skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The claim was:

For most tax payers in the US, the government has all of the necessary information to calculate tax liability through W-2, 1099, and other filings from third parties.

They do not. And I think most Americans would recoil at the idea of giving them what they would need to compute liability under the bulk of current law.

So we’re really talking about a “public option” for tax filing software. The Treasury Department is giving it a try, we’ll see how it goes.
This isn't a production unit, but a research project to play with silicon photonics.
> The numbers still pencil out on average.

You're going to need to show your work here, because, to me and apparently to several other posters at least, it makes no sense to even compare the numbers in the two cases you describe, because, as another poster responding to you said, you can't live in your stock portfolio.

> renting...

Renting the place you live in vs. owning it is not the comparison you are claiming to make when you say buying a house and living in it is a "bad investment". The comparison you are claiming to make is between buying a house and living in it, vs. buying a house and renting it out. Which, as noted above, doesn't even make sense as a comparison.
I wrote games until 1995, then started at Apple. I worked at Apple until 2021 when I retired.

Apple very much was engineer-driven when I began. That changed when Steve Jobs returned.
> I believe the article is factually correct-ish, but is sensationalized and is spreading FUD and causing unnecessary potential panic.

This wording is clear to me.

If this was in your original comment, I wouldn’t assume that you’re recommending to disregard safety measures.

Otherwise “ridiculous” or “:rolleyes:” are very ambiguous to me.
> It's the tensor product because there are logically no other possibilities.

There are many other possibilities, unless you can provide satisfactory answers (from first principles) to the following questions: Why would we expect superpositions of quantum states to be encoded as a vector sum of the individual state vectors? Why is time evolution in quantum mechanics a linear operation on those state vectors?

If those things weren't true, tensor products would be utterly useless to describe product states.
this is so there is never a lab leak again. Not that there ever was a lab leak tho shifty eye
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37364515
There's no 1040EZ any longer I believe. But, yes, anything that simple should be able to default filed as a very simple 1040.
This seems to be from 2019. Still no viable fork in sight. Yawn. Can't be so bad.
In France you have a basic way of pre declaring such things, then your "simple" money sources are pre declared (salary, dividends and interests, also public interest donations you did) then the situation is carried over unless you go and change it. You often mostly just have to look that everything seems alright (it generally is) and click OK.
It's a good idea, it's probably not compatible with the public school system as-is.
Heh, for me, I've been a little surprised sometimes by how people think ChatGPT is amazing, sure it's great tech, but people seem to be using it for all sorts of stuff and when I try it, I find that it ends up spewing generic nonsense but then I realise, this is the same nonsense I will get by googling very similar topics.

Garbage in, Garbage out.
The PLATO system for so-called "programmed instruction" was available in the 1970s, IIRC. Meanwhile, math pedagogy, AFAIK, tends to more rigorous reference to "scope and sequence". These seem compatible even without AI, and if only to better identify gaps.
Maybe the investors have inside knowledge that the air force base will be closed sometime in the next few years.
This article reminds me of my grandfather as well, who sadly passed away two weeks ago. He was a mechanical engineer, and a real craftsman.

One example we, in our family, like to remember is how he fixed the car during a long vacation trip by his own when the engine suddenly stopped in the middle of the road. He realized the problem and used his constantly at hand pocketknife and a metal can box he found thrown on the sideways to fix the car. The mechanics had hard time to remove the fix in the garage and replace it with an original part!
No it's just pretty good in general lol.
When I was a kid, children (or at least teen-agers) could work in foodservice spaces in which smoking was permitted. By end of shift, clothing and hair smelled like an ashtray.

The smoking bans I'm familiar with were phased in beginning in the 1990s, though specifics varied by locale (some cities and counties were earlier on the ban) and type of location (offices, restaurants, bars, etc.).

There are still 12 US states without comprehensive smoking bans, virtually all in the deep south: AL, AR, GA, KT, OK, SC, SD, TN, TX, VA, WV, WY. (SD and WY are the exceptions.)

Notably, the famed liberal strongholds of Missouri and Mississippi do have restaurant smoking bans.
Estimated withholdings are even worse IMO, especially for variable 1099 income.

"How much should I pay?"

"Enough"

"What if I don't pay enough"

"We'll fine you"

"What if I pay too much?"

"We'll refund you, in a year"
Is there any evidence of this? How do we know they felt self-conscious?
Picking wild mushrooms is super common in Scandinavia. I had some mushrooms my wife picked for dinner yesterday. You read about maybe 1-2 deaths or serious illnesses a year in the newspaper, and it always makes national news. So yes it happens, but it's probably quite literally a 1-in-a-million event.
I'm all for archivism, but wouldn't this get taken down by GitHub? If what your website says is true, you're storing 300GB+ of code on GitHub. I've heard stories from people who've also tested the limits, and they've had emails from GitHub asking them to cease activity.
Two other important ones for entrepreneurs:

- “Crossing the Chasm” in the end this book is really just a single drawing, but the text explains the problem: why early traction not only doesn’t imply future growth, but if misunderstood, can kill any future growth. Also very important for investors and people at big companies.

- I really like the underrated “Mastering the Dynamics of Innovation” by Utterback. It’s kind of a complement to the other two, full of amazing market hacks to get a new product established.

For example, 120 years ago, electric companies would put on demo sessions for the public, so the gas companies would send people with metal bars in their sleeves to short out the electrical systems (in a cloud of sparks of course!). So Edison (IIRC) got the clever idea to run the electric wiring through the gas conduit, both “for safety” and to take the gas out of service.

We often don’t understand what the true characteristics and affordances of a new technology are — and neither do the customers. That’s what this book is about.
It’s faulty app logic, assuming an io error cannot occur accessing a filesystem. They’ll also crash if you have disk issues or driver problems. The important thing is they may not even realize they’re calling into a function or routine that can access the fs for something!

All io access needs to be recoverable or catchable for your app not to crash. You’d be surprised how much background fs activity there can be in apps (or indirectly triggered by apps!) all the time.
Yes, -ish. Qualcomm uses(d) reference designs from ARM from ~2016 to ~2024. Snapdragon 8cx Gen 4, the first Nuvia-designed CPU, is due early next year [1].

[1] https://www.gsmarena.com/qualcomms_new_oryonbased_chipsets_w...
Land use tax only ticks all those boxes
This is a little sideways to the article/discussion.

The short memory is a real limitation, but I have noticed most critiques of GPT-4's abilities apply as much, or more, to humans.

I don't think anyone alive could convince me they were GPT-4 in a Reverse Turing Test situation. GPT-4's fast organized responses alone hammer human abilities.

But even a team of humans, with 60 minutes to answer each question, could find it difficult to match GPT-4's responses to interesting queries. It would be a fun competition.
To my understanding, you do have the right to repair a device or a piece of equipment yourself, but you don’t have the right to force the manufacturer to make it easier or to keep your warranty.

If you use the former definition, it’s already the default state. If you use the latter, “right to repair” becomes a reasonable-sounding term for a concept that’s not quite as reasonable.
Chomsky a Russian apologist? Citation needed.
You can imagine all you want, but you're still wrong.

You can generate a billion false positives and it still won't do anything. You need to get them to people's iCloud photo libraries first. Each library needs to have multiple false positive images before triggering a human check. They intentionally didn't tell the exact number needed, but it's not two.

If you have a way to get enough people to get fake CSAM material on their phones to overwhelm the human checkers, why would you waste in on something stupid like that? Just by forcibly inserting advertisements to peoples Photo Libraries would make you a billionaire. Not an ethical one, but still rich.

Oh, and just for reference. FB gets 350 million photos uploaded every day and they keep it moderated just fine. The amount of people you'd need colluding with you to overwhelm the system Apple had designed would be staggering.

And then you've achieved what? Make it possible to share child pornography because you broke the system? Yay, victory?
Not spam as far as I can tell. Rather it's an anti-prostitution piece.

Regardless of how you might feel about prostitution, that doesn't make it spam.

Or am I missing something?
You're clearly not very well traveled if you think that the east coast is a bastion of intellectualism while the rest of the country is innumerate.

The struggling student interviewed in the article lives on the east coast!
Evaluating someone’s performance, especially, software engineers by non-tech people might produce dramatic results.

Let me tell you a story about a friend of mine, codenamed tommy. Tommy was an IT guy with incredible skills in networking. He moved to an energy company, fully-owned and operated by the government. Just a few weeks from his arrival, they had to rebuild the entire network from scratch with new, modern, equipments as well as extending the network to all the buildings of the company’s headquarters. They started to look for external contractors to outsource this project but Tommy was shocked by the price the financial department was willing to pay to get this work done, obviously, some non-tech people made the estimates. Tommy interrupted the operation and told the appropriate department he can do the work and needs only the physical equipments (routers, switches, cables) and two guys who can do the cabling. They agreed, and he took the challenge and delivered the work as expected within just a few weeks within less than a tenth of the initial budget. All that he got was a ”Thank you, you did good work” oral endorsement by his boss.

What a time to be an IT techie when your boss(es) are just old-school, who will never understand your true value.
Indeed. Dividing every rate by ten keeps the same complexity.
https://drewdevault.com/2018/07/23/Git-is-already-distribute...

I understand his reasoning, but there needs not to be a single protocol for federalization. You can support both email and AP and let users choose what is best for them. "Email simply being a better choice" is a controversial opinion (as most of other statements there). Protocols can evolve and compete with each other, but only if software gives them space to do that.
Pairing gets a lot of hate and is very misunderstood. It can be terrible, though, if the org doesn't encourage and teach it. There are also lots of things about pairing that are misunderstood, especially that things take more time.

I was on a team that paired all the time and it's sort of ruined me for anything else. We switched pairs daily and everyone would pair with everyone else (on the team). When a junior joined the team they would very quickly lose their junior status.
Burning man has peaked. This year there were tons of people trying to sell their ticket at discount. Some friends were giving away tickets. I don't think we will see the same demand again. Which is good - 70k people is more than enough.

Next year, just watch craigslist or fb marketplace a month beforehand.
TSMC is beating Intel on chips*
The cells are just normal cells. The proprietary bits are the management systems which you could theoretically just bypass.
https://nyulangone.org/news/pig-kidney-xenotransplantation-p...
No you pay to prepare your taxes. Inuit and a CPA have more thorough questions for more complicated tax situations. Nothing stops you from using the paper form and sending it through the mail.
> You sell or harvest dividends.

But then you're not owning anything and renting it out, which was what the GGP was talking about.
I am the same way with my coworkers. I spend a lot of time helping juniors with their code and doing code review. My boss talked to me and told me to stop helping out so much and focus on my own tickets.
It's a similar level of difficulty in the U.S unless you have a really complicated tax situation. All the major tax apps integrate with the payroll companies, banks, and brokerages, so it's just a few clicks to authorize it to import your data.

I used to do this and never spent more than 10 or 15 minutes on taxes either.
> There is a contingent of Congress that does not want to make tax preparation easier because it aligns with their narrative that taxes are bad.

Is this why the current president hired 80000 new IRS agents instead of making a simple system that presents this electronically for confirmation?
It's even worse on long form pods, YT will stick in multiple ads, which themselves become long. YT is an actual joke these days, completely lame to use on Android.

If you have logged into Amazon prime recently you can see bars and bars and bars of "rent or buy or subscribe" content, to the point I hate even looking at the site.

I'm paying for Amazon prime, what happened to simply "free to me" listings based on the fact I'm paying for the subscription?

But YT is such fn garbage, I cant even put on a channel I subscribe to and have it just play the vids in that channel.

Instead it feeds me random shit not related to the channel or search.

I hate it.

It's garbage.
You're 100% right, no one knows how the brain works. And all the elements you described are probably relevant — including things you didn't mention, such as personality changes tied to heart transplants, etc.

But that's probably reading a little too deeply and seriously into what I said.
> you can collect dividends on it and allocate some of that cash flow to renting while the stocks grow in value.

But then you're not buying any property and renting it out, which was what the GGP was talking about.
I’ve wanted something like this to scrobble vinyl forever. This cat gets it!
Gee, I sure hope nobody at burning man is taking mind altering drugs! ;)
OneDrive consumer is free but you have to put files on the cloud.
Ask HN: Please recommend me ebooks on Regex and Linux
Hi HN,

Can you recommend ebooks to read to introduce me to Regex and/or Linux?

I'm currently paging though The Linux Commands Handbook by Flavio Copes which I'm finding good! But I don't want just one resource.

I've been a windows user for a long time but have recently been fairly frustrated with it. Things like ads injected into system menus, and the absurd double-layer of settings configurations, are turning me off it, so I've decided to give Linux a try. I've opted for Kubuntu, for a small-step-first introduction and I'm very impressed with how smooth it is.

In fact I'm pretty sure I could just use it casually barely noticing it wasn't windows based - an amazing thing when comparing a community project to the mainstay product of one of the world's largest corps.

But that's not my aim. I'd prefer to understand the OS a bit more deeply than a casual user. I want to be able to mess around without messing up, it at least to have a shot at knowing what went wrong. I want to be able to use the terminal, not just gui operations. And I want to use some of the power it offers.

It'd be helpful to sketch out my level of knowledge but that is actually quite a difficult thing to do. I'm not a developer, have only very basic coding experience, and some more recent very badic scripting experience. I work in an office in a non-technical profession but often use Powershell and cmd in Windows for basic operations. I'm not afraid of reading in plaintext or reading Man before using a command. I know what a piped output is but I've never used regular expressions.

Thanks for any tips.
Interesting. In the language feature list, what is 'try star' ?
But there are hardware limitations for storing them in memory
Stack Overflow's Toxicity
Help I’m Trapped in Starfield’s Menus and Can’t Get Out
No one thinks that +01:00 will magically turn into +02:00.

No, the reason people use it is because they don't want to add the timezone offset and want a timestamp that's intuitive.
I've always disagreed w/ Searle re the Chinese Room. My guess is that Searle never built an adder circuit from logic gates: combining irrational elements together into something rational is the core magic of computer science.

If you want to see someone asking humans questions where they consistently fail to be rational, to the extent that they sometimes seem to approximate a stochastic parrot, read Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman. (It might actually be interesting to give GPT-4 some of the questions in that book, to see how similar or different they are.)
An American who cannot read is generally ashamed of this and tries to hide it.

An American who cannot do basic math will often proclaim this as if it is something to be proud of.
It's quite suspicious given Putin's tendency to murder/assassinate people with poisons and 11th floor jumps, especially given the recent failure in the space program. I'm not sure why we're not supposed to be suspicious of any high profile person dying in Russia given Putin's penchant to have people killed or imprisoned when they embarrass him. No idea how Navalny isn't dead yet unless Putin just wants to break him in Russian prison.
Frankly, I've never even understood what people are talking about when they talk about spirituality except some vaguely soothing bullshit only tenuously connected with any kind of actionable or knowable reality. The defining trait of "spiritual" people, in my experience, is the capacity to be satisfied with vague and sloppy thinking, at least in the realms they want to be "spiritual" about.
Very interesting academies these researchers are based at … makes you wonder what kind of new applications this research enables.
Already happening:

https://apnews.com/article/tax-irs-taxpayers-direct-file-ef2...

I’m not holding my breath on “fantastic”.
> southern Spain and in Serbia

and Italy
Why not commit a sqlite db?
highly recommend clicking the "witness the inevitable future" button

as a python oldie coming back into python, i've been surprised by dataclasses. are they basically "backwards compatible better classes"? any strong blogposts or readings that people can share about better typed python/OSS module publishing practices?
I really only have 3 use cases for Calibre : "sync my device with my library", "convert format", and "strip DRM".

I can never figure out how to do those things without massive research each time I need to do them.

Maybe it's just me, but I do find the UI horribly confusing.
Math is a lot more than just Arithmetic.
If you're wondering how to implement Shazam itself, it's surprisingly straightforward using a notion of "anchor points" and "constellations" within a spectogram to reduce the search space and be resistant to ambient noise.

https://ismir2003.ismir.net/presentations/Wang.pdf

https://www.princeton.edu/~cuff/ele201/files/Wang03-shazam.p...

At scale, you just need a really fast key-value lookup table - and of course, the legal permissions for all the audio files. But if you have a proprietary set of audio files you want to be able to match ambient audio recordings against, it's absolutely feasible to implement from scratch.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6269167/open-source-audi... has a number of open-source solutions using similar approaches.
I remember some years ago I read an article about some Russian tourists in Sweden who got really sick after picking and eating mushrooms. I don’t think any of them died but several of them needed to spend time in the hospital if I remember correctly.
Apple hasn't stopped people from just using the shazam API? Damn, I hope this lasts forever.

I had been looking for an open source shazam-like for a while before giving up and just installing the app under a work-profile on my phone.
i mean, Midjourney would beg to differ, I think they've done plenty well basing their business on discord.
It was deleted by the discord support. I presume it was deleted when I got banned. I don't have a screenshot of what it was before because there is no way to log all activity on discord, nor did I expect to get banned.

You can confirm the contents of the message from the people talking about it here https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F49XZ4zaEAErD3J?format=png&name=...

And yes this is also a campaign to get my account unbanned and also a PSA that you should be thinking about alternatives to Discord like Slack. The moderation and support system displayed here is atrocious.
Double pane glass all around (+weight)

More sound insulation (+weight)

17 speakers, two amps, two subwoofers (+weight)

Same battery

Range increase of 8%. A huge achievement considering the above.
it's a huge business risk
Each feature requires a manager, PM, and dev. WordPad is not free of security vulnerabilities.

No shipping code is free.
This is a very interesting piece. We are at a stage where we’re supposed to consider sex-work as “empowered”, and in some circles bringing up the negatives can be seen as “non-progressive” or even misogynist.

It’s healthy to be able to have a debate around this issue, and it’s most definitely necessary to hear testimonies and take them at face value.
Sadly, Howard Kyllo passed away

https://www.startribune.com/obituaries/detail/0000423925/
You guys can not just fill out online forms from the gov. to submit taxes? And I thought Germany was bad because it was online but about 5 to 10 pages and then wait 2 months for the agency to check.

Happy I live in Romania now where it is basically 1 form with between 1 (company/cap gains) and 5 (lots of extra income) lines to fill out (and 80% of people don't need to fill anything), submit and get your owed taxes in about 5 minutes.
There is no magic. You need to define the task and complete the task.

Larger tasks are just smaller tasks.

A six hundred page book is one hundred nights of reading six pages a night.
> This seems like a campaign to get unbanned more like a real warning to the HN community.

If he's lying, then such a campaign would be doomed to fail since Discord can see what we cannot. So what would be the point?
Why would server side rendering send the entire HTML page on every time? Or lose context or page position?
All those have been smoothly handled by pure server side frameworks such as wicket or tapestry for over a decade.