skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you've never had a tax scheme offered to you, this is how it goes. My experience is in the UK but there's similar stuff everywhere, I'm sure.

Someone from an "aggressive accountant" will somehow find you. They will tell you what kind of people they represent, and why you are one of them.

Then they will draw an immensely complicated block diagram, like the UML diagram of a large enterprise application, except none of the blocks means anything to you.

There's always some special rule they are using. One time it hinged on me, a guy who can't play or sing a note, spending an hour or two each week critiquing the lyrics of a well known rap artist. Another time it hinged on me writing and publishing poetry. Yet another one was related to films. I've got zero skill in anything artistic, so obviously this was not going to be legit.

It is what the guy presents it as, a tax dodge. The guy also says your winning are dependent on running a legal gauntlet; Some schemes work, others don't and you end up paying the tax bill, the accountants, and a penalty.

Luckily I wasn't tempted to participate in any of these schemes. You know why you are participating in these schemes, and it's not a sincere desire to improve rap music. And I did hear about a friend of a friend recently who tried and lost, and is now in deep trouble.

That's just the tip of the iceberg as well. All sorts of other tax games are played by people way wealthier than me, as well as corporate entities.
Why on Earth did your family member purchase an app that is literally provided by the os?
Check out your local library! They won’t have as extensive of a catalog, but they usually have quite a bit of DVDs available.
(Note that I'm not trying to straw-man you here, because I know you're only talking about the specific instance of this panel, which I've already agree was a farce to begin with. However,...) I still think it's harmful to society as a whole to try to use someone's views on any given topic as an excuse to refuse to work with them on something unrelated.

Say, for instance, that you're asked by a supervisor to collaborate with a Muslim living in a middle eastern country on writing a piece of software. For the sake of argument, say that this particular person believed that the laws recently enacted in Brunei were in line with the commands of Islam, and therefore just. (For the sake of argument only--obviously not everybody in those categories is like this at all--but clearly at least some must be or we wouldn't have situations like this recent one.) Would it be right to refuse to work with this person on writing say, some python code, when the topic of "sharia law" is never going to be a factor? Furthermore, by your argument, would you be willing to trust this person's judgement on software architecture when they have exhibited a, in your view, extreme lack of good judgement in another field?

Second, you can even take this argument to a higher level. You admit that the opposing party has a reason to believe what they believe, and I'd imagine that you'd even grant that they probably believe that their reasons for their particular position are good reasons. Leaving aside whether the positions themselves are good or not, how do you evaluate whether someone's reasons for holding a particular position are good? After all, a religious person may believe that one day an omniscient being will call them to answer for why they failed to keep holy commands in their life. To the holder of such a view, that's a pretty good reason to do some twisted stuff. If anything, (if their religion is right) such a reason for them holding their particular position (fear of eternal condemnation) may even be better to them than your reasons for your position are to you!
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I use the same setup as the GP.

password-store uses git+gnupg so backing them up is a matter of distributing the git repo. My git repo lives on each of my laptops and I have a 'central' host of it...so it's backed up via distribution.

For getting passwords to my phone I use a homemade Android app + small web app that sends them to my phone encrypted on-demand from my laptop or desktop. There are Android apps for using password-store but you have to put your GnuPG keys on your phone for that and I prefer not to do that.
Or even non-mainstream films. Or anything more than a few years old. Or a fair number of cable TV series.

Basically, if it is available on disk, Netlfix can mail it to you. And their mailing service is pretty efficient. It's rare to have to wait long to get something.

The only annoyance is that occasionally you get a 'rental only' disk that doesn't have the extras.
This comment gets to the point. It's not just about the Heritage Foundation holding conservative views but about how they've falsified studies and put out deceptive rhetoric. This unethical behavior disqualifies them from serving on an ethics committee.
Well then anyone leveraging a 401k is doing something unethical then, because it was never intended for widespread use as a retirement scheme.
It didn't help that the pilot flying was the one that made the error, and the other one, who correctly understood the situation, was the pilot monitoring. Even more, the pilot monitoring didn't explicitly take control of the aircraft - "My aircraft". Bonin was under the impression that he's in charge, and was utterly confused by the whole situation, until the end.

As with each aviation accident, it's not a single cause of failure - it's a swiss cheese model of failures, where it just happened that all the holes aligned - from the flight law dropping to alternate, to Bonin who didn't trust what the computers said, to the other pilots not understanding completely what Bonin did, to the pitot tubes freezing.
humanity? people use this word for PC virtue points. all people already have the same rights. trans people are not denied anything.
Did you use skookumscript? Just curious because they say it was heavily used in Sleeping Dogs.

I like skookumscript and miss it now that I switched from unreal to unity.
The selection is huge for me. I don't sub to netflix dvds but I'm really thinking I might.

A few years back, they used to have a button to check for DVDs and I did, and a lot of stuff that isn't up for streaming is not an issue for DVDs.
H2 has a disk persistence mode.

Though I’d probably use SQLite for this use case
If someone has that marginal an income, they will never even begin to start a savings plan, nor will that money survive to retirement. It will be gobbled up by the first medical or vehicular emergency that comes up.
That would be brutal, but really good.
Right and then the trick will be to make the cheapest drone delivery? How is it ever not a race to the bottom?
One argument that I often hear is that even if we go with batteries, they then need to be replaced every few years, and the electricity is mostly coming from non-renewable sources either way.
No - this app uses a UI kit called SnapKit (available on GitHub). It's kind of a composite of Swing and JavaFX. Like those, it abstracts drawing and user input, so that on the JVM it uses Java2D/Swing and in the browser it uses DOM.

There's a product called CheerpJ that compiles Swing apps to the browser. I'm not sure when/if we'll see JavaFX.
> his struggles to defend his “Big Bang” model of the origin of the universe against those who accused him of being religiously motivated

His opponents literally proposed that matter simply came-to-be out of nothing in order to avoid the possibility that the universe might have a beginning.

If you are interested in the history of this disagreement about the nature of the universe you should also read Stanley Jaki's _God and the Cosmologists_ [1]

[1]: https://www.amazon.com/God-Cosmologists-Stanley-L-Jaki/dp/08...
It‘s most fascinating when you realize that wind & solar will, very soon after being competitive with new coal and gas, become cheaper even than existing fossil fuel plants.

That’s because renewables are almost entirely front-loaded: upkeeps is somewhat neglible in comparison to construction. For fossile fuels, the fuel itself is a dominating cost.

Meaning: in some countries, we are on the brisk of an inflection point, after which growth of clean tech will be limited only by our ability to increase production. I saw a graph, which I can unfortunately not find now, predicting 2021 for some European countries and some regions in the US. There isn’t much speculation in a time frame of only two years.
That's a reasonable answer for leisure access, since I also do the same wherever possible. It does open the door to seamlessly trying different web apps and services without the pain of lengthy registrations for something you might only look at once.

But gmail can't and shouldn't do it all.

I'm not sure if gmail facilitates your online banking. I didn't think that was even legal. I'd be irate if Google ads started presenting stock advice to me based on my qtrade transactions, or drug brands based on my doctor's online communications with me. Separate accounts all the way.
Yup, it's just git. Passwords are files in a git tree so you usually do not run into any conflicts unless you manage to change the same password on both ends, which also should be easy to resolve.
Even in the "capitalist hellhole" that is the US, you can get a lifesaving operation even if it bankrupts you, and then you still get social security payments after. and you can borrow money from your 401k.
I played with this too, and was really excited about it... until I discovered that it doesn't work on the iPad Pro (known issue with one of VS Code's core components).

It's promising, but it's got a little ways to go.
While I agree that there's a macroeconomic component to everything and it's a bit disingenuous to Ayn-Rand-blame people 100% for their own economic situation, I also don't think you have to be a new genetic race of super-human to be able to focus on the big things AND the little things? Maybe in that order? The oppositional stance is just theater.

Also if this formulation is true:

If you can't afford a coffee you've got bigger problems.

..then this is also true:

If you've got bigger problems, you can't afford a coffee.

Bigger problems might include having an 18% interest credit card. That needs to be treated as an emergency, as someone said, probably Mr. Money Mustache.
I just went back to Netflix Blu-Rays after being frustrated with seeing tons of imperfections in streaming quality. The artifacts are so annoying to me in 4K streaming that I mostly prefer just watching 1080p blu-rays.
If you add new tires to your Tesla when you sell them you can sell the new tires with it. Try selling your apps when you sell your old iPhone. Your car is also repairable. Your iPhone is meant to be thrown away. (Not an issue exclusive iPhones)
> Fucks given after all, I guess?

I knew that was coming eventually ;)

You make several valid points. I will check out the video you referenced.

On the other hand - I have wondered if maybe Hollywood is over-represented by LGBT persons (not that it's a bad thing) and thus gay screenwriters/investors/producers are of course going to include their own stories in the things they create. I could be totally wrong here, just an idea I have had.

What is few to some is many to others, it seems. Maybe I just watch a lot of progressive stuff. There are a ton of teenage lesbian characters in a lot of stuff on Netflix; enough to make me think being lesbian is in vogue.
The new Ryzens are meant to launch with PCIe 4.0 (this summer, I'm due an upgrade!), so effectively...

I'm surprised they don't come with more, especially many of the current ones come with 2-3 x16 slots, AND 2-3 M2s.. Both Intel and AMD have been adding more cores recently. Plus, if you're doing any GPU-based rendering, they're going to simultaneously move data back and forth from NVMe to the GPU's memory. But it grabs a headline and most synthetic benchmarks will only test RAM, graphics and storage in isolation - sneaky!
Same! I've been wanting to work through the catalog of Miyazaki films but the stuff is streaming unobtainium. Quite a wait at the library too. This seems like the only way to go haha.
Actually, the S&P has delivered 7% after inflation over its history, not 5%, so the returns are even larger than this.

https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/042415/what-average...

The real thing the article misses, though, is the mindset that giving up a latte is meant to symbolise. That's best expressed in this article:

https://jamesclear.com/marginal-gains

The point isn't to just drop the latte and see a massive gain. It's to understand that a set of marginal gains made across your life can, together, have a huge cumulative effect.
Radar sends pulse. Radar moves. Radar looks at reflections from previous pulse. Because radar moved before waves returned and is now looking at the area from a different angle making the image appear illuminated from elsewhere. Its not the suns shadow but a radar shadow. Like if you took a picture with a flash and managed to reposition your camera to a different angle before the light from your flash reached the target.
There are people who will be homeless, regardless of what your zoning laws are. An income of $0 doesn't quite get you a roof over your head, regardless of how cheap that roof is. An inability to function in modern society won't keep you inside an apartment, even if its a shitty dormitory.

Zoning is only a part of the homeless problem. Only a fraction of homeless are homeless because they were priced out of their homes.
Yet it's often not in our control, since we also have to consider things besides race like cultural background.

I would date black women if I could relate to them on as much as I could from other women of other backgrounds. I've known enough black women where I know that I don't "click" with most of them, even if we get along on a platonic basis. It goes to show how culturally segregated we can still be in America. (not that it isn't as bad or worse elsewhere)

I've found that I can be attracted to all sorts of women. Different "races", sizes, shapes, ages, etc. But I'm primarily attracted to white and south-east Asian women. Why? The first one is kind of obvious since people consider me white, but I really don't know about the second other than that I seem to get along really well with them.

If someone genuinely wants to open themselves up to other sorts of people, I think that's great. The part where it would get weird for me is if someone was purposely dating people they aren't normally attracted to in order to make themselves feel good about being less racist. Everyone's talking about "fetishization" these days, but purposely dating black guys can be fetishizing even if it's well-intentioned.
Yeah, that one seemed particularly prophetic. Seeing as this was written in 1996, was that a real concern then? I'm too young to have known the early internet.
Honestly, I'm not sure what this means.
If gender is innate, and not a social construct, then what does that say about gender roles and what are the implications for modern feminism? If gender is a purely social construct, gender identity is a lifestyle choice.

Both formulations are wrong, but people tend to go all in arguing one or the other. The problem is now we have the same crew that was 100% social construct arguing for 100% biological determinism and the inconsistency of worldview makes them sound ridiculous.
I can't eat Hershey's chocolate, because it tastes like baby vomit.

Yep, I know where you're coming from.
They will also usually be able to inter-library-loan materials not available locally.
You got it all wrong. Guayaquil is conservative and Quito more liberal.
I found the book 'The Righteous Mind' very eye-opening and it talks about exactly these things, I recommend it to all my friends.

Particularly relevant to my own experience was the commentary on how politicians have become less cooperative with their rivals in other parties, and how political views/party associations have become more extreme/less tolerant overall.

Highly recommend.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/0307455777
An article arguing that this has already happened came through the frontpage during the last few days.

-> I can't find it. Can anyone help?
It may "seem" like every 1-2 of every for main characters is gay, but that's far from the truth. At any rate, it is clear that your homophobia is responsible for how uncomfortable you are seeing gay characters.
Except the first one requires a subscription, and the second one talks about heterosexual, not homosexual transmission.
I remember when I had my first real salaried job out of college. I had a salary of around $40k, and I was extremely strict about how I spent my money. I managed to limit myself to $10k/year in the inner Bay Area. This was in 2010. And, yes, I accumulated some savings.

At the same time, I deprived myself of many experiences, which had a cost, in happiness, connections, and knowledge.

Nowadays I make and spend order of magnitude more. I would never have gotten to the point I am, though, if I had stuck to spending $10k a year. Even if you're crassly trying to maximize wealth-at-the-time-of-retirement, extreme frugality is a suboptimal strategy.

Set a budget. Don't waste money stupidly. But spend it, and spend it on meaningful experiences that provide you value.
The number is simply too good to be true. Reduce poverty rate by 20% in 3 years in Canada? So when will they totally eliminate poverty?

"there were 825,000 fewer Canadians living in poverty in 2017 than there were in 2015" from the official website. It's not the same as "Roughly 825,000 Canadians were lifted out of poverty in those years".

Also, it's ridiculous to claim this scale of change was caused by the program described in the article. It's almost certainly caused by some large scale economical or statistical reasons.
>>I’d hate if game development turned into a typical corporate 9-5, and was inclusive of all skill levels.

Why? If the quality of the games stays the same, what benefit is there for the employees to work 20 hour days during crunch? How is that inherently "good"?

How would you make it better than "terrible by any measure"?
It's essentially a cable channel. Big-name movies come and go, and there's no way of telling then it happens. E.g. the Shining has been on there, and the Incredibles 2 is on there now.
SpaceX Is Giving an Open Demonstration of Crony Capitalism
Mpv [0] has this as well (plus many more possibilities (including scripting/plugins)).

[0]: https://mpv.io/manual/master/
My apologies. I did not realize you were Prof. Denicola or Perlman of the University of Nebraska College of Law...or one of their student assistants...

But my point stands. If you were involved in writing that treatise 23 years ago, you need to re-read your own research or get caught up on the case law since that 1995 treatise was published.

An award is an act of speech, not an act of trade, and is not subject to antitrust laws. Especially when that award is but one of many such awards, several of which also restrict Netflix films from eligibility on the same grounds.
Why and How Capitalism Needs to Be Reformed by Ray Dalio
If it's easy to find surely you can link it here, if only to support your claim of data more precise and reliable than the CDC.
And they invest the difference
The decreases in battery cost in this report are pretty spectacular, but it's missing comparisons to costs for traditional generation. As best as I can tell from https://www.eia.gov/outlooks/aeo/pdf/electricity_generation.... - the LCOE for gas generation is around $40/MWh. So this article's cost of $187/MWh for batteries is still a lot higher, but the battery cost has dropped 35% in one year so it could get there soon. What I'm still not sure about is if you need to include the LCOE of the original generation method in the cost of the battery system? In that case the total LCOE for say wind+battery would be ~$210.
For some inspiration about adaptive traffic routing, check out this Distributed City Generation rule for the Moveable Feast Machine.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkSXERxucPc

>Robust-first Computing: Distributed City Generation: A rough video demo of Trent R. Small's procedural city generation dynamics in the Movable Feast Machine simulator. See http://nm8.us/q for more information.

The link for more information is to the paper "Local Routing in a new Indefinitely Scalable Architecture" by Trent Small:

>Local routing is a problem which most of us face on a daily basis as we move around the cities we live in. This study proposes several routing methods based on road signs in a procedurally generated city which does not assume knowledge of global city structure and shows its overall efficiency in a variety of dense city environments. We show that techniques such as Intersection-Canalization allow for this method to be feasible for routing information arbitrarily on an architecture with limited resources.

In a nutshell, the route destinations send out a "smell" along channels in the sidewalk, and the intersections look at the different roads coming into them, and steer cars towards the direction with the strongest smell that they're looking for. (There are some more nuances, but routing information flows along sidewalks to intersections, and the city adaptively learns to route traffic, and can gracefully recover from failure and change.)
You know what's cooler than saving $1000 every 7 years on a car purchase? Saving $8000 every 7 years on a car purchase and lattes.
I would love a city simulator with a similar art style and rendering engine to Parkitect.
What makes me think it applies is the term "abuse." If it was clearly rulebreaking, they would have called it a "violation," I assume.

What I'm arguing is that the rules themselves don't have a spirit. Not all rules, but most tax rulesets. The complexity of transactions is largely a factor because of the complexity of the rules. They're complex because tax rules are constantly being fiddled with to benefit someone, encourage something or shield something. It's the kind of ruleset you end up with specifically because you're not being principled. The spirit of the tax rules that U2 is taking advantage of is exactly the type of whats-good-for-me-is-good-for-me spirit that he was being accused of. If there's a loophole in the rules to protect some industry or district that happened to have been politically important or connected at some point and some other groups manage to take advantage of it...

For principled rules (don't rape, murder or steal) it makes sense to appeal to the spirit. It's not necessarily inarguable but it exists. We can debate whether something constitutes theft sensibly, and appeal to the spirit of the rule. But, if there were weird rules specifically defining stealing commercial vehicles "not theft" because in the early 90s some economists theorized this would help balance insurance company finances somehow... the "spirit" of the "no stealing" rule becomes meaningless. All you have at that point is the rules in ink.

I'm not even talking about ethical complexity, mostly. This bleeds into empirical reality pretty directly. Where we have complicated and unprincipled tax rules we tend to have complicated and unprincipled avoidance, tax structuring, planning or pick your euphemism.
Redbox is convenient for newly released mainstream movies plus an odd assortment of older movies that is usually related to upcoming releases (eg, if there is a sequel coming out soon). It doesn't help as much for older and longer-tail movies and TV shows.
I had exactly one prof who would live code in class, and I learned the by far the most in his classes. Highly recommend this approach to anyone teaching anything code related.