skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my experience people really love the "The IRS already knows how much you owe" meme and you'll never get much more than downvotes for clarifying the truth of it.

In a better world our taxes could be simpler, but for now let's do our taxes the way they do need to be done.
I've been enjoying a smart watch.

I turned off notifications and it only wakes when I tap it.
It's not a serious policy suggestion so the details don't matter.

Coincidentally I went down a Piaggio Avanti rabbit hole recently; it sounds quite cool.
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His undoing was the darkness he harbored and made him a good writer in the first place.
This is all true, but it misses one nuance, your "competitors" might not be other products/services. In an untried space they are at likely as not to be manual processes emailing spreadsheets around.
Iran used Lloyds and Santander accounts to evade sanctions
https://archive.is/XbA3x
Does the information need to be private? Isn't income public in some countries.
? Public information could be a good defense against tax cheats.
Apple doesn't make them anymore but you can still find similar products on AliExpress and the like, which also work as microSD card readers.
I really don't mind helping DDG take advertisers for all they are worth as long as it doesn't cost me my privacy or waste too much of my time.

And if they take something away from Google in the process --- that's just an extra bonus.

Turnabout is fair play don't you think? Google has worked very hard to take privacy away from users.
Your point 2 is based on what?

I thought the Republican Party describes itself famously as the anti big government anti governmental complexity party.
One of these is still currently in use in my household -- we've got a kid that likes music but is not yet old enough for any "smart device". Super portable, clips to the very over-ear headphones that it's plugged into!

I was never sure if I'd need to recreate make some cable for it, or if it's battery would fail first.
Hmm, wasn't the name I remembered.

I hate to claim something without a citation, but for the life of me I can't find my Phoronix comment... Only my other comments referencing it.
"Stole" isn't the right word either. Pirating does not deprive any legal entity of ownership. It's merely copyright infringement. It also likely circumvented access controls, thereby running afoul of DMCA. But it is not theft.

I'm speaking as someone who also never pirates. I'd rather not watch something and spend my time doing something else.
Lispy https://github.com/abo-abo/lispy
Programming language is not a user interface, it is a way to describe commands. The UI in this case would be the way to enter the program, e.g. punch cards, text editor or IDE, or AI copilot. People who can write code are very broad audience and of course all accessibility requirements must apply.
Dune has a take on this that the movie doesn't do a great job at explaining. But the shield is made to prevent high velocity projectiles and energy weapons. This way the shield can be hidden and fool enemies because the user is still able to interact with daily objects. Like you can eat while wearing the shield and since you'd have body guards it's much harder to get in and stab someone wearing a shield. The Apple version of Foundation has a similar shield but it is more sensitive. Dune's shield has obviously affected many subsequent works.
So, accepting the spurious comma at the end of the list and not requiring commas when there's a newline can coexist. I would say they are tho orthogonal properties. You can support the latter without opposing the former.
That may be true, but inconveniently, it wouldn’t allow the parent poster to rage fantasize about how stupid the product team at Netflix must be
Most people have the same filing status and number of dependents as the previous year, just have W2 and 1099 income already reported to the IRS, and take the standard deduction. For most people, they can tell you what you owe. If it's wrong, you can tell them your dependents or filing status changed and get a new form. If you have a weird situation the IRS doesn't know about, you can still do your own taxes, but that's not most people.
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> To avoid any legal liability. Stating a specific reason would open them to possible "breach of contract" depending on whether the act(s) were significant enough or justifiable, based on the contract terms.

This is how it works for at-will employment, but it would be a very weird contract that allows backing out only if you don't say why you're backing out.
I see a lot of arrangements that put the compost and recycling bins/hole in front and put the trash further away. I guess the idea is that you should try to decide that something should be composted or recycled before you decide to throw it away. The problem is that people who don’t care, just throw everything in the closest bin. The result is that the composted and the recycling are contaminated and have to be thrown out. We should put a big trash bin right in front and smaller compost and recycling bins behind (and clearly marked). Then people who care enough to make a choice will go just a little out of their way to put the compost or recycling in the right bin, and the uncaring will just toss it all in the closest receptacle.
Thousands of Bay Area residents without power
To me this means they decided not to handle the traffic instead of can’t handle it.
This was a surprisingly interesting (if long) read, which I'll summarize briefly here.

The essay starts with Jonathan Franzen taking offense with a reader accusing him of elitist writing, and turns into an overview of William Gaddis and his elitist writing. Franzen presents the idea that great fiction writing is great art, and great art may take some work on the part of the reader to properly appreciate. In this light, he talks about reading and appreciating Gaddis's impenetrable first novel, The Recognitions, which was "great art" but also a commercial flop. This failure forced Gaddis to take a 20-year hiatus before returning with a second novel, which was even more impenetrable, but which, thanks to some PR, achieved commercial and critical success. Franzen reviews this and the subsequent novels, none of which he was able to finish reading; his conclusions about Gaddis as a writer are basically summarized in the last paragraphs:

> Literary difficulty can operate as a smoke screen for an author who has nothing interesting, wise, or entertaining to say. You'll find not one reference (in Gaddis's own essays about writing) to the pleasure of reading fiction. [After] "The Recognitions," however, something happened to Gaddis. Something went haywire....he gave the grownup world one chance to recognize him. When the world, inevitably, failed this test, he took his talent to the archetypically phony work of corporate P.R., as if to say, "You'll never catch me hoping again."

My wannabe literati days are long behind me, but I suspect this approach to marketing literature (if enough of the "right people" say it's good, people will buy it like it is) still applies in force today. I wonder how people find actually good new literature, if none of the usual discovery avenues are trustworthy.
I had an ex that went to Bard and she adored this along with the zen motorcycle book, the windup bird book, and pretty much anything by Gladwell and his contemporaries (definitely that pretentious Lehrer guy). The comments in this thread confirm that I was correct to avoid it.
> What's crazy is that they have all this information and have already computed how much tax I owe

This is not really accurate. If you're a typical employee, IRS has a pretty good idea of your income, which is just one of the many factors that goes into calculating your tax.

In particular, the IRS doesn't independently know most of the things that could cause you to get tax deductions, like whether you got married since last year, or you moved out of your parents' house and started living on your own, or you're taking care of a child, or you had self-employment expenses, or you bought textbooks for your college classes, or you donated to charity, or you paid expensive medical bills, etc.
> It helps for us because I know a lot of these folks already

I'm not in sales, so to me this sounds a bit like that "how to draw an owl" meme.

Would this strategy work if you didn't have lots of friends high up in those companies?

I'm just recalling one of my colleagues at sales who had just been in the second 1 hour meeting with multiple regional directors of some big company, trying to sell our SaaS product for $50/month for use in one of their local departments...
Economics happens in cycles, because there's competing balancing loops and runaway loops. Tech makes big money, hires, pays big money to prevent competitors from hiring talent.

Eventually everyone overhires, extrapolates from the status quo ("why am I not making a $600k salary??"). Property prices and living costs go up. People get lazy, processes are bloated because of the overhiring. Tech layoffs happen to control the bleeding and move faster. The balancing loop becomes dominant when growth slows.

Eventually everyone says tech is dead. People tell their kids to become doctors or real engineers instead. Less engineers are on the market, and it will upturn again. This is actually the best time to be in tech - most of my income is from doing Android back when people said I should be quitting tech or making BlackBerry/Windows Phone apps.

The dot com bubble popped in 2000. Web 2.0 bubble appears to have peaked in 2022, but the data is still unclear. So we can assume that there's a 22 year cycle or so. It's not sinusoidal; it's a boom and bust form where it goes up exponentially (slowly) then busts. The dot com bust cycle went from peak to bottom in about 2 years, but I expect this time it might be longer. After the bust, the market is still much stronger than pre boom, but far from the peak.

There's a lot of abstraction here and it can be modeled better, but the tldr is do what you like. Doing a degree takes time. We should be out of the trough by the time you're done. If you want to work hard and grit it out, you can do that too.

I'd say go to a good uni, though. No name ones won't give you any confidence. The benefits lie in the people you meet and the ideas.
An IP packet can be much larger than a single TCP segment. It can be up to 65536 bytes. IP doesn't have datagrams, it has packets. Well, technically it does have datagrams but what I'm getting at is that with fragmentation (let's say you have broken PMTUD) an IP packet can be split up.

That said, terminology confusion aside, you are still correct and I was wrong. The response can indeed be larger than a single IP packet. 65536 + IP overhead, split across as many IP packets as needed (doesn't have to be a single very large fragmented packet).

I will delete my response!
i totally fail to understand what's so fascinating about those bottles and why they show up on hn regularly. could someone explain?
That adaptive deck launcher seems like you could almost drop that (well and some radar) on any ship and turn it into a warship…
Also Norwegian, and I'm with the person above, but I think it depends a lot on your Norwegian dialect, maybe? The more towards conservative bokmål you get, or even exposure to older Danish, the easier both Dutch and German gets. I think reading a lot of pre-WW1 novels helped my German quite a bit.

I'll note the biggest reason why Dutch may seem somewhat closer than modern German is that modern German is mostly High (Southern) German. Low German common in the Northern parts of Germany before lies closer to the continuum between Dutch and the Scandinavian languages (for example it didn't got through the same consonant shift and still has Dag for day/dag instead of Tag).

There are many words in Dutch that you might recognize as similar to Norwegian that you might be marginally more likely to fail to recognise in modern German because the spelling is slightly more different.
Solution: move everything to client side.
> tone mapping is part of artistic creativity

And its done incorrectly way too often.

(I am sitting on no high horse here, I'm guilty of it as well).
It went a bit downhill after the AP days imo.
Only on WB2.0+, for a decent number of years we didn't have that.
Nope, C on 36 bit machines traditionally used 9-bit chars, packed four per word. C tends to dislike (read disallow) representations where chars, as the primitive type, do not completely tile memory; it makes things like memcpy() fuzzy, as there are bits defined at the word level of the memory layout that are not included in any char, and thus not clear what copying semantics should be.
I mean, it either works well enough for that to be a good idea, or it doesn’t. There are already technologies that are crucial for people to do mission critical things, and if they work well, then of course I want people using them, even if technology might feel really scary sometimes!
how do you explain people why it is really cool?
But can I do that before I file taxes? Maybe I've misunderstood but I thought this is only available after I file taxes: https://www.irs.gov/individuals/transcript-availability
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It's now well known and accepted knowledge that "addictions" have heritable elements (specifically in the transition from initial to problematic use). This has been proven by repeated studies of families and twins.

The preponderance of substance abuse addicts in recovery that "swap the witch for the bitch" and adopt behavioural addictions also support the genetic basis for addictability (my word).

I am a behavioural addict in recovery (4442 days today) and when I consider my siblings, parents, their siblings and their children (my first cousins), there's a >50% incidence of addiction to either smoking (>2 packs/day), alcohol, sex, food, gambling, or drug use. Half of that cohort have more than one addiction and among those almost all share a substance addiction with a behavioural addiction.

I appreciate that this is just one family and is statistically irrelevant. However because I've been around people dealing with their addictions for so long and spoken to so many, this is not an uncommon familial pattern among addicts.

I'd also add that in my clan there are many instances where one sibling is an addict and another isn't. This is not learned behaviour (though the introduction to addictive pathways/behaviours etc is often as a result of environmental and psycho-social factors).
What model are you running underneath?
So… see you at Magic Live?
> Spotify is not profitable

Their stock value doubled in the last year

Their CEO Daniel Ek is worth 3.7 billion dollar.
i got this one for 30 usd a while back, still going strong. didn't need the bluetooth, but it's a bonus for occasionally using speakers.

https://www.dhgate.com/product/m13-bluetooth-mp3-player-mini...
It’s absolutely a technology problem. The hacker mentality is still the one who innovates and a single person is more than enough to make a significant contribution towards a very different future. That person is probably already working on it.
I had my blog be on the front page for ~6-8 hours racking up 100k+ unique loads. It also managed to survive just fine on a $5 VPS so I would hope that other sites could survive.
Much Ado about Nothing.

Reviews on YouTube show an entirely different experience. Seen people walking around wearing the devices and interesting use cases.

Sure, it's not for everyone.
But doesn't seem as dystopian as people make it out to be.
They also don’t know about the adjusted cost basis for those RSUs sold to pay for the ordinary income tax of an RSU grant.
It's mostly with liquor bought from offsite and drunk in rooms/private parties, not via Caesar's venues or catering (there's a lot of that too, and this is summer dead period, so it still may be good).
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>I thought the Republican Party describes itself famously as the anti big government anti governmental complexity party

Actions speak louder than words.
You don't have an abnormal take here at all. Most people are incredibly resistant to this idea. My prediction is that it won't be a choice for the majority of people. Cars are inherently too expensive for each of us to own one, and the experiment of cars will not last as it currently does. If you can continue to afford it then you'll likely be able to, but that isn't going to be the case for th3 vast majority of people.
I’m almost always a vegetarian. My meat eating is down to under 45 minutes a day.
When the amortized flying cost of that jet jumps from $10k/hour to $30k/hour, we'll see who still needs to fly private.

I wonder if that would make the PR problem worse by more starkly highlighting extreme inequality.
Fun fact! The correct original plural is “penes”.
One of my favorite topics is treated as misinformation and completely scrubbed from google and Bing. The idea seems to be the assumption that one must believe all that one reads. Imagine a discussion where everyone agrees?

Stract produced only good results. Unusually good.
I mean it works for music right?
These are wonderfully clear and (would have been extremely) useful. It’s hard to imagine how I would keep notes on a 12 hour meeting and then produce such thoughtful notes overnight to guide the next day’s discussion.

Aspirational, but perhaps easier since I’ve now seen that it can be done.
I can't quite recall since it was a while ago but I built a fairly large USDC position in it over 1 month, as much as the liquidity allowed me to. My main concern was counter party risk since in crypto lots of projects fail and didn't want a ton of capital sitting on the platform.
I guess random bureaucracy is ok when the treatment in question isn’t urgent.
Open source design solution to managing SD cards for Steam Deck
I love that you can install games on SD cards on the Steam Deck, but how do you organize and keep track of them?
Yup, if wheels are too easy, rebuild the steam engine. Make your own CMS. Make your own bitcoin just from reading the original whitepaper. Do a file system, database, encryption system, LLM, whatever.
This isn’t some conspiracy, it’s about money. JPEG XL is likely patent encumbered and this including it may require paying licensing fees. The companies involved can’t admit that because if they do, they’d be willfully infringing if they do end up including it at some point…
This is exactly what Apple attempted to do, but Netflix never provided API access or data, so Netflix shows never appeared in the unified interface.
My father, a programmer who got his start in the punch card era, was the same way, but I never had the mental capacity for this. I need to start writing before I can concretely hold anything in my mind. The structure of the program, and the output feedback loop into themselves and emerge more or less simultaneously.
Let's say Caesars states, "we just got hacked and, as has been reported in every major newspaper, paid $10 million as ransom. We have reason to believe one or more attendees of DEF CON were part of that group."

How does making this statement this benefit Caesars in any way? Now DEF CON can demand some proof of this claim, or sue for defamation, or state that without proof, Caesars isn't acting in good faith, whatever.
Often times you correct it with more paper work. One year, my foreign tax deduction didn’t get filed for some reason (I was doing my own taxes by hand and sending in the forms), so I was hit with a huge tax bill of $30k or so. Then I found out I handled my non-resident wife wrong, so amend 1040X wait for ITIN, etc…it was kind of a mess. I wound up ahead, the IRS owing me instead. They were quite courteous about it on the phone.
From another part of the world - if the IRS has all the data why aren’t they sending refunds/demands for payment without any clicks at all.
Is the behavior that the attention + FF displacements tend point in the same direction known? I am kind of surprised they are even in the same latent space across layers. The FF network could be doing arbitrary rotations, right? I suspect I misunderstand what is going on.
Why now is the time to address humanity's impact on the moon
Doug seems pretty shocked by the pace of AI development in this video [1].

Still, Hofstadter's law has held true for me more often than it has not!

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ac-b6dRMSwY
They are.

They want to make tax filing as painful as possible so that the people associate "taxes => pain" and vote to lower/abolish them. Easy or automatic filing makes people forget about taxes and not care as much about them.

This is also why sales taxes aren't included in item prices, this forces people to be reminded every single day how much they're paying in taxes, motivating them to reduce them.
I've considered trying to reduce my smartphone usage by getting a cellular AW. I need to be reachable in emergences, want to be trackable by family, and want to be able to navigate and take an Uber if needed. But not having an easily-scrollable app interface would help me cut down on mindless internet consumption.

Has anyone tried this?
They spent their hard earned money to make shows you rip off for free. I pirate shit too. But I'm not going to say they they took a piss. And deserver the repercussions. That's backwards and illogical and lying to yourself.

We are the ones pissing and shitting on their faces. We are the wrong doers here.
Worse yet, most of those services have extremely crappy software (e.g. to watch a series, you have to go through several levels of menu for each epusode and some won't even remember which episodes you watched), put in insane amount of ads even for paid subscription, some have no subtitles, etc. While a good pirate site with proper software - or so I heard from some friends - provide much better service for free.
> About 500-ish MB per hour of content for decent quality.

That's still YIFY-quality video, which is a few steps below HBO/MAX, which happens to be among the lowest quality paid streams.

ATV+ is killing it with 30Mbps 4K HDR+ video (it used to be as high as 48Mbps). Disney+ is close. The Netflix 4K plan serves up high 1080p bitrates, 2x better than their 1080p plan. Worth paying for.
"Foxconn Makes Your iPhone. Now It Wants to Make Your Electric Car"

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-11-01/iphone-ma... https://archive.ph/WdSFX
This is a really great idea and use case. It also makes a ton of sense as a pilot use case for this type of open source project given extensions are smaller in scope.

I mean even having it document a best draft of what the extension code is doing would be awesome.

Unless it’s made into an extension and then you have a recursive hell.
Actual violent offenders, murderers, molestors, rapists, etc get far less time and better circumstances.

Leakers continue to leak because the majority of the u.s. population believe their government is corrupt and deserves to be exposed. Said government would produce better outcomes by not continually proving their corruption. Federal corruption is concrete history, it's there on Wikipedia to read, but only the allowed parts.

It's a big club, you ain't in it, and theyre deciding your life for you.