skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
yeah it's insane. This past tax cycle, we filed and overpaid by like 3K, using Turbo Tax. Of course Turbo Tax didn't tell us this, and we wouldn't have known except we got a check for the overpayment from the govt about a week or two later!
> what is the real point?

I can't speak for anyone but myself, I can only speculate. Maybe the lone office warrior wants to get away from noisy construction at home, family, etc.?

I know we have been WFH since March 2020, and we're _just_ starting to talk about RTO. No one wants to, but the state institution we work for is about to demand it. We have plenty of low performers that may work better (or, with some of them, actually work) being in the office. For our team, that would come at a significant disadvantage for those who _can_ work remote who now have to juggle managing the lower performers.

Obviously, it'd be easy to let go of the low performers and replace with more solid people, but being a state employee makes that somewhat difficult (HR, salaries, etc).
It can cause big divisions that CAN work (a work from home boss, for example, managing people who are mostly in an office) but can also cause a haves/haves not issue.

Going for work from home with defined "in office" periods (say one week a month at an office or working resort or whatever) can be a better division, but that puts the people who thrive in an office environment at a disadvantage.
They’ve succeeded in building a platform, but they seem to have forgotten that for it to be valuable they need users to actually want to use it
IANAL / California-centric -

There's a legal employment concept called "quit for cause", it's kind of the inverse of "fire for cause". In CA (and very much IANAL), if your contract is for remote work and you are required to RTO, that'd qualify as "cause". AFAICT you can tie this to other things, like "I can quit and keep the signing bonus", "I can quit and get my first year's stock", things like that - at least on a legal level. Negotiating that in (and enforcing it) are other questions.
Why would companies enforce RTO if there was no advantage to it? Surely they'd love to get rid of those expensive commercial office leases and all the servicing costs that come with them, if WFH was just as good or better?

I have no doubt that many employees are individually just as productive or more so when WFH. But collectively, does something suffer? Are teams less productive, less creative? Less opportunities for spontaneous collaboration, etc? What reasons are companies using for justification when they make these RTO decisions?

In any case, hybrid work (eg: 3 days in the office per week) seems to be becoming the norm here in the UK. That seems like a good compromise to me.
Apache Software Foundation owns Kafka.
I mean, sure. But let's acknowledge that "global pandemic" was justifiably considered a low probability before 2020. Even today should companies price in a meteor strike? Will they be out-competed in an existential timeframe if they do?
Sometimes some people aren't replaceable. This is inconvenient. That it is inconvenient isn't the same thing as it being false. Claiming that everyone is replaceable won't make it true.

Companies that punish employees by termination not for insufficient productivity, but rather for differing opinions on how to run the company well eventually discover how bad of a mistake that turns out to be, even if they're no longer capable of recognizing said discovery.
TSMC managed to leapfrog Intel not too long ago. They still didn’t plan to adopt EUV as recently as 2017:

Not everyone is banking on EUV for 7nm, though. TSMC will extend today’s 193nm immersion and multiple patterning to 7nm, with plans to insert EUV at 5nm - [0]

Chip making is capital intensive, and a new factory that costs to the tune of $20 billions only allows a vendor to stay ahead of the competition for a few years. It’s entirely possible that Intel or Samsung will lead the race at the next technology milestone. They have work cut out for them of course. TSMC has been in the foundry business for a long time.

[0] - https://semiengineering.com/why-euv-is-so-difficult/
The problem with pollution is that it creates externalities that are not borne by the polluter. Can you help me understand what externalities are involved in the RTO context?
I don't trust anyone! TurboTax gives me one number, my accountant gives me another, and my by-hand version is yet another that my accountant comes around to eventually. The sad part is that each party is figuring out something unique that the others didn't because it is all so complex. Each route prompts different questions, which, together, make things more accurate. I hate it.
Due process and “human rights” do not apply when the government has resolve or perceives the transgression to be beyond the pale. The law or constitution does not matter then as well. Just ask Eugene Debs. Or see Julian Assange. Or Korematsu. Or Joseph Nacchio who refused to violate the law and do illegal surveillance on US citizens for the government without a court order.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debs_v._United_States

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korematsu_v._United_States

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Nacchio
Technical Committee Lifecycle
> To keep the committee alive, it expands scope, recruits more people, and assimilates their mandate to the hive. Internally it feels like a grass-root movement on the rise. In reality, it’s about repurposing an expensive tool (recurring meetings with high-pay participants) for every problem. It may even emit some manifesto or generic vision and mission at this point.

One leg of the problem is the environment that allows the committees continue way past their expiration date. How can they get away with it?
Why do doctors and writers have unions? None of them are in a meat packing floor.

Everybody thinks they’re special until they’re not. Tons of top talent at Amazon and Facebook were recently laid off. You’re not safe just because you’re smart.
llm summary

The article tells the story of how two former spies and enemies, Frederick Russell Burnham and Fritz Duquesne, joined forces to promote the idea of importing hippos from Africa to Louisiana in 1910. Their plan was to solve the Meat Question, a crisis of meat supply and demand in America, and also to get rid of the invasive water hyacinths that were choking the rivers. They had the support of a Louisiana congressman, Robert Broussard, who introduced a bill to fund their project. The article explores the historical context, the personalities, and the motivations of the main characters, as well as the challenges and opposition they faced. It also examines the cultural and ecological implications of their proposal, which was ultimately rejected by Congress.

my question to llm: why did they want to kill each other?

answer: They wanted to kill each other because they were spies on opposite sides of the Second Boer War in South Africa. Burnham was an American who fought for the British Empire, while Duquesne was a Boer who fought for the independence of his people. They had several encounters and attempts to assassinate each other during the war, but none succeeded
CEO Keni Ware to Launch Tikkir, a New Social Media App to Unite Africa
CEO Keni Ware will introduce TIKKIR, a groundbreaking social media application designed to promote unity and awareness across all African nations.

"TIKKIR is more than an app; it's a movement aimed at uniting Africa under one digital umbrella," said Ware at the launch. The app encourages a connected Africa, where information and opportunities are shared freely, promoting understanding and empowerment within the continent.

TIKKIR, with its intuitive design and multilingual support, is set to redefine the African digital landscape. It emphasizes the positive portrayal of Africa, celebrating its diverse cultures and achievements, and fostering a collective narrative that reflects the spirit of Africa.

"Our goal is to change perceptions and bring Africa to the forefront of the global digital community," Ware added. TIKKIR signals a shared journey towards a united, informed, and thriving Africa.

For more information on TIKKIR, visit www.tikkir.com.

About TIKKIR:
TIKKIR is a unique social media application designed to uplift awareness of African countries, promoting unity and empowerment across the continent and diaspora.
I used to publish and have some anecdata you may find encouraging. In my experience, if you’re thoughtful enough to wonder if you have something interesting to say, you likely do.

Aside from that bit of data, there is one definite advantage to writing. The process of writing a book is a great way to learn more and get better at explaining what you know. This is a double edged sword because if you spend six months on a first draft, you will likely see a major difference in quality between the first section you wrote and the last.

You may make some money, but you’ll almost certainly learn something.
>I feel like we're currently in this death spiral where its just a never ending war to get the other parties people out of power by any means necessary. While the entire time, its the people who have to suffer through it and pick sides.

I feel ostracized by both sides. It's maddening. Earlier today someone asked if PBS was left leaning. How low have we come that we watch something like PBS looking for "Left" or "Right" leaning views to confirm our bias and not just watching it to be informed.

PBS news hour is pretty moderate IMHO. But still won't stop people from seeing a story that makes them feel bad and labeling it left or right.
He should only testify after saying within cells interlinked three times.
Less money to Intuit and H&R Block and more in my pocket and my government's is a win to me. I'm all for productive businesses, but I'm sick of these tax companies influencing public policy and collecting rent by solving a problem that they are intentionally keeping alive.

Imagine a landscaper doing doughnuts on your lawn and then telling you to pay him to fix it, and that's roughly how I view Intuit.
Commercial real estate is a highly complex beast. Some companies build offices and sell them to an affiliated REIT while guaranteeing occupancy rates, banks build their office towers and go through great length to turn them into cash assets. It is very different from state to state due to taxes and regulations.
>my friend Melanie

>My wife's sister

n=2.

>A total of 395 junior high school students were recruited for evaluation of their experiences playing online games.

>[...]

>This study found that subjects who had previously played online games were predominantly male. Gender differences were also found in the severity of online gaming addiction and motives for playing.[0]

From another study:

>A total of 25,573 students
(49.8 % boys and 50.2 % girls) across junior and senior high
schools participated in the study.

[...]

>Table 2 lists students’ most frequent online activities. The
percentage of frequent online gamers was higher for boys than
girls at both school levels, z=13.63, p<0.001 for junior high;
z=13.72, p<0.001 for senior high.[1]

[0]https://journals.lww.com/jonmd/Abstract/2005/04000/Gender_Di...

[1]https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25079945/
This works in Standard C:

int *p = 3;
Yeah, which is why "AI detection" is crap. It's basically the plagiarism detector with the false-positive dampening turned off. (I know, I know, it may not be exactly that under the hood, but I think that's what it amounts to in practice).

I think you and I agree. I'm just saying that the "AI wrote this" flag on something that's notoriously not AI-written should be enough to reject outright the use of these detectors.

Like a mechanic who warns me that my Tesla doesn't have a muffler. They're technically correct, but I wouldn't trust them to diagnose anything in the future.
>>In this article, they state openly that Blizzard is managing a crisis to ship multiple products.

Blizzard's chief operating officer, the person whose job is to avoid such crises, quit/was fired when Microsoft acquired Blizzard. He went to Yuga Labs, the Bored Ape Yacht Club people. That may be part of why Blizzard is in trouble.
How is it possible that it's essential, when a 22 yr old juicing to the gills can look like a bodybuilder carved out of marble?

Well, when you're not a 1-in-a-million athlete. That's how it's possible.
Because it's largely a boring coding task that requires painfully complete understanding of stupidly obscure tax codes, running research into tax courts to see how these codes have been interpreted into law, etc. I'm not sure about the US, but other countries have certification that must be passed before they're even allowed to sell/provide their product to meet the government tax guidelines.
Ask HN: How to name nested not well-defined sets and nested cyclic metagraphs?
(Disclaimer: I am not a mathematician)

A not well-defined set A contains itself:

A <element_of> A

How to name a not well-defined set's property of containing itself via a nesting structure in other sets?

A <element_of> B <element_of> A
A <element_of> B <element_of> C <element_of> A

In hypergraphs, hyperedges can link multiple vertices. Metagraphs extend hypergraphs in that hyperedges can link multiple other hyperedges, as well as vertices. I have been unable to find a universally accepted definition of the concept of metagraphs.

[hypergraph] hyperedge E links vertices A, B, and C
[metagraph] hyperedge E links vertices A, B, and C; hyperedge F links vertices A and B with hyperedge E

How to call a metagraph with self-containment cycles whereby a hyperedge E points to itself via another hyperedge F?

[nested cyclic metagraph?] hyperedge E links hyperedge F with vertices B and C; hyperedge F links vertices A and B with hyperedge E

A similar nesting parallel may be drawn with n-categories.

Finding literature on such data structures may become easier with a commonly accepted name, but the latter has eluded me for years. Should you have any ideas or pointers, please, put them down here.
ah i meant to ask how it was designed in the backend
Indeed, there's a size limit on reportable winnings that trigger the necessity of a W-2G. There's also potentially different requirements that trigger tax withholding by the payer.

It's generally $600 for winnings, and $5000 for withholding.

https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-news/at-01-17.pdf

https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-tege/gaming_withholding_reportin...
I think you are looking at it wrong. Here's how I think of "the market":

Say you have company X that makes SaaS. They mandate RTO for all workers. If there are really as many people wanting remote work as you say, then a remote work competitor Y will spring up and talent will start bleeding from X to Y. That happens a lot not just with remote work but all sorts of disruptions that company X types don't like to adapt to.
Since you mention it in connection to Together/RedPajama, are you saying that what they are publishing isn't actually open source? Most of the stuff I see them publish is licensed under Apache-2.0 which is a FOSS license, so I find it weird to mention it here.
I dislike Sarah jeong but she covered it here
https://twitter.com/sarahjeong/status/981558161566920704?s=1...

If you believe "naomi" then you have been duped by her American husband, timaz.
> Shoppers are not returning to malls.

About the only thing that malls had left going for them was trying on clothes; and a bunch of stores shuttered their dressing rooms during Covid and never re-opened them.

So why bother? Order online and return what don't fit, and stay away from the ghastly creepy malls.
I'd like to see a baseline of fio and iperf3 for these same instances so we know how much raw performance is available for disk, network alone and together.

Cloud instances have their own performance pathologies, esp in the use of remote disks.

As for RP and Kafka performance, I'd love to see a parameter sweep over both configuration dimensions as well as workload. I know this is a large space, but it needs to be done to characterize the available capacity, latency and bandwidth.
> Of course assuming your laws allow it.

The spherical cow of the accounting world
> It is an interesting change, to a more federated style.

what does "federated" mean in this context? do you mean decentralized segmented "peer to peer" storage, or something?

unfederated wikipedia is not helpful in defining federated:

Federated content is digital media content that is designed to be self-managing to support reporting and rights management in a peer-to-peer (P2P) network. Ex: Audio stored in a digital rights management (DRM) file format. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federated_content
What's up with the age limitations on some of those?

age <= 66 FileYourTaxes.com
20 <= age <= 64 TaxAct
age <= 58 TaxSlayer
are you planning on adding Claude plus 100k to Poe as well ?
Also routing breaking if you trigger back/forward too fast (looking at you, GitHub)
intuit down 1.63% today
Another incredible book on networking is Computer Networks: A systems approach

https://book.systemsapproach.org/
Actually, it has not. There have been 0 advertisements on WhatsApp for me.

Also, half my friends have migrated over to Signal anyways, advertisements on whatsapp will just speed up that transition I suppose.
And then a few years later a new CFO comes in and engineers a sale and lease-back transaction to make the financial report metrics look better.
My controls are handles by my thumbs (Kinesis Advantage) and I fail to see the advantage here as you are using the same amount of energy, but fail badly for cases where control could have been held down (eg. compare Ctrl-down p-down p-up p-down p-up Ctrl-up to ,-dn ,-up, p-dn, p-up, etc).
If you start at 22-ish, I thought the risk of aging out started around 30-ish? Older people have external lives, cost more in salary, cost more in health care, ... They also have been known to push back re: overwork and to not get swept up in current fads.
I hate turbo tax. Every year there is some bug with importing stock transactions which requires me to dig around on their support forums.
Apple switched to Apple Silicon precisely because Intel was dragging it's feet on acceleration and by doing so could fire customers like you.

Seriously though, Intel has not been good at keeping all of its chips up to date with AVX and one consequence of that is that developers don't use it at all or they use a version that is 10 years out of date. If you look at those graphs in the article, single thread performance really is dying out there, the one thing Intel could offer to make their newer offering compelling is the latest version of AVX but they have been so hypnotized by smartphones that they just had to make a "big-little" clone that disable the most advanced AVX on the good cores so the weak cores not only waste your money, time and power, but actually sap performance from your strong cores. Customers buy AMD or Apple Silicon instead. Intel and their paid shills in the tech media will make as many excuses for this as AMZN will for why you can only get 5 day shipping with Prime, but all it means is 20 years from now some people will remember Intel the way we remember Sears or Atari or AMC.
I meant "campaign" in the general sense, rather than the more specific "political campaign". As in "MLK's campaign for civil rights". I should have been clearer, sorry.
There is no problem with static initializations with a null pointer that is not all zero bits, or a floating-point 0.0 that is not all zero bits.

Those values just cannot participate in the "BSS" trick, whereby everything that is zero-initialized is put into a special section that doesn't actually exist in the program image, and is only provided on startup.

Those values would go into the initialized data section.

The problem with 0.0 or null pointers not being all zero bits is all the code that uses calloc or memset zero.

If this is on some specialized platform (e.g. DSP chip), it might not matter that vast quantities of C code are not portable.

In general, compiler (and to a great extent instruction set architecture!) designers are quite hamstrung by the expectations of C programmers and programs; that has been the situation for some thirty years now.

Today, you could not sucessfully introduce a system in which pointers to bytes (void , char ) have a different representation from other pointers (let alone different size, lord forbid).
Eurovision vote breakdown shows that Germany was so average that they lost
TurboTax doesn't charge for standard federal income filing, but they do charge for some forms of return, and for state taxes, and for audit protection.

Even with the "free" standard offering, it's been lucrative enough for them to lobby heavily to prevent taxes from being easier, just to funnel the majority of the country through their slow filing flow and try to upsell to all of them.
> It's not like the act of doing your taxes is what makes your realize you're over the standard deduction.

That is exactly how I figured out I should itemize my taxes this year.
Prized dinosaur fossil will finally be returned to Brazil
That's another problem I had noticed from a bit of a play (similar problem with boringreport), so I'm glad you're already on it! I've signed up for premium.
America's poor live better than medieval kings.
so I guess we're pretty much stuck with the web2 cartel?
It's incredibly complex, it changes every year, there is huge amount of gray area, if you do it wrong and the customer gets audited and fined by the IRS there is a possiblity of liability (regardless of clauses such as "AS IS" et c.)
It seems that there's a paradox here: if remote work is good for companies, then why would there not be other companies offering it as an option?

It seems like at least one of these statements has to be false. My guess is that remote work is not actually good for all companies, which is leading some of them to call for RTO. Other companies will keep it, but perhaps not as many as employees would like. The same could be said for many aspects of work, like free lunches/dinners/massages, which are also disappearing as the supply/demand equilibrium is shifting as you describe.
I have to agree.

Remote introduces some challenges to be sure, but you gain access to such a wider pool of talent and it is such an employee benefit.

If you want the best talent you probably need to offer remote work or be ready to pay double because it is worth that much to most people. I would not hate the idea of working in an office a few days a week again, but the only way I am even going to consider relocating is for, at minimum, double my current salary and some kind of contract with guarantees.
Five nines, huh? We've got six eights over here!
The rub for me is how you are expected to show all the signs of motivation/passion throughout your career to anyone above you in the hierarchy who asks, but are then (as you describe) inevitably punished for it if you accidentally take any of that motivation/passion to heart.

Motivation and passion are for the little people. They would do well to remember not to let their passions trick them into speaking out of turn.
Sure, but what I said absolutely stands: compromising the CA doesn't do you any good in practice.

Frankly though, I am going to say it; I think the idea that compromising a ton of web servers to be able to build a better profile of a user's web history is part of this UK government surveillance initiative is simply absurd. Compromising servers is a pretty nasty cat and mouse game, especially if you're up against orgs like Cloudflare, Amazon and Google. In practice, there's just no chance this is their strategy.

(And the game certainly isn't going to get any easier. You can, for example, use a TPM to generate your private keys, and have encryption occur on a TPM device, such that extracting them would require much more challenging exploits than just pwning some servers, meaning you'd need to actively have control over the servers to do anything interesting. It's not purely theory, either, though I do not know who is currently using this approach.)