skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Previously companies like eBay, Venmo, Paypal, etc were not required to officially report transfers to the IRS. A few years ago they changed that rule where if you appear to be making more than $20,000 dollars in a year period then they send forms to the IRS directly. If it is only for personal use (like say you are sending money via Venmo to a roomate) there is no tax to pay. But for actual sales you would be.

This year they lowered that $20,000 to $600. So anyone who receives more than $600 in one calendar year will trigger Venmo/Paypal or whoever to send the IRS the proper tax forms. If it is for personal use of course you are still not required to pay any tax.

As far as I know none of the loopholes for taxing the uber rich have been changed so this is really just going along with the IRS' current policy of increasing revenue from small time outfits vs going after the bigger fish (who can often afford to hire expensive accountants and lawyers to fight the IRS)

I am not against paying taxes but having to wrangle the info from a bunch of different sources and then also deal with manually adjusting for other factors just makes this whole thing a huge pain.
Can they even fit the batteries on the trains?

I know there are a lot of variables involved, by all my napkin math gets me to somewhere around half a megawatt-hour of battery capacity required to move a monster train (e.g. ~18 kilotons) 1 mile.
Baby Buddy is a large part of why I was able to resist the well-meant pressure to just switch him to formula when breastfeeding wasn’t working out right away, and being compelled to log stuff from the beginning actually calmed me down a couple of times, so thank you for continuing to maintain a way to collect data that really helped us out in a way that respects my son’s long-term privacy :)
I do not believe it is rare. I think that it is the same with bad news and tragedy, the news reports only those.
Behind all the sad stories, the frustrated stories, and everything else that is loud, there is a quiet passion that supports the world. It quietly goes on, without disturbing the neighbors, or making headlines.
It's not easy, it's not painful, but it perseveres. All around you. In the background.
> > I cannot imagine a single language without the if operator…

Production languages (like prolog or make) don’t need an if statement or operator as selection is implicit when a production matches.
I've watched three different teams fail to get vault up and running in any kind of a sustainable way. If they could solve that problem and add a desktop client they could crush 1password in this space. Probably wouldn't hurt that tons of software engineers are absolutely pissed at their moves in the consumer space recently.
Yes, yes, no.

See my other comment: people should be in charge of their identity, NOT the government.
This isn’t the ILS signal, it’s the radar altimeter.

Equally crucial.
I just hate that you have to move your domain to GoDaddy.
> I disagree with your claim about people are primarily watching old content (source?).

I realize this is just one data point, but the most-streamed show in 2020 was The Office, close to a decade after its last episode was released.

https://variety.com/2021/digital/news/the-office-most-stream...
Ha. I'm my case my representatives completely ignored my letters about rights violations and misconduct by the state police. On other issues, I only receive unhelpful form letters, some of which don't even address the correct issue. Don't expect any real help from your representatives unless it somehow benefits them.
100% this. I had an issue with the NJ DMV, and the senator's office was able to get my issue resolved like same-day and told the DMV to eat glass. I even got a formal apology letter from the DMV.

Not all congresscritters will have the same effectiveness, but that is the first place to start if the trail to getting results turns to a dead-end.
Identity is a wedge used to split class solidarity (but note the terrific solidarity of the elite class). The best improvements for everyone will come from policies which ignore identity and materially improve the lives of people.

The Democratic party has held the belief that demographics will keep them in power without having to actually address economic and legal inequalities, that is, without having to do anything at all.

But the middle and lower classes will never find solidarity amongst themselves so long as we are fixated on identity, and nothing will change (that's the point).
Isn't this an unrelated issue to your original point? (not being able to make a living)

It sounds like you've just mis-matched the quality of your service vs the quality the market (that you're advertising in) is seeking.

I know when I leave town for a few days, I'm ok with my dogs just getting a clean crate, food, and a walk every day. They don't love it, but as long as they're clean, safe, and fed - I don't really have any problems with them being bored. They certainly don't need to sleep in your bed.

There might well be a market for the level of service you're providing (there is - I have family who do 2 week board and trains, and the price starts around 2.5k per dog) but it's not Rover.
I like how you addressed this in the FAQ, because this is such a classic take by some users of HN. It's fine if you don't want to use it, but a lot of people would love to. Nice product by the way.
I have a side business that does payment processing. I clear an extra $2k-$3k a month. Currently looking for outside sales reps while I develop open source payment options that aren't available yet.
If you are a developer, good at sales, or want to try it, let me know.
> There is zero justification the government cannot respond via email, or give you a call back, other than ...

... that we collectively refuse to pay enough taxes to staff government agencies at sufficient levels to allow them to provide the service we believe we deserve.
I only ever deal with my irs account twice a year (once to get my PIN and once if I need to look up past info). I would rather use mail now (printers take 10 seconds to print), and another minute to mail.

I'm not going to give my biometric information to this company AND wait and unspecified amount of hours to video chat with a stranger while holding my PII.
This works, but when people receive your emails, they'll show up as "From: yourname@example.com via gmail.com"
> > To differentiate from Git Pijul should focus on usability... If Pijul has an easy to use interface like Mercurial did then that will massively help adoption.

> I don't think the goal or differentiation of pijul is to be popular via good UI, though. If the theory of patches is good, it doesn't matter if pijul "wins" or not, as long as whatever does can integrate it. If the theory of patches is bad, I don't want pijul "winning" just because it has a good UI.

Note that usability and UI aren't synonymous. A big part of usability is the mental model that users build up in their heads. With Git, the naive mental model doesn't match what Git is doing behind the scenes at all, which is a big reason Git's command line syntax is considered arcane.

It is possible to stick a Git 'porcelain' on top that does match the naive user's mental model (eg. https://gitless.com/), but very few use them.

If Pijul's Theory of Patches has superior usability, part of that superiority is likely to be how easily users can internalize a mental model of it's operation (learnability). The UI can help or hinder that process with various affordances or lack thereof.

So, from your perspective, a 'good' UI would be one that reveals the Theory of Patches in a useful, learnable, usable way; and ought not be just some superficial gloss hiding away the internals from users. In that sense, surely 'winning' due to 'good UI' is a worthy goal to strive for?
Unless people who treat their pets well also treat other humans badly, there is no discrepancy
So whenever I have to study someone else's 'dynamic' python I encounter this sort of thing:

def foo(bar, baz):
bar(baz)
...

What the heck is 'bar' and 'baz'? I deduce no more than 'bar' can be called with a single 'baz'. I can't use my editor/IDE to "go to definition" of bar/baz to figure out what is going on because everything is dynamically determined at runtime, and even

grep -ri '\(foo\|bar\|baz\)' --include \*.py

Won't tell me much about foo/bar/baz, it will only start a hound dog on a long and windy scent trail.
Depending on what your family members do with it, you may be able to get by with one paid account and some aliases, routing, etc, to forward emails somewhere else.
Ask HN: How do you record and edit (programming) videos on Linux?
Hi all, I am thinking of recording some videos. One thing that always made me to stay away from video editing is that I believed there no good enough tools for Linux. If you are producing videos on Linux, please share what you use :)
Absolutely chilling. Can sort of see the use for refund fraud but not payments. Almost was not able to pay taxes last time because of all the details it demanded and was not happy with my answers. Preventing my taxes from being paid is not a “service” I need.

Guess I’m going back to paper checks soon. :-/
Yes, I was in agreement with you and expanding upon what you said. The OP might have received nothing, but that's not because nothing was available, just that property is a dog-eat-dog world and OP was dog chow this time around.
how much does that make you?
This sounds like a problem with your pager, that is used to scroll the output of man pages in the terminal. Do accents appear correctly on other manpages in your system? If I recall correctly, on macos catalina I had to set my locale variable LC_CTYPE (and not LOCALE) so that the less pager recognized the accents.
I'm disturbed, but it started a long time ago.

If you have a drivers license or a passport your face is already in a whole host of photo recognition databases. If you've ever applied for a credit card, bought insurance or made an insurance claim, paid a utility bill, received a professional license, been party to a lawsuit, bought a house or car, rented an apartment, it's in a database like LexisNexis (You can order yours free, mine was >100 pages). And for the record, these private companies turn it over to law enforcement for a monthly subscription fee without a warrant and at the click of a button.

The reality is, privacy is dead. All aspects of our lives are tracked and recorded. The only question is what comes next.
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Sounds about right. By the shape of the testing data here we are basically over the omnicron peak so now we are going to start wearing N95 masks.

Brilliant.
AKA don't expect any response because "the board" is too high up to deal with a nobody like you or me.
The silliest thing was that they sold phone manufacturing branch to Lenovo only to decide they want to build phones in-house, and they bought a phone division from HTC in 2017.
Zug prides themselves in being the <strikethrough>scam</strikethrough> crypto capital of Switzerland.
They do. You do, I do, everyone does.

You're maliciously interpreting OP to imply that "slaving over a hot keyboard" is the only way to feel fulfilled.

Whether you are an employee, company owner, gardener, woodworker, whatever you are being fulfilled by "working". Applying yourself willfully and deliberately to a problem. If you are not being fulfilled you find something else. Or, like most people, you realize working for someone won't be fulfilling, so you instead seek fulfillment in work that you enjoy - such as your hobbies.

This equating of employment with slavery by the /r/antiwork types is why the subreddit is quickly becoming the butt of every joke. Yes, it's not uncommon your profession is unfulfilling. Most well adjusted people derive fulfillment from work outside of their profession.
From neon shovels to crystal skulls – the wild history of the Memphis Pyramid
Mruby-bin-monolith: Tool to “compile” mruby code into a standalone executable
I could accept identifying with a passport, since the costs alone means it would not be supported in most cases, but only if it was associate with a strict requirement that the passport number or any other number/qr/barcode was hidden, and if it was illegal to save copies of even the image of the passport with the numbers hidden.
> If being a landlord is so easy, why wouldn't everyone do it?

maybe just sit and think about this one for a minute?

the answer is that they don't have the capital, which is why it's a relationship of exploitation. by virtue of owning more capital than me, my landlord feels entitled to the fruit of my own labor. it's just feudalism in a new garb, as reflected in the terms we use (landlord/lady)
That's part of the reason I am OK with just copying and pasting in firefox. It keeps the desktop app isolated from the browser.
The problem here is intent. His intention was to write a script for his job.

He can't hire himself to do his own job. Which is what he would effectively be doing by claiming he wrote it "off hours". The very act of writing that script put him "on hours". Now, was it unpaid work? That's a different story. Although since he's also technically not doing work during work hours, one could call it a wash.

If he bought the script, then the company likely needs to reimburse him the cost of that, because its materials for the job. But he wouldn't want to make that request, because then the jig is up.

But then again, we aren't playing "what ifs". There are concrete elements to his story. He did write the script. It is explicitly for this company. It won't work for any other company without large modifications. The non-portability and exclusivity of this script means it was written for the express purpose of doing this thing for this company.

And let's be completely fair here, he cobbled this thing together from StackOverflow snippets. If he's ever found out and fired, even if he takes his script, they're probably looking at a day or two to replicate this work.

The real question for him is would it be worth it? The firm would be minimally affected and could, in turn, make things incredibly difficult for him. This is a law firm. This is what they do. The cost of suing him is negligible, because they already do so much of the work normally. We're really talking about the additional court and filing fees. Whereas, he'd have to retain a lawyer himself. Who would then bill him for all the work they'd do.

Consider, they were paying him $90k to copy files. They have that kind of money to throw at the problem. Do you really want to become a problem?
Programming per se is tricky like you said, but I could see them have a course on how to be a programmer.

I'm currently reading "The Pragmatic Programmer" and I could totally see that be a masterclass. It fits their theme.
I performed a rough estimate in my comment up the thread, using ~2s per Argon2id with a time cost of 3. TL;DR is that you probably wouldn't want to have an extremely common password with this scheme.
That is pretty landing page!

Just read that the meaning of oku [1] is 1) private, intimate, and deep; 2) exalted and sacred; and, 3) profound and recondite

anyway, your brazilian users will find this funny since oku has the same sound of "o cu" that literally means "the butt hole".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oku_(theory)#:~:text=3%20Bound....
Those are usually just slaps on the wrist.
Oh, I see what you mean. Being American you can be required to bring that data back, no matter your preferred data processing setup. Right, apologies.
Suppose I type a line into a file, and then I ask you what I just did. If you answered "You updated the contents of the file from <complete contents of the file> to <complete contents of the file>", I'd look at you like you were insane. An actual human would answer "You added the line <blah> at position <blah>", or "You added the line <blah> after the line <blah>", or similar.

So I claim that very small changes are obviously thought of as diffs. And what is a large change but a composition of small changes? Pijul's model naturally represents the process of creating a change - you could slice up the diff as small as you liked without anything about the mental model changing, down to individual keystrokes if need be - whereas Git's model gets more and more unnatural when you do that.
The real power of dynamic languages is being able to do:

const foo = JSON.parse(arbitraryJsonString);

and not having to worry about the structure up front.
Isn't by design it must cache for the amount of time specified in the TXT file? So it has to be durable.

Of course the MTA probably should provide ways for admins to override this. Maybe as simple as deleting a file, modifying a sql(ite) DB.
Sell your soul to the ghost of Steve Jobs.

In mail, select some of the text of the email, then share to reminders. This creates a reminder with the selected text and a link to the email. This also works in iOS.
That is awesome! Seems like it will help a lot of old people who have the most risk both from covid and scam calls. If your social security number and taxes are going to be online, definitely need some kind of additional security beyond the usual signup process. If it requires a live video feed that should make it quite a bit harder for scammers.
To be clear, there is currently no good alternative to this. The way I see it, the IRS can switch to an invasive "selfie + utility bill" system, or it can remove self-service from their website altogether. It's important to keep tax information secure in order to protect the elderly and disadvantaged. After all, the victims of ID theft in tax are primarily taxpayers who are not regularly filing returns (like elderly and zero-income folks), since two "competing" returns will quickly alert the IRS to a problem.

The legacy IRS identity protection measures are both cumbersome and insecure, so getting rid of the latter problem is a big improvement.
When your network bandwidth is overloaded with traffic that isn't going to make a difference.
If someone 'steals my identity' and gets my tax return money before I do, it could be quite a lot of work for me to prove to the IRS that it was stolen and that I should get the money. Which shifts the burden of dealing with identity theft onto legitimate claimants.

I wouldn't be surprised if this same thing could happen with social services, but I don't have much experience with the system.

In other words, I'm not sure if the overall problem we're trying to solve is simply "avoid waste" - it might be more like "prevent the average person from having their identity stolen and their time/money wasted". Which seems like a problem worth trying to solve even if the incidence is relatively low?
It is reminiscent in the sense that it represents the subordination of reason to ideology in a broad social movement, and one that comes from the bottom up, rather than top down, as the case of Lysenkoism may be (or at least seem).

The activists have not taken to beating to death landlords, but that is only a function of their not possessing the same level of social support as Red Guards did, but even without that they are capable of some level of harm. Don't mistake the lack of violence from a wolf in a cage as evidence of its benignity.
Originals to me was about giving said great content creators more funds to produce their wilder/more expensive ideas they didn't have the budget for themselves. It was basically just boosting the existing content and upping the production quality a bit. It probably wasn't very lucrative though given that people watching Youtube don't care about production quality that much imo, and top creators already have decent production.
Some of us might consider this round-about policy implementation a disservice.
Not emailing back is a classic plausible deniability strategy. No one is asking for a response right now. Or even later today. Or even a week or even a month from now.

But if the NJ government’s budget does not allow them to respond to a single email after multiple months, that is a sign of intentional negligence, or a failed state.
The correct term would be a government ombudsman. And legislators totally fulfill that job for a significant part of their day.
You aren’t wrong about many of the details but leave out the massive landlord relief programs and the fact that landlords are still free to sue for unpaid rent.

But yes, there is no doubt that the way this went down is making the moat (between labor and capital, middle class and upper, small business and massive conglomerate, etc) bigger and bigger.
A bit unrelated but I’m so tired of fake intellectual stuff like this. Once you recognize it you see it everywhere. A bunch of “intellectuals” who don’t really do anything more than collect a bunch of stories like this — not because they are intellectually interesting or because they are a part of some larger scholarly effort but simply because they are silly/contrarian. If the point of the work can be summed up in a meme headline then it’s just noise. That’s 99% of what passes through here and the rest of the internet.

What it means to be a scholar is to engage in those things that are not supported at all by hardware acceleration in the brain but yield fruit at the end of the day. This is what separates scholars from everyone else, the scholars are so excited by the idea and the vision at the end of that boring tunnel that they can withstand the tedium. But the rest of us like to giggle at 9 year olds ddosing a school. Wow, how did they even do that? Amazing!

It’s so embarrassing to see someone who’s whole model of the world is basically built out surprising/clickbait headlines cobbled together… which is almost invariably a kind of teenage angst dystopian version of the world.
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Which causes a price increase.
If you don't drive, every state that I can think of will still assign you an ID that is just like a license, but doesn't give you permission to drive.
Because there is no mandated form of ID in the USA (and it was fought against for decades by conservatives claiming it represented unwarranted overreach by the state).

As a result, actually obtaining some form of ID that might be acceptable (the forms vary mostly depending on the political party that writes the rules) can present a significant challenge to some voters, and for some of us, that is an anathema (the right to vote being sacred, certainly compared with the right to drive for example).

Introduced a national ID that the government is OBLIGATED TO PROVIDE for every person, and many of the arguments against it would go away. Currently, no state in the US, nor the federal government, has such a form of ID.
Due to COVID, my representatives no longer take visitors, and no longer take phone calls to their office, nor do they provide a contact e-mail. They have a form you can fill out on their websites.

That way you get a response (thank you for completing the form) and then zero way to track the communication. In my case, I have never received anything after that from any of my representatives.

You can't call to check on it, because, again, they're no longer taking phone calls. And even if they did, you have no reference number.

They took advantage of the pandemic to just completely cut ties with their constituents outside of THEIR approved avenues.

Super cool. Very representative.
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