skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i would suspect that they either fear a loss of profit (b/c platform cut) or reputation (because latency/jitter from bad connection will be wrongly blamed on the game rather than the platform)
> If none of these things apply to you and your taxes are really just a single w2 income it’s pretty simple to just fill out a paper 1040 form (or even 1040ez). You just need your w2 and an hour of time.

I think their point was that this case should be "log in, check the totals match, click OK", not an hour of your time.

Or better yet, not require you to do anything if you believe your withholdings were sufficient.
We're in for a doomsaying "XXXX Shipments see YYY decline" articles after 2020 boom aren't we?

Gotta have those clicks coming. This is all just reversion back to pre-2020 normal.
Me too. I use free fillable forms to efile, and any years they aren't offered by my state, I file paper returns.

And I always wish it were simpler.
> So without the 1953 coup d'état you're certain there wouldn't have been an Islamic revolution because Islamic groups would never again have held any public sway and power?

No, saying something isn't "reasonable to assume" doesn't mean it cannot ever happen. It's hard to prove an hypothetical wouldn't have happened.

I meant that it's unreasonable to suppose the Islamic Revolution would have happened without first the coup (by the West) and then the continued Western support of a tyrannical dictatorship, which gave support to the Islamic revolutionaries that the West was "the devil".

Had Iran had a stable, less tyrannical government for decades, support for a Islamic revolution would have been much, much lower.

Would it have been impossible? No. Would it have been much less likely? Sure.
Golden Cove is a much wider core than Zen 3 and has decently higher IPC. I'd guess Zen 3 is faster at base clocks, but I believe the 12900H doesn't stay at base clocks very often.
Safari is the new IE. From one point of view it's good that Apple still develops his browser and didn't choose to use Chromium like all the others (except Firefox), but from another to this day keeping up with all new web features and standard is not a simple thing. Safari usually is the last to implement modern web features.
Haha thanks! The big things:

- React as the core of the UI, with direct DOM manipulation and canvas stuff whenever the React lifecycle is too slow.
- WebAssembly for any audio logic that happens at least once per sample
- Lookup tables for almost all math that happens at least once per sample and is more complicated than multiplication
- Use Web Audio as an interface layer, but do everything else manually. (Web Audio tries to help a lot of ways but often winds up making things worse)

If you're curious about anything specific I'd be happy to talk!
How did you test your A1C?
and payments.

visa and mastercards will not last another decade if hardware sales don't pick up soon.
Many plants are operating beyond their designed lifetimes because we don't have an alternative right now. This situation cannot go on indefinitely.
I am so glad this notion of renting your games is dying. People need to own their bits.
>Add to all of that, this latest batch of CPUs are just stupid power hungry - like 240w+ under load (except for the non-x variants of AMD 7000 series, just released last month).

That's because in the race to get the highest benchmark scores, both companies have set the stock clocks to a level that's way beyond what's optimal (eg. adding 100W of power consumption to get 5% higher benchmark scores). The CPUs themselves are fine, you just have to adjust the power/clock limit lower.
Computational biologist with >5 years experience in analyzing RNAseq data like the one in the paper: I find 80% of genes being differentially expressed very hard to believe. You usually see such strong effects only when there are other sources of variation not being controlled for (e.g. batch effects) or when inducing an unphysiological state (e.g. treating with a cytotoxic drug).
There is EIN, which indeed uses Polymode, and of which I am a happy user: http://millejoh.github.io/emacs-ipython-notebook/
Huh? The post I replied to said that agencies working with international counterparts is necessarily treason.

Where in the world did you get that strange claim about what I said?
Have you tried coding with ChatGPT? It works now. You can use it now to architect a system AND produce working code.
That corporatism is a part of it, but not the entire story. It's not like the IRS is a helpless victim of capitalist lobbying here. The IRS, and all parts of government, like having power over peoples' lives.

Here's an interesting and relevant news story.

https://news.yahoo.com/irs-urges-millions-taxpayers-delay-15...

If even the IRS doesn't know what their own rules are within the many pages of vague, complicated, and contradictory rules, what chance does an average person have to not mess up at least one thing in their taxes? The immense complexity of the tax code and the chance for getting something wrong gives them power to theoretically try and ruin anybody they want to go after, or at least have them have a lot of influence over peoples lives.

Governments want power and influence, and the IRS isn't going to vote to give away their own power. Having everybody being afraid of the IRS and making people jump through hoops gives them power and influence. This type of power isn't something that will go away with a fight.
I see where you're coming from, but just because mice don't live as long as humans doesn't mean all biological processes happen 16x as fast. They don't defecate 16x as often as humans or sleep 16x per day.

Do you think there is 0 signal about potential impacts on humans from testing on mice? How would you prefer research be done with a similar cost, ability to control variables, & level of ethics?
(wiki) "The idiom tongue-in-cheek refers to a humorous or sarcastic statement expressed in a serious manner."
Spying cases that come to light despite 3-letter agencies fighting it tooth and nail unfortunately mostly end up in this category when judged from common folks and moral perspective.

Most US folks here on HN have some moral qualms with that, now imagine how rest of the world sees this, and how it makes us feel (our lives and rights are inferior to US citizens, a great way to build long term relationship as an example)
You do know that in most countries optional returns are the norm, right?

Sure, if you have a bunch of weird expenses/deductions you can file, but for most people, the numbers the government has are already correct.
That's not really how comment threads work. If you reply to a specific comment, you're replying to the stuff they said in that comment. The guy's not even complaining about c either, he's commenting on the bit of c code that the parent commenter wrote
You don't have to calculate cost basis since the brokerages started reporting it several years ago. You just enter the total form your 1099-Bs onto the Schedule D.

There are a few cases (some crypto 1099s) where they tell you the basis on the statement, but don't actually send that to the IRS since it's not a security. In that case, you'd copy

There are a few scenarios where the brokerage doesn't know the right basis though--examples would be a wash sale across two different accounts.
Hmmm, interesting. Not sure if it would be much use for balloons but if you could make vacuum sections for walls then you could make super insulated walls.
I believe I once read the argument is that this would make people pay more in taxes, since presumably the government would seek to assess the highest liability if there's any ambiguity, and people would be less encouraged to find deduction/credit/etc. opportunities.
It's a government space agency in a kleptocratic state, what other result would you expect?

Roscosmos has been under scrutiny for corruption and fraud for some time. I don't even think you could even attribute it to incompetence (on behalf of the professionals) because if you keep reducing funds and resources problems are going to manifest regardless.
> But you should know this from your functional requirements, right?

Functional requirements describe observable behaviour. You can't write any meaningful tests for that behaviour until a lot of your code is written.

Yet somehow in all the discussions there's this unexplaned leap from "you have the requirements" -> "well you just write a unit test for your function first, and then code it".

My functional requirements come in the form of "Given publisher A in Country B and contract requirements C the service must return D for a subset of products E", for multiple combinations of A, B, C, D, and E. And where each of those may and will require lookups in external services and databases.
What has been happening to the Russian space agency is a travesty. From 2018 to 2022 the Director General of Roscosmos, Dmitry Rogozin, was an actual Sieg Heiling neo-Nazi. He was also a co-founder of the ultra-nationalist party Rodina that wants to ban Jewish organizations and buildings in Russia:

https://twitter.com/bayraktar_1love/status/16057071016402984...

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

Imagine letting a Sieg Heiling neo-Nazi run the legacy of the Soviet space program.
But can one e-File with Free File Fillable Forms? If I have to print out the return and mail it, then it's a no go for me.
Programmers have got to be the stupidest profession with regard to money.

Every single profession, be they doctors, lawyers, actors, artists, tries to increase the value of their work. Programmers go out of their way to devalue the result of their work (software), with the result that the main ways to make money from software is either to use it to power ads, use it to power commerce (Amazon), or use it to power hardware (Apple) but not really to sell software itself.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31042291

DonHopkins 10 months ago:

You've hit the nail on the head, that's a perfect analysis, and it wasn't an isolated incident!

But they'd been like that for a long time, since before I started there in 1990, long before Java. They DEFINED themselves in terms of Microsoft, to the extreme extent that when Sun Microsystems fell apart into separate divisions, they actually named one of them "SunSoft" to directly position it against Microsoft. As if.

The management at Sun didn't consider Java to be a programming language or software platform, they considered it to be first and foremost their primary weapon of mass destruction in their apocalyptic war against Microsoft, and they didn't consider Java developers to be loyal cherished customers, they considered them to be disposable brainwashed mercenaries in their World Wide War against Microsoft.

It was funny when Sun proudly and unilaterally proclaimed that Sun put the "dot" into "dot com", leaving it wide open for Microsoft to slyly counter that oh yeah, well Microsoft put the "COM" into "dot com" -- i.e. ActiveX, IE, MSJVM, IIS, OLE, Visual Basic, Excel, Word, etc!

And then IBM mocked "When they put the dot into dot-com, they forgot how they were going to connect the dots," after sassily rolling out Eclipse just to cast a dark shadow on Java. Badoom psssh!

https://www.itbusiness.ca/news/ibm-brings-on-demand-computin...

Sun totally dropped the ball fighting their true original enemy AT&T, and they should have put all that effort and energy into improving SunOS and railing against AT&T after SunOS finally beat System V in the Unix market, instead of capitulating to AT&T AFTER SunOS won the Unix war against System V, and then rolling over, giving up, selling out to their mortal enemy, and becoming Solaris.

To port my favorite cross platform Apple/IBM joke:

Q: What do you get when you cross Sun and AT&T?

A: AT&T.
The IRS already kind of does this. They know that when someone itemizes their expenses and their net income is x while net losses are y that their itemization has an error threshold of +/-z, where z is an already padded number. All that does is decrease the number of non-random audits they have to do. I'm not sure it'd really make taxes any more simple or complicated than they already are.

It's probably important to note there's many different camps here:

1. People who want a simpler tax code (eg: flat tax)

2. People who don't want to have to pay tax processors

3. People who don't want the IRS submission to be an exercise in hedging

Personally, I'm more in camp 2, because I recognize our tax code is full of levers we use, that change and adapt, to incentivize activity in the economy.
Lessons We Learned Selling Everything and Hitting the Open Road in an RV
That’s a large part of the article’s call-out — there’s no real tracking of outcomes, and looking to do so is met hostility.
your second paragraph kinda answers itself
black coffee and plain tea are acceptable according to everything I’ve read, probably because they are close to 0 calories and certainly not nutritional calories if >0. So I drink them. Unfortunately there’s no way to know if you’re still in a fasted state after that coffee. You can test blood sugar with a pinprick and that is a marker, but not a guarantee.

To summarize: absolute safest is water only.
Russia had zero logical reasons to blow it up. I don’t have any trouble believing that Putin’s devotion to rational decision making is less than complete at this point—particularly when it comes to doling out retribution to the west.

The idea that the US would risk making itself a pariah amongst its NATO allies, particularly right now does not seem believable to me.
The return free model works in several other countries. Even if it wasn’t accurate, it saves hours in filing taxes.
I don't think paragonating email clients to houses makes all that much sense. Unless you use them for personal stuff (but most people use mobile phones or webmails for that these days, that to manage 1 personal account it's fine) email clients are a professional tool, used at work.

So it's more correct paragonating them to a factory, where furniture doesn't need to look good but it needs to be functional, safe and reliable.
I've just recently tried to pick up Scala, by going through the excellent Hands-on Programming with Scala so I can provide a newcomer's perspective.

Metals is great if a bit buggy. Being able to just install a VSCode plugin and start hacking is huge. If you want to win new programmer mind share, improving Metals (or some other VSCode language server) is the way. Scalafmt is nice to see coming from Java.

The build tooling situation is awkward. Mill looks much more modern than sbt but clearly isn't the de facto choice. The general community displease about sbt further adds to the unease. The main take away here should be the onboarding experience to the build ecosystem does not instill confidence.

The difference between ZIO/Typelevel stuff is not immediately clear. Why are there two functional programming ecosystems? I guess it's a convention vs configuration debate? It seems like the two ecosystems should overlap then, but fair enough.

A single language level package repo would be cool for discoverability purposes, but I'm also used to the multi-repository thing. A directory or something to make packages more discoverable might be a good half-step.

Ammonite is fantastic, but along with Metals and all the other tooling I've used, it works better under Scala 2. Scala 3 is still kind of weird.

The biggest things to me would improve Metals, improve onboarding for build system, improve Scala 3 support for tooling all around, improve discoverability of defacto best/most active packages.
>So, does this bill mean that products like MS Office can’t be used in schools because it would force students to use proprietary software? Is it just targeting websites that use extensions that are only usable in a certain browser?

Wouldn't that be sensible though?

If the software is gratis and FOSS, then all the children can use it in whatever context they want.

This is not true for MacOS or Windows. People may not own MacOS devices or have the money for the licenses.
They never caught Trump for tax evasion because he does what all rich people do: hires the top lawyers and accountants to handle it. If they could bust Trump they could bust the rest of them.

The whole tax code is a legal maze to protect the wealthy and keep the middle class down.

That's why it can't be simple. There is no place to hide ulterior motives in simple.
Isnt this the 4th incident in like a week? Seems like its actually a routine occurence but the media is choosing to fixate/overreport it after the spy baloon.

Either that or china’s genuinely trying to test our response times and protocols in preperation for something down the line
i7 and i5 are just "market segment" identifiers. Even in the first few generations, there were "i7" cpus that were inferior to "i5" ones.

In general, you can only infer very little from the marketing names. To have any actual idea, you have to look at benchmarks. In practice, 13600 is ~70% faster per thread, and has 2.5 times the threads.
One question I had was would it be possible to stop using paper returns? If the IRS forced it, how many filers would be dropped through the cracks today? 10 years from now?
Code signing certificates are NOT TLS certificates. Old code signing certs are an entirely different issue from old TLS server certs.
A non-US perspective (Irish). My employer reports my pay, deductions, benefits in kind, income tax, etcetera every month to the Revenue (goes by the acronym PAYE - Pay As You Earn). At any point up to three years after the end of a tax year, I can log in and adjust my tax credits, such as medical, carer benefit (ie, taking care of someone long term) and so on. I'll get refunds within a week if I'm owed one; I just did this for 2021's tax credits for working from home (electric, natural gas, broadband). The only paper paperwork I have to do at the moment is capital gains on shares or property.

I have no idea if this approach is compatible with the various state and federal taxes that the US has to deal with; I just know it's so much easier now than when I was a student in the US.
What is your goal? Are you looking for contributors? Do you have plan for monetization?
>This had to have been obvious given how a small company in the UK could build the Raspberry Pi.

According to wikipedia they use chips from Broadcom. I'm not sure how a small company being able to make SBCs using chips from a massive multinational is indicative of how easy it is for cloud vendors to "make their own chips".
There is also the MicroVAX. We got one (a MicroVAX II) at my place of work shortly before I left in 1986. It ran Ultrix, a BSD derivative. As I recall it, the box would not have been too big for personal use, though the price tag probably was on the steep side.

From before, we had a VAX 11/750. It, too, was a freestanding box in the computer room, possibly close to a cubic meter in volume. Not something I would want at home! It ran VMS, which I found clunky and difficult to work with. But we got a Unix emulation layer called Eunice installed on it, which made it more bearable.
I feel sorry for you - and the original context is now deleted - but I would point out that many of the leaders in the west have not been okay with Putin for a very long time, and every Russian I have talked too has said either they can’t do anything about it, or the Ukrainians had it coming and Russia was abandoned after the Cold War (it was not), there should have been a Marshall plan(there was), that Russia has never been a aggressor (it frequently is), that Putin isn’t popular (he is) and that the Russians can do nothing about this(they can)x
Relational Database.

Just use Postgres really.

Here you go, one less thing to worry about. Thank me later.

Maybe in the future when you actually start having problems, then you can consider options to solve specific problems. But I don't think the concept of "choosing a database" is really useful.
At least in Congress and many executive positions, they are neither term-limited nor randomly selected.
Tailwind always reminds me that there’s this weird respect pitfall where people treat CSS as too hard / primitive to learn and then spend considerably more time trying to avoid writing it than it would have taken to learn the tools of their chosen trade.

Especially in the modern era, it’s not that hard – what takes time is building a custom design, and that’s a key point he’s missing in this article. If you want to look different than other Bootstrap sites, you can do the same customization work as in his Tailwind example. It’s also likely the case that thinking about how to name things is going to be better than just spraying utility classes long-term since that gets you to think about where things are and are not the same.
Can't speak for California law, but in NC, when a local municipality set up its own fiber network, they were sued by ... Time Warner Cable (IIRC) on the grounds that cities can't use public funds to 'compete' with private companies. To add insult to injury, they were mostly looking to manage their own fiber network to serve their citizens because TWC had said "no, we're not going to support your region, because it's not profitable". So... it's not profitable for a private company, and public orgs can't compete with private companies..... so... take a hike?
This whole problem would be resolved if we could get it on the blockchain
You clearly aren't aware of the rule of acquisition 211:

Employees are the rungs on the ladder of success. Don't hesitate to step on them.
How successful was the Patriot Act? Without measurable benefits we can't really say.
For the ACA, the numbers I'm seeing are much less than 50%. From the Kaiser Family Foundation "While uninsured rates decreased across all income groups from 2013 to 2016, they declined most sharply for poor and near-poor people, dropping by 9.7 percentage points and 11.4 percentage points, respectively." From that same source "In 2017, the uninsured rate reversed course and, for the first time since the passage of the ACA, rose significantly to 10.2%." You bring to the table an important point, though. We need measurable benefits. The fact that there's even guessing at the purpose of bills shows the flaw. We should require goals with every bill. Without that we just have bickering on specifics which, by design, have never been communicated. Politicians use this lack of information to their advantage.

Edit - source
- https://www.kff.org/report-section/the-uninsured-and-the-aca...
This is true. But my browser cannot possibly know whether I want:

- page zoom at 100% or different

- hardware acceleration on or off

- autofill on

- history tracked

- cookies recorded

And it is able to do it. Software engineering is usually far ahead of most other fields, it is true, but I think this concept https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Default_(computer_science) is transferable without it being too much trouble.
They didn't stop the IRS from telling us what they know and what they expect, and if it's accurate and you don't dispute their information, you pay the bill and attest you have no other income.

I wouldn't care if I over pay. After paying someone hundreds in fees to do my taxes I don't usually get much of any money back. I'd rather let the government keep $400 than give it to a tax company that probably won't actually help me in an audit.
No longer supplying means that they get geopolitical flack for 'using hydrocarbons as a weapon'. And will get dragged before the courts for not honoring their long term contracts.

So blowing the pipeline up is the better alternative.
Thank you for bringing that license to my attention. I've been figuring out licensing for a project and out of all the ways I've looked into, this one fits my thinking the most.
EZ doesn't exist any more. The new 1040 is basically the same stuff though.