skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's what's worked for me in terms of not paying Intuit any money (as a W-2 and 1099 earner):

If there's something you can't figure out, is risky, or a one-off, hire someone to do your taxes.

Then use that as a template for subsequent years to do it yourself.

Also, use the federal free fillable forms to e-file. They might be available for your state, as well.
the US can't compete with China's artificial suppression of the Yuan price to help export prices, or the high levels of exploitation and lack of rights & regulations to benefit Chinese workers.
Forgot all PhDs, it is next to impossible for most students and researchers who get advanced degrees from American universities to get work visas or permanent residency. We get the best talent from all over the world, spend billions on educating them, and then force them to go home.
> It depends on whether the grade is the ends or not. But here the grades aren't the ends. It's just a means to achieve the ends - learning the material.

Goodhart's law makes them become the end. It does not matter if the intended grades to only be a means. If they are what is measured, they will become the end. At least for some.

> That's just a reflection of corruption in the system and not grading itself.

I am not talking about cheating or bribing. I am talking about all ways to pass a test and not retain any knowledge after an hour/day/week/month.

> Most content is forgotten regardless of the education system.

It matters if that content (and especially the existance of that content) is forgotten in a hour to a month or if that content is forgotten in years. The longer the time, the higher the chance you will actually use it. And in many cases, if after years, only the knowledge about the existance of the content is retained, it is enough. You know it exists, so you know how to find it when you need it. But it is entirely possible to pass tests and remember nothing at all a short while after.
The Department of Weird Soft Drinks—Carbonated Milk

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/the-department-o...
If we build fabs, we have fabs. We also have less technology development leaving the country.

Even if there was a tariff, new fabs would still cost billions.

Also, how you manipulate trade is governed by lots of treaties and some basic economics (i.e. a tariff would just make more or less everything more expensive and not change the situation much for quite a while)
It's interesting to frame this in isolation as one group of workers against another versus looking at the larger market power and wealth accumulation dynamics that have driven us in this direction. I agree with the sentiment about sustainability, but don't think the framing points us in the right direction.

To make this concrete, I am less concerned about how much AWS pays its SWEs than I am about their market dominance making it so a huge number of workers who could have worked in a more humane business have no other choice because the competition has been crushed. Cutting SWE pay and redistributing to warehouse workers would result in 1) SWEs leaving and going to one of the many companies that continue to pay more for their rare skills and 2) a relatively small raise when distributed across warehouse workers, which would be eroded away by the bean counters over time since there is no employer competition left.
Fixed mortgage payments are also great for the people who live in them. They are less good for everyone else too.
Yes, because our marginal returns should be much higher than China’s given how far we’ve fallen. We can, just like China did, copy the leader to catch up, while they pour investment into unexplored and speculative frontiers.
The Turbotax tax.
I think we are generally on the same page, but your arguments seem problematic in that they are neutral and abstract enough that, even if you chased that line of argument down to bedrock, you might find yourself having a discussion about philosophical opinions, which are not subject to the undermining attack I’ve got in mind.

If my ‘opponent’ responded in the way you suggested, I’d be in good shape. I would observe that employing a single militia of people with abhorrent views hardly makes Ukraine at large in need of liberation. Since there is an implied expectation that Ukraine should spurn the help of these Nazis, I would ask whether, when the US found itself at war with the Nazis, it had a moral obligation to spurn the aid of the Soviets, who themselves had quite an evil record on matters of human rights.
And, of course, I would ask to be educated on the nature of these Nazi militias. Are they members of a party? Is the militia exclusively made up of Nazis? What proportion of the armed forces are they? I’d be interested to learn more, because an officially Nazi institution is quite difference than an institution which has a few known skinheads in its membership, and the difference seems material.
I remember when I first started working at Bell Labs, way way back in 1978, I had just got my MSEE and had the world by the tail. But there was some old timers there that, I learned to really respect. They spoke more slowly than I did and sometimes stumbled a little. But, man, the knowledge there! It is something that stuck with me over the years.

Now, I am, I guess one of those old timers. But, I am pretty lucky to work with a lot great people and I try to remember that experience of mine and relate to some of the younger people that are a little quicker than me on some things. I feel that, I provide a lot of value still, and, I get feedback from a lot of younger people that helps confirm that for me.

I would advise, to try to convey your wisdom, don't try to mimic being young, be you, slower, but wiser perhaps. You have valuable experience, offer that for what it is worth and do not worry if you cannot find the perfect word or phrase, just share your knowledge, wisdom and experience.
No, that's not the problem at all. Nobody is predicting anything. The issue as I understand it is that it might have been possible in some pathologically bad but real configurations for malicious userland code to trick the kernel into believing the LRNG had been seeded when it hadn't yet been.
What about privacy? Does it not phone home with every single browser request?
The subject’s race is not in a credit report. So that’s better, but as long as people look for other clues as to the applicant’s race (such as their name or address history), that’s going to be a problem. That’s not the credit report’s fault, though.

We mustn’t let perfection be the enemy of continuous improvement.
Just do it by mail.
Please remember that this changes with age, diet and activity levels. If you can fine tune the diet and monitor glucose levels using CGM/AGM's to precise levels over each and every minute throughout the day/week/years., then it is pretty well possible to get a lot more mileage with the diet alone.
Glucose spikes are easy to miss unless monitored this way and could easily be more damaging.
Okay, but is there a point you are trying to make? Honest question.
How did the IRS learn about the stock sale?
someone needs to take a radio telescope and point it at random (haha) bit of sky with a live feed of the noise being turned into a live stream of 1s & 0s. then create an API that allows one to get a number of bits from the live stream. let's make /dev/*random require an internet connection!

Also, we'll need some jammers so the haxors don't try to rick roll the signal
Apart from all the other reasons this is a very bad idea, the brick wall you run into is that you need cryptographically secure randomness to safely fetch randomness from the Internet.
No, Turbotax wants you to pay a taxes to Intuit to pay taxes to the IRS.
yea. this++

knew an engineer who worked in a butter factory, making ghee. ghee is heated, clarified butter. it has really tight temperature constraints. too high: tastes burned. to low? solidifies. His life was a nightmare. "that didn't work. Lets strip all these greasy pipes down, and get the thick sludge out, and try again while the hired-help disposes of 10 tonnes of semi-liquified, congealing butterfat"
A hundred years ago you could buy "Drink This Arsenic Cure-All" off the shelf. Not sure that "early-stage capitalism" was any better.
Micron reports Q2 2022 earnings
Trade policy is explicitly to manipulate balances of imports and exports, that doesn't happen with flat rates. Some things you want to protect, some things are bargaining chips for concessions elsewhere. Of all the stupid shit in government, trade exceptions are far from the worst.
Is the reason for high unemployment due to people who want jobs but can't get them?
My problem with Sorbet is how ugly it looks. It's probably not possible to do with Ruby (now) but Crystal does it better[1] while (mostly) retaining the syntax of Ruby. I suppose it's trying for Elixir's @spec, which I like less than Crystal's sigs but still prefer over this.

Still, if it helps it helps.

[1] https://crystal-lang.org/reference/1.3/tutorials/basics/60_m...

Edit: Perhaps I spoke too soon https://blog.appsignal.com/2021/01/27/rbs-the-new-ruby-3-typ...
How do other OSes handle this "lack of entropy at startup" problem? (Windows, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, etc.) I've only ever seen this discussed in the context of Linux.
Yes, but lots of systems don't have it.
Turbotax is a tax on paying tax.

I like paying taxes to the State because that money goes to military and entitlements, and keeping the lights on. I do not agree with every military action, or every entitlement, but it's not my place to decide what direction the country goes in, it is my place to push.

I wonder how many orphanages Intuit runs, how much welfare they pay, where the bases they operate are, how many men they've put on the moon, to have the gall to demand taxes. That is an literally an act of sedition, literally a racket.
Huh, as an aspiring tax professional how do I get in on this?
It is perhaps a false dichotomy to say that you cannot give formative and summarize feedback.
Also more journals will be created:)
This is definitely needed, but the government needs to take some ownership stake in companies that these funds are being distributed to. The financial success of the effort needs to be shared with the general public, not just used to make some billionaires richer.
I think the CA law might have more teeth to allow for individual action? e.g. if they don't respond to data deletion requests.
It's not that this is hard to design, it's that it's hard to retrofit given the installed base of weird shit that already cryptically relies on the existing behavior, bugs and all.
> In many cases being highly empathetic was a survival mechanism for the child.. who had to attend to someone else's needs above their own to stay safe.

This is 100% the case for me. My parents had children when they were very young, immature, and with major problems of their own, and I had to learn from a very young age to be highly attentive to their (very frequently shifting) emotional state. And then I had to become essentially an extra surrogate parent for my younger siblings in order to fill in the gaps that our parents weren't able to fulfill.
Pro tip: when I was doing my taxes TurboTax asked me for a survey. I complained bitterly about their lobbying. I was suddenly able to file fed and state free.
If twitter has a de-facto monopoly, and deploys a feature that makes it easy block people, then there is de-facto censorship.

Even if twitter is not technically a monopoly, it only takes a small concentration of power in these tech platforms to practice de-facto censorship.

If I point a gun to your head and tell you to denounce Biden or be shot, you’re “welcome” to take the bullet and preserve your freedom of expression, but for most people they may not be willing to make that sacrifice. Sub out bullet with some other form of de-facto removing of agency and you’ll see that just theoretically being free isn’t enough.

In China there are token parties but 1 party has de-facto control. So what does it matter if only in theory the system is multi-party? What does it matter if our system of free speech only in theory promotes free speech?

If one ideology takes hold then it can always abuse its power using de-facto censorship to suppress competing ideologies and ideas.

In an authoritarian system in China one must first overthrow the party in power to practice de-facto free speech. In our capitalist system you are suggesting one must overthrow the corporate authorities first before practicing free speech. Then impediments to free speech in both systems are the same: the people in power.

If you somehow think a communist system where the government controlling companies restricting free speech is somehow different from a system where companies controlled by powerful entities (shareholders of varying sizes) are restricting free speech then you’ve been deluded by Western propaganda.

Both are the same, and the powerless will have no agency even if they can freely yell into a vacuum.
You say that like they don't already exist
you don't really go to prison unless you're going out of you way to do something really nefarious

it's also super easy to setup a payment plan online now if you really mess things up
Wait, do brokerages report stock sales to the IRS?
This is what lobbying in America _really_ looks like, sneaking in random shit into bills.

I'm sure the coconut water lobbying group (never thought I'd say that phrase) worked its ass off for this. Time to pop the coconut water flavoured champagne.
Some tax preparers offer "immediate refund" for a hefty fee, instead waiting three weeks for the IRS to deposit it.
If they get a Ph.D. in the US, I agree totally.
They do right now because of supply/demand. The didn't 10 years ago, and they probably won't again in 10 years. The US didn't build enough houses for about 12 years in a row, and now they are building a lot. If it continues, it will be too many and we'll repeat the 2000s
Heh, classic. I think I was using a C64, back in 82 for the same thing. Was just a young kid, I think my nick was DeMoN or some such.

I used to have to telnet in via 'datapac', a Bell Canada telnet gateway. Compuserve was $6/hr I think, and datapac $8. Crazy expensive. And boy did I get in trouble.

Why?

Well, compuserve sent a 'free 20 hours offer' or something like that. One catch. You needed a credit card. I thought, hey, I can just borrow my Dad's card, he'll never know, I'll sign up then cancel! Free 20 hours!

I ended up using 100 hours in 2 months... without even thinking about it. That is, until I heard my Dad scream WHAT!!!! from downstairs, in his den. I immediately knew, the time, the location, he was paying bills.

Fear. Confronted by my Dad "Do you know anything about this", I panicked of course. Told him, sure, I borrowed his card, but it was just to use the 20 free hours! 85 hours billed?! How could that be?!

My Dad was quite upset, called them, and luck saved my ass. Literally. Turns out that datapac was so terrible, I'd had to hang up and dial back in about 5 times a night. It just kept dropping.

But datapac kept the connection alive for hours sometimes. Poor disconnect handling. So Compuserve logs showed me often logged in 3 or 4 times simultaneously. They relented, thinking someone was hacking my account.

I remember, at the time, they had an encyclopedia online. And some text games. But I was most fascinated with the real time chat, from people all over the place!
I'm not sure that's true. They are only supposed to report on a 1099 if they know it's earned income, not just a transfer. If they're reporting mere transfers to the IRS, then that's a problem.

That said, based on personal experience, I don't think Venmo is sending 1099s to everyone above that cumulative amount. I do believe they categorize transfers based on personal or commercial use. I expect a 1099 to be issued only for the commercial transfers.
Intuit and H&R Block have been lobbying for decades against tax filing.
https://www.propublica.org/article/filing-taxes-could-be-fre...
Ask HN: What do you call people that do Kickstarters?
I just found out that Kickstarter calls people that list projects on their platform creatives. But I don't think that's an apt word because you also call online video content creators creatives as well. I think there is a distinction between the two. I would consider Kickstarter creatives lean more towards the startup side than video content. They produce physical and/or digital goods that can be sold.

What word should I use to describe these people?
That would explain dead hedgehogs as most of these autonomous mowers operate at night.
I haven't used it, but I actually appreciate how Sorbet is written in Ruby syntax. After a bit of adjustment, it's pretty easy to grok.
It does not execute code, it "guesses" what the output of the code should be, given all the data it has seen during training - and, surprisingly, for many types of problems these guesses are accurate or close to that.
Ah good I shall try it again
I suspect the term "audit" is being used loosely here. One man's audit is another man's reconciliation - did they just send you a notice of deficiency?
all of the issues you mentioned pertain to the method of testing. It's pretty well known that you need to have some certain quality in the tests - after all, the result of an experiment is only as good as the design of the experiment, and this is true in a testing context.

But grading via a test isn't a problem here. A good test will show a correct grade, and a student who dont know the material, and cannot cheat, will not get a good grade. This grade is a proxy to the learning that took place - memorization is a part of learning. Of course, there's more to learning than _just_ memorization, such as creativity and problem solving (novel problem solving). These areas are more difficult to test (not impossible), and the metric is difficult to define for these areas, but none of that invalidates the tests that grade a student.
Finally! but why isn't it the complete set?

Seems like someone with more vision than "match MSWord's feature set" has been out in charge of google docs.
There's a link to exactly that in the header of the site: https://blogsurf.io/submit.
Just mail your taxes in with a letter and a stamp, come on!
This is how it works in a lot of other countries. You get a pre-filled return and can accept it or file on your own.
I'm not sure what option YouTube, etc have in this case?

My understanding of the DMCA is that it essentially requires blindly trusting any claims received or you open yourself up to liability?
ya, I am sure you are right, I get a bunch of them and I missed a small one.
But whatever, the point is, they could just send me a statement.
It's amusing that one of the concerns is Google employees leaving or potential candidates not applying at all because they'd rather "get rich by having a popular fb app." Just what happened to Facebook as a platform, were they just completely superseded by smartphone apps?

Incidentally, the decline of their platform is one of the reasons why I believe it is unlikely there will ever be a serious Meta third party App Store competitor on iOS- Facebook isn't very good at managing a developer community.
how could America claim to be exceptional if we just did things the same way as every other developed nation? /s
My startup (courier.com • YC S19) was idea-stage and I did not have meaningful pedigree nor had I previously started a successful startup.
Note quite all. The IRS wont accept a downloaded 1096.
You can sync a full ethereum node (all blocks with all transactions and fully verified current state) on a rasberry pi with a 1TB ssd. With 3TB of ssd space, you can even have an archival node (the above, but with all the state history changes cleanly indexed by account, which is only really needed if you want to run a block explorer).

The issue for ethereum flat out isn't the hardware requirements, its laziness. Infura, Alchemy, et al make a very convenient shortcut for impatient folks and that is why they get used. The good news is that there is a ton of real development going into light clients that can trustlessly get and interact with with the current state of the chain within a few minutes of launching and can even run within a web browser.
I think you can understand a lot about a technology or system by who is hyped about it and when.

Very early in the bitcoin days, cryptocurrencies were pretty interesting because it was nerds playing with a new kind of distributed systems computational tool. "Hey, here's a way to create widely available data without trust! Neat, what can we do with that?"

But for the past several years, it's clear to me that the majority of people in crypto are excited about getting rich. They generally strike me as the exact same kind of people that would be prospecting in the Yukon in the 1800s. They don't care about geology in itself, they care about what they can sell the gold for.

Ultimately, those kinds of people are exploiters and extractors. They may generate wealth and some of it may flow outwards to others, but I personally find that they do produce little that has any real meaning. The wealth they produce might coincidentally get used for something meaningful, but even that's a crapshoot. No one remembers the name of the dude who found the biggest gold ingot and that's likely for good reason.

I don't think the early days of the web were similar. Yes, it was initially nerds and then there was a huge rush of people trying to get rich. But at least the ones trying to get rich were trying to get rich by making something useful to others. It felt less like a gold rush and more like the westward expansion. More farmers than miners. The web was a place to make new things and not simply a direct means to play financial games.

The crypto bros—despite spinning up lots of businesses and coins and pretty websites with fancy logos—ultimately aren't out to make anything that touches anyone's lives. Imagine if one day all of the money disappeared from crypto and all promise of any future money evaporated. You could still do all the same crypto stuff, there was just no hope of making a dime. The whole system would collapse overnight.

That's not true with the web. Sure, a lot of businesses wouldn't be able to afford to keep running, but many of the people making stuff on the web would do their best to keep making their stuff on the web, because it was more about the stuff itself than the money.
Brazil circa 92 when president Collor froze everyone's account in an attempt to stop inflation.
Unfortunately this is already the reality… I really hope there’s some other layer of checks on the quality of the degree or something.
The 1040 changes just about every year although it's usually just updating line numbers and various amounts (e.g. standard deduction). The 1040 schedules often get updates too.

IME everything else stays the same (e.g. the 8000s forms), but there are so many of them that it's a lot of work to just see which ones have changed and if you have to care about them. The forms also become less formulaic. E.g. If you file 6251, you need to keep your own records about Alternative basis, so you can't just fill them out based on w2s and 1099s.
Also checkout GraphJin an automatic GraphQL to SQL service in Go. It's packed with features including support for GraphQL subscriptions, etc and can be used as a standalone service or a library. Also it's a pure OSS project not a startup. https://github.com/dosco/graphjin
That link is members-only.
Non violent crime and they don't think she is a flight risk?
Yup, dumb mistake on my part, so I track it better now. The point is, do I really have to do all this work tracking everything to guess which card they are hiding behind their backs. It's kinda dumb IMO.
Maybe they could start with medical doctors before they start replacing Ph.D's in the STEM field. Just to be certain that it will work, you know.
The problem is that some environments don't have that kind of information. For example, VMs.