skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These provisions were included in the House version [0] but not in the Senate version [1], so I'm not sure if they have actually passed. Not much Twitter activity on the W visa either.

[0] https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4521...

[1] https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4521...
I put all of my meetings and appointments into GCal. I don't use email that much for it but I definitely put it all into the calendar.
"The people complaining about these loans have no idea how it actually works."

Not that I'm one complaining about the loans, but so you have a link to how it works?

I didn't mean they directly use it like that, which is why I mortgage in quotes. I thought there's a specific type of small corp the wealthy use to avoid/reduce taxes by going through a sort of conversion.
This is how is works in Australia. The Australian Tax Office will pre-fill your tax return online with income from your wages, interests, managed fund distributions, dividends etc. That maybe enough for simple tax returns, you can just accept their values and submit.

What they don't know is your income from sources like rental income or crypto. They also don't know deductions you are going to claim. In this case you will have to provide the details. Still free to lodge your returns online.
Curiously lacking any mention of BlackRock, the federal reserve. Definitely not "here's why" material.
That’s like complaining that Python doesn’t include routing.
It's more than that, tacks on even more for state. and every time you 'finish' a step it tries to upsell some stupid audit protection and also another one to get human involved. I somehow doubt 'audit protection' would even give you a certified cpa or attorney when the irs comes knocking for a real audit, it's probably some dumb small print

I personally use it because my taxes are too complicated to do it myself on paper.

I hope they are correct, I honestly do a good faith job but it's too complicated.... the pdf download for 2020 was 426 pages... that includes state. and it will be even more next this year about to file my 21.

way too complicated I only own a small s-corp (technically 2) and do some really small level investing with active trading.
Many people might be skeptical of the premise that it's beneficial for the government to manipulate balances of imports and exports.
Its possible to miss a form or worksheet with FFFF. A good guess uses the previous years forms.
Individual UK police forces were created through acts of Parliament, and after an act was passed making UK policing universal, each force was monitored by the central "Inspectorate of Constabulary." Parliament passed two more acts; "The Police Act of 1946" merging towns with counties reducing the number of forces to 117, and the "1964 Police Act" reducing forces to 67.

The US just blanket legalized every local paramilitary. Any random-ass local law could give you the right to create your own personal police force.

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> It's easier than you think to create your own police department in the United States.

> Yosef Maiwandi formed the San Gabriel Valley Transit Authority -- a tiny, privately run nonprofit organization that provides bus rides to disabled people and senior citizens. It operates out of an auto repair shop. Then, because the law seems to allow transit companies to form their own police departments, he formed the San Gabriel Valley Transit Authority Police Department. As a thank you, he made Stefan Eriksson a deputy police commissioner of the San Gabriel Transit Authority Police's anti-terrorism division, and gave him business cards.

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/03/police_depart...
> I don't think the vote is only way to express political power, just the most 'sacred' and extreme of all. The one of removing your ruler (or ruling party) from power.

Indeed, the voting is less about getting people you want to have power, but more about preventing people you don't want from getting power (or retaining the power). Votes don't directly affect the actual policy decisions that representatives make afterwards, you're not legally bound to fulfill your campaign promises. What voting process does instead is telling the society, ‘See, the elected officials are not massively hated by the people, no need for a concern’.

The thing about representative democracy is that your representative is still your representative even if you didn't vote for them.
> A competitive environment with rewards and punishments

competition requires that there be something scarce (otherwise, why can't everybody have the thing being competed over?)

So a GPA score is a competition for who gets the "best" college placements, or limited funds from taxation to fund higher education.

Therefore, to solve the problem, it isn't enough to remove GPA scores (or equivalent), because another, more murky metric would be used to compete. The resource being competed for must be expanded, and more of it made available. Sometimes this isn't possible, but i dont think higher education should be a limited resource - it is worth the cost paid since a more educated populous is beneficial to the whole of society.
Yes, of course.

> A broker or barter exchange must file Form 1099-B for each person:
> For whom the broker has sold (including short sales) stocks, ... etc., for cash

https://www.irs.gov/instructions/i1099b

To elaborate on the GP comment, the issue is not whether the brokerage reports, but how they do it. You generally compute capital gain income as (sale price) - (acquisition price). If you buy a stock on the market and sell it, brokers generally report both sale price and acquisition price to you and the IRS.

But for employee stock compensation, the broker can report sale price without acquisition price to the IRS. If you don't report the acquisition price yourself, the IRS will think that it's 0, and assume your income is much higher than the real value.
well, I am walking around free so, for sure you don't go to prison but you pay a penalty perhaps. In my case I just paid it. It was an honest mistake and they did not bust my chops over it, they did charge interest, which is stupid. But, fine, if your computer can figure it out why not just send me the bill monthly like my city government does?
I explained how it works. Which part is unclear? How you get the loans? At the asset levels where you might consider the "buy, borrow, die" strategy, like $100m+, you can simply ask your banker or more likely your family office will do it for you.
I filed with them last year when it was still Credit Karma Taxes. The process was painless and my first time not filing with Turbo Tax. I was going to file with them again, but the moment I saw I needed to install an app to scan a QR code, I bailed. No thanks. I don't need their app on my devices.

So this year, I prepared my taxes with FreeTaxUSA instead. So far I love it. It required me to manually input a lot of information that was auto-imported on TT and CK, which isn't as terrible as I thought. Overall I'm finding the UX to be very clean and clear. I haven't had to Google answers to vague questions or unique situations like I had to with the others. It even caught an error that I'm having to fix with my bank, and told me exactly how to fix it. I'm very impressed with FreeTaxUSA so far. Hopefully they never sell out.
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I love seeing new search engines and this appears to be very well done. The web needs better visibility into its blogs. Bravo!

I wonder about the use of MarketRank. For instance, search for "COVID" and your top hit will be from Alex Berenson, a well-known purveyor of outright COVID misinformation. Is this post "interesting"? Yup. Is it trustworthy? Absolutely not.
I’m good at vim and it will be probably what I use if I’m editing a script or some other project that does not require extensive tooling. But typing and navigating files are the least of my concerns these days. I’ll use whatever IDE is most suitable for the task in hands. XCode for Swift/Apple Programming, IDEA for Java/Kotlin, Android Studio for Android, VSCode for TypeScript,… But I will enable whatever VIM subset plugin/mode they have.
Exceptional != Best
My first thought was exactly as the parent comment, but the site and links load fine for me too. It's been a while since I've visited. I still hope Mr Young is well.

Edit: there are 5 posts for March 2022. A good sign.
That was very dismissive. I’m aware all of these would make a difference, but lots of US public and powerful interest groups are against all of them.
SGI had an online random number source fed by cameras pointing at lava lamps.
"The most important addition in React 18 is something we hope you never have to think about: concurrency." - really? this is what our technical prowess has come to?
> a few GPS misalignments

I'm dating myself here, but back in the day, there used to be a weekly(?) strategy review that Google execs did, called a "GPS review" - I think it stood for Google Product Strategy review.

My guess is that a few 'misalignments' (exec speak for a review that went poorly) might make some key employees unhappy (e.g. their projects might get canceled) and that they might leave.
> That's a very interesting point, but make sure to do it with profit

No dont do it with profit. You can just reinvest all your actual profits in the business and then on paper have a very small profit or even show a loss.
When someone can get away with this for 8 years and no one notices you know college tuition is too high...
weasel words
noun
words or statements that are intentionally ambiguous or misleading.

There is no engagement with the idea expressed at all. There is a statement that you must agree totally, disagree totally or shut up about an idea otherwise it's "weasel words" which is clearly and obviously to me utter nonsense. As I said. That kind of nonsense not encouraged around here because what happens next is flame-war, is my understanding. Is it also yours?

Much the same as if were to say, (which I am emphatically not) that you are just "piling-in" and are trying to distract from a point about possible contributors to Washington corruption and ensuring that anyone who even suggests such a thing about corruption is worth considering and exploring should be condemned as being weasel-like.

If I said that, which again I am not, that would be personal, not helpful, not engaging with an argument. So I am not saying that. I am now saying explicitly I have zero reason to believe that. I am giving you the benefit of of the belief that the argument is in good faith and engaging with it accordingly rather than casting aspersions about you.

We really do need to be able to discuss possibilities before having full, firm and unshakable views as to their unambiguous and evergreen truth. You're allowed to consider a plausible argument before having been awarded your PhD in it.

What do you think? Is it plausible that the corrupt in Washington united so cohesively against Bernie because with health care and tuition covered the numbers volunteering for the armed services would plummet? Do you think there was a different reason and that isn't significant? Or do you think the corrupt in Washington were not against Bernie? Or do you think there isn't meaningful influence of the corrupt in Washington? Or something else? Or do you not have the right to express any ideas about any of it because there must always be something you can't know about it. If you had thoughts and an argument from /evidence/ about it I'd likely update my views at least somewhat. Would I dismiss this idea? Would it become more plausible?

The argument, that I heard expressed, and lack information to fault (acknowledging that such information may exist),
is interesting to me and possibly others. Refraining from stating it as an incontrovertible fact is not at all weasel-like and doesn't seem to me that calling it so is likely to lead to productive discussions between people who are capable of updating their opinions on a topic.
I'm considering the big tech companies, after working for a small non-tech. Meta mid-level can expect to make around $260k+ total compensation.
Wow, that's a great website. This is hilarious though:

https://govtrackinsider.com/protecting-school-milk-choices-a...
There's a simple reason for it. This perk is a 10% discount on Amazon products, which means (1) to get $100, employees will have to spend $1000+, which not everyone will do, and (2) the total cost to Amazon is still less than $100, since a lot of the cost is their own profit margin.

On the other hand, Amazon operates Prime at a loss, since 2-day shipping is ridiculously expensive. It uses it as a way to get and hold on to new customers, but you don't exactly need to do that when the user is already working for Amazon. So offering that as a perk would end up costing the company more than $100/employee.
Most cryptocurrency dunking is because of exactly what you describe: the technology, in its purest form, can avoid a certain category of problems... but those problems are rarely relevant and instead the "cryptocurrency" industry is just a bunch of people chanting the word "blockchain" over and over again as they code their way into a plate of spaghetti.

Axie Infinity is one of the shining stars of the cryptocurrency world, it's the game that'll change the world for the better by bringing people out of poverty... oh, wait, no, it's just another shit show. Whether they got hacked in this way or not, whether they used a blockchain or not, it wouldn't change the fundamental reality that Axie Infinity is a garbage fire, and that's why people are well-informed when they are dunking on cryptocurrency, because even in its purest most magical well used form, it's literally a database. A database!

The idea that Axie Infinity was great EXCEPT FOR the choice not to use a blockchain is so far from reality. I'd go as far as to say this hack is merciful and will finally bring an end to yet another bullshit, predatory project. The hacker has done the world a service, half-a-billion is a fair reward.

(I don't want to distract from my point that this is all bullshit, but in these parentheses I'll add that your point doesn't follow, because the fact that they use a side chain with centralised validators is immaterial. The hack happened because private keys were stolen, which is just as much of a vulnerability if this happened entirely on the main ethereum chain where acquiring the various private keys required to create a legitimate multi-signature is just as possible. You're assuming if they had "just" used a blockchain they would have magically been smart enough not to keep keys lying around where they could be misused... the key takeaway here is that a technology that can be party to a half-a-billion loss because someone was dumb is not good technology)
Did you even skim it? It starts with humility, shares that he believes his coworkers are vitally important and worthy of respect and support, then moves onto core values like empathy.

Like, its a little awkward, but based on writing samples I'd rather work with this David guy than with you.
Google gave out a $1600 cash bonus to all full-time employees at the end of 2021.

https://www.businessinsider.com/google-promises-employees-16...
According to some GitHub issues, it's the copyright at the bottom of the repo for Epsilon. Which is still not a license, so I'm not completely sure.
I get what you’re saying, but I’m almost 100% sure that all you would achieve is spurring the development of new and inventive forms of tax evasion. Not to mention, the companies you intend to tax have a huge amount of political sway, and would likely try to put loopholes and exceptions for themselves and special penalties for others in order to weaponize the tax code to attack their competitors. I’m fairly certain that the end result would be no reduction in emissions whatsoever, but the formation of a number of new monopolies along with the price gouging and stagnation that comes with them.

Now of course, none of that implies that I have a better idea, currently. Except for maybe the replacement of winner-take-all capitalism with something better.
It was likely a bad faith suggestion from someone whose only conception of Africa is lurid VICE documentaries.
When I was at Google, we used an addon to do that. I think it might be this one? Not sure since there was a separate addon repo with internal and specific whitelisted addons.

https://workspace.google.com/marketplace/app/code_blocks/100...
https://github.com/alexwforsythe/code-blocks
eFile could be free too but it's an enormous pain in the ass to even get registered as an IRS developer.

IRS provides docs: https://www.irs.gov/e-file-providers/tax-year-2021-modernize...

but hides them from the public.
We used to just say teenager.
PhoneGap/Cordova. If your app can run in a mobile browser, it can run there too. But you will have to make sure that most of the files are local as I believe apple don’t see kindly to websites with a webview front.
Is the US spending billions to educate them, or are they spending billions to be educated here?
Blaming the well-paid employees for what the others are getting paid isn't the way to go.
> Colleges, rightly have a minimum GPA to graduate.

Brown University does not have this requirement.

Brown does not calculate GPAs, and courses may generally be taken S/NC, though courses must be passed in order to count toward graduation requirements.

The other Ivies have traditional grading systems, but I'm not sure which ones have a minimum GPA requirement per se. Harvard seems to (satisfactory or B-) but Yale seems to require "successful completion" of coursework, though there is a minimum progress requirement (8 or 10 course credits per year) and you can fail out by failing three courses in two or three terms.
that was the cherry on top / the straw that broke the camel's back.
Overall sluggishness and long loading times were probably the main problem.
Zulip seems to be the endgame team messenger for us. Once you embrace the thread-first paradigm the old-school Slack/etc. single-thread approach is just too noisy.
> It's possible that your situation being so simple is exactly what makes it hard for them to be confident that the requestor is you.

You know, in theory this sounds reasonable. However:

- these organizations are grossly incompetent (is there anyone left in the US who has not had their data leaked by a credit bureau?)

- the incentives are very badly misaligned (it is our data, but we are not their customers, other corporations are, and they only provide this service because the law requires it)

I'm going to hazard a guess that it's just really crappy software that's causing this.
Wow. Thank you for helping those of us coming after you.
Optimizing Magic Firewall’s IP Lists
Yep. Went from a job that has 40+ days of PTO *starting* for all employees, tech and non-tech. Now I'm a consultant making 40-70% more depending on RSU math, with "unlimited time off" but as a consultant I certainly feel less comfortable taking a two week vacation on a whim like I did before.
Close. Competitions can be organized by schools too.

These may be: competitions inside clubs, competitions between schools, olympiads, events with prises, etc.

The point is that partitipation in the ranked system is OPTIONAL and meant to encourage performance.

Grades are mandatory, are standard based, task completion based and are more a tool to detect issues.

Ranking should not be mandatory because access to resources of all kinds is absolutely a factor influencing performance, and you want to keep the educational environment fair for everyone. Every student should be able to meet the standard using just the resources provided by the system. Those who don't, should repeat the year until they do. Only one student will become a champion.

If a student is not able to meet the standard, it is a signal that a investigation is needed. Are there family issues? Does the student have a propper learning environment? Are they suffering from stress? Is there an issue with regards to comaptibility with the teacher? What can be done to improove the situation?

The same way in a good MMO adventure game you can stick to story mode and enjoy the game, but a some people will go PvP and compete for the rankings. PvP should not be mandatory, especially if microtransactions are used for items that influence the game.

And in real life, some students absolutely benefit from the equivalent of in game microtransactions, and some do not. And this is not likely to change any time soon.
The US Marines Got Rid of Their Tanks. Is Ukraine Making Them Look Smart?
FedEx Names Raj Subramaniam as CEO, Replacing Founder Fred Smith
Applied Circuits, is a good study, which is the careful application of electricity and components to solving a real-world problem. You’ll find a lot of interesting ability from https://www.allaboutcircuits.com/, good luck!
Used to! So I just decided to practice explaining things in my head while alone. Helped a lot.
4K is "liquid helium" temperature, as used in medical imaging. It is *relatively* cheap. Sub-1K is achieved by an out-of-equilibrium mixture of Helium-4 and Helium-3 (a much rarer, very expensive isotope). This is why sub-1K is much more expensive than 4K cryostats, for a given cooling power.
Did we read different OPs? I see comparison, not blame.
If this is the conclusion you reach it says more about your worldview than anything. Real world policies have nuance to them.
It (like everything else to do with renting) depends on the socioeconomic demographics of your renters.
Not sure about Go, but Rust still links against glibc, so I sometimes have to recompile things to make them work on my Debian systems if they're built against newer glibc.
They maybe knew they were able to take over IE monetization with their toolbar and someone could do it to them. Same reason you can't set a custom home page for new tabs (they only moved to that later though).
For anyone else confused by this, the control logic described in the comment happens in https://github.com/ifduyue/musl/blob/master/src/math/cos.c
They probably just sent you a letter asking you to pay it with a smidgen of interest and that was that, right? Probably hardly worth doing extra work to be super thorough unless it was a large amount.
‘The Voltage Effect’ Review: Do We Have a Winner?
A diff tool for binary files:

https://diffoscope.org/
It takes me more than 120days to staff a mid level software engineering position in my field. When I worked in manufacturing I could hire a darn good welder with NDT experience in 30days. I could staff with a temp who could read and follow weld and grind details on a print in less than 72 hours.

Market scarcity increases the value of a commodity.
I had the same situation once (a missed 1099) and my biggest complaint is that they waited almost a year to let me know. And of course by then it was quite late so I owed them even more money!

Even if they can't tell me what numbers they expect when I file, it seems like they could at least let me know within a few weeks if they're pretty sure I missed a 1099. Heck, I typically file at least a month early. They could let me know before April 15 and I could have just fixed it! Ugh.
How are they less good for everyone else? Or, put another way, how would a variable mortgage payment work and how would it benefit non-mortgage holders?
It's not just Turing complete but even practical. People have built entire CPU emulators that run pretty fast, e.g. https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/175052082/
The Roads Not Taken
Just put an email into the wait-list box. It doesn't check. I guess it's a new dark pattern faking exclusivity.