a viable non-commercial option.
Usually if there is no scientific proof of something, there will be a conspiracy theory on it. Like Bigfoot, no scientific data that he exists. Just some big footprints that someone made with modified shoes.
Iliad[1] in Italy has 120GB/10€: That is 0.08€/GB if you use them all. Ah, also unlimited calls and text.

Just a regular prepaid SIM card, no strings attached. If you use it for just 1 month, no problem, just don't top it up. The SIM itself costs 10€.

This is far from the norm though, this company basically undercut everyone else and they had to lower their prices. The fun part is that they're actually better than most because they don't try to charge you random fees every few months.

1: https://www.iliad.it
While it's hard to argue against simplifying the current tax system somewhat, I think proposals like this are missing something, intentionally or not. An extremely simplified system may not be the most effective.

One purpose the tax code serves is to incentivize behavior. If that tool is taken away from the government, what will the unforeseen costs be? Do they outweigh the benefits?
Odd, then why does insurance pay for it in many places? As if it was an accident. In CA and VA and probably many other states, $0 deductible.
And now 38% + 1 :)

This is inspiring. Why not take a phone call from the couch or the yoga mat or from a walk?

Why not check my email lying down?

I got a 27” monitor in front of my couch so I don’t have to look down at my laptop and love the setup.

I am more comfortable, more rested, more positive and enjoy work more.
Syncing

When I used a Kindle, I didn't carry it with me all the time. Sometimes I'd pull out my phone and continue reading my book if I had a long wait.

If I'm doing a lot of reading while sitting upright, I'll open Kindle on my laptop so I can have the giant screen and bigger text.

If I read in the hot tub, (my favorite place to read,) I use an older phone or a cheap tablet. This way, if it gets wet I don't break my primary device.
The Spanish translation is amazing
> there will likely be updates to LaTeX that will require some minor changes in the text as time goes by.

That’s probably not a big risk tbh.
Neat device. I wonder how durable it is compared to the rather kid-proof GBC. I can't find a single bit of prototype footage of it, only the renders.
A national sales tax is the most regressive tax possible.

While an income tax captures all income, at least in theory, a sales tax doesn’t apply to money that isn’t immediately spent. It doesn’t apply to money that is parked in the stock market, spend outside the country, spend on personal employees like your butler, and, depending on specifics, real estate.

So in terms of real-world effects, this is rather transparently a wet dream for the super-rich and, maybe, some of their lesser friends. It will allow, by definition, people earning twice as much as they can currently spend to cut their contribution to society in half, with those spending most of what they make on consumables auch as food or clothes on the hook to make up the difference.
How does people investing in housing change how much housing is available? They just rent it out.
nikola's demonstration truck prototype was "powered" by gravitational potential energy, not by hydrogen.
I'm not sure Australia should be held as an example of a healthy housing market.
Home owners will be happy to hear this. Not yet home owners like me are screwed because rents to damn high and I can’t afford to save up for a down payment. Sorry bud.
Canada, and the USA, need to make buying our land harder, especially for foreigners.

In the USA, all it takes to buy a house is money. A wealthy person sitting anywhere can buy a home with a email, and a few clicks, or a phone call. All it takes is money.

If a person can't legally live in the home he bought, why are we selling it to them? I know the answer, but don't like it.

I don't know of any other country that makes buying our land so dam easy.

(I only know U.S.A. realestate, but care about Canadians.)
AI has been hyped back in the 1960s and resulted in disappointments. History is repeating. Those with little intelligence are in thrall of the idea of it being attained by artificial means.
I've noticed my Model 3 loses several miles a day. On the other hand my Leaf can sit for a week or more and show no loss.
> GC is not very good ( vs Java / C# / Go )

IMHO it’s the opposite, at least in the context of games: In languages like Java and C#, the GC is global and freezes the world. The time would be in terms of milliseconds, while in Erlang the GC is per-process, in terms of microseconds.

So in terms of GC and latency, Erlang is not as good as C++ and Rust, but it should be better than Java and C#.

> Also it must be pretty painful to not re-use their C++ client code on the server side, they have to re-implement twice?

I haven’t dive into the problem but my intuitive tells me it could be done through NIF. It’s a pretty common practice to use Rust to compliment Elixir in performance hotspots.
What happened to the punitive taxes for unnocupied homes I read about a couple of years ago?

If I recall it was a "tax" 1% of the property value every month after the first 12 of vacancy

I can't imagine that going into effect and rent/house prices _not_ going down
New Zealand has a similar housing problem. House prices are skyrocketing and pricing out young people. A 25-30% rise in the past year has meant few people are saving fast enough to get a deposit.

But two or three years ago the govt. banned overseas buyers. There is no reason to suggest the ban is not effective. It even bans non-permanent residents, so plenty of legitimate residents (work visas) can't purchase property.

We also have strong money laundering laws, to the point of making tech innovation difficult (our prediction market run by a university had to move to the USA).

Yet it didn't stop or even dent runaway house prices.

Turns out the overseas investors (and immigrants) were just a good scape goats for lots of other problems.

Edit: People overseas I have mentioned this struggle to belive it and suggest the ban must not be working. Yet nobody here suggests it is not. We have supply issues, transport issues, ridiculous construction and material costs and lots of regulations. Old houses are sold at prices relative to new houses. If new houses cost more and more, old houses also increase in value, especially since they are on the best land (not in new far away outer suburbs).
If you need a lot of data it probably makes sense to get a local sim but if you are travelling through a few countries and really just need it for getting directions every now and then it makes much more sense.
I don’t understand how your comment is meaningful. If for example the USD was deflationary, and I argued it wasn’t because I could print my own currency at home, I don’t see how that would benefit anyone
An irrelevant sideshow. If they made housing plentiful and cheap then nobody would buy it for any reason other than shelter.
Very different. Nikola showed a vehicle that absolutely could not do the incredibly basic thing it was shown doing.

Tesla has provided FSD beta access to two thousand real people who are showing the system's capability, warts and all, to anyone who cares to watch on YouTube or elsewhere.
Yes, but Python is actually older than Java, yet the boom started much later for Python.
There will always be a balance of how good a house is an investment and how accessible owning a home is.

Investing in housing can decrease housing availability especially if investors are using it for short term rentals.
Definitely not Sydney! We just hit a record median of $1,410,133 AUD https://www.domain.com.au/news/sydney-house-prices-reach-rec...
Group changes into commits and rebase to build a better Git history
You can read the markdown version [here](https://github.com/brainless/gitplay/issues/5)

## Problem statement

We all have worked on a feature intensively and had to refractor a lot of the code base (in early projects). But can't spend the mental expense to context switch from `writing code` to `make meaningful commit messages`.

A good commit history is at the expense of the developer, which results in breaking the "flow". As pg mentioned in his blog post [Holding a program in one's head][1], it be better to work in long stretches to have better developer productivity. And it is very common for devs to have to make code cleanups which are unrelated to the feature they are working on ([example tweet][2])

* Commit small and commit often

* Writing good git commit messages goes a long way

* get gud at git

## Scenario

Lets say you are building a feature and mid way you came across a variable name that could be fixed. Or a piece of code that is no longer needed. But you don't want to include this unrelated changes in your working commit. So for good practice you need to create a new commit for those changes.

## Current solution

1. git-worktree

We can currently use [git-worktree](https://git-scm.com/docs/git-worktree) to create a parellel repo in your local directory and make the changes in that, push a commit, pull the changes in the feature working tree and continue. *This is long and hard*

2. stash and make changes

Make a stash of the current feature changes and then make the required changes, commit and pop the stash. *So bad my eyes are bleeding*

3. Make the changes in the current working tree and use `git add -p` to make patches when creating a commit

This is what works the best. But the flaw of this approach is that it looses the essense of story-telling, You may make changes that don't show a history, instead shows a bunch of unrelated changes on top of each other.

## The solution

If we could `patch` changes into `commit groups` and then finally commit those changes when all the related changes are ready, it will let the developer write code in a long stretch [1] and also build a story for the commit history.

### Why commit groups?

We can currently create patches. But using this new feature we can add patches into groups as we read the code to make patches. We will have *more than one stages files* "area".

[1]: http://www.paulgraham.com/head.html
[2]: https://twitter.com/awesomekling/status/1390950309669781505?s=20
If you could print your own currency at home, and most of the people who accepted dollars also accepted homebrew currencies, then you would be in a similar situation to BTC / DOGE.
It's only valid in the context of that function invocation. The docs say not to write impure functions or do anything with concurrency -- if you start two simultaneous transactions, the client isn't "smart" about it unfortunately.
I think a lot of people would prefer a Facebook that showed what your friends post in chronological order, and wistfully say so now and then.

I'm not sure, but it might have once been that way, before I used it.

There is a string you can append to the URL (?sk=h_chr) to get a chrono view, but it doesn't seem to work well; for instance it doesn't go very far back and it's not clear to me that it's complete.

If my friends were posting lots of "spam, porn, and shock videos", I think I'd rather know it, whether or not I could tolerate it.
After 6 months working in my dining chairs last year I was starting to have back pain, so I paid full price for a Herman Miller Mirra 2. A year later I feel it's already been worth every penny. After my mattress, this is a piece of furniture I spend the most time in direct physical contact with. Not a place to skimp IMO.
> 6. Your answers are judged vs the final determination. Those who consistently skew in any direction are dismissed from eligibility to participate in the future.

And if it later turns out that the final determination was wrong, do they go back and reverse this?

I'm sure that there's any amount of process in place, but ultimately if you rely on comparing people to the consensus of their peers then you're going to get the politically approved answer rather than the truth.
In Thailand the Chinese vaccination is free but only 40% effective. The American vaccination is $100 and 90% effective. My sister in law got the Chinese version and got COVID anyway. So she signed up for the American vaccination which will be in October.

In the USA we get the vaccination for free.