skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed about those cases, but we're talking about running software which I took as running services on a server somewhere.
Yep. More importantly: neither Owens nor Posobiec are journalists, subject to editorial standards and review by a news desk, an organization's editorial staff, the obudsperson, and readers. Even if they were reporters: there's often wildly different standards for tweeting versus their published work product under the organization.

There is also a difference between reporting, analysis, and opinion, which a lot of people seem to either not understand or purposefully ignore...and that an organization can engage in all three, and that all three units have very different standards.

He appears to have taken the middle road fallacy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_to_moderation) and a wild definition of "reporting"...then decided to claim he's generating a "news product" from that. That's...not how that works?

The site's "About" page has a graphic that includes the "Q-Anon Shaman", a guy who spouts no end of conspiracy theories (one sample: TVs and radios emit brain-controlling inaudible frequencies)...with an animated bouncing buddha.

I also don't see how he or his "editor" are qualified to be doing journalism review....especially not compared to plenty of other organizations already doing it.

He claims to be doing "PG research" at a UK university. Curiously the only place his name appears on a Heriot site is as a postdoc researcher in a group that has nothing to do with journalism https://cabs.site.hw.ac.uk/about/. I also see no evidence of him ever having been published academically; how he's managed that as a postdoc, I don't know.
Yup. was for a side product of our app, we've now merged the note taking and "who am I losing touch with" part into one app :)
In my experience, somebody who has tax preparation as a primary job is often not a CPA. A CPA usually offers a suite of services, and is also usually a lot more useful.

My CPA is great, and I save money through using his services.
The interest is only tax deductible if you reinvest the money, which essentially means you can't use it. If you use it for living expenses, to buy a lambo, etc, then no deduction for you. Also, the loan must eventually be repaid, which means selling the assets and paying the taxes. Only if you carry the loan and pay the non-tax-deductible interest all the way until you die, then the capital gains taxes get erased by stepped-up basis and your heirs pay off the loans without paying capital gains tax. So stepped-up basis is the loophole, not the fact that you can take loans.

Also, carrying ever-increasing loans (including loans to pay the interest on the previous loans) until you die means you pay a lot of interest! The "buy, borrow, die" strategy only works if you withdraw about 1% per year or less, otherwise the loan interest will catch up to you, and eventually you'll be at risk of losing everything to margin calls. Meanwhile if you withdraw normally without loans, then you can withdraw more like 4% per year indefinitely and have way more money to spend per year even after paying tax. So "buy, borrow, die" only works for huge fortunes where you didn't plan to withdraw more than 1% per year anyway. It's not something that most rich people are going to do. It severely limits your cash flow during your lifetime simply for the sake of saving taxes for your heirs.

The people complaining about these loans have no idea how it actually works.
Maybe WTO restrictions?

But yeah I would just do both.
This is actually kind of tricky to catch. You have to have authorization limits not just per transaction, but also total per period of time.

Still, I admire this person's commitment to grift. Eight years she devoted to this fraudulent side hustle!
I mean, yeah? It's still true you don't need to prove the composite case separately if you structure it a little different. Plus the original comment was clearly angling for the contradiction, so pivoting without warning to induction is just misleading
The source shouldn't be an issue even if the timestamp is reused. Timestamps just don't add a ton of entropy - a timestamp is generally 64bits, so even if it were actually random you could only ever get 64bits of entropy. And it's obviously way way way less than that since the clock is probably somewhat accurate, the computer is probably less than ~10 years old, and it's probably not way in the future.

So it should be fine to add in, but I don't know how many bits you'd want to count that as.
Jokes aside, Don't let your society push you around.
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Are there any folks in congress who are interested in mandating the IRS switch to automatic tax returns or automated tax return form data filling?
> It took about five minutes while I mashed the keyboard

> Yet we can't find enough entropy in 2022 to boot a system?

A Linux system will have no trouble at all if you're around to mash the keyboard while it boots. Nor if it's doing normal computer things like (IIRC) running processes on the CPU, talking over the network, or accessing files, all of which create more than enough activity & jitter to seed the entropy pool within a few seconds. Or if your computer has some form of writable storage, in which case the kernel loads some high-quality entropy that was saved from the previous boot.

The issue in question is a quite rare edge case. It only affects certain kinds of embedded systems that lack hardware capable of generating entropy on-demand, don't have writable storage, and run software that (for whatever reason) absolutely needs random numbers early during the boot process. In this situation, it is possible to get into a deadlock where a process is waiting for entropy to be available, but the system cannot reach a state where it is capable of generating entropy until that process completes.

Linux currently provides /dev/urandom to work around the issue by providing insecure randomness instead of blocking if insufficient entropy is available. This is rarely a good solution, and it can obviously lead to unexpected security vulnerabilities. Making the issue worse is the fact that /dev/random used to have much more annoying problems, so a lot of old code uses /dev/urandom when it definitely should be using /dev/random in this day and age.

The kernel developers tried to solve the problem once and for all by adding a "jitter dance" that can generate entropy out of thin air, and making /dev/urandom the same thing as /dev/random. Bu, unsurprisingly, this broke buggy cod on platforms that can't do the jitter dance.

> Also, why don't the BSDs seem to have as many problems on the subject as Linux apparently does?

A bit of googling shows they have exactly the same problems. The FreeBSD manpage for /dev/random [0] says that /dev/random and /dev/urandom behave identically on BSDs, with a setting allowing the system administrator to choose whether they block or return insecure randonmess in that edge-case situation.

The reason you've seen so much news about the problem on Linux is because the Linux kernel devs recognize that the current situation is very non-ideal, and they really want to find a way to fix it without breaking compatibility with buggy software running in niche environments. I don't know why you don't see as much news about the BSDs, but it must be either because BSD is less popular than Linux, or maybe BSD developers haven't put as much effort into fixing the problem. In any case, I see these discussions as reassuring: it demonstrates that Linux kernel developers care about fixing issues that only affect a tiny minority of users, and that they care about maintaining near-perfect backwards compatibility, even with ancient, buggy, and niche software.

[0]: https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=random&sektion=4
The United States should be offering permanent residency to practically everyone with a Ph.D.
I think this should not be over-read. I believe that that's a form of sarcasm / ironical phrase, meaning _few minor incidents plus some planned retirements_ .
As of he's implying that the employees tend to get overworried/annoyed easily for any minor incident.

Sorry I don't speak English natively (and to make things worst, I'm Italian!!) and I'm not sure I was able to express my thoughts in a comprehensible way! Please feel free to rephrase if you can do it better then me! Thanks! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Tariff may help US company to buy US product, but it won’t encourage anyone else to buy potentially uncompetitive US product.

At some point, we need to increase product competitiveness, which ultimately benefits everyone.

That or sanction china so they can’t build competitive product, like Huawei.
It's a remarkable game for a few reasons.

At its base, it's a solid puzzle game that presents a steady set of brainteasers and challenges. Each builds upon the next, slowly teaching you more depth with a very limited set of elements. It's very well made, it has a lovely ambient soundtrack, gorgeous environments, and a story that is woven through quite elegantly.

The second part is that the game encourages you to think outside the box. Without spoiling too much: each area has stars sprinkled around, each of which seems impossible to reach at first. Getting the stars requires you to be creative, to question what you've assumed, and sometimes, to play in a way that feels like cheating, but was, of course, actually entirely intentional. It's great. There is an entire set of optional puzzles which you have to work to even see.

The third part is that this is a very philosophical and accessible game, which uses religious motifs, monumental architecture and allegory to do its thing... but it was actually made by the people who made Serious Sam, a first person brainless monster shooter which is the exact opposite. Talos is what you get when people who understand the medium incredibly well decide to do something entirely different, while winking and nodding at the player the entire time, and yet, without detracting from the core premise. It wears its FPS heritage proudly on its sleeve through its many, many easter eggs. Some of its best puzzles also invoke hints of speedrunning, of exploits, of going out of bounds.

Once you finish the main game there is a DLC for those who can't get enough, including a final area of puzzles that feel like they were left on the cutting room floor because they were just too devious or mean, but which still manage to surprise you.

Hand this to any smarty pants teen, and if they engage with it, they will come out humbled, more independent, and more humanist. And possibly a few IQ points higher.
I didn’t do this (or any programming, or any trigonometry) in school, but I’m appreciative of tidbits like this from people who did. I definitely feel comfortable with recursion, and have a stalled art project which could benefit from better understanding how to apply trig as I accumulate understanding in a much less structured way.
That does help give me more confidence in pursuing therapy, thank you.

Sometimes I run through imaginary scenarios about how interactions with a therapist would go, and it always ends up with me worrying about them, feeling like I'm overwhelming them with my problems, causing them extra grief when their life probably sucks too, etc. It helps to know good licensed workers should be trained to help the patient avoid feeling like that. I probably would anyway, but that kind of maladaptive thinking is the exact reason I want to try therapy anyway...
custom reactions aren't rendered irc-side, mostly because I can't be bothered, but @mentions and all other platform-specific messages are properly translated.
I considered forgoing the channel bridge and writing a custom IRC server that mirrors a discord/matrix group, but I never got around to it.
Someone opened an issue here https://github.com/MaxLeiter/Drift/issues/53 and I just pushed the fix a few minutes ago. In short, 500 errors in production were being stripped of the message so I switched to sending 400s for certain errors (which I should have been doing all along).

Thanks!
I meant "practically expressed in their static type systems", ie. in gradual type systems for those languages as currently implemented. Poor wording on my part, my bad :)

On dependent typing and gradual type systems - I'm not sure they are possible to mix. I think none of the current implementations do anything remotely similar to dependent typing. It would be a really cool if it worked though. I'd love to be able to track length of a list in mypy type system (for example).

For the curious:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dependent_type

https://www.idris-lang.org/pages/example.html
Apples, meet oranges.

"The data comes from a recent paper by Thomas Piketty, Emmanuel Saez, and Gabriel Zucman that attempts to account for all federal, state, and local taxes paid by different groups of Americans over the last 100 years"

But regardless, it was higher in 1950, almost 6 points higher.

And look at al the caveats...

1] Some of the distributional assumptions in the Piketty, Saez, and Zucman paper are questionable. In particular, the authors assume that the full burden of the corporate income tax falls on owners of capital, which may not be correct. However, the authors note that they “have tested a number of alternative tax incidence assumptions, and found only second-order effects.”

[3] It is worth noting that, per the Piketty, Saez, and Zucman data, the tax rates of the top 0.1 and 0.01 percent of taxpayers have dropped substantially since the 1950s. The average tax rate on the 0.1 percent highest-income Americans was 50.6 percent in the 1950s, compared to 39.8 percent today. The average tax rate on the top 0.01 percent was 55.3 percent in the 1950s, compared to 40.8 percent today.

[4] The data from Piketty, Saez, and Zucman is not divided among federal, state, and local taxes, so it is difficult to tell exactly how much the rich were paying in federal income taxes specifically during this period.
Solve the first two points (make city living vastly less expensive and increase the quality of the housing) and a lot of other problems go away.

Bothered by homeless people sitting on the street? A lot of them would rather be in a living room. Got mugged recently? While it doesn't excuse the mugger's behavior, they'd be less likely to commit the crime if their rent was dramatically cheaper. Don't want to listen to your neighbors arguing? Changing up the walls in your apartment building can help a lot.
I remember very early versions of Redhat (as in late 90s) saving the RNG seed on shutdown.
Henry Ruggs drove 127mph into a stranger's car and a man rushed into fiery chaos
Oh my. This is a lovely comment. Let us dissect.

> Let’s not confuse being paid a lot of money at work with our time being valuable.

Thanks. I haven't. But I'm glad you reminded people that time being valuable is disconnected from hourly rate. Perhaps unintentionally. It wouldn't matter if my job paid minimum wage or I fund my fifth yacht budget from my latest financial trade, my time is valuable. I get one life to enjoy.

Others may value their time differently. My time, however, I value highly.

> You comment quite a bit on a site that’s the content marketing project of a VC firm after all.

I learn quite a bit from the site, as the weekend projects here become the valuable tech five to ten years down the line.

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Spam emails are an unmitigated moral bad, and a tu quoque in their defense, however misplaced and invective, is ultimately meaningless.
Visit a church service on Sunday. You'll meet some friendly people there. I'll suggest mine: https://churchofjesus christ.com

EDIT: Except for this Sunday, which is General Conference. This once-every-6-month "supermeeting" is online only.
Many rejections are opaque to the rejectee, deliberately. Is there any evidence here the system is opaque to the folks who run it? On the surface it seems to be rejecting folks with low credit scores, criminal records, evictions.

if (creditScore < X || criminalRecord || eviction) return REJECT

Which is the same process most landlords go through in their head when they don't have a system.

And, it's life. Didn't get a job? Opaque. Didn't get an apartment? Opaque. Didn't get a yes to a request for a date? Opaque.
The article's title, ‘This Whole Thing Has F---ed Me Up’, was not descriptive, so I used part of the subtitle, edited for length.
>paying individual people as a direct incentive to reduce their own carbon output

Is there anything you can spend this money on that is not produced using fossil fuels?
+1. The world is a much bigger place than NYC. Move overseas. Do the digital nomad thing. You can make decent money, meet a ton of people, and live in some really nice places.
Oh yeah, high empathy is correlated with above average anxiety and depression. This is a well known psychological thing and there are plenty of articles and podcasts on it. So your intuition is correct. It's your inner child basically doing this because you want people to like you -- this is something you learned as a child and is now habit. 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.
It's absolutely enmeshment. I think enmeshment can emerge when children with higher than average levels of empathy aren't given the tools and support they need to deal with that.

(Also now a psychologist, so I could be off base. But they do at least seem to be related things.)
Huh! I’ve had something like this since the 90s, working with smart tech folk. I haven’t shared it with anyone in over a decade because I know how weird it would appear to normals.

Reagle’s Collaborative Work Style

https://reagle.org/joseph/2003/collab-style.html
That would lead to the immediate creation of Ph.D. farms in other countries
That makes a lot of sense, I just hope that doesn't mean some countries don't start making PhD mills for schools to get around visa caps which seems like an obvious possible side effect
It surely would still make a difference, even though China's reaction would partially negate it, right? When there's government stimulus money to be had, someone's going to jump on the opportunity to use it up, even if prices are lower from China.
I don't think that's actually how this works - most times when you get a 1099, the issuer is also required to file a copy with the IRS. As such - no bank account scanning required.
Okay, if the units get used then it's good.
So more free money for billionaires?
In Canada, when I file my taxes electronically, all my income (salary, interest, etc.) is pre-filled. I basically enter my deductions and hit "Submit".
Their paper has results from Codex.

(see p. 21)
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2203.07814v1.pdf
It's not hard by itself. These interfaces are actually pretty straightforward to design and implement; Linux made things hard for itself by designing a weirdly complicated interface with an entropy credit system, an idea that's more or less discredited now.

What's hard is accurately surveying the last 15 years of systems built on top of Linux's needlessly-complicated LRNG and making changes that don't violate the expectations of those systems. Nobody should be running "jitter entropy daemons" in userland (userland RNGs are essentially the source of all practical CSPRNG vulnerabilities in the past 2 decades), but people do, and if those systems exceeded some threshold of security before Donenfeld's patches, you can't merge those patches if they push security below that threshold.

It's a really irritating problem.
And in this case there is no US product to buy. US semiconductor manufacturing simply cannot compete on the global stage, hence the need for this investment.
Your timeline is correct. But we all accepted that by switching to Chrome we were sending our entire browsing history to the biggest advertising giant to ever exist.
> vs having CI fail 20 mins after pushing up a PR because you forgot to run the typechecker script ahead of time

Have you considered using pre-commit?
You're saying things that are obvious but the facts are:

1. Kaspersky could have long ago left Russia

2. We can't trust Kaspersky

3. The fight is real, even if the US gov lied, incentives matter
There's an interesting startup called SpinLaunch[1] which is "working on mass accelerator technology to move payloads to space."

"At Spaceport America in New Mexico on 22 October 2021, SpinLaunch conducted the first vertical test of their accelerator at 20% of its full power capacity, hurling a 10-foot (3.0 m) long passive projectile to an altitude of "tens of thousands of feet". This test accelerator is 108 ft (33 m) in diameter, which makes it a one-third scale of the operational system that is being designed."

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpinLaunch
I know I'm dumb, but I got a visual of your house with a big stripe down the middle of it so that part is in CA and the other is in OR
And, globalization is dying, rather yet it might have reached its crescendo.
That's what I thought, my SSN is on the 1099, so it should be trivial for the IRS to match them up. That's why I was surprised when he said that they only caught it during an audit.
Thank you. I don't at all mean to be unempathetic myself to your experiences, and I'm sorry if it appears that way.
I was denied a secured credit card when I had a job paying $65k/yr. A secured credit card. How can you be denied for that? I don’t know but I managed. I had 0 credit history btw. Literally none.

When I finally got to $110k/yr I was able to get a $300 credit limit card.
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On the contrary, that's what judicial review is for. (And there may be other mechanisms as well.)
Hardcoding a tokenization tweak that keeps individual digits separate would be a trivial change to the preprocessing that would not affect the rest of the model training process.
This makes a lot of sense considering I could never find any information whatsoever about tax collection in LA. I guess somebody else got those dollars in the local tax on the w-2, I could never figure it out. It was maybe $1200 too.
Elliott and Brookfield to Buy Nielsen for $10B
> For example, you'd need to hand-enter every stock trade (even automated re-investments) even though your broker likely already electronically sent this information to the IRS.

This is not true for most folks, who can use one of two exceptions that allow summarizing. Exception 1 allows you to simply report totals on Schedule D. Exception 2 has you file Form 8949 with summarized rows, as long as you attach a statement with the detailed transaction info (the brokerage 1099-B generally suffices).

https://www.irs.gov/instructions/i8949#en_US_2021_publink100...

These are the very same exceptions that tax software uses.
You're only closing the carbon cycle if you turn ambient CO2 back into fuel. If you bury the CO2, that's an open cycle and just you have the cost of concentrating CO2 and pumping it underground. In basalt formations it will turn into rock in a year or two.

According to David Mackay, the theoretical minimum cost of concentrating the CO2 is 0.55kWh/kg.[1] The least carbon-intensive fuel is methane, which releases 0.18 kg/kWh, or for comparison, 5.55kWh/kg.[2] So the theoretical limit is that concentrating the CO2 will take a tenth as much energy as we get from burning the fuel. Of course we won't be maximally efficient but we have some room.

Possibly cheaper methods include turning the CO2 into biochar, or accelerating rock weathering with something like olivine sand beaches. In these cases, the energy mainly comes from sunlight and waves.

[1] https://www.withouthotair.com/c31/page_244.shtml

[2] https://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/co2-emission-fuels-d_1085...
Lol if you're worried about that, now compare the C-Suite Exec salary to the average worker salary at large tech companies.