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> should be the most bipartisan approach

Lol [1][2][3].

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/07/07/irs-taxes...

[2] https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-infrastructure-deal-teet...

[3] https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/middle-class-americans-...
The second thing could be easy to deal with though, just make data sharing be a consent based process.

You can opt in to auto-filing by allowing data sharing with the IRS. People who appreciate the convenience can opt in and those who don't can just not (instead manually providing the requisite documents/proofs/numbers just like today).
Thankfully, I've got a bit of runway to figure things out.

My ultimate goal is to be an entrepreneur by way of product building. But I'm beginning to question if I'm fundamentally not wired for it.
The Rust Programming Language book is usually the first thing people recommend.

https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/
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That's boilerplate code and I agree it can be completely automated.

I would argue it's a very convenient but minor thing, and that it doesn't truly change the complexity of writing code. It just makes it less dreary. I would also argue it's a win that it can be automated, and I think Brooks would agree!

I don't think he was arguing small wins don't matter.
Free tax preparation services are vastly inferior to a personal service. I got audited because I did some stock market gambling and my return only showed the loss and gain for everything and not for every stock traded. So the IRS sent me a letter that my income was in the tens of thousands of dollars because every instrument sold was assumed to be of no cost to acquire making it 100% capital gains. When TD ameritrade reported my trades they did not report the cost basis to them. So I got a letter saying I owed thousands in taxes with no indication in there that I should see a tax prep to clear it up and submit a correction.

Lessons learned:

1. Don't gamble or invest in stocks.
2. Always use a professional to do your taxes.

I was also informed never to sign a letter to agree. Fortunately I never did that.
"Reproducibility crisis" is the meme label that gets attention these days, but I feel like what's happening here is different enough to deserve its own name.

When a study is not reproducible, it means the authors didn't provide sufficient accurate methodological detail for reviewers to reproduce the study results by reprocessing the raw data according to the authors' declared method.

In the cases described here, it sounds like the reviewers were able to reproduce the results - it's just that, once they dug into the details, they found the method used contained subtle but catastrophic flaws.

The crisis here is one of methodological validity. Use of machine learning in research greatly increases the risk of data leak, among other things. The scientific community, both authors and reviewers, will need to become more aware of these risks and proactively point out when results may be subject to such issues.
I think the "social" part of social networks just moved to group chats. All my friends share updates of their family events, kids' stuff etc.. over Whatsapp and Telegram. Strangers gather over topics that interest them and want to talk about it seem to have moved to discord, slack etc.

The whole "broadcast yourself to the world" part of social networks just moved to Tiktok, Twitter, Instagram etc.. I think.
Surprising to see this downvoted. The OP is saying, "the wealthy have more resources to protect their wealth from audits." Which, like, is objectively true?

And if you think money can't buy political goodwill these days, I'm not sure what to tell you...
I'm 6'4", white, physically fit, and highly intelligent -- but I have never been in a romantic relationship. If you start counting when I was 15 and first started really wanting a girlfriend, then it's been 32 years of loneliness for me.
You have several questions, and they range across more than one discipline.

I'd be happy to help you narrow down a job title / job description that would help you recruit for your role. Email in profile.
It's hard to argue with your philosophy because the goal posts never stop moving.

Bitcoin worth anything above $0 would have been an absurd thought 10 years ago, now it's a global asset class worth hundreds of billions of dollars. Unstoppable money not backed by any state is an amazing accomplishment. This alone is a mind blowing fact to me, but again, to the HN crypto hater it's meaningless, because the definition of "success" is constantly moving.

Blockchain and finance are deeply intertwined, so a lot of applications built on digital financial rails (blockchains) are naturally around capital formation, derivatives, trading, etc. but to the socialist / statist that should be outlawed (not just in crypto but likely Wall Street itself) so that isn't anything to you.

One counterpoint is the HN shibboleth of Stripe. Stripe is barely a tweak on PayPal, or at least it was at first, yet everyone on HN ejaculated in amazement at the ability to take a credit card with a javascript function. Of course I think Stripe is a great company, I just want to put into context how on HackerNews, Stripe = "Amazing incredible glorious $100 billion epic company" and cryptocurrency = "Wow a trillion dollar asset built on pure computer science and economic principles created by mysterious cypherpunk, who cares".
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Articles are all over the place. It's not like its a state secret.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/robertwood/2022/08/11/irs-to-ad...
Bodily autonomy doesn't exist, I'm not sure where this idea has come from. If it did exist, prisons wouldn't exist because they are fairly clearly a violation of bodily autonomy.
What pushes towards centralization are two factors; economies of scale and barriers of entry. For those mathematically inclined you can imagine plotting economic reward (y-axis) vs economic input (x-axis). Economies of scale determine the shape and growth of the curve while barriers of entry determine the cut with the y-axis. Obviously, the greater the barriers of entry or the higher the reward as your economic scale grows the bigger the push towards centralization. In the first case because you forbid small actors to participate in the game, in the second case because you reward bigger actors more generously.

So how does this graph look for Ethereum? Pretty simple, if you have more than 32 ETH it's basically flat. You get the same APY irrespectively of your size. And if you have less than 32 ETH? Well, you can then stake with RocketPool (a decentralized staking pool) in which case your APY is 0.85 the full APY. So the graph for Ethereum is:

- 0.85 * APY between [0 ETH, 32 ETH)

- APY between [32 ETH, infty ETH)

Where APY is the yield returned by the network which depends on total amount staked in the network and network fee revenues.

This is a remarkably flat curve, which highlights that there are almost non-existent economies of scale in PoS as designed in Ethereum. If you do the same analysis for PoW you will find it requires significant investment in specialized HW (either top of the line GPU or ASICS), and there are significant economies of scale in the form of access to cheap or unusable sources of energy.
Yeah there’s definitely different types of hard things that don’t fit this
The problem here are UI designers who adore Apple but cannot afford a Macbook. So they target the Linux desktop.
For some people, it’s easier to ask them what isn’t political than what is. Once you realize that, their constant strife makes a lot more sense.
Your persecution complex is incredible
> the 80bn the IRS just got

It's not got. (It passed the Senate on Sunday and is scheduled to be passed by the House tomorrow.)
Ask HN: Anyone else disillusioned from working in tech
I'm technically a new grad, I finished my CS BSc in 2020 but didn't start working then, and instead started another BSc. This year I was close to starting my masters and go into academia but likely won't because I just don't have the energy for it after going through a big breakup and a sort of "identity crisis". Currently I live in a big European capital (with a lot of tech jobs) that I love from the bottom of my heart, and I would like to stay here. But all the computer science jobs just seem so dull and pointless. It seems like you either work for a startup that will eventually be bought by a competitor and all the work that went into it is moot, for a big bank or corporate, or some small company building CRUD apps for other faceless corporations.

What am I missing? I get work is first and foremost an exchange of labour for money, and not supposed to be fun. But aren't there more options I missed so far? I enjoy web scraping a lot and have used it to solve a bunch of real world problems my (ex) girlfriend or I had. I could conceivably work as a freelancer and have done so in the past as a psychology student but I really want to work on something as part of a team. I recently came across the "developer relations" role, i.e. representing the company at conferences and online, recording demos, writing technical blog posts etc.. it seems perfect for me (I prefer working with people), but I would assume they are looking for people who have a few years of experience already so they know what they're talking about?

EDIT: plus some of the most insufferable people I've met in my life were in undergrad CS classes or colleagues in SWE gigs
Sure, but as the article states, the IRS is already ignoring entire categories of tax fraud that is illegal under the law. This means the clearly have discretion over what to pursue. They could choose not to pursue EITC fraud at all.
It's hard to argue with them because they have a financial stake in the system, it's in their interest to spread it as far and wide as possible because it will enrich them. Money clouds judgement.
The hope for global adoption just means "I got in first so I deserve to be rewarded". An honest answer would be that no one care about all the technology as long as number goes up.
Now as they usually say, cope and seethe, nocoiner.
CS50X is a great starting point as they talk about the intro into bits/heap/stack etc. In the first half they have the work using C which will show you how to think about all this.

I'd suggest doing the C parts and stopping at the python side. Once you stop, step into Rust and you'll see how much easier it is to perform all the things you were doing in C.
> One thing right now that is available is rapamycin which basically improves health span and lifespan for every animal it is given

Note every animal. Quoting https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11357-020-00274-1:

] Although the overwhelming majority of studies on the effect of rapamycin on longevity in mice have shown a significant increase in lifespan, there are five studies that have reported either no effect or reduced lifespan when treated with rapamycin.

When you write "every animal it is given" .. do you mean only flies and mice?

I've been having a hard time finding results for any other animals.

There's a decade of research with marmosets (here's a 2012 mention about it in Nature - https://www.nature.com/articles/492S18a ), but none of the papers I find report lifespan, only secondary measures (eg, "Long-term treatment with the mTOR inhibitor rapamycin has minor effect on clinical laboratory markers in middle-aged marmosets" - https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ajp.22927 ).

Since marmosets live for about 15 to 16 years, surely there should be something concrete by now if it has the same effect on middle-aged marmosets when the research started.

I found there's research for dogs, but https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8507265/ says it's also ongoing. I haven't found any published results on lifespan only, again, on secondary effects (eg, quoting the paper, "An initial randomized, double-blind veterinary clinical trial confirmed the safety of this treatment and provided indications of potential efficacy (benefits for cardiac function) in dogs".)

What other animals have shown improved lifespan with rapamycin?

If it's only flies and (most) mice, is that really enough to call it "promising" in humans?
> In fact, auditing anyone who makes less than $50,000 a year should be illegal. Maybe even $100,000.

Why would anyone who made under $50,000 or $100,000 ever bother to pay one cent of taxes if you did that?
No tin in my hat.

https://news.yahoo.com/irs-requires-special-agents-carry-130...
Does anyone else think that collapsing menu bar would look better if it said "MENU" underneath the three lines/hamburger menu?
But it's really nice just being able to alter a regular text file for settings for whatever application you're dealing with.
If the truck is still manned, then does this operating model make any more sense than delivering dog food via the internet ? Why do I need the level of personalization associated with delivering an entire food truck to my doorstep ?
Population A is a miniscule fraction of today's earners. Even if it doubles 3 times, it will still be a small percentage. We have a long, long runway until we need to figure out of $400k is too big of a population.
'The C programming language' and then 'Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces'
If you're using macros for metaprogramming in C, you've outgrown the language and are ready for a more powerful C replacement.
The Debian example you're referring to was back from the release of 11. It's rustc was only 3 months old and already couldn't compile. That's not a "Debian is old" problem and it was only one instance. I've run into the same problem on other OSes as well. No OS hosted repo can keep up with rust and it's particular selection of bleeding edge types.

And it's hardly every Rust thread. There are far too many rust threads to even count, let alone comment on.
Look I love Game Pass as much as anyone but it's a true act of cuntery for Microsoft to do things as heinous as making Elder Scrolls 6 a Microsoft platform exclusive and then cry foul when Sony does the same. "Cries out as he strikes you" indeed.
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I've come to the conclusion that estimating "value" can be quite tricky. Is it the difference as to what their profit would have been without your specific consultancy, without any consultancy, without a specific solution?

To illustrate why, consider the "value" of a (1) a toilet, (2) nuts and bolts (sorry, I'm not great at examples). You couldn't live well without a toilet, the differential cost of having/not having a toilet in your home is immense. That doesn't mean it's reasonable to spend thousands of dollars on a single toilet -- even if you would if you absolutely had to. The cost isn't that high. The same goes for nuts and bolts in a product: they can be essential for the functioning, but it doesn't really cost much, nor makes sense to use uber-costly nuts and bolts. So a naive differential definition of value can be just a rent-extracting proposition, which I think most orgs would try to avoid.

If you're sure no one else in the world could deliver this solution (i.e. it's extremely scarce and non-reproducible), then the value proposition starts to make more sense (because your time and attention is also limited). I tend think that's rare.

So it seems more natural to adapt to each situation: you need to estimate your (operation) costs and target revenue, and then charge with a healthy margin on that; and if your service is highly unique or in high demand, you adapt by increasing your pricing accordingly.
This is certainly the hottest possible hot take.

> Have inheritance trigger a taxable event. This includes, by extension, allowing heirs to inherit stocks and property on a stepped up basis for CGT purposes;

This works for billionaires but harms regular people. If you applied capital gains tax to grandpa's modest gift to his grandchildren the grand children may very well end up with nearly nothing. In many states property taxes are reassessed upon property transfer in a will, so if your grandparents/parents had a really good property tax rate, you may end up paying so much tax that you can't afford to keep the house.

There are already enough ways to rob the middle class. No thank you.

> Tax stocks on market value every year just like we do with property.

This isn't done because the universe of ways you can move, adjust, hedge, and sell stock is too broad. Again, this inadvertently damages the middle class who by-and-large are passive investors. I already pay enough tax, thank you.

> Excessive audits of poor people with a deliberately complex system is punitive by design. Spending time and effort (and money) auditing the taxes of poor people is ridiculous.

If you look at the problem from the perspective of a relatively understaffed organization it is far easier to automate the common errors less well off people make. Having been on the receiving end of this majority of the audits are a simple letter saying "you screwed up, you actually owe this much" and nothing more. Auditing the ultra-wealthy takes an actual dedicated team to do because the ways that these people illegally hide money are complex and ever-changing. This is why nothing we have done to repatriate USD, or "tax the billionaires" has worked since the dawn of the country.

It honestly sounds like your statement here is actually a thin veil over just letting anyone making under $N exploit the system at (once again) the cost of the middle class. Moreover, the title of OP is deliberately inflammatory. The audit rate below 100k is extremely low. The delta can be explained by the difficulty involved.

> Enforcement of a program like the EITC is a cost you do not have to pay. It is a waste of resources.

It is possible to commit extremely complex fraud with the EITC. I pay so much tax as a software engineer I'd like to see other people get pounded by the IRS too regardless of how much more or less than me they make.

> In fact, auditing anyone who makes less than $50,000 a year should be illegal. Maybe even $100,000.

lol.
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This, this, this. Commenter above definitely needs to keep this in mind.

I have explicitly told my coworkers - all of them - to reach me exclusively on Microsoft Teams; because my Outlook ‘inbox’ is so consistently full of garbage that I’d say about 1/40 messages are actually relevant to me.

Email is a problem that needs to be solved. I could never - do never - blame anyone for not answering an email.
> Does it make sense from either an equity or revenue standpoint to focus IRS’s limited firepower on the poorest taxpayers among us – those with incomes so low they have filed returns claiming an anti-poverty earned income tax credit?

Yes, in a sense it does. If you are auditing in order to catch under-reported income, it does make sense to look at lower income returns.

If someone who made $500,000 reported $20,000, their return would be found among those from the honest poor taxpayers, not among those from the rich.

Moreover, someone doing something that egregious is probably dumb enough to be easily busted by the audit processing, and the yield would be high.

Higher earners will have tax returns which are professionally prepared, and complex. Auditing them is going to be a more time consuming process requiring more expertise, and have a low probability of yielding anything.
I wonder how this would work running for example Symfony or Laravel. If you can get that working, it can run pretty much anything.
> So tall, white men are awash in attention.

I'm not sure photos actually convey height that well.
In a past codegolf contest you had to parse some input consisting of L, S, R for left, straight, right to follow a path.

I used complex numbers and the fact that L, S, R respectively have ASCII codes 82, 83, 76 in the identities

i^(82 + 1) = -i
i^(83 + 1) = 1
i^(76 + 1) = i

to get a very compact path reconstruction.
And the bill that just passed adds 87000 new IRS agents. Additionally every single democrat voted against an amendment that would have prevented new agents from auditing individuals and small businesses with less than $400,000 of taxable income.
I'm aware, I'm pointing out the hypocrisy in these specific cases.
33% of the market cap changing hands each day sounds incredibly high. How does that happen?
Good catch. The parent comment is interested in how the array length is inferred though, so I'm going to consider the explanation close enough (that it's an i32 or usize isn't particularly relevant).
ditto! Having coded on PDP-1170s and limited to 32K, fighting with link maps, planning common segments etc... We scratched for bytes.
Telegram CEO claims Apple is delaying update that will 'revolutionize' messaging
If neither Wine nor VMs work for you for some reason, you might actually have an easier time with emulating classic MacOS. There are emulators specifically for it, they have to impersonate just very few models of the hardware, so success is basically guaranteed. The most annoying parts of the experience are if the emulator is too barebones, and that some sites insist on distributing Mac software in ‘StuffIt’ archives, which require a proprietary program in Mac itself, and can't just be uncompressed on the host system.
Unfortunately I feel it is inevitable. They've seen the benefits of it for software and services, particularly for things low on the list of "stuff I can give up in a down economy" and want that revenue and control over the secondary sale market.

I'd be shocked if there weren't mandatory subs for all cars in the next 5yrs, and potentially even one time use or limited use IAPs and in your face promotions for them through car UIs.

It will be gradual while there is competition here, but I suspect they are watching the mobile app and gaming industry quite closely.
I have worked at places where every page load hits the database, and we've scaled ok, mainly because it was b2b stuff.

However a simple redis instance in front of the database serving as a readable cache changes the rules of the game significantly - depending on the complexity of your calculation and your end result subsequent "page loads" or whatever you are doing can be tens of thousands (or more) times as efficient, and if you decide to use an expensive database or a cloud database this can help you a lot.

Eventually the hard part is you might have bugs in synchronizing the state of redis and your database, look to existing implementations for your stack instead of reinventing the wheel.
> One unit per tile games are not Civ games.

Hex tiles with one unit per tile is the only improvement Civ5 has over Civ4.
What compelling evidence? Is there something more than a BMW model that I'm missing?

The Jalopnik article is indeed a random hot take. But that doesn't mean the underlying claim ("pickup trucks are designed to be visually aggressive, and are marketed to their target customer base on that basis") is factually incorrect. I'm not aware of any bias that that's exploiting, other than the general aesthetic displeasure I see at a car that looks like it hates everything outside of it.
1. when you have such tool, you will find the need to tweak and improve, or even replace it with a better model.
2. I have tons of such thoughts, that have no time to implement, really.
3. I use my time to programming, and use money to buy food not time. in other words, poor?
Ask HN: What’re the most customer centric companies?
I want to learn about what are some companies that either go above and beyond for their customers, or/and consistently deliver a very customer focused experience. All of this while succeeding at their business at scale.
Were there significant downsides to the laptop solution?

I have a similar setup with a NUC mounting storage from a small ARM-powered NAS, but I was thinking of changing this to an old ThinkPad X230 with just internal storage and offsite backup.