skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The tax system in the USA is too complicated. I don't have any easy solutions.
I don't deal with enough money to make spending a lot of money on tax professionals or spending a lot of time myself dealing with all the details a good value proposition for me. One day out of the year, at most, is what I feel like I should be concerned with here, for all levels of the tax system: federal, state and local.

Instead what I'm left with is a dizzying array of information to keep track of and a vulturous private tax preperation industry trying to lock me into their products.
I get it, people with serious money moving around want the flexability to make sure every last penny stays out of Uncle Sam's hands.

That's not what I'm concerned with. I'd gladly opt in to a simplified system where maybe I don't save every dollar but I don't have the hassle of dealing with a complex system and I can easily stay compliant and up-to-date.
I hope you realize that the majority of federal and state funding works as you describe with the exception that the benefits are not Universal and targeted at the poor. Wealth transfers from the rich to the poor are at an all-time high.
Australia asks Twitter how it will mod content without staff, gets ghosted
If there is wrongdoing, I'm totally fine with a clawback. If they take government bailout, a clawback is absolutely essential.

One of the stupidest things to happen during the 2008 "crisis" was congress shoveling money at a bunch of firms "that couldn't fail", and companies immediately paying them out as "bonuses they were contractually obligated to pay".
> They already know how much I need to pay them/how much they owe me.

This is not true in regards to the US Tax code. There's a reason the tax preparation industry is so large in this country.
This is all thats required of staff engineers? Heck, at the big consulting firms, senior associate engineers had to do all this to get promoted to manager.

[context: senior associates were 1 step from the bottom rung]
OP's quote: "your job can end at the whim of a boss or the slightest gust of economic headwind."

If remote work is established properly, then your remote job will end instantly and will be shipped to Canada or Latin America (if bosses care about timezones) or to Eastern Europe or India (if timezones are not an issue). My company had multiple layoffs and then new waves of headcount. Most of the layoffs happened in the US. 100% of the new headcount is in cheaper countries.

Remote work seems glorious if you look at 2020-21. But beware the second order effects!
An entire week of nothing but oral presentations, and you really can't see how that's completely unrealistic? Do you think the only things professors (or students for that matter) have to do is go to lectures and listen to oral exams?
I was wondering why the GCC Machine Description language was such an outlier, especially considering I've never heard of it before. I googled it, and it turns on machine description files use the extension ".md".
A neighbour filled a pothole outside my house with cold mix. With fairly low traffic, it lasted about 4 days before it was completely torn up, showering several parked cars (including my own) with sharp, sticky gravel
Average IQ by Country
I had the opposite experience. Work is far less demanding and takes far less time than school. Deadlines mean far less. You get points for solving the problem. Asking a colleague for help is expected, not against the rules.
On some counts, he is not wrong.

It will cost taxpayers billions of dollars. Those billions of dollars will be well spent, and may be a net 0 cost for taxpayers after the savings on eFiling.

This is a revocation of the license to print money by the tax prep industry.
New York Times ran an article yesterday saying otherwise. First tier cities, in terms of size, are losing people, but second tier cities are growing. The cost of living in the largest cities puts a negative force on moving to them.
But fine-tuning is very different from (pre)training. Pretreating proceeds via unsupervised learning on massive amounts of data and compute, while fine-tuning uses much smaller amounts, with supervised learning (instruction tuning) and reinforcement learning (RLHF, constitutional AI).
Unpopular opinion: With quickly growing organizations and therefore more inexperienced people managers, promoting someone to staff engineer is an easy way out of responsibility.

How often have I heard "you’re at a point in your career now where a people manager will only hinder you" to justify not being capable of supporting me.
Compromises were made, because of the hardware limitations of the time. A "Windows 2095", rebuilt for modern processors and security practices while maintaining the essential aesthetic of the original, would be blazing fast.
Allow read access to your calendar for teammates and instruct them to override your "Thinking time" slots in situations where the matter is urgent.
I certainly like that companies are introducing yet another step in the IC ladder. Before it was like: junior1 -> junior2 -> senior1 -> senior2 -> manager. And the money you get by being junior2/junior2/senior1 is not that much. Nowadays I see companies doing: ... -> senior1 -> senior2 -> staff1 -> staff2 -> manager.
So, in the past I have quit a job at level staff1 (decent money), just to go to another company where they label me as senior 2 (more money, but this is not the topic of discussion here). So now, I have yet another opportunity to make more money by being promoted to staff1 (and then staff2) basically doing the same thing I have been doing all these recent years.
I think I might have phrased my original message poorly. I'm not using Copilot/GPT to directly generate the text in the game. Copilot is only helping me to write the code that generates a prompt, which then gets sent off to whatever other model I want.

But the suggestions are appreciated, though! I have a framework that allows me to swap out arbitrary model 'back-ends' on the fly. So I can definitely take a look to see if these work well for my case.
Yup this has been an option for a while but it isn't a nice quick keyboard shortcut :)

Apple managed to make it one of the most awkward features to use in macOS IMHO. You have to position the mouse over a small UI target, wait a second and also use the keyboard. I wish it were just a keyboard shortcut.
Now wait two years, run the same command, and see what happens.
Ask HN: Stripe shut our microbiology conference for adult content?
I've heard about some crazy Stripe stories from HN, but never thought our tiny microbiology conference (go phage therapy!) would ever be in the cross-hairs, but yet here we are.

Apparently we're selling "adult content" — maybe because we use the words "early-bird" and "student" in the same sentence?

Either way, appealing doesn't seem to work. We DID use Stripe two years ago, on the same account, for the same event, with no problems.

Help???
So are teachers ...
Procrastination happens when people are not excited about completing a task. A deadline is a way of introducing excitement.
Procrastination can be defined as “delaying working on a task until the impeding doom of the deadline grows too large.”
Context beyond the headline for the MSP article where 700 buildings were damaged, burnt or destroyed:

"cosmetic damage, minor damage, major damage, and wholly destroyed, which included 12 structures"

Map: https://assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com/i/cbslocal/wp-content/uplo...
Mine always end up in spam.
Titles are very much diluted.

I've seen companies hire college sophomores who have never heard of the concept of a database and make them Sr Engineers on a analytics teams. I've seen Sr Engineers hired with one year of relevant experience.

At this point, "Sr Engineer" is just the new "Jr Engineer". There's nothing wrong with this, but indeed, Staff Engineer tends to mean 8+ years of experience.
ChatGPT Plugins: Data Exfiltration and Cross Plugin Request Forgery
Windows 98 SE was probably the most stable ‘light’ version of Microsoft Windows ever made. I Microsoft got rid of the DOS underpinnings in Win 2k the systems started requiring much more ram just to run. When combined with VS6 and at least a gig of hd space, it was a very capable machine for development.
I have other reasons for ignoring Musk, such as his history of lying, exaggeration, personal attacks on people, provoking people. If he wants to talk about work from home in moral terms I can consider his own moral shortcomings and how he has no moral authority.

But someone how says "like" repeatedly telegraphs confused thinking. Normally I hear that from teenagers, who have the excuse of youth.
It's not painful, and everyone's been hearing it since it was ongoing. But the extent and severity of it was also greatly exaggerated for political purposes.
I want to applaud this effort, coming up with new ways of manipulating pandas dataframes is sorely needed. This project along with sketch[1] takes a conversational approach.

I have been building my own open source tool for wrangling pandas dataframes - Buckaroo[2]. The aim of Buckaroo is to automate common data cleaning and exploration techniques, and provide a GUI to quickly access transforms and see their results along with the python code to perform the transform. The jupyter notebook is great for presentation, but clunky for iterative exploration.

Here are the most common operations I do when exploring a new dataset

1. Assess - What are the columns in this dataset, what are their ranges of values, how do these columns vary together. Buckaroo offers toggable summary stats to show this info.

2. Initial Clean - Are all of the date columns parsed as datetimes? Are columns that contain integers typed as integers (a single string in the colum will force the whole column to type object). Clean the types with safeint/dropna...

3. Filter to a subset of data based on criteria. Row wise filtering.

4. Perform some type of analysis. Group by with different aggregations, a plot... Something more complex

Other operations that I regularly perform

5. Concattenating similar dataframes. pd.concat is simple, knowing whether your columns match up, along with their types is difficult. I want a UI that shows where they match and where they dont. This normally will require an extra data cleaning step

6. Joining tables/dataframe. I want a UI that tells me Is there a natural key to join on? What percentage of rows are joined vs not matched.

Buckaroo currently does an initial version 1,2, and 4. Buckaroo allows these steps to be done in a single notebook cell, instead of many separate cells iteratively built up. There are planned features that address all of these use cases. In addition Buckaroo has been engineered to enable easy extension by users. Plug your own functions in, and make them quickly accessible.

In my view a point and click gui is the best way to quickly accomplish these tasks as opposed to a conversational AI approach. The conversational AI approach doesn't provide enough structure around common tasks.

PS:
This morning I added a "Related Projects" [3] Section to the Buckaroo docs. If Buckaroo doesn't solve your problem, look at one of the other linked projects (like Mito).

[1] https://github.com/approximatelabs/sketch

[2] https://github.com/paddymul/buckaroo

[3] https://buckaroo-data.readthedocs.io/en/latest/FAQ.html
When I hear cognitive security i think of the DL algorithms that turn brainwaves into text, and Haruki Murakami's book Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World^0 that invokes the concept of cognitive security that can defeat such as shuffling. Similar to Johnny Mnemonic's mnemonic courier^1.

^0: https://chhsponyexpress.com/1937/ent/book-review-haruki-mura...

^1: https://www.kaspersky.com/blog/johnny-mnemonic-cybersecurity...
I had a G700S and it died of button failure. Great mouse, I miss the 4-button thumb layout.

Before that was a Deathadder, also button failure. The only mouse I've replaced for any other reason was a Corsair M60 which had its cord chewed off by a friend's rabbit. We soldered it back together but it didn't last.

Now on a Razer Basilisk Ultimate which uses some sort of optical click detection, we'll see if that's actually more durable or not. There's still a physical mechanism to produce the clickiness but I don't know if that part is failure prone like the mechanical buttons have been.
In Starship case, the whole upper stage is the payload. As it was designed to be a second stage reentry test.

They likely had some soft of test weight in the starship as well.

> So dictionary is used now to decide if an operation a launch or not? Are you for real?

I'm not sure what your hangup is, nobody said anything about operational.

If you show 1 million people a video of the Starship launching, all those people would call it a launch.

If it was operational or successful has nothing to do with anything.
I would imagine because of the self barter nature of open source. Open source only works when the group that can make the tools are also the group that uses them. So they are bartering with themselves. That's how they "pay" for it. But contributing back to the shared pool of resources

Taxpayers can't contribute back to the pool that software engineers use. The people who build it will not be "compensated" with other tools that they can the use for free. So they don't build them
I'm here to tell you that in 1989 we really didn't have any trouble with critical thinking on the topic of going to high school on any given Wednesday.

Guided by key 20th century American[0] and British[1] thought leaders we were developing and refining these theories of "immutable necessity" in suburban cars and convenience store parking lots on a regular basis.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Oo8QzDHimQ

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YR5ApYxkU-U
> I buy the latest MX, Vertical, and trackball almost every year unless it's super minor updates so maybe I'm just not using one mouse long enough but they've been fantastic.

That's exactly why you don't experience issues, your devices don't spend enough time getting clogged with sweat, oil, dry skin and dirt.

All of my gamer friends use Logitech to the max of their abilities, and almost all have experienced issues with their products. We're from a poor country, originally, so we only change the gear when it's absolutely needed.

Personally, I only recently retired my old MX518 bought in 2005 and I had to rewire it twice in 25 years, the USB cable fractured each time, but the mouse itself was flawless until, 25 years later, the MOUSE3 button stopped working.

I like the idea of having repair guides for devices, to fiddle less when self repairing. I'd expect fewer negative reviews once these guides get published.
Allenrb above is disputing you.
Media Archaeology Lab in Boulder, CO USA https://www.mediaarchaeologylab.com/
I think that ambiguity is part of the charm of natural language instructions
"School shooting" is a polysemous phrase. There's the very literal version--a shooting that happens at a school--but also a more specific one that refers to a much rarer situation--a lone kid consciously plans to go in and shoot a lot of people en masse, as a kind of suicide that is intended to leave a permanent presence on a community that the kid viewed as having wronged them in some way. The former is much more relevant for policy making, but in public discourse the latter plays the disproportionate, defining role. OP is frustrated by that vacillation. School shooter drills are almost irrelevant for the modal literal school shooting, but they inflict psychological damage on students and even create the archetype of the statistically rarer type in the public imagination.
Best guess you're referring to Nigeria going by your website.

> The point of out-of-school learning is to overcome learning disabilities, development of talents, strengthen communities and increase interest in education by creating extra learning opportunities in the real world.

> Nigeria possesses the largest population of out-of-school learning youths in the world.

How would you see them if they're not there?
That's fairly true of many (possibly most?) programming languages with more than 100 users.

You can always fork an open-source implementation, but that's a lot less useful when it means your code is no longer compiler-compatible with other people's code. So languages tend to be run by some committee, and a lot of the popular ones have a Benevolent Dictator for Life or a small committee.

Guido was Benevolent Dictator for Life of Python until 2018. C++ is standardized by JTC1/SC22/WG21 (and Microsoft still has huge influence on it based on simply whether they decide or not to incorporate a feature into MSVC). Ruby is an ISO standard. Common LISP is an ANSI standard. Modifying a widely-adopted language in a way that will be seen by most users is at least as much "Can you work with those with the political influence to decide 'yes'" as "Is your recommended modification technically good?"
Cities are too expensive. Once baristas and cleaners can't afford to eat, live and travel in one things start to get bad.

I'd rather work for less money in a cheaper neighbourhood.
One problem is that virtually all dash cams use the same sensor that kind of sucks. You're usually not able to make out people's license plates.
It has been a nice experiment to prove our intuition about deflationary currency and hording correct.

The other interesting aspect is in terms of Robert Shiller's narrative economics. What is most interesting to me is that the narrative economics and contagion were able to morph the currency narrative into something else so that the hording became a feature and not a bug in the narrative.

It is interesting how people can call BTC digital gold but disregard the downsides of gold at the same time in the exact same way deflation/velocity was ignored in the currency narrative. Gold was the "new" anti-central banking currency in the 70s that had its crescendo because of narratives and central bank policy at around a $3,200 all time high inflation adjusted price that we can't touch even 40+ years later. At the same time macro conditions were set up to take out that all time high price but BTC itself grabbed so much of that flow from gold.

Following the narrative dispersion that the all time inflation adjusted high for BTC is already in will be fun for years to come.
Reading this makes me think of
that one experiment[0] where rats were put in a "park" with regular and drug laced water. In the absence of enriching activities the rats would opt for drug use to stay entertained. Of course, I'm sure there are plenty of issues with that study that would invalidate it, but I think the lesson still stands, school has become an environment where you're judged on every facet of you existence. Your grades, your clothes, and physical appearance, your social acumen. All this leaves very little space for enrichment via learning and experimentation. Not to mention shrinking budgets and overloading for teachers, making it nearly impossible to be passionate and engaging. It makes me wonder what it would take to get alternative schools in place that take students into the real world, regularly, and have them learn through applying principles from the classroom, or if that would even be effective.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rat_Park
As an employee of a European company which is chosen by European and US customers alike _specifically_ for our competence in European market regulation I see opportunity where you see shortage. Of course, we will never join the ranks of public celebrities such as Facebook or Google, but who cares, really. It's very likely you've interacted with our products in one way or another, we've made some revenue with it, and that counts. That the technology is coming from Europe, you'll never know.
Hey Nice idea I like the concept as someone who does sometimes go back through old history files to find that site I was on last week/month and knows how frustrating it can be as an experience.

One question I have is about the persistence of this extension when Im not using it and influence on other browsing loads like if I visit a WebGPU heavy shader site will having Pinbot installed drop my available framerate for example ?

Otherwise its a great Idea and will definitely put it on at least one machine I use so thanks for putting this out into the world and good luck with it !
He could do this job poorly from the beach collecting a check until moving on to the next corporate behemoth needing to shovel dreck to the masses. I encourage him to do so while the policy ratchet gets pulled forward and IRS gains this capability. Just look the other way while the lives of 150 million+ taxpayers gets improved ever so slightly.
I’ve been asked to relocate by multiple companies and probably would have if not for my wife owning a successful business where we live. That was something that people understood it seems.

I remember being so surprised years ago when a recruiter couldn’t understand why I would fly up to NY for a week at a time and then fly home every weekend. I know there are people who do it, I just can’t imagine it.
LOL

Nothing about Cloudflare is "best" other than "breaking the internet more every day since 2009"
Replacing existing reactors costs billions of dollars that can be spent on saving people from other issues like heart disease or put towards fusion development (we don't even really need fusion research anymore, SPARC/ARC are nearly proven). Replacing costs more per expected life saved than not building in the first place.

Replacing is like 5 times more expensive than building alternatives in the first place. The extra money can save people/environment in other ways.
Navigation without music interruption!
I don't understand how the files can be generated in parallell. Won't it be very likely that one file generates something that another file needs and thus need the signature of?
I think it's fair to say that an accusation in court is not an assumption, yes.
I think everyone simply ignore or forget how performance-demanded the windows is. Using win 10 on hdd brings the hdd perf on system monitor to 100% half of the time, while it's normally operating on Linux. No wonder deck is simply more power-saving and optimized.
I try not to use their software at all. Don't need to install fancy software for a mouse. Found a free alternative to control the keyboard RGB that isn't bloatware trash.
In Pakistan in the 80s there was a weed strain called “Martial Law”
Yes. LinkedIn is, in my experience, the go to way of connecting at conferences. I should mention, though, that one feature I really like myself in Neucards is location tagging when you exchange your digital card. This lets me see months later not just when, but also where, I met someone and makes it much easier to remember the context around the exchange.
…but…they…already know?

You have to fill out values and match them based on the IRS’ existing knowledge?

It’s never made sense to have them separate. :/
The day I realized Laplace transforms converted difficult linear differential equations into simple algebra problems was the day I began to appreciate Laplace transforms.
Doesn't that demonstrate the OP's point?

The first tier cities are getting more and more expensive (partially or perhaps primarily do to employment opportunities - i.e. safety) and instead of moving "away from a city", people are moving to other less expensive cities with employment opportunities which, as they grow, become more expensive and repeat the process. And also you have to compare to trends over time.
I was in Southern Italy, suffering for a weather that did not correspond to what I read in my school books, and learning to hate the words "Azores anticyclone".

And later I switched to yearning for the comparatively friendly Azores anticyclone every time the damned African anticyclone came uninvited to the heart of the Mediterranean Sea, and made itself at home for weeks at a time.