skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, the highway robbery of it, that’s my point. That is a huge percentage of the base price of TurboTax, and it is in no way less convenient than paying with a credit card, and they hide that fee down in the blah blah text.
Imagine using government money to fund Intel, AMD, Micron, Apple, etc with combined capitalization over 4 trillion dollars. Instead they should be levying massive windfall taxes on these companies' overseas cash hoards, and using those revenues to fund onshore semiconductor startups.
This is actually a bit of an annoying problem for us! All the 1040 instructions say to round all figures at the end. So it is expected that you would have a few cases of 1.49 + 1.49 = 3 showing as 1 + 1 = 3.

But the freefilefillableforms supported by IRS rounds all input and then does addition based on that. For now we just maintain all cents and do math with the precise numbers, then round at the end when the numbers need to go into the forms. We have some work in the pipeline now to make that user-configurable too.
Would not recommend. If you happen to owe, you would most likely incur a 20% accuracy-related penalty. Also, interest accrues from the filing deadline on both the unpaid tax and the penalty.

https://www.irs.gov/payments/accuracy-related-penalty
It is indeed true. Here's the order form: https://postalpro.usps.com/Standardizeyouraddresslist/AISOrd...
When we moved into the neighborhood we went door to door introducing our children and handing out copies of Playborhood[1] with our phone number written inside the cover to each of our neighbors. If no one in your neighborhood calls the police when they see your kids walking to the park the chances of a negative interaction go way down.

Just one small local step towards reform, so far it has worked out well for us.

[1] https://playborhood.com/
> Very few companies are making eInk like displays which is why prices are so high.

Very few customers are buying electrophoretic displays because of their many limitations. That's the real reason why prices are so high.

In 2006, a 6" display would have cost maybe 10 grand, maybe even more. Today it is in the order of $25 in volume and that's purely because of the volume behind it. Step off the volume path and into hand kerfed like the 42" you mentioned and suddenly it'll be $2000. It is all about volume.

If you want it cheaper, put an order in for a million displays and that'll justify someone's effort to build an actual automated production line for it and it will drop the price by an order of magnitude.
A necessary evil when we have restrictive zoning laws that prevent supply from catching up to demand
Agreed! Greatest driver of inequality is not salary but equity. If more employees (including frontline) got some equity, even if it was a tiny %, could make a huge difference to their lives.

Particularly true at early-stage startups: https://topstartups.io/startup-salary-equity-database/
The problem with macros is that people are running arbitrary code that's emailed to them. I don't see how Python solves that at all. If someone isn't checking the macros in the sheet they received before running it, they're also not going to check the code in the Python script.
Why should the import duty on luxury cars and medicines be the same?
Sorbet is very useful, but the ergonomics suck. It’s fucking difficult to write rspec tests. The performance overhead of writing sorbet on rails in a big codebase is so much that we have turned it off. The pre-interpreter type checking is somewhat useful.

The alpha releases are also a big concern. We are stuck on a 300 commit (release) old build and can never upgrade safely.

We have also never been able to get the VSCode extensions to run.

Thanks for Sorbet, but I’d suggest people outside Stripe to look elsewhere.
Go to the GitHub link above, read the README, and pay special attention to the “CONTRIBUTING” section.

If you have questions and the README and CONTRIBUTING documents do not specify a way to communicate, then open Issues on GitHub with your questions. Try to avoid asking questions unless you’ve read everything and cannot figure out how to proceed: remember that everyone working on the project is volunteering their limited time, just like you, and try to be respectful of their time and energy.

I am unaffiliated with this project, this is just the general procedure for contributing to open source projects.
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The UK typically has variable mortgages. They don’t benefit non mortgage holders unless you make some serious contortions.
My 2 cents.

The main issue to be concerned about, that’s repeatedly and deliberately ignored IMO, is the workers’ actual buying power. Wage disparity doesn’t really matter: Kevin Durant or Elon Musk will always make probably 10,000 times in a year than I do, yet I live great. Our wage disparity isn’t a concern to me: they currently provide more value to the world than I do, and their paychecks reflect that.

The real issue is buying power. It doesn’t matter if the minimum wage is increased to 15 or 25 or even 100 an hour if that buys increasingly less. There’s little way to save and hide your money if inflation continuously robs you and harms the poor more than the rich, who have the ability to hedge against inflation.

Inflation is a stealth tax on the poor. People who live on the margins are screwed by their purchasing power being drained. We live in a time of very high inflation and the same old solutions demanded of “better pay” or more taxes on the rich are not a systemic solve.

The real transfer of wealth, and the real class-disparity has always been things related to inflation. Go back and look at old prices of houses, milk, candy, burgers, etc. Yes, people made less salary of course, but could easily afford a good life. Wages never keep pace with inflation.

A real systemic solve is addressing the things surrounding money that nobody talks about or dismisses IMO.

PS: that wasn’t my 2 cents. That was my 9 cents. In the time it took you to read this inflation increased the price. Maybe if you think about how that works in relation to purchasing power you’ll start to see the bigger issue.
> I target professionals to avoid problems (students), but not rich professionals

Can you go into more detail here? I've heard this before that having too high of an income can count against you as a tenant - presumably because the tenant has the wherewithal to make the landlord's life unpleasant if they really felt like it.
>> There are two issues here. One is the lack of working memory, which means
that there is very little scratch space for calculating things with a meaningful
sequential depth.

It's a language model. It can generate text, not "calculate things".

If you give it the right prompt, it will generate the right text, but if there's
any computation going on, that's you computing the right prompt.

See Clever Hans:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clever_Hans
Cool, I totally get it.

How do we stop higher education and employers from setting “competition rank” as the new standard?
I don't care if one can search and buy Mein Kampf even for profit.

I do have problem if publishers / media / shops are actively promoting it.
Many people are skeptical that the world is round, when you phrase a statement like that you have the luxury of being right but without having said anything at all because "many" and "skeptical" are extraordinarily vague and trivial to make true about anything.

Having trade policy is as old as government, skeptics or not. "Free markets" in the absolute sense have never and will never exist, and talking in absolutes isn't helpful, a "assume a spherical cow" kind of approximation which is just as useful to the real world.
They've even done a pilot program that literally did what you wanted. [1] And yes, it was much better experience:

> Almost all participants said that they would opt to use the service the following year.

And yes, as you have said, the answer is lobbying.

> Tax preparation services strongly opposed ReadyReturn and have lobbied against its expansion.

[1] https://www.taxpolicycenter.org/briefing-book/what-was-exper....

EDIT: I can't find the podcast I heard this in, but pretty sure the tax professor that spearheaded this pilot got followed by people hired by Intuit.
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American politicians can be bought off very cheaply by corporations, but the minute people try to crowd-fund bribes to get actual representation in government corporations will just start to offer more. Some companies and industries have more wealth than entire nations at their disposal. If it comes down to a bidding war between you and Google you will lose. If paying out a little more to congressmen will keep an industry making even greater profits they'll do it.

The only real fix is actual accountability for lawmakers. It means massive amounts of oversight to catch those who accept bribes in any forms (including "campaign contributions") and it means making it simple for the people to vote out anyone who refuses to represent their interests.

Right now, bribery is effectively legal, there is zero accountability and between the two party system, gerrymandering, and voter suppression even if you manage to get someone out of office you're probably not going to like the person you're forced to vote in to replace them. We're a very long way from fixing the problem and all of the people in power have zero incentive to start getting us there because they profit off the system being broken.
> Eink has been around for several years now

Several years? They've been around for 25 years!

> but apparently they are unable to just make a big panel?

Yes, that's how supply and demand works. Very few people are willing to buy big electrophoretic panels with all their limitations so there's no demand, so there's no volume, so there's no justification for a factory for it so the stackup for it is handmade, hand kerfed and such so the price will be high.

> That combined with their idiotic pricing scheme makes me think their management is just stupid

What pricing scheme are you talking about? I'd love to see the details you are basing your judgement on.
These are my favorites from the batch.
Or audits.
> 1) The bill would create a new category of non-immigrant visa called the W visa for owners (W-1) or essential employees (W-2) of start-up companies and their dependent family members (W-3).

I'm always disappointed in this style of visa. These are the kinds of people we want to keep, not make their stay contingent on working at or running a startup. To me, it's really stupid that anything but a tourist/business visit visa should be non-immigrant; all long-term stay visas should provide an easy path to permanent residence (sure, assuming whatever reasonable qualifications are met).

And I wonder if these W-* visas will be similar to the H-* visas, where if you quit or are fired, you need to find similarly-qualifying employment in a disgustingly short amount of time, or you're forced to leave the country. So you end up having very little employment mobility, and many people end up feeling trapped in a job they hate, because finding a new employer that will sponsor your visa isn't always a slam dunk, and plenty of things can happen to screw it up.

All this is just band-aids on the current crap immigration system we have. But no one has the political courage (or capital?) to completely throw out the current system and write a new, sane, humane one from scratch.
> Is the US spending billions to educate them

One PhD student costs a professor about $100K - $200K per year. A third of that is stipend and the other two thirds is... well, in CS I'm not even sure. A good bit of administrative welfare AFAICT. (Universities don't pay FICA taxes for grad students and grad student healthcare premiums are actually more of a subsidy for the risk pool of the aging faculty/admins than an actually half-reasonable benefit for the grad students.)

The US graduates 2K PhDs per year, of which >60% are foreign nationals. So we spend something roughly like (2000 * .6 people) * (150000 $/person) = $180 million per year. So a couple billion per decade.

Now... we do get folks with CS BS degrees for 1-5 years at $30K/yr, which is a fucking steal, and at least a great universities they are often from the upper quarter or so of the undergrad distribution. So maybe the students are also paying in the form of subsidized labor. But we do spend hundreds of millions per year in any case.

All of that said, as long as universities are staffing mathematics departments with shit paid ad juncts it's kind of hard to argue that our country is failing to compete due to a lack of phds...
For few hundred $ you can get that converted to hooks, depending on the app complexity. I'd offer it myself if I didn't have a fulltime job currently.
Don’t we have a glut of Ph.D’s here in the US already?
If this results in a lot of things soon containing 11% coconut water, I might just snap

Just wait until the hearings, the media frenzy, when those products are tested and found to contain 9% juice!
Because if housing gets too expensive in some area, you'd leave and that'd open up supply. By locking in the price, future changes in demand are irrelevant to you -- but place great pressure on newcomers to your area.

It's economically inefficient for Grandma to continue living in Palo Alto in a $4 million home when that land could instead have a multi-family housing complex to support the demand for workers in the region. It'd be the same story for someone who's in rent-controlled housing for $400/mo but the equivalent market rate is $3500. It's inefficient.

If we're saying rent control has externalities, we need to acknowledge that any scheme that fixes your housing cost has the same effect.
Disney’s Institutional Capture
Cruel and unusual punishment sure, but crimes against humanity might be a little far
I have a lot of rentals and the big things that I look for as a landlord is criminal history and make decisions based mostly on that. Credit score doesnt come into the calculation because you have to assume most renters dont have a great credit score. Making sure the person also has a stable income is also part of it.
If you use django-htmx, it's pretty simple to get the "this HTTP request came from HTMX" flag and branch accordingly in your view. The docs give a simple example of the logic here:

https://django-htmx.readthedocs.io/en/latest/middleware.html...

The examples give a fleshed-out version: https://github.com/adamchainz/django-htmx/blob/main/example/...

Though that's very slightly different than how I described it above, but it's basically the same idea; in this case you commonize the `main` block between the two contexts.
I think devs were more cognizant of the platform risk on FB, and the developer experience was absolutely pants. I dreaded every moment working within their platform, maybe it's different now. As well FB apps were necessarily less interesting, because they were so tightly integrated into FB it limited the potential experiences.

It just wasn't worth it when a developer could reach people on FB with ads instead, and point to their mobile app, where you can attempt to fully capture the value of the customer rather than just rent them from FB. Forgive me for the business speak there, I'm no longer in that space thank the stars.
Well, in the world of empty houses and homeless people, who cares if some more losers wont get a flat, or pay their whole salary to avoid eviction?
Home and rent prices should go up, and people should work harder and longer to afford luxury of having roof over head.
I think we can all agree that discovery is going to be fun and lead us places we can only dream of.
The United States held the majority of the worlds factories and almost all of the ones that weren’t in a decimated war torn country.

It took nearly 20 years to rebuild Europe to the point that it could compete, and USSR was largely cut off from global supply in western worlds.

It’s not the same today and one cannot possibly assert with a straight face that we would enjoy a decade of 37% growth with those rates.
Historically, the "human" way could certainly bad thing for you if your skin color, religion, etc. didn't match the local bank manager... As I understand it, that's why the government pressured banks to move away from that system.
Actually, it wasn't a coup. The President of Ukraine fled in 2014 because of a few protesters. It was essentially an abdication.

Russia invading Ukraine to attack its capital and try to install a puppet government - now that's a coup. Although in this case, it'll be an attempted coup, because unlike Yanukovych, Zelensky cares about his country.
Workers Are Trading Staggering Amounts of Data for 'Payday Loans'
Don't income taxes of employees and sales taxes of their products constitute the public sharing in the success of those billionaires?

Bezos may not pay income tax, but all his engineers do...
I used to think this too but there's a fundamental need for some of us to believe that there is a creator. Given our daily experiences it's impossible for them to believe otherwise. Right or wrong it does not matter, it's just part of our being.
So no, God is not dead. He will always be with us.
Nope, WhatsApp works just on phone number, not an email. It would have given them perpetual anxiety.

So they would have made WhatsApp work only with “Gmail” addresses instead - with Google Login and in a Chrome Desktop app only (of course) - and they’d have then shut it down after few years. Or people might have stopped using it before the shutdown.
How do you take notes while you code?
Ah yes, because every PhD immigrant that comes to the US must be a CCP agent. Why don't we just dispense with the thin veil you're trying to hide your racism behind?
I too won't bother to sign up for a $5 per year subscription to a website, as the pain of a potential credit card compromise is more than the $5/a subscription is worth. That's why I think it needs to go via a browser / ISP based system. Using credit cards is simply too much friction for micropayments. Give me one place to signup that covers the majority of websites that I use and it's a completely different value proposition.
has anyone thought of the cost of any existing banking infrastructure and also the all of the cost from the federal reserve? lots of human resources, time (our most precious asset)
Spring seems to have a 0day RCE bug
Perhaps. But the other side of the coin is that keeping them here serves as a brain drain to their home country. If less and less are there to elevate those countries then what? We spend billions sending aid instead?

Certainly, there has to be consequences to the countries losing minds & bodies.
VM host does, can expose emulated randomness source.
Party breakdown.

House D was 221 Y, 1 N. R was 1 Y, 209 N, 2 not voting.

Senate D and I was 50 Y, 0 N. R was 18 Y, 28 N, 4 not voting.
Russian cosmonaut hands over space station command, NASA astronaut bids farewell
I think a two pronged approach:

1. 4 day work week to address your concerns.

But a 4 day work week will mean some business will go to a 4 day shift and a 3 day shift. And of course, some people will do two jobs so they can out compete their neighbouring Jones... so a 4 day week with some kind of enforcement?!? Not sure how that'd work.

2. Employee equity in the business. If an investor gets a dividend, so do the employees. This helps balance everyone vs the 1%'ers. Of course, there's a lot of details in that too like everything in life.
Good question.

I believe it already happens, even if not always visibly. Reality is nor fair.

Some people will probably propose legislation in order to maintain equality of opportunity.

I do not know what the solution is.

Note: I am pro standardized tests at certain checkpoints in education. But I am against, focussing on grades in day to day school life, especially in primary and middle school. In high school, I am for frequent tests (so much so that they should not be a stress), but without those tests contributing to some ranking or having an effect at some final score. Frequent tests should be more of a feedback tool.
When I was in a lot of debt, banks outsourced collections agency called many times on a private number and wanted me to verify myself before they would verify themselves. No. Bank denied they would do that but that was lies. They couldn’t even admit to trying to get in contact with me. Collections agency couldn’t even play the theoretically game of maybe there’s a certain someone out there, who knows who, who hasn’t paid off a credit card, maybe this certain someone would want to consider going into his bank and having a chat but that’s not for me to say ah capishe? I’ve got a rock you’ve got a sword how are we gonna play this out? Good times haha
I'm looking for an easy way to see who I haven't contacted for a while, but also add notes about their family, kids, job situation, last things we spoke about.

It's never been important enough to pay for, so thanks for the Monica link, I'll check it out
> "People have problems on Earth. On orbit we are one crew. I think ISS is a symbol of the friendship and cooperation, like symbol of the future exploration of space," cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov said as he handed over the keys.
There is no digestive condition that causes the body to metabolise more calories than you consume.
I’m pretty sure the rationale given by current politicians for at-present proposals is that they are arranging their income to avoid taxes, and therefore they aren’t paying their “fair” share.

It’s nauseating but evasion (a legal term) and avoidance are taken as the same morally compromised position now.
I have been looking for papers which are _very clean and serious_ mathematical proofs of accuracy for approximants of transcendental functions (remez/chebysheve/etc).
Any pointers?
German efficiency!

I like it, my city government sends me a statement once a month, says
you owe this amount for police, that amount for fire, some other amount for sewer and water, some amount for schools. Maybe I disagree with some of the amounts, fair to discuss, that's democracy. But they don't play that idiotic game the feds do, you owe a certain amount, if you guess it correctly, or if you on purpose short it but we don't catch you at it, then nothing happens. But if we randomly catch you getting it wrong then we fuck with you. I hate that.
What’s crazy is that unreasonable taxes is one of the main reasons _why_ the British settlers rebelled against the Crown and went on to found America. The fact that nearly 250 years later we have an absurd, convoluted tax system, that literally requires specialists and companies with absurd market caps, for example Intuit has a $137B market cap, shows just how broken the system has become.
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Ubiquiti is suing Brian Krebs for his reporting on their breach
Wouldn't switching the order of operations & getting Fortuna to be the PRNG be an easier first step and then try merging /dev/urandom and /dev/random? Since Fortuna doesn't have the entropy estimation problem, doesn't that bypass the issue? I imagine it would also bypass the related RNDADDTOENTCNT issue because you can just ignore that API call and writes would be contributing entropy just like anything else.

On a separate note, I'm not sure I understood the problem with crediting writes to random as contributing that many entropy bits when the write happens by Admin & the pool isn't yet initialized. It seems like it would largely solve this class of problems without introducing any security issues, would it?
you're being downvoted for the second sentence, but the third sentence is indisputably true.