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Advent of No-AI

Sat, 03/29/2025 - 4:35pm

Article URL: https://jcarlosroldan.com/post/350

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43518497

Points: 2

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Ask HN: Data Usage for Family Exploding

Sat, 03/29/2025 - 4:23pm

How do people manage their household reams of data that our family generates?

Each family member has their own laptops and phones, and take dozens of high resolution images every week, school presentations and projects, receipts, and tax documents, videos -- lots of videos.

As a family of 5 with 2 working parents, I'm not really monitoring data use and want a mostly hands off solution to their data storage. And every new phone has a higher resolution camera though maybe JPEGXL will help us there.

We pay for 2TB of icloud data, but I am already eyeing upgrading to 6TB -- but that adds another $22/month. Moving to other cloud providers may save somewhat, but then its another management of a cloud ecosystem, and I know my family will mostly stick to icloud.

On a side note, we store alot of data on google drive too, and google takeout fails everytime I try to download a 50GB file -- so really its trapped there?! All of these have a lockin factor since with more and more data its a huge effort to export!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43518404

Points: 1

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Show HN: I wrote a guide on how to file taxes as a F-1/J-1 visa student

Sat, 03/29/2025 - 4:11pm

Hello HN!

I'm an international student in the U.S. Tax filing for Nonresident Aliens on a F-1 or J-1 visa can be quite tricky, especially since there are almost no resources online that cover our situation. What information I could find are posts from tax software companies, and they are usually thinly-veiled marketing posts.

https://collegetaxguide.org/

This year, I decided to make a guide on how to file taxes as a F-1 student or J-1 scholar. I cover not just the basics, but also advanced topics such as:

* How to claim a tax treaty benefit. Most countries have tax treaties with the U.S. where visiting students and scholars can get an exemption on income tax.

* How to determine if you're a resident alien or nonresident. This is a big point, because as a resident alien, you are taxed on global income.

* How to properly declare investment income on a F-1 visa.

My guide is independent, noncommercial, and open source. There are no ads. It's entirely self-hosted and made by me.

Since this is HN, I will share some notes about the tech stack.

I am using Ghost as the content management system (CMS), since it's a best-in-class CMS that is also open source. The frontend is a custom theme that I forked from one of the included defaults:

https://github.com/collegetaxguide/collegetaxguide-theme

The biggest thing that I learned building this is that modern javascript development uses a lot of toolchains. I used to work in Bootstrap and hand-write javascript with jQuery, but those days are long gone.

I tried to optimize the website as much as I can, and I learned about HTML tags. Using a tag, you can serve different versions of an image, and let the browser load the best one. For instance, you can serve the background image of your landing point in AVIF, WEBP, and PNG formats, and if the browser supports it, they will only load AVIF.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/pi...

I know that a lot of the more experienced developers probably already knew that, but it was very cool for me.

Thank you for seeing my Show HN. I'll be around to answer any questions.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43518297

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

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Pixar One Thirty

Sat, 03/29/2025 - 4:02pm
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Matrix Calculus (For Machine Learning and Beyond)

Sat, 03/29/2025 - 4:00pm

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.14787

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43518220

Points: 7

# Comments: 1

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