skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry I don't think I clarified enough. To fill out your expected taxes you have to do calculations to determine the proper deductions. So very often you do end up owing because your original paperwork wasn't quite right.

The software is not necessarily "required" you could fill out all of these forms by hand and the IRS also provides online software to aide in filling some of the forms. Many people do do this if they have very simple tax situations and they don't mind dedicating some time to it.

However, due to the complexity of the filing it often is just easier to pay turbotax, HR block, etc to ask some questions and auto-populate the forms for you.

There is also weirdly specific forms you sometimes need for certain deductions/situations (foreign income, foreign bank accounts, investments, crypto, living on a college campus, school supply tax reductions, etc) and its not always obvious when you need to fill these forms out, you could read the IRS website but that's excruciating. So often times these tax softwares also ask questions to help you determine what forms are necessary to have a complete return or help you maximize your deductions by finding the ones you qualify for.
I’m inclined to think the reason for that is that location is a major factor in people’s content preferences, not purely because stuff is cached in one area, that seems extreme.
where I work(for 15 years) we have a IT union, and it's the most dreadful thing ever. I could not recommend it
> Probably well informed speculation

WCCF is known for jumping the gun. They are not SEO trash or a tech tabloid, but grains of salt are required.
Your conclusion where you said this was a good thing? I did read it; I thought it was a shit take, so I commented.
Timelines for any apocalypse are notoriously hard to pin down. But this was a remarkably interesting take from 2010 when read in 2023: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29935385]
I’ll take the other side. There’s nothing wrong with acknowledging race. Today people equate race with a biological essentialism that was grafted onto it in the recent past, but that’s not what race ever meant. Acknowledging race is nothing more than acknowledging that different peoples exist and exhibit group differences. Those differences can generally be readily assessed based on cultural and phenotypical cues without resorting to genotyping. It’s a social construct, but so is all human knowledge. And there are rough edges, but that doesn’t invalidate it. The distinction between “chair” and “table” is also socially constructed and can have rough edges, but that doesn’t render them or “furniture” as a whole useless.

I wholeheartedly agree with liberals that indigenous minority groups, and some others with special circumstances, like Blacks in the US, should receive special protections to preserve their identities and safeguard their interests in the face of a situation where they don’t have the numbers to counteract majoritarianism. I also think that the founding people of a nation deserve similar recognition. My father is from an immigrant family. My mother has ancestors who fought in the Revolutionary War. They have qualitatively different relationships with America on that basis. He comes from an aspirational, urban, working class family, she from a well-established, rural, petit bourgeois family, and they have qualitatively different relationships with America on that basis, too. Solving one problem doesn’t require giving up on the other.

A return to the original meaning of tolerance is warranted. Which is learning to cooperate despite differences, not erasing them. And, importantly, it’s a two-way street, not a struggle session in which one side is made to atone perpetually for real or perceived past sins.

There’s a point where these differences disappear, but they’re surprisingly durable. Just read Albion’s Seed and you can see how smaller ethnic differences between groups of English colonists are still at work in the political landscape today.
I’m guessing some of those seats are resold by Amazon as virtual machines on AWS.
It sounds like the real story is you need to keep two payment processing setups active and used at all times, because you never know when one is going to mysteriously disappear.
I cannot solve the problem of nuclear weapons without a formal state with a military, and war in general. So we can argue about how best to organize it but the state must exist and is legitimate IMO.
> Repeated requests for prepayment; anger or aggression when the request is denied.

Why would they ask for prepayment?
The Longevity Million Molecule Challenge
a small laser engraver perhaps? looks like you can get one from china close to 100usd
There are, they just require a bachelor's first.
Yeah, it's not popular. Most won't thank them for the upcoming enshittification of Bandcamp.
Libertarianism isn't the same as anarchism. Libertarians want there to be law enforcement and a defense industry, and they want the private sector to play a role in that when possible, but not to fully replace the government's role. The state having a monopoly on violence is a key part of libertarian thinking, in fact.

So there's no hypocrisy here. However, the Insider article is clearly designed as an attack piece on Thiel, and is probably written by people who don't understand what libertarianism is - a very common issue with those who attack it.
Continuing government contracts, expectation of favours in return, they almost certainly hold some dirt on him (and many others).
> Plus there is no shortage of cheap USB C headphones.

Just for the record, I thought about this part of your comment this morning and looked on Amazon to see what the options would be. There are barely any USB-C headphones. For earbuds, there are some, but almost nothing for on-ear / over-ear. Like single digits.
The program was launched a long time ago. At the time, $100k was a lot of money. A know more than a few people that were part of the program and most of them liked it.

Although half of the thiel fellows I knew ended with businesses that didn't pan out and they went back to school (most got into ivy leagues)
You could draw it by hand; get some grid paper and a pen or marker, copy the QR code from your screen. There's plenty of error correction in a QR code that you could make some mistakes, I believe.
For some context, it’s important to understand the degree to which Bandcamp’s success and ubiquity with independent music is built on a people-first, anti-corporate culture. Bandcamp is an obsession for a very large and engaged segment of the independent music world. A good friend, a professional musician, told me “I feel like I’m watching my childhood home burn to the ground.” This is far from a unique sentiment. People are mourning. I’m building an alternative[0] to Bandcamp, announced the day after Epic’s sale, and I am receiving a disruptive volume of messages from people looking to sign up and get involved in response to this. It’s not just users, it’s bands and labels and people who’ve contributed to Bandcamp over the years. Many of these are people with large voices and followings and businesses of their own.

This has been building for some time. The Epic sale set it in motion. The formation of the union was a signal to supporters that the staff distrusted the new owners and were taking steps to protect the company’s mission. The Songtradr sale escalated it. The perception of targeting union members is being interpreted as confirmation of all fears.

So while the tech industry has dealt with high-profile layoffs for the past year, I don’t think most if any of those companies have the cultural significance of Bandcamp or have a for-the-people ethos baked into their DNA. This is much more significant than layoffs after an acquisition. The perception of targeting union members could do irreparable harm to a brand built on honesty, support, and integrity.

[0] - https://ampwall.com
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> The paper is probably more of a danger since thermal paper supposedly is loaded with BPA.

That's been banned in the EU since 2020, the question is if its replacement BPS isn't just as bad... [1]

[1] https://echa.europa.eu/de/-/bisphenol-s-has-replaced-bisphen...
There are laminators that don't use heat ;)
It's sending me to a rickroll now (Youtube).
It looks very much like they layoffs were structured to provide plausible deniability for firing the union organizers and a majority of union and union-eligible employees.
So interesting everyone's unique doodle like the split centipede thing
I really like this idea! I wanted to leant Erlang some time ago and a friend wanted to learn Crystal, so we set out to be able to share files between each other with completely custom clients! It was so much fun when we were able to exchange files with the base protocol and some.. Is it call BEP? Enhancements tk the protocol?

It's probably my favourite way of learning a new language, as it's simple enough to understand and implement
There are a variety of relevant limitations. Some of them are listed here: developers.cloudflare.com/durable-objects/platform/limits/

For this particular problem, it just comes down to CPU time. At the bottom of the stack ws.send() is a syscall and it takes significant time. You can only do so many of these calls per second. We measured it at about 8k/sec a year ago.

With a conservative limit of 2k calls to ws.send() (so that we can stay about about 50% utilization and only use half of the time for calling send), this implies 6 clients at 60 FPS using a naive approach (6 * 6 * 60 = ~2k).

It's not really a DO problem, it's just that doing n^2 messages can't really work in any platform.
Government always serves the ruling class. The point of libertarianism is to eliminate the abuse of government so the capabilities of the individual can progress freely. Libertarian ideology assumes government to have a worse case scenario impact. Blissful ignorance of an over-watch is not worse case.
Is this because of social media apps like tiktok and fb?
Yes I found this out the hard way just last week - thought I was being pretty clever with my inside-the-box packing label.
Libertarian has been a loaded term, and what you are referring to is probably right-libertarianism which is the dorminant form in the US.

Most folks already know that, but I just want to point it out since I personally identify as left libertarian.
For once smaller is better.
Perhaps their AI is just a big black box, it outputs if banned or not, no reasoning.

No one has cracked proper reasoning AI based like human commonsense. Human commonsense is legit really hard.
Source?

Waiting times in months for pregnancy makes little sense since:

* many pregnancy related things have specific timelines that should be followed

* pretty much all European countries have negative natural growth, meaning that there are fewer and fewer babies being born. It's highly unlikely related specialists are being overburdened.
A COMPUTER
CAN NEVER BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE

THEREFORE A COMPUTER MUST NEVER
MAKE A MANAGEMENT DECISION

— IBM slide, 1979
… but the Unpack[…] wrapping required is awful, required because they initially defined kwargs type annotations in a rather baffling way.

(I don’t know about others, but it was obvious to me from the start that the way the *args and **kwargs type annotations refer to the sequence values rather than the args/kwargs bindings was always going to cause confusion, and was very likely to cause problems down the line when they wanted more precise typing; and that day has arrived for kwargs, no idea if they have any plans for similar on args, which is sometimes useful. They should just have required `*args: List[T], **kwargs: Dict[str, T]` from the start.)
China's demographics are a problem, yeah. I'll give you that all day. Yes, they have a dependent economy, sure, but if you think about it, so does the US - nobody builds physical goods in the US, and American corporations are just as import-needy as China is export-needy. Food security is just a famine away, and The Party wouldn't lose any support even if a few million people died.

The Chinese people have ZERO problems overall with a dictatorship. You can't manage to take a billion people out of poverty without one, sadly. The Chinese that I've worked with not only like what the Party has done to their families and communities, but also their local economies.

Your view is that it's a brutal dictatorship. Their view is that The Party has put a roof over their heads, put food in their stomachs, developed an economy, modernized their country, educated them (and paid for them to study overseas), and has given them a good life - a much better one than their grandparents ever got a chance at.
> You found a small example

What are you talking about?

> atrocities committed in the name of ethnic nationalism

If you are referring to the Hindus, they are not a single ethnicity.
- "Previous Ryzen Threadripper launches have seen a DIY launch happening several months later after the launch of the OEM/Pre-built platforms."

This anti-competitive behavior should be illegal and it should be prosecuted. Clearly, there's some kind of backroom agreement where these "preferred" OEM's are giving AMD money, or some consideration of value, in exchange for locking out their competition. What other, benign explanation is there?

(Not unlike Intel paying OEM's illegal kickbacks to lock out AMD [a], come to think of it).

[a] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30087546
For me a smartphone is a tool not a fashion statement. I remember when smartphones were new people showed them off but I don't see that nowadays.
What's that line that people on one end of the political spectrum like to use?

"Freedom of speech doesn't mean freedom from consequences"?
I think how well it handles Norwegian despite the small number of Norwegian tokens present for GPT3 (I'm not aware of up to date overviews of token distributions in the training data) is a good indicator that a lot of it does transfer.
If it is being downvoted, it's at least partly because it's an unrealistic standard that is about as serious as the take that "socialists" shouldn't be allowed to use smartphones or other products of "capitalism."
Colleges aren’t scalable either. Ask Harvard to hand out more degrees and you’ll see part of the value of a degree is signaling something you have that others don’t.

It’s a zero sum game: the more people have Harvard degrees, the less valuable that degree becomes.

Recall the Thiel fellowship targets people who would have gone on to a top university. So neither paths are scalable.
Yeah, its the same as EPYC Genoa.

Theoretically they could pack in 192 cores with the 16-core die, but haven't done so (on EPYC) for reasons unknown to me. Maybe a physical packaging limitation?
But who wasn’t.
In my experience yes. Old receipt roles fade even stored in a warehouse.
I would try that anyway, as an experiment.

A cheap thermal printer for kids is around 10-20 USD (got one for such price with 10 rolls of paper, half of which is sticky paper), has bluetooth, usb and battery. Fits in a pocket. Would be fun to stick such qr code inside some not important book left lying around.
No, if you don’t generate surplus value. You get fired. One project sure, maybe your ROI window for your employer is higher than that. But it still holds true.
Selling animals is highly regulated in much of the world, which is why you see “free animals but pay for the shots” kind of things here and there.
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That's with a base clock of 4.7GHz, though. It's very high, but not impossible.

The 12-core Ryzen 9 7900X has a TDP of 170W, and that's with a significantly smaller package. The 16-core EPYC 9174F already has a TDP of 320 W with a base frequency of 4.1GHz and a boost frequency of 4.4GHz, in a package quite similar to Threadripper.
It's being downvoted because there is no inconsistency between publicly stated beliefs and actions. Look into it more closely.
This is a bit like saying that Rhodes scholarships are challenging the status quo of academic advancement.

A program for a select few works for them because a lot of resources can be channeled to a small group of bright people — but that system absolutely cannot scale.

The Thiel Fellow program “works” because not that many people get to be Thiel Fellows.
Higher boost clocks. And the cheap EPYCs are single-socket too.

The real issue is that there are no non-Pro threadrippers anymore. Those were even cheaper.
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we called it macos then :)
Why dosent the union have its members just refuse to buy anything?
I tried to find one, but failed; did find this HN comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18498434

It says a QR code is specified as being up to 177 pixels wide (and high I presume, because square), where they can have 2 kB of data with medium error correction.

It's a bit of a chore, but manageable to do if the data is important enough. Plus, with error correction built in, you can make some mistakes.
There may be some truth in this. I have basic understanding software and hardware. I was (and still am!) impressed at how my Amstrad drew graphics on the screen, but am considerably less impressed by the much more complicated graphics we have today.

Though this is likely partially as you said — a degree of separation by understanding — it's also because it's not all "one piece". Many different people in many different teams, departments, countries, are necessary to create something like a smartwatch. None of them can do it alone, and that has something to do with it for me.
Whom it attracts doesn't define it. I think we could all postulate some interesting personalities for some other ideologies.
Unlike 7B & 13B, the 34B model does not have code infilling which is very useful for code completion
I work on a certain other open source LMS that stores some of its data in Mongo but has been gradually moving it all into a relational db.

It is true that the (home-baked) ORM we use on top of Mongo provides an abstraction layer which makes parts of the migration easier, but truly finishing the migration has and will feel like a long, gradual rewrite.

That's because Mongo and its "no-SQL" patterns permeated our original architecture. JSON everywhere, layers of caches to handle the inefficiency of complex Mongo queries, stringly-typed fail-quietly semantics, all that sort of fast-and-loose stuff. Truly moving to relational data (Django models, in our case) means replacing all those old patterns with, you know, thoughtfully designed data models and efficient SQL queries. Otherwise, the LMS would just be a Mongo app awkwardly grafted onto a SQL database.
Ebook publishing in Germany is curious:

Surprisingly, some time ago all large publishers (or rather, their trade union) have agreed to drop DRM in favor of "invisible watermarking" for all of the German-language books they sell – except for one. Take a wild guess which one...

In any case, this is really great when buying books: Since it's all just DRM-free ePubs, I can read them on whatever hardware I want, including a Kindle.

The formatting and UI is a bit off compared to "native" Kindle books (which are also just ePub at this point!) because Amazon refuses to activate their nicer/newer renderer for "personal documents", but not being locked into a given ecosystem for books I already bought vastly outweighs that.
It’s not a meme. You do something that is sold for X and you are paid X-Y. y is your surplus value.

True you possibly couldn’t get that y on your own. But someone got it, and it wasn’t you.
Many of the "authoritative" sources the algorithm is drawing from have published incorrect information as recently as yesterday.
I majored in EE and only ever had math and engineering classes. I had one class in philosophy that I took for fun but dropped after a week after realizing it's not for me. It didn't hurt my option to graduate in three years. What's the requirement for general education?
what did they edit? im honestly curious as in my perception bandcamp is something that i get a link to from a band and that i then use to buy music. have problably spent a couple of 100 € over the years there.
Is POSIX really outdated?
For a few things, mostly things don't need that much power and lower voltage is safer.
Looks like he was doing his patriotic duty.”Thiel's reporting to the FBI was largely limited to foreign contacts and attempts by foreign governments to penetrate Silicon Valley.”

Not uncommon in rest of the world. Once upon a time, it was American journalists who enthusiastically did this:

1. C.I.A. Established Many Links To Journalists in U.S. and Abroad: https://www.nytimes.com/1977/12/27/archives/cia-established-...

2. Correspondence and collusion between the New York Times and the CIA: https://amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/aug/29/corres...
I wonder if you could insert your own downloader to pacman / whatever without touching the source.. I might try to do this at some point if I have time. I often get over 100MBps from torrents but only like 5MBps from package repositories (though on good days that might be up to 40MBps)
There's no such thing as a former informant
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If they actually paid in advance for the whole production run for those months how is that any different compared to the product being released but shelves being empty?
I had a financial company attempt to withhold my money so I skipped the chatbot and went straight to the CFPB. They were suddenly able to ACH the funds back to the account they originally took them from. Just goes to show how arbitrary and capricious all these companies are.
Sure, but we also expect vastly more non advanced life
You said "Having "the advisory body of the whites/blacks/asians/indigenous/aboriginal/etcetera" enshrined in a constitution seems utterly bizarre to me."

That's an advisory body based on genetic traits that manifest superficial changes, that's what I was responding to. You're right that you can obtain a nationality but not an ethnicity. That's why I explained that you shouldn't think of it as ethnicity but closer to nationality.

Look at the beginnings of Australia. Would you think it odd if the colonial government had decided to somehow recognise the current inhabitants of the land?

Given that they didn't and instead committed various atrocities, why do you think it's wrong to retroactively recognise the affected people? The people today in our reality are just as descended from the people from then as the people of the fantasy land.
Or fall over

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It seems to be failing to create a repository right now
The yearning in this essay for an era of wise craftsman-philosophers building architectural monuments for the ages is just fantasy. It never was and never will be.

I remember great pieces of software from before the Internet era. The grammatical tense that applies to them is "past". They are dead and gone and only exist as "hey, remember Code Warrior?" "remember the LISP Machine?" "remember Lotus Notes?" Millions and millions of dollars, hours, lines of code all just gone. They live on as inspirations but not as artifacts.

The "cathedral" model doesn't produce cathedrals, it produces photos of cathedrals that were abandoned and eventually collapsed and were forgotten.

The bazaar has produced code that outlives its authors, its sponsors, its original communities. You can Tanenbaum Linux all day long but it will outlive the cockroaches. That's the real monument.
Whats wrong with that? I find it convenient to read with less.