skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Feel free to seek the advice of an attorney on taking the 5th on a tax form

> Feel free to seek the advice of an attorney

> seek the advice of an attorney

> an attorney

Are you an attorney?

> being asked XXXX doesn't amount to compelled admission of a crime, because XXXX isn't illegal

This is bad legal advice! Talk to a lawyer (before you talk to the IRS or any government investigatory agency), especially if it is your plan or intent to lie to the government or challenge their interpretation of a law and how it governs your behavior (the premise of OP).

Better advice: Seek tax or legal advice on HN. From anyone.
Quite a bit of the tax code is vague like this. Until they decide to go after them and case law sets a precedent.
I think we are getting closer to Jarvis, finally
Sure… I read that. The instructions do a great job of explaining a few cases of what is definitely a digital asset, and they explain what you and I both know are obviously included.

The instructions “include” a few obvious things. They don’t “exclude” anything like V-bucks.

So what constitutes a “representation of value”?

I can buy and sell V-Bucks cards, can I not?

It may sound like I’m being a bit obtuse, but there is nothing here that tells me whether my ultra rare skin that I received that I could sell my account for $100 on eBay applies or not.

Many things are obviously a digital asset, but determining what isn’t is far trickier, especially once you move away from perhaps the easiest example of digital currency in Fortnite.

Saying “obviously they’re targeting Bitcoin and the Charlie Bit My Finger NFT” tells me what I already know I should declare. Nothing tells me what I shouldn’t… almost like they can decide that whenever they want during an audit.
Focus on the little fish while the big fish continue to not pay
Ugh, stop giving legal advice on the internet.
I unfollowed everyone on Facebook and it was very effective at getting me to stop using the platform. Now I just keep it for occasional event invites and to look up old info on people I know. I check it every few months or so.
Leet code is like prostitution. It’s cheap, short term, and the employment prospects are high risk / low reward.

In most of software there is no relation between being a good developer and being either highly valued or highly employable. Being good requires lots of practice solving tough problems. Being highly employable means high familiarity doing average things with tools incapable of solving tough problems.
bourbaki
Creating some random sentences, this came up as 98% chance as fake: My name is Aram. I have a large piece of fish in my backpack. I want to go to the mountains. I have no goals in life. This is all I can write.

When I changed "I want..." to "I quite want...", the slider moved from 98% to 21% chance fake.
Sorry, you're right[1]. I was confusing the IRS with the SEC.

[1]: https://www.irs.gov/individuals/international-taxpayers/freq...
Just about human intelligence in general. I used to think replacing my software job was a long ways off because it is fairly intellectually challenging but chatgpt has really changed my opinion on that.

Its funny how many people will immediately poke holes in it for software development, but two years ago I could not imagine an AI could write code like chatgpt is doing now.
Does a git repository, when duplicated, qualify as a "cryptographically secured distributed ledger or any similar technology"?
Yes, the west manufactured narrative using the title of a PRC _ACTION_ movie to label PRC diplomacy for merely being assertive in response to western assertiveness.

Hence it's a WESTERN label.

PRC foreign ministry doesn't call themselves wolf warriors, just like US State Department doesn't label themselves as Rambo for their Rambo Diplomacy. Linking to a wiki where the sources are just western MSM manufacturing and repeating the label reinforces my point. "Wolf warrior" or "coercive diplomacy" is western propaganda, which is really a side note to my broader point that PRC being diplomatically ASSERTIVE has worked well, and out maneuvered US failed minilateral efforts (soft power) in the region.
That’s not how bank account balances work. My balance is an entry in a database, sure, but it’s not “just” an entry.

If a video game company decides my points are now worth half as much, or that they’ve expired, that’s their prerogative — and if I don’t like it that’s too bad. If a bank tried to do that, they’d get hit with a ton of lawsuits that they’d definitely lose.
Apple allows voice reporting via Siri. I’ve not mastered the lingo, but it’s good to know it’s an option.
I can see the anti-crypto types in glee over the tedium of having to record every Reddit community points transaction a user receives.

"The oppressor no longer uses his own force directly upon his victim. No, our conscience has be­come too sensitive for that. There is still the tyrant and his victim, but between them is an intermedi­ary which is The State—the Law itself. What could be better de­signed to silence our scruples and—more important—to overcome all resistance? Thus do all of us, by various claims and under one pretext or another, appeal to The State" - Frédéric Bastiat
Big Coked Gorillas
You sort of missed my point.

It’s where some of the worst most toxic interactions I have ever encountered come from. Take the worst of YouTube and tumbler and then amplify it. Twitter by contrast is a paradise. HN for all its pedantry is at least useful most of the time.

It does not affect me personally. But I could see others being attacked on it then going and doing very stupid things.

A short time on the fediverse if you do something that someone doesn’t like might be enough to ensure you never want to interact there again.
It was an Agatha Christie novel (I think) and that literally stopped the reader and told you you had all the clues necessary for resolution.
Can you explain what would satisfy your criteria?
It also did not work perfectly for me, running GP's prompt. ChatGPT left off the shared "Egg Rolls" entry entirely :(
To be clear, these statements are not incompatible. And this has always been my argument.

I'm ready for AI to replace all laborious job functions and give everyone creative superpowers.
In addition to Europeans, the contemporary set I mentioned also includes

1. Arab slavers who made eunuchs of their captured (kidnapped) slaves, and

2. the Mesoamerican civilizations whose religious imperative was to keep their sacred pyramids constantly covered in flowing human blood

The corollary of your point, even if it was a fair and accurate assessment of Columbus' affairs, would be that Europeans were otherwise moral judges -- although by today's standards I'm sure you'd also condemn them just the same.

Columbus was a product of his times, as were the slavers and the natives.
There's no mention of CFA Francs in that article?
Also the bitcoin experiment that this article briefly talks about has since become a failure - though that's probably more on the incompetence of the rollout than bitcoin.
I wouldn’t worry too much about it. Just assume all your transactions are taxable, as usual. Unless there is an exemption.

What I am worried about is that the government can take a two-step approach to ban ANY inconvenient mechanism from being used by the public:

1) Force the developers to declare their mechanism as an X (money transmitter, or exchange, or communication platform)

2) Then regulate X by forcing all developers of X to require their users to provide Y.

So this way they can for example ban encryption. In Monaco and Dubai, it is technically illegal to use end to end encrypted messengers except the ones with backdoors (eg BOTIM).

If you think you can stay in some offshore jurisdiction, just remember that FATCA is global and pressures all countries to comply eventually.

The only reason the public has any freedoms at all is because the makers of browsers and operating systems have not been pressured yet into banning every website that doesn’t register with the government. However, with HTTP3 we are going to see that, encryption certificates will be treated just as “official BIOS bootloaders” of OSes 10 years ago. See “the war on general purpose computing” by Cory Doctorow. It’s coming.

Update: it’s already here in China: https://www.zdnet.com/article/china-is-now-blocking-all-encr...
Nginx, but I can't speak to its suitability for your use case.
So, "liquid"? But NFTs aren't liquid, and they count...
This is strange to me because my understanding is that era5 is reanalysis data based on models and data assimilation (i.e. bayesian time series modeling). So they produced a machine learning model that predicted modeled data but not the raw data. But I could be completely wrong as Im not an expert on this.

link for era5 https://www.ecmwf.int/en/forecasts/datasets/reanalysis-datas...
Can you trade the assets from those loot boxes for real dollars? Then report it.
I don't know why people think the IRS is looking to establish perjury cases against taxpayers. That's really not what they're doing (or how perjury is qualified statutorily for the tax code[1]): they'd much rather get your back taxes from you than actually go through a trial process.

In other words: the standard for perjury on your tax forms is very high, much higher than the unintentional mistakes that the IRS is aware millions of people make each year.

[1]: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/26/7206
can they please ask whether it's silent? The major problem I have with refridgerators is that they are too loud and architects seem to have an obsession with designing single room apartments. It's getting harder and harder to find a cheap apartment that doesn't force you to put your fridge into the same room where you sleep.
Perjury requires intent.
Can you imagine the power of a machine learning rover with precision tools on a cannabis farm.
> If you consider all possible 12-character passwords, there are something around 2^72 possibilities. [...] But the people who crack human-created passwords don’t do it that way. [...] What matters is whether yours is going to be among the few billion that attackers try first.

In other words, human-generated vs non-human generated becomes irrelevant with the growth of an average password length, the longer the length of a human-picked password the lower the chances it would match with someone else's leaked longer password. In the end it would take slightly more than a dataset with "a few billion" pre-defined values. The attacker has to decide whether the password is even longer than usual, or non-human generated at all, and whether it's still worth pursuing for the further few billion iterations.
Per the link:

> Digital assets are not real currency (also known as “fiat”) because they are not the coin and paper money of the United States or a foreign country and are not digitally issued by a government’s central bank.
So, you needed a multiple step process of technology transfer to an ai or an app to figure out how to split the check?

I find this fascinating but not terribly impressive. Its fascinating that such a rudimentary skill prompted you to dive down this rabbit hole. The unimpressive part is that it's a rudimentary skill yet your over engineered solution still only required rudimentary skills.
In case you're wondering (as I was):

Node 1: UCLA (30 August, hooked up 2 September, 1969) - SDS SIGMA 7, SEX

Node 2: Stanford Research Institute (SRI) (1 October) - SDS940/Genie

Node 3: University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) (1 November) - IBM 360/75, OS/MVT

Node 4: University of Utah (December) - DEC PDP-10, Tenex

https://www.zakon.org/robert/internet/timeline/

And a network sketch:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/gallery/early-sketch-of-a...
> I even met the librarian who invented the phrase “surfing the internet”...

A bit of internet surfing turned up her story about it: https://www.netmom.com/surfing/birth-of-a-metaphor
For those who want to look I think they're referring to https://www.google.com/search?q=Halifax+Central+Library&tbm=...
> I asked them "What if the device name is 'Project Dragonfly v2 Conference Room'?"

> This of course leaks the device name to the public

Leaking the sound from that room is potentially serious, but I thought the whole point of project codenames was that it's fine when the codename inevitably leaks to the public.
If anyone is curious, it's not just used to make unreadable spaghetti code. There are certain common paradigms, eg.

int do_stuff_in_order(void) {
int ret = init_a();
if (ret != success) goto out;

ret = init_b();
if (ret != success) goto error1;

ret = init_c();
if (ret != success) goto error2;

return 0;

error2:
teardown_b();

error1:
teardown_a();

out:
return ret;
}
Looking forward to a Matrix version! So far it's being done just for that privacy-hostile proprietary platform.
The value of crypto is based on the concept of pump and dump.
Suggesting that nano and vim are both "modal editors" because nano has some confirmation dialogs is not a deep insight, it's just pedantry. And it ignores the entire reason why you'd describe an editor as modal: that changing modes is integral to the editing experience. You can't change modes in nano to make editing more efficient.
Ah sorry I missed the /s implicit or otherwise (no insult or attack intended)
That may be so but the degree of authority is inappropriate, as is the assumption that OP had not read that document, which leaves a lot of ambiguity.

The problem with tax rules is that they are open to interpretation and if the taxman interprets them differently then you have a real problem. The better answer would have been to ask a tax lawyer if the op is genuinely concerned about this (which they may well be, for instance because they have a substantial amount of value stored that way).
Pre-covid (and pre-renovation) it had a laser cutter too! Hoping that comes back soon. By all accounts it was really popular and well used.
you don’t need 3K+ employees to keep the site running.

i was at google and a service you probably use everyday if you have android was being supported by 3 people.

not defending elon but the company was bleeding money on edge of bankruptcy. feels like entitlement to me to give fake jobs to thousands of people who don’t produce value.
Boy am I glad I did not bother to redeem the NFT that came with my toddler's Hot Wheels race track!
Does a git repo try to be a representation of value. If we're going to be pedantic, it can cut both ways
Did this years ago. Can’t recommend it enough.
Donald Knuth’s 2022 ‘Christmas Tree’ Lecture Is about Trees
Books just seem like such a bad thing to counterfeit. There is a super long tail of products, they weigh a lot and are expensive to ship, and aren’t expensive or high margin to begin with.
Multistop mapping was only added this most recent release I believe
No worries at all. I probably should have made it more extreme to get the point acros, my bad.

And this is why I like comments here.
I’ve been noodling on this while doing shores today. I think the main thing is not degrees of freedom here, but degrees of freedom around a fixed point. There are four servos in this thing, and about nine gears. You can rotate a probe through a full three degrees of freedom with three servos and six gears, but you also need the X Y and Z coordinates if you want to spin an object without moving it.

I think one more motor would give you full 3 degrees of freedom by allowing you to move the braces out of the path of movement. But I also suspect that one more of these motor assemblies would get you close to five degrees, and four of them total would get you six, with some wiring troubles to deal with. In the end you’d have an arm with just a “shoulder” and a wrist, which could be pretty interesting.

I aLso wonder if you could invert the gear and the cog, with motors inside the sphere.
The IRS guidelines specifically exclude assets you purchased.

And more generally the guidelines the require you to provide the capital gains or loses, I don't think there's a secondary market for such in game items to be redeemed for dollars or equivalents.

(Now there is something funny here about MTGO and the set redemption mechanic, so you could argue that MTGO cards are digital assets, but MTGA cards aren't).
What is happening in crypto is that libertarian and other anti-“the system” nerds are just rediscovering scams and schemes from the 1800s.
It was broken, then it worked, then it was broken, and now it works again.

Also, remember, if you got logged out, you've been bumped out of 'latest' mode if you were using it.
As you said, this is certainly a complicated situation.

But this is HN, and, from an optimization / constraint satisfaction problem perspective / scale perspective, it’s really not a very large problem. The “going home” problem is a standard programming contest problem. This is more constrained, but a globally optimal solution isn’t needed. Southwest literally has a program called SkySolver. It should work.

So you need to choose destinations for a few thousand planes? Pick the place you would normally have them at 4 AM two days hence. Need captains familiar with the airports? Surely the captains who would normally fly from a given airport at 4 AM two days hence are familiar with those airports. This gives a good starting solution for further optimization.

You need to get a message to ~20k people? Great, Twilio will do that with minimal effort.

Will a budget of a couple million dollars, this is not hard. There are good SMT solvers available for free. CPLEX is expensive but not on this scale. Managing test cases on this scale is straightforward.

Even in an emergency, something good enough to get to the point where SkySolver starts working again should be doable.

People who manage electric grids have protocols for “black starts”. These protocols are messy and complicated, but they are developed in advance, and they work. Airlines should have the equivalent capability.
If you ask a congress critter, I'm sure they'd love to be able to tax v-bucks too if they were to be told of them. It at least has the ability to become things of lore like requiring a stamp-like fee for emails
Review Panel Finds UCSB’s Dormzilla Poses “Significant Risks”
The book does also say some people with certain gene only need 4 hours of sleep. She could be in this category and is only sleep more.
Against your will? You had to manually claim it, choose among 3 or 4 different "collections" too.
The "influencers" also uphold the web of lies as much as execs do on social platforms, just as with crypto, it's really only insiders that win the game.

It would be likely be quite telling if a paid ad was perhaps run from a shadowbanned account? Would the stats then be fake? Or could any message get a pass for money?
I'm impressed Jim gave Scali 56+ pages of conversation. I had to stop entertaining my friends well before that when they started insulting me a 'trans-lover' back in 2020.

I hope Scali can see through the confusing mess they've read themselves into one day.

>marking up Antifa
as a terrorist organization may actually be a good call. I feel he had them figured out before I did.

On Trump

>And it's also interesting that all 3 (white) people that were shot in Kenosha, had pretty big criminal records

Scali's warped perception of the Waukesha protests needs to justify why people died.

>This is a civil war, BLM/Antifa are trying to create some kind of Marxist/anarchist
state, and the democrats are actually encouraging them.

Grind that axe.

>Anyway, the REAL point is that you don't even bother to listen

Jim just had a 3 month long conversation with you.
Well, right. And real companies don’t just have cheer leaders on YouTube making videos of being on team “X-coin” and having tons of followers like a cult trying artificially prop up the value so they can dump it on sone sucker. It’s really amazing.
The key message, in my reading, is that at the heart of Western civilization is a sort of schizophrenia.

Because we (or at least the True & Decent Inheritors of it) like to believe that the West is this singular civilizing force -- i.e. we believe out of the kindness of our hearts that everyone has the same moral worth but also that the Other needs to be taught the way -- the way exemplified by this unique realm of ours that affords protection & compassion to all and demonstrates the right way to live.

I'm actually quite in support of the idea that the modern West represents the ideal state so far as we know to date -- but let's not proselytize the sh*t out of it.
Correct. Your local bank’s balance is none of those, either. Neither is your Venmo balance or your VISA / Mastercard balance from the issuing bank.
These are important questions that I think aren't super well defined currently. Cryptocurrencies are changing so fast that it's hard for the law to keep up. It will eventually.

Seems like a great field of legal scholarship right now!
They found ruins of a civilization. If they found an actual civilization, it would be a political matter.
That's amazing. Good job!
Looks like this isn't a new requirement, just a UX change given the increasing popularity of Crypto -- using Form 8949 for Crypto transactions has been the guidance since 2014 ( Notice 2014-21, 2014-16 I.R.B. 938 ).

https://www.irs.gov/individuals/international-taxpayers/freq...

Coinbase directs its US users to CoinTracker, which you can then import into (say) TurboTax.
> It took many decades of trial and error to overcome this dogma, but today's productivity software all features a massive amount of functionality integration, not functionality separation.

Yes, so much integration that despite JetBrains IDE functionality being first-class, we have still seen the rise of LSP over the last few years.

That's more like the Unix philosophy, not less.

And that's not even to mention that small, composable programs and libraries are NOT incompatible with integration. In fact, they help it.
There probably isn't a handy pre-made list but there should be court filings that are relatively easy to search. Typically it would be something like Foo vs $xx,xxx since the seized money is on trial, not a person. I'm sure a company as big as Google or Apple could figure out some way to gather and parse that data if they wanted to.
Biggest Scientific Breakthroughs of 2022
> Different components can integrate and coordinate through standards.

We've tried that and for the most part, it doesn't actually work in practice. Hell, it doesn't even work between standard Unix programs. They don't "integrate and coordinate" at all. They just push unstructured text around, and in some cases that's sufficient to perform some very basic compound tasks.

There is an upcoming project though that tries to make Unix pipelines work the way they are supposed to: Nushell[1]. It has real composability with strongly typed data that flows between commands.

Guess how they're doing it? Yup, that's right: They're building it all as a monolithic system where the entire pipeline is supervised and interpreted by the shell. Unix is too fragmented and standards are too difficult to develop and implement for any other approach to be realistically feasible. "Small programs" are an evolutionary dead end.

[1] https://www.nushell.sh/
> the main disadvantage of Abe et al.’s design is that it is an over-actuated mechanism: it requires four instead of only three actuators. In this paper, we propose a variation on this mechanism which requires three actuators, thus simplifying its control and its potential cost.

That’s sort of the problem. Four motors and nine gears, versus three motors and six gears. I suspect their solution here may be as simple as having two rolling motors at angles, and only one motor for twisting.
So this is like the Doctrine of Equivalents in patent law?
Dr Pepper has a strong enough flavor that it masks the aftertaste of the diet version. The bigger hurdle is to acquire a taste for Dr Pepper to begin with.
Time to redefine normal body temperature? (2020)
Gas is a defacto waste product from oil extraction, and very energy dense.

It’s shocking it’s not a bigger delta the other way.