skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The boogeyman is real. I recently moved to a new place and the things I had to submit:
1. Driving license
2. Bank Account statements
3. Credit report (which you can provide or they can pull for a fee)
4. Employment letters / 3 recent paystubs
5. Tax documents for the last year
6. Reference of previous landlord

Ohh and on top of providing these, the lease is provisional and can be terminated based on the results of the background check they do for you. Yeah no, the boogeyman is real and is worse than the credit score boogeyman.
I grew up in the UK and moved to the US in my early 20s.

In UK cities people hung out at different places, not a lot of malls.
Venmo will happily send you a 1099 form if it's above the 600 dollar threshold. We have Joe Biden to thank for that. It used to be higher.
With the earned income tax credit, many people at that income level "pay" negative income tax.
I'd encourage you to actually research how any of this works, because you are extremely misinformed and parroting the same lines that I see repeated verbatim around the internet by other misinformed people(ie "Bezos can just borrow against stock he owns and never pay any taxes!").
What kind of wizardry is this doing?! :)
Being transparently fair and not very complex is a great case for approval voting.
Thanks for the tip, just added an OpenSearch xml.
All right, then I'll ask the other question. What do you consider "fair"? You don't say it, and the GP doesn't, but the implicit assertion is that the rich don't pay their "fair share", presumably because in some mythological past they used to pay 94%.

What is then "fair"? 94% ? Do you have a formula? At least a principle. If I make $100 MM (I don't), should I pay 50%, 60%, 70%? I mean, even if I pay 99%, I still retain more than 99% of the Americans, right?
Saturating on overflow as bad as the 2s complement wraparound on unsigned if you were not expecting/relying on it. C lacks a type where unsigned overflow is an error or UB. Having it UB is acceptable because then you can choose a compiler option (-ftrapv) that traps it. But, I have heard this is unreliable, e.g. what happens if the overflow happens in library code?

Ada does this correctly, and lets you choose between exception and wraparound. UB is not an option in the language spec, though you can turn off the checks as an optimization option in GNAT, or maybe turn it off at specific lines of code with a pragma.
With the deductions it cost nothing, but it gets then the same feeling, and a visibility of how it works should they start making more money.
Yeah, but it always returns the same pseudo random sequence of numbers. THAT'S part of what they're trying to fix by including entropy.
That’s good to hear - always just seemed really clunky and therefore harder so we’ll my team on than pretty-looking slack.
My Ego mower is 8 years old now. (I got one as soon as they were available in Canada, as it was the first mower to operate at >40V.) Still works like new. Don't think they're inherently any more wasteful than gas. And of course, they don't waste gas. Yeah, you're locked into the battery, but at worst, if you don't use the battery for anything else, that's no worse than the gas mower. With a few tools though (leaf blower, string trimmer, maybe hedge trimmers...) you end up saving a bunch.
The 1099 is for sales of goods and services. Your friend loaning you $1200 is not a sale of a good or service.
I am a fan of portfolio evaluation, and I think it can work in engineering courses as well.

I also like the idea that when you graduate you have a portfolio of work that basically turns into lines on your CV or resumé.
What does that have to do with tax brackets?
Processors already have instructions to generate random numbers from physical fluctuations.
> powerful keyboard-only navigation capabilities of vi, without all the cognitive load of its navigation&commands mode.

Do you mean something like emacs and other modeless editors? Emacs particularly, had incremental search in the 1970s.
I'm actually taking a proofs class right now, and edit my Latex in VS Code with Copilot enabled. Its syntax is always perfect, but most of the time it produces stuff that doesn't make a ton of sense. There have been a few times when it gets the next couple of lines correct for repetitive proofs with a lot of "boilerplate", but it doesn't really make big logical/creative jumps.
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> Can we at least make the government take a financially literacy class first? It is the biggest debtor in the world.

Having debt isn't the problem. Defaulting on it is, and the government doesn't do that.
Yale University IT admin spent $40M college money on luxury cars, houses
How does that prevent replay attacks?
> Something else I found fascinating was that we had over 25 brackets back in the day. I can only imagine the headache that would be without an Excel spreadsheet.

I have to imagine that the IRS tax tables aren't a recent creation, so the math should have been similarly easy.
They disabled it because it's not compatible with their efficiency-core design for big.LITTLE - right now, you either have to put AVX-512 on both, or neither.

An efficiency core with AVX-512 is basically a Xeon Phi core (and that approach actually probably would be good at the compute-heavy workloads efficiency cores are optimized for), so that's not an absurdity, but they didn't do that. So at that point the answer is "neither", and they turned it off on their big cores. But apparently they left the unit there in the silicon eating up a fairly large amount of space (I think it's around 10-20% of the core).

The real question is why nobody thought of this before... did they have some hardware/software solution to handle the instruction set differences that didn't work out? The fact that it was shoddily disabled before launch, and left in programmers' guides and other documents, speaks that maybe there was something like that and somehow it didn't end up happening.

(You could trap instruction errors and mark the thread as big-core-only, the Linux kernel did that at one point for AVX instructions in general (to save registers/bandwidth/etc they wouldn't save the AVX registers unless a thread actually used AVX). But there's more problems that still have to be solved first - how does software know how many AVX-aware cores are available? How does software know which core their CPUID instruction will be executed on? etc etc.)

If they had a heterogenous-ISA mechanism or something that will be introduced later, why isn't it on the roadmaps for next-gen/etc. And they didn't have those mechanisms, then why is it still on the core on an extremely high-volume consumer architecture?

You could say maybe it's a testbed for Sapphire Rapids, but every company has dedicated test silicon for that, and 10-20% of every single consumer chip sold is a huge waste of money. Sure, they'd have to design a core without it, but Intel absolutely has the money to do that - just like Skylake vs Skylake-X. The unit is designed to be modular so it's not hard, and they'd make it back extremely quickly.

Maybe they just needed some dead silicon to spread out the thermal load a bit? Obviously dead silicon has to be dead, so it doesn't matter if you print AVX-512 or the names of the design team, it's not supposed to be powered up either way.

Anyway that's my take - the "why take it back off" part is straightforward, the answer is big.LITTLE. The real interesting question is "so why is it still on the silicon".
Not at all affiliated but Free Tax USA appears to be a great alternative. They have been around for quite a while, but I have only used them this year as it was the first I heard of them.

Biggest downside is no import from brokerage, so if you trade a lot it could be annoying to create your schedule D.

https://www.freetaxusa.com/
Do know of a better license alternative that prevents that from happening? Would be interested!
9 validators is decentralized?
I'm still using Turbotax because I live in California, have crypto to report, and have sick contractor days to report.

Can any free app do all of this?

Better yet is there a free app that can log into my Turbotax account, fetch all the data and then generate the forms and file them?
'Home' and 'house' are perhaps synonymous when preceded by the indefinite article. In the abstract, a house and a home can be considered the same thing. A house is, at least in principle, a home for somebody. But you can't call a rental property the landlord's home, since the key characteristic of somebody's home is that it's the place they live.
Aha, I checked, I was thinking of the Epson QX-10, which had something called Valdocs, that was originally written in Forth. Valdocs hit some roadblocks that Forthers still debate about, and was (per Wikipedia) later rewritten in C.
Sorta nice, but that wouldn't avoid replay issues.
what if you add timestamp?
No. Norway is taking an existing economic function with huge negative externalities and using its profits to move toward a sustainable future. Profits that otherwise would not be spent in such a manner. They’re far faster and move with more precision on this topic than nearly every other major O&G producing country.
Yeah, I think that's the most accepted explanation. Everything after my first sentence was total speculation, the tokenization is usually cited as the issue.
A few years back I got audited, and it was called an "electronic audit" by the IRS. Which basically meant that they had their computer systems scour a bunch of the bank records and discovered that I had forgotten to claim a 1099 for some contract work I had. OK, so they sent me a computer print out and they had cross checked everything on my return electronically, my property tax deductions, my stock dividends so on and so on.

Ok, so if they can do all that automatically for an "electronic audit" why am I filing a return, just run that thing and send it to me and I can file an exception if there is something on it I disagree with.

I think the answer has already been identified in several other comments here, a heavy lobby effort on the part of Intuit, H&R and whoever else to keep it tricky and complex so you have to buy their B.S> software or services.
I think supporting XML would be something, a lot of people would appreciate. That XML is difficult to diff comes up again and again... However, one would need to decide, whether one wants to compare by syntax or by meaning. Latter one may be preferrable, but would require the XML to be canonicalized on both sides, first.
You are worried about income inequality, which is hardly the same thing. Tech workers generally don't have discrete business or political goals that they use their money to influence to their advantage, even if they do have some low millions to low 10's of millions of nominal wealth.

What is more unsustainable, IMO, is the concentration of work. 3 out of 10 men and 4 out of 10 women over 20 year's age in the US are not working. Working far in excess of 40 hours per week is common. US vacation is still generally a paltry 2 weeks, non-mandatory.

And all this, despite continual improvements in productivity over the past century.

Couldn't we collectively reduce our working hours, have more vacation time, and employ more people? That would more fairly disperse the productivity gains of technology and improve many people's lives.

https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t01.htm
If you notice, much philosophy - generally defined, including religion - is vague. Much great art is vague. It may turn out that, unlike technical manuals, there is no value in spelling out everything. Either the reader engages or not and if they do, they don't need it spelled out - they create it in their own neural pathways, in their own mind, which is far more valuable than reading it. And if they don't, it doesn't matter anyway. It's not a new idea:

From the Christian Gospels (Mark 4)

Jesus tells the parable of the sower, ending, ""He who has ears, let him hear." And when he was alone, those around him with the twelve asked him about the parables. And he said to them, "To you has been given the secret of the kingdom of God, but for those outside everything is in parables, so that 'they may indeed see but not perceive, / and may indeed hear but not understand, / lest they should turn and be forgiven.'" And he said to them, "Do you not understand this parable? How then will you understand all the parables? The sower sows the word. And these are the ones along the path, where the word is sown: when they hear, Satan immediately comes and takes away the word that is sown in them. And these are the ones sown on rocky ground: the ones who, when they hear the word, immediately receive it with joy. And they have no root in themselves, but endure for a while; then, when tribulation or persecution arises on account of the word, immediately they fall away. And others are the ones sown among thorns. They are those who hear the word, but the cares of the world and the deceitfulness of riches and the desires for other things enter in and choke the word, and it proves unfruitful. But those that were sown on the good soil are the ones who hear the word and accept it and bear fruit, thirtyfold and sixtyfold and a hundredfold.""

From the Quran:

As for the unbelievers, alike it is to them / whether thou hast warned them or hast not warned them, / they do not believe. / God has set a seal on their hearts and on their hearing, / and on their eyes is a covering, / and there awaits them a mighty chastisement.

Regarding allegory in Medieval philosophy:
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/medieval-literary/

The controversial and difficult question is why these medieval thinkers chose the allegorical form, and whether the text can be understood without its allegorical form. Avicenna tells us that what he purports to do by allegory is to convey one message to the "many" in sensible imagery they can understand, while conveying a different message to the philosophically minded few .... Neoplatonic and Christian writers ... [cited] the importance of not 'casting one's pearls before swine' ...
One of the things I do is edit movies and it makes you notice anachronisms and mistakes more than normal. Kinda ruins watching stuff.
> An estimated 870,000 Mexican migrants came to the U.S. between 2013 and 2018, while an estimated 710,000 left the U.S. for Mexico during that period. That translates to net migration of about 160,000 people from Mexico to the U.S., according to government data from both countries.

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/07/09/before-covi...

160,000 / 5 years / 12 months = 2,666 per month = negligible compared to US population growth of ~0.6% (167,500).

It's almost as if there's another thing to blame beside Mexican Boogeymen...
I've been seeing this problem too at $JOB. Amusingly, the people on my team that use Firefox don't have these issues, but the Chrome users are seemingly losing the ability to screenshare daily.
lol so kind! For those not familiar: https://dor.wa.gov/taxes-rates/income-tax#:~:text=Washington....
We do this in Australia (($18,200). It largely works well. The downside is people can use others tax free threshold. E.g. If someone is working and is married to housewife plus has a couple kids at uni, if they have a business or assets in trust they can distribute $20k to each person so now they have $80k effectively tax free.

I'm not sure the scale of this being taken advantage off though but it's well know benifit if you situation allows.
1950 Tax Rate - 91.0% > $400,000

The economy overall grew by 37% during the 1950s. At the end of the decade, the median American family had 30% more purchasing power than at the beginning. Inflation was minimal, in part because of Eisenhower's efforts to balance the federal budget.

Unemployment remained low, about 4.5%.
If my contributions increase the value of a $100M company by 10%, there's no way my RSUs' value is going to increase by $10M (unless I own 100% of the company). In a realistic scenario of $100k/yr of RSUs, even this near-impossible mythical single-person contribution of 10% would only net me $10k/yr.

RSUs go a long way, but don't totally align the incentives.
There will be a reckoning, the question is how long the market can stay irrational. I want to purchase a property to raise children in, but unfortunately my partner and I don’t necessarily have the luxury of waiting a long time to have kids for obvious biological reasons.

In my country the majority (~60%) of citizens own their own home so the majority of people are riding the gravy train of skyrocketing prices while the others get priced out of home ownership. The reckoning may not happen until a sizeable majority is priced out of home ownership, and that may not happen for a decade.

On the global stage I know I am very lucky when it comes to my lifestyle, but it is hard not to feel animosity for the generations which came before you and had it so easy when it comes to property ownership. The same owners who are now benefiting from your inability to afford a stable place to raise a family.

I firmly believe that the new Singapore model for taxing non-primary residences is necessary to level the playing field between those who just want to have somewhere to raise a family and those who have billions in their pockets. I don’t believe my country has the will to enact such drastic changes so I am assuming the unaffordability crisis will go on for much longer than necessary.
Saved you a click:

“Platform”, “Mentor”, “Low Maintenance”, and “Good in Bed”
CSS-in-JS and external <link> style sheets are not mutually exclusive.

There are a few toolkits out there that let you write component-oriented CSS-in-JS, but during build will extract everything to static external style sheets.
Tenants pick what they can afford. Landlords charge what the market can bear.

The entirely predictable result is some very rich landlords and some very homeless people.
Well if you work from an assumption that taxation is theft and gov't is an existential threat to liberty then it makes sense why filing for taxes is terrible.
I guess what I don't understand by this proposal is how the exchange rate is actually maintained. Will they print a lot more cash to keep the exchange rate depreciating as thus? The devil will be in the detail of this.
Shouldn’t that be a positive? Remove the least valuable carbon intensive emissions? We need to drive a transition to a sustainable economy. Knocking off the lowest hanging fruit first seems like a decent strategy to help jump start more competitive technologies.
https://www.jneurosci.org/content/41/12/2541
Looks like there is evidence.
Also are you claiming there are no stem-cells/MSCs in the brain?
I have read multiples papers about drugs that specialize unspecialized cells into olygoendrocytes (a microglia) in the human brain. I don't see why epigenetics wouldn't allow unspecialized cells to become neurons vs glial cells.
Finally if I recall correctly, some glial cells might not act like neurons but still release neurotransmitters.
More importantly, humans should preserve their neurons by actively fighting apoptosis, e.g. by taking skq1.
And as said previously, synaptothrophics exists and are very potent.
Finally, hypermnesics are a thing.
BTW children are generally happiers/more emotional than adults. One might wonder wether this is related to neuron/synapse density
From what source? That’s the hard part.

Think of it in terms of VM snapshots. If you boot from a snapshot, there’s no way to get any timestamp guaranteed to be secure.

But “secure” in this context is misleading. I subscribe to the “just use urandom” school of thought. It’s sufficiently secure in practice that no real security threats have emerged (can anyone point to a CVE?) and it seems like a waste of time to focus on this rather than the hundreds of other cases that cause dozens of CVEs.
In case you are wondering what this does (like I was), Wikipedia states "This bill is designed to solve [American dependence on China] by reducing reliance on Chinese manufacturing of semiconductors and increasing America's scientific and technological achievements."

Basically, it allocates a bunch of money for supply chain and production improvements.
No one paid that tax rate.

https://taxfoundation.org/taxes-on-the-rich-1950s-not-high/

Average rate paid by the 1% back then was around 41%
I still wish they maintained ESLint rules to help auto fix things instead of codemods.
CompuServe was the first system I accessed when I got a modem, back in 1988. I dialed in at 1200 baud! The "CB simulator" (multi-user chat) was amazing for the time. I still remember my login... which was a bunch of random numbers separated by a comma.
What happens when you have an invalid file/AST?
At my home the approach is a central registry of defaults that can be accessed with your permission (which is required by some but not all lenders to evaluate you). It's kind of an extreme version of a credit score, where everyone who has never defaulted - or where the cause of default wasn't their fault e.g. identity fraud - has a perfect "credit score".

The key values used by banks is essentially two ratios, loan vs collateral, and monthly loan payments vs monthly income; so the question isn't about whether to grant a loan but what is the maximum amount they are willing to risk given your income.
It might not be that bad, depending on the simplicity of deductions and other structures.

For example, 401k, IRA, 529, 403b, etc didn't exist. A lot of states and localities didn't have income taxes at that time either. If the deductions and overall tax code was simpler, then calculating the brackets would be easy - you're basically taking the percent times each bracket max until you get to your top bracket, then the amount in that bracket times that percent.

My understanding is that most people could do their taxes just based on the instructions on the back of the form just because there weren't so many deductions, credits, and complicated securities/instruments.

I couldn't find info on the deductions, but this was interesting.

https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna29861648
You buy upvotes or have a large network and ask people. Its as shitty as it sounds.
I know people who put every personal meeting on their Google Calendar. You wouldn’t know if you did, because they usually don’t send invitations unless they know the other person is the same way.
In 1862, marginal tax rates were 3.0% for income over $600 and 5.0% for income over $10,000.
That would also make it predictable. Essentially, if you get a sequence of random numbers, it should be quite hard to predict what the next one would be.
The credit system is one of the most powerful weapons used for systematic racism and class discrimination today...how is it an improvement? :/

Especially, if; as you agree - it has no room for mistakes?
Ok, now do the effective rates paid.

Better yet, do overall tax burden rather than just income tax.

Everyone loves to get a good ideological circle jerk going over the nominal 1950s rates but the actual tax burden at (various different points on the income spectrum) paints a very, very, different picture.
Many users of this site aren’t especially price-sensitive; if you’re one of them and in the habit of using tax filing software, I urge you to consider hiring an accountant for your taxes. You’ll pay a couple hundred bucks, which may be offset by the CPA finding deductions or credits that your software didn’t highlight, and that money goes to someone you’ve picked out and hired rather than a corp that’ll use your money to lobby against your best interests. And you’ll save a bunch of time, which may be enough to make this worthwhile in and of itself for you!