skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Your example seems like something that the employee likely knew of though.

That's true, but consider this: by running these checks in parallel you are exposing your employees to whatever risks the new element brings in. Perhaps they were convicted of SA etc. and decide to stalk someone at your co.

It just doesn't seem like the best idea.
>If anything, this will compel the tax preparation software companies to get even better than before...

This implies that the state of tax preparation software is "good", which really doesn't line up with overall consumer sentiment. Personally, I hardly consider clunky UI/UXs loaded with dark patterns to be anything but good.
>This is a non sequitur, if we use it for banking (which is much more critical than voting), why is it a problem if we use electronic technology for voting?

Banking as a use-case is far more fault-tolerant than elections. Bad transactions can be reversed and redone. You can insure transactions, and all parties involved have visibility into the amounts, senders, and recipients.

Elections are one-off events involving secret ballots. You can't have a do-over without throwing the whole system into question. You can't take out insurance for elections.
What does Game Mode do?
There is no way to know what people will find interesting. There is a healthy gap between someones content being absolutely not worth reading and being professional. I think more people should have hobbies and they should write about their experiences even without it necessarily being interesting. I also don't think it needs to be about making money. Once you start trying to get paid for your hobbies it becomes work and not fun.

With an online blog rather than an offline journal you can easily share it with friends. I think the main difference here between TikTok and other huge social media is that less is more. I don't see much point in a million anonymous strangers looking at my posts. I don't think there is anything "natural" about these huge social media platforms. This kind of socialization feels very unnatural to me. Mostly do to the parasocial relationships that occur from the million people to one person style interactions.
"Most people don't have anything interesting to say."

I couldn't disagree more. People are /fascinating/.

There's definitely a skill in figuring out what you can say that's most likely to interest other people, but that's a learnable skill.

One of the skills of a great communicator is being able to help pull the interesting stuff out of people.
Is there any intution for why BBB (beeping busy beavers) can run for much longer (before quasihalting?)

One thing I see is that they effectively don't need to use a halt state. So maybe a 3-state BBB is sort of similar to a 4-state BB in that sense. What is there more to it?
Maybe, I have no expertise in the subject. It seems to me that any vehicle that gets submerged in water will have issues. (If that is what happened).
FreeTaxUSA is the one I use and recommend to everyone else.

Though, I also do my taxes on TurboTax to double check my work (I don't submit until both programs report the same amounts to the penny). I just don't submit using TurboTax.
See, this is the thing that gets me. For almost anyone who fits in this box, you shouldn't have to file in the first place. Not "shouldn't have to pay", but literally, "should not have to send documents to the government telling them how much you owe them" - because they already have all of that information. They should just give you an itemized breakdown and ask if it's correct.
Businesses will still need tax assistance. But there is no reason for a person whose income comes only from a salary, interest on savings and a brokerage account to need paid help to file taxes. The IRS already has all of the numbers. They could pre-fill the forms with those numbers and just have the taxpayer approve them.
OTOH, if they licensed their software under the AGPL, Amazon would not be able to offer it as a service without opening their secret sauce, whatever it is.
Every time I bring up the built environment with planners, almost all of them say "it's not our fault."

They blame politicians, etc. for the results of the planning profession over the past 50-70 years.

Perhaps the planners are right, but then my question is, what do planners actually do?
AI generated Frasier episodes. It is algorithmically inevitable. Mark my words. Within the decade. Seasons of the stuff. And it will be pretty good too.
Gotcha, I must've missed that.
Yes, the one and only reason tax preparation software is needed for normal people with normal incomes and expenses in 2023 is because of Intuit's lobbying. That's why people are upset about it.
> Where we're going, operating systems will either be ad filled messes or locked down walled gardens.

Linux?
We're not talking like government security clearance here. If you have some major legal or financial issue in your life then maybe it depends what exactly the BGC turns up or how it's adjudicated. If not, there's basically zero chance it's going to affect anything. Just a formality from the candidate's perspective.
Because banks have financial incentives in keeping your transactions secure, and even then errors happen all the freaking time.

Government do not have this incentive, and how do you recover from errors once malicious actors have gained power ?
Gloomhaven… confuses me. I bought a physical copy and found it an awful experience. We were all laughing at the tedium it demanded. We have been playing the digital version and enjoying it but it’s still tedious. I just can’t imagine getting through it on a physical copy.

The balance is remarkable though.
An argument can be made that we don't expect the car to speed up significantly anymore. But the steering is haphazard. And the terrain is getting steeper. Some people say they're working on brakes.
>Always felt like there was something I would enjoy in the EDM genre, but I haven't really found the right thing.

Did you try mix shows? The BBC Essential Mix is a really really good one playing since 1993. 2 hour show each week made by one performer. It's pretty much the only music I listen nowadays.

And unlike the iPlayer the BBC Sounds is not geolocked so it's really easy to access.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/b006wkfp (they have smartphone apps too)

There is also a classic version, replaying old shows https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/b00f3pc4

And if I may link my top 5 favorite mixes (you might find something nice to listen to)

Daft Punk from 1997 https://soundcloud.com/retailgroup/daft-punk-essential-mix-1...

Justice from 2007 https://soundcloud.com/ahlstrominfo/essential-mix-10-06-2007

Sharam (Deep Dish) from 2009 https://soundcloud.com/home_42/sharam-essential-mix-2009-08

Skrillex from 2013 https://soundcloud.com/skrillex/skrillex-bbc-radio-1-essenti...

Ben Böhmer from 2021 https://soundcloud.com/irrrregoyn/ben-bohmer-essential-mix-1...
You say that as if that's a bad thing – I absolutely need to kept safe from myself, because I need all the help I need to make sure I'm doing things right!
PG radically underestimates the continuing importance of institutions in the modern world, which is understandable given how and with whom he spends his days. The public sector is huge and largely old fashioned heirarchical/institutional. What is the Fortune 500, if not a big list of institutions.

Read the CV of any new-minted corporate CEO almost without fail you'll find that before leaping into the C-suite they first laboured for 15 years in one big institution, building credibility and experience.

Big law firms, big financial firms, the military, academia, on and on it goes, large institutions within which career advancement depends on finding ones way through the institutional culture and comporting oneself to it, in greater and lesser ways.
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwK_WOXjfc0

I'm downright shocked that this wasn't Rick Astley.
If you're looking for the same level of manual control because you don't want the "wizard" interface, you should use "Free File Fillable Forms" [1], which is the product of a public-private partnership with the IRS.

It's literally just filling out the paper forms except in a web interface and it does most of the math for you. And then you can file electronically for free regardless of your income level, and it produces a final PDF with all forms filled out for your files.

It can be tricky to do your taxes the first time around depending on their complexity, but the good thing is that once you figure it out, you just use the previous year's PDF's as a reference for the current year's. The lines move around a little bit year-to-year but it's usually the same idea. And it becomes pretty obvious what has changed (that requires research), and you can figure out if anything has changed in your own financial situation that warrants filling out a new line or new set of forms.

(I don't believe there's anything specifically textfile-based. But this is definitely the electronic version of doing your taxes "manually" with full control.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_File#Free_File_Fillable_F...
Who says they can't buy a fuel efficient used car?
This is overly optimistic. Intuit is the leader in this space, and they haven't produced a compelling new feature in decades. They have spent far more of their energy fighting the government to maintain their status quo than doing anything material for their customers. They even have gone as far as to lie to their customers about their eligibility for free filing just to skim a little bit off the top of the lowest earners. Even in the presence of competition, the barrier to entry is so high that Intuit has maintained a virtual monopoly on home tax preparation. They will fight to uphold/regain that before they ever fight for you.

Yes, there are alternatives, but what possible enhancement could any of them provide that is worth anything? Tax preparation is largely deterministic, and maximizing deductions is a largely human-lead task that is only beneficial to higher earners who have an accountant that does their taxes for them and don't care about services like TurboTax and FreeTaxUSA.

For most working class Americans a guaranteed free solution provided by the IRS itself is a no-brainer. You know that the government isn't in the business of maximizing profits at all costs, and you get the peace of mind that the IRS itself calculated your taxes, and that you are unlikely to get the blame if there is an error.

Tax collection is a critical function that the government relies on, it should overwhelmingly be a government-lead process that doesn't cost people any more than what they owe in taxes. I hope all of these predatory tax filing businesses go under, because paying taxes is a civic duty that people shouldn't be reliant on private organizations to fulfill for them.
FreeTaxUSA is great and my situation isn't trivial. Think I paid $39? I hope the IRS does not buy them.
Absolute lunacy from this proposal. They well know the current timeline for phasing out ICE vehicles is actually not going that well and they want to further accelerate that timeline? That's just plain greedy, they know Tesla is dominating the EV market atm, this will hurt and slow down current manufactures.

We are already seeing Ford slowing the production for the lightning line because the demands is just not there, there is a huge gap in infrastructure to support the upcoming wave of EVs.

People are just very hesitant to jump the EV boat, and well justified. EV charging is a mess of apps, unreliable charging rates, and just general availability in non-metro areas.
I think the progressive dogma is not "actions have consequences" -- dads have been letting their kids put pennies in light sockets for decades and pissing off the wrong person can get you punched in the mouth.

The problem is that that young men are told they are bad, not worthy, animals, sex crazed, not to be trusted, are likely to abuse children or woman, are less intelligent, are only worth their ability to provide, should not have emotions, should know (naturally) how to be good at physical activities, should be logical, and that they should not complain. Suck it up, buttercup. They are expected to behave like well behaved girls/woman. Sit quietly in class, don't make a ruckus. That is the progressive dogma I'm seeing and have experienced.

It doesn't help when people like you, CJ, laugh it off. "Suck it up, buttercup." For what it is worth, I know _zero_ men who feel they are entitled to a woman's body or whatever you have in your imagination. The closest to entitlement I see is men wanting a job and to be able to provide. You are feeding into the same dogma. There are real issues that drive depression and suicide in men.
Finally someone to blame for GTK4 and Gnome Shell!
Counterpoint: it takes a village. You're naive if you think parents have and can keep full oversight / control over their offspring's internet usage. You can have their devices and your at home internet locked tight, but then they go to a library, they go to a friend's place, they go to school where they get a laptop or tablet and school internet access, or a friend's hotspot.

You can't protect your kids from the internet, you can only warn and educate them. I'm not saying to give them unlimited access from the get go, of course not. But I'm just saying you can't stop them either.
> but locking it behind an account (plus WEI, but 99% of users won't know the difference) seems like it wouldn't cause outrage.

You're probably right. For my part at least, 720p video from youtube almost always satisfies me (and leaves me with more battery life anyway.)
And importantly, as a cop, you're allowed to buy off-roster (modern) handguns and then turn around and sell them to the public at a profit. You have to be slightly careful because the ATF doesn't like non dealers buying and selling tons of guns, but it's a huge racket where cops will make a few thousand dollars a year selling modern/desirable guns to the pubilc (through FFLs).
Misleading title here that differs from the title in the linked article - it’s a pilot in 13 states, not generally available.
Absolutely not. Areas with higher levels of addiction or mental health issues do not have out homelessness problems.

There may be a small causal arrow where homelessness causes some addiction or mental health issues, or a very small arrow where addiction or mental health causes some to be homeless, but the bulk of the problem is high housing costs.
I work for a large, well known tech company and can confirm I had a formal offer before doing any background check.
> If a butcher delivers outdated meat to nowhere, knowing his van will be hijacked, how can he possibly be blamed when the hijackers sell it to their customers?

An obvious corrolary to this is the prohibition on booby traps.
The intent behind the name is to challenge traditional notions of how we work. In this sense, "flout" represents breaking away from the usual way of working to create a more effective and streamlined environment. It's also short, so I liked it and went with it :)
https://billmoyers.com/story/how-lobbying-by-tax-preparer-he...
This is fun to watch. The race to profitability by cost cutting while simultaneously hemorrhaging users seems like an interesting battle.

I imagine the only winners at the end will be those that either never used or have left twitter.

I wonder when the unskippable full screen video ads will be introduced.
Making and sharing work without profit motive still exists. You just can’t find it with Google.
I fail at #5.

Most all the coding I do is for the firm I work for, occasionally some of it escapes to the open source world if I can convince some manager to let it.

At the end of the day, if I've wrung out all I got, that's all there is. It is best to recharge and get ready for the next day.

I've written some pretty cool stuff. But often the code isn't 1/4 of what is interesting about what got written :)
Will the IRS version also do my state taxes? Can it "slurp" in the statements from my brokerage accounts? Can it do rental income? I have no love for Intuit and all the rest, but even with the constant up-selling and the other BS you have to put up with, it does help me tremendously with what would otherwise be a complicated task that I dread doing every year.
Not to mention the institution of SV VC’s.
Very naive question: why did Federal law enforcement not get involved?
You can argue whatever you like, but if the unknown IS actually known, why can't scientists tell us their secrets? How many people would have to be in on the scheme?

And this isn't just a one off, this is a systemic, institutional shortcoming, I encounter several instances of it every day just in my regular social media feeds.
I guess you're saying that Chinese cars take < 1/8 of the Lithium that American cars would? Which implies that your source thinks the average American car will need an F-150 Lightning sized battery?
I agree and they already do to some extent. I could easily do my own taxes. I pay for a service because they take on liability when it comes to my tax return being correct. If they screw up, and they have, they fix it. That is worth 50-100 dollars to me...
To clarify: This is not a full launch, it's just a "limited pilot" that will only be available in 13 states in 2024.

Arizona

California

Florida

Massachussetts

Nevada

New Hampshire

New York

South Dakota

Tennessee

Texas

Washington

Wyoming

Someone please correct me if I'm wrong.
For real? Sweden has had this for like 15 years. Perhaps if you paid a bit more taxes your government wouldn't be so useless (:
DevSecOps Is Nothing Without DevEx
Then we will need to unblock and support the grow of the other types of forest.

Forests shouldn't be composed of a 99% of <10 Years old trees

Do people know that there is an humid Mediterranean forest ecosystem?

Do people know that some Eucaliptus species evolved as part of humid ecosystems?
You wouldn't print out this picture, go up to a child you know and show it to them. I would hope. The internet lets you efficiently subject more children to indecent exposure because you don't see it actually happen.

Just because people often say "think of the children" insincerely doesn't mean you should never think of them.
They can show up in other ways. I noticed when my plain-color sheets suddenly developed polka-dots overnight. Turns out, it was my own blood. They'd engorge themselves, then I'd roll over and squish 'em.

Exterminator told me: "That's one of the worst we've seen. We'll send somebody out next weekend. Until then, keep sleeping there otherwise they'll go looking for food and get into your walls."

Do not recommend.
That's what I intended when I used it (with an extra 'volatile').

My objective was to test the crash reporter tool.
I'm curious, how do they actually figure out who is behind a forest fire? Or even suspect that it was a criminal act in the first place. Finding who is behind a burnt house is one thing, but a whole forest is a lot of terrain to cover for proof!
I suggest: "I disagree. The needless superlatives distract from the point."

It conveys the same message without needless verbosity.
This 7digital: https://us.7digital.com/
I was with you until "it will be pretty good too".

Maybe you're right. But I'm yet to see much evidence that AI is actually good at comedy. It's something a whole lot of humans can't do either.
Eh, more incorrect, probably.

With earthquakes you at least have stress accumulating over time, even if the stress is not necessarily accumulating or being released at a constant rate.

A zoonotic spillover is pure repeated throws of the dice, no accumulated pressure.
I mentioned this in the past -- that apparently Apple puts more effort in authenticating replacement parts for the iPhone than it does for authenticating wireless devices which pretend to be an Apple device.
I found a link on HN a while ago that shows you just that, it's a randomizer (like the old StumbleUpon) that sends you to random "old internet" webpages: https://wiby.me/surprise/

It sent me to a 1998 page about phrenology, the 'science' of determining someone's mental traits based on indentations in their skull: https://www.phrenology.org/index.html
Very cool. A few notes:

1. MPS backend uses MPSGraph exclusively, might hit some performance ceilings limited by MPSGraph. s4nnc moved more and more ops from MPSGraph to Metal directly to have better control on both allocation and some erratic behaviors from MPSGraph.

2. CoreML backend uses coremltools, thus it carries all the baggage of that: requiring to generate CoreML model AOT because Python dependency, have no control over memory planning, weight quantization scheme, or where to put the weights. Dynamic shape might further making memory planning worse as static shape is the main use-case of CoreML so far and far better tested.

I would love to see an updated port of coremltools either in Swift or C++ (ONNX's coremltools implementation is in v3 I believe, and coremltools moved to v7 spec?).
With Beancount, I use metadata tags in my chart of accounts for the tax form and line number, e.g.

2017-01-01 open Expenses:GA:Insurance USD
tax_form: "1040 Schedule C"
tax_line: "15"
tax_description: "Insurance (other than health)"

I can then report my transactions based on the tax_form and tax_line attribute, which gets me much of the way there. I still have to do the math on derived lines on the forms, but this at least makes sure the inputs are gathered correctly.

Being able to write comments is also super-useful. A real life example:

; We can make a "Section 1.263(a)-1(f) de minimis safe harbor election" to
; treat repairs and improvements to tangible property as an expense, which
; would otherwise have to be capitalized. A statement that we are making the
; election must be attached to our tax return and should include name, address,
; and Taxpayer Identification Number. Under the election, we must apply the de
; minimis safe harbor to all expenditures meeting the criteria for the election
; in the taxable year. The limit is $2,500 per invoice.
;
; https://www.irs.gov/businesses/small-businesses-self-employed/tangible-property-final-regulations
2016-01-01 open Expenses:RD:Hosting:Repairs:DeMinimis USD
tax_form: "1040 Schedule C (R&E)"
tax_line: "21"
tax_description: "Repairs and maintenance"
I will will eventually become like manufacturing is today. There will still be hand crafted items and even whole games and they will advertise as such. But for the average consumer it won't make a difference if it's auto generated or hand made
Yup, and that's why I'd consider this a "101" essay. The larger exponential-growth trends (e.g. Moore's Law) practically always have a microstructure with many sigmoid curves. After you've encountered your first exponential, the "201" lesson about saturation becomes important.
The inflation reduction act is such a low key mvp of a bill. This is great
As it relates to the blame for this most unfortunate event, Gaza is pointing figure at Israel, and Israel is pointing fingers at Gaza - with both sides claiming certainty and future proof on their position. We do not yet know who to blame for this event.

Let us keep emotions level and wait for the facts, peddling blame and "they's" through unsubstantiated claims is dangerous and can be irreparable. Until the facts come out, it's best to stay neutral on this specific event.
> making some money on proserv with the people who need it?

If you invest in developing the tool, you'll still be the best option for supporting the tool.

> Megacorps (Amazon) or others can create an alternative to your product at a loss

This is why things like AGPL exist.

They have a business model that they cannot sustain - instead of changing the license (and pulling the rug under their community's feet), they should look into changing the business model.
I like https://everynoise.com/ for this as well.

It tells me French 79 is "French indietronica" whatever that is. You can branch out from here though.