skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This was such a strange advertising route to take. When I stumbled across the sub a week or so ago, I was briefly excited that there might be a cool new ARG, a la Cicada 3301.

That lasted about 30 seconds, until I read a few comments by the admins in the sub. The let down was real.
You're clearly missing the parents point; These are not figurative "taxes people owe", but literal, per the 2018 law, lowered corporate taxes, lowered personal taxes, what people owe.
Your behaviors sound very similar to my one. Sounds like you developed very good masking skills. After a QEEG brain scan, was diagnosed with PTSD and ASD. Starting to make sense of how and why brain works the way it does.
> Washington police met with resistance, shots were fired, and two veterans were wounded and later died.

> A second, smaller Bonus March in 1933 at the start of the Roosevelt administration was defused [...] with an offer of jobs [...] Those who chose not to work for the CCC by the May 22 deadline were given transportation home. In 1936, Congress [...] paid the veterans their bonus nine years early.

I'm going to go ahead and say this is reaching comparing it to Tiananmen square where thousands of peaceful protesters were killed by the army. Additionally, the government ordered the protesters killed, vs. some police in a heated situation firing.

> The MOVE members fired at them and a gunfight with semi-automatic and automatic firearms

Again, not saying the police did the right thing here, but MOVE was armed with illegal fully automatic weapons and was firing them at the police. This is very different from a peaceful protest being squashed by the army and then covered up by the government.

I feel like this is so obvious, it's strange it needs to be said? America makes mistakes all the time. But the core values are to admit those mistakes, and work to fix them, not cover it up.
Why are open-plan offices being pushed so hard, relentlessly, everywhere, all the time - when nearly everybody hates working in them, and all evidence points to them being unproductive and harmful?
Minor nit:

> law is written to allow tax evasion.

The law is not written to allow tax evasion. Tax evasion is knowingly violating the law.

The word you're looking for is tax avoidance. Everyone does some amount of tax avoidance whether it be taking deductions or carefully parsing the code to work through it. That's avoidance and it's 100% legal as you mentioned.

Second, corporate taxes are dumb. They're effectively passed through the corporation to the consumer or service user or worse just passed onto labor by reducing wages and hiring to compensate.
How would you propose to do this fairly in very high revenue but very high expense businesses like grocery stores?
“By all means break the rules, and break them beautifully, deliberately and well. This is one of the ends for which they exist.”

― Robert Bringhurst, The Elements of Typographic Style
Serious question: If Safari doesn't support U2F/FIDO what good will a Lightning based Yubi key do me?

To be clear, I'm not knocking the use of these keys. I have Yubi Nano on my laptop and love it.
My favorite todo.txt editor is "open" or "xdg-open" on linux. `xdg-open ~/Desktop/todo.txt` and see if that works for you. There's probably a great way to bind it to the window manager keybindings. See: https://askubuntu.com/a/180317
and... if you start 2 weeks after the last yearly get together... you're on the outs for a long time.

nothing against yearly meetings, but would hope people have ways of getting together more often if the group decides its necessary.
Unquantifiable externalities.

At the end of the day, serverside autocomplete is useful, and coal is cheap!
Personally I like it when people and/or companies announce they've switched from service (architecture, etc) A to service B and then give a good account of why they made that decision, how they then established themselves on B, etc. Reading such articles helps broaden my knowledge about both A and B. Seeing responses to such articles on places like HN helps me deepen that knowledge.

I've seen Medium post links on various social media, clicked on them and read the articles (or got the paywall nag thing), but I never went beyond the articles to investigate what Medium itself was all about. Now - thanks to this article, and the comments it's generated on HN - I know everything I want to know about Medium, alongside some useful pointers for possible tools to set up my own static-site blog.

"Don't announce; just flounce" is often good advice for people who want the world to know what they're up to, just because they think they're important. But I'm happy to see people ignore that advice if they offer me a compelling backstory to go alongside their announcement.
I've always thought of the tax system as adversarial, sort of like the justice system: it's supposed to be the goal of individuals and corporations to "try to get away with tax fraud" (i.e. to selfishly claim as few assets and as many deductions as possible), and it's supposed to be the goal of the government to catch all the fraudulent claims and punish them in a way where individuals/corporations are the exactly-right amount of disincentivized from this behavior, without causing undue losses in GDP from trying to chase the long tail of enforcement.

The intended outcome is that the statistical distribution of claims all bunch up at the edge of "being as close as possible to being illegal while still being legal." Which seems to actually be a better Nash equilibrium, economically, than one where people/corporations are so afraid of the IRS that they don't claim as much as they could.
Yet another alternative is GeohashPhrase (https://www.qalocate.com/resources/) which is a simple and direct mapping of word tuples to geohashes.

The word tuples are intentionally structured so they can form a phrase. The exact phrase is left up to the person, with the only constraint being that that phrase use all the base words.

And because of how word choice is made (words that map different parts of the geohash come from disjoint dictionaries) the phrase mapping is invariant under changes in recalled word ordering, word use (noun to verb, or adjective to noun), and more.

Some advantages of the GeohashPhrase:

1) Will be open source and free (Once we finalize the dictionaries and write some real docs.).

2) Designed for offline usage.

3) Designed to be friendly to humans. Phrases and words are MUCH more friendly than alphanumeric digits.

4) Multi-language. The encoding scheme works for most languages.

5) Resilient to errors in human memory, which tends to re-order words, change pluralization, etc.

6) Easy to read, write, share, etc.

7) Directly decodes to a geohash.

8) Works with any map.

-----------------------------------------

Here is a comparison side by side of each option:

Lat/Lon : -6.7184 , 129.5080

GeohashPhrase (Raw): salute tell small student muddy

GeohashPhrase ("Encoded"): The small muddy student told me of a salute.

XADDRESS: 7150 Magical Pearl - Maluku, Indonesia

WHAT3WORDS: percolator.surmount.retooled

GEOHASH: qyu1g0by7

MAPCODE: VQ6.1MFD

OPENLOCATIONCODE: 6Q5F 7GJ5+J6

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(Disclosure: I work for QALocate.)
The article is rather misleading. Here is the underlying article, which will be published this year but was actually received in September 2016: https://www.ntanet.org/wp-content/uploads/proceedings/2016/1... (follow the link in the article, which lists the receive date as September 30, 2016).

The article mentions the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 (Trump's tax cuts). But the IRS budget cuts discussed in the article are actually from 2015, stemming from the kerfuffle over the IRS allegedly targeting conservative groups for increased scrutiny.

Separately, the article fails to address the nature of the additional revenue that could hypothetically have been collected. Pages 26-27 of the article address the study's finding that "the IRS collects a larger portion of proposed deficiencies when it has fewer resources." In the authors' view, that could be because "the IRS focuses on weaker taxpayer positions when its resources are limited." In other words, a larger enforcement budget leads the IRS to go after cases where the IRS is less certain it will win because the facts are more debatable. The authors do not assess the merits of those cases or whether it would be socially desirable to pursue them.
Well as for a trial, probabbly not guilty.

I'm just thinking of assuring the local security folks that I'm not doing a bad thing / avoiding the hassle of them thinking I am. When I probabbly don't know what the bad thing even is.
I'd say it is quite smart clickbait and the one I can live with. If I have to compare with "Celeb X did so outrageous thing!!!!" which turns out X parked on a spot for disabled or whatever.
git was deliberately designed around the "known fast" things in Linux.

One of those is that path name lookup for certain file attributes is dirt cheap because of the dentry cache.

Since Windows doesn't have an equivalent, git is going to be slower there.

Hopefully the Microsoft people working on this will find ways to make git on Windows faster, since even with a much smaller repo (LibreOffice), git is somewhat painful on Windows.
Do you need that kind of sabotage, then?

They must be either good, or you need to run away, fast.
> It's not "gentler". It's only perceived as such. An iron fist covered in velvet.

Exactly so, and exactly why this isn't "wasting time dancing around our feelings".

We might think it's illogical and pointless. But humans aren't Vulkans, and these social interactions have evolved this way in our cultures because of that need for mutual consideration and respect.

People do have feelings. People don't like being bossed around like slaves; they resent it. Social niceties like these smooth over the power imbalance between those giving and taking orders. By phrasing orders as a request, rather than as a demand, it shows some consideration and respect for the person receiving them. Now, you are correct that these are still orders to be followed, but the perception of them being orders is reduced. The people on both sides can be entirely aware that they are orders, but even then it makes it easier for both.
You are absolutely right about the "nothing to do" retirees. My grandfather was just like that. Fortunately for my mum and dad, both of them are as busy now in retirement than when they were working.

Take for instance my dad....

- He was offered an early retirement package at age 55, hated being idle, and six months later returned to full-time work as a consultant.

- Fast-forward 15 years, to age 71, when he finally decided to properly retire, ...

- ... to do a full-time Masters of Mechanical Engineering. He just graduated, at 75 the univesity's oldest full-time student.

- After a six month's break (to focus on gym circuit training and boxing classes), he has returned to university again, doing a 50% Masters of Aeronautical Engineering.
Because there are a number of thin-profit margin industries that wouldn't exist if you taxed revenue. You'd see more dollar marts and less grocery stores, for example.
I totally believe there are internal emails calling conservatives "nazis". I agree that it's not news that they shadowban and demonetize conservative voices.

I bet there are also internal emails calling liberals "snowflakes" and that they shadowban and demonetize liberal voices. Are you telling me you believe that never happens? They've never internally criticized a liberal or banned a liberal video?

If we agree that they both happen, where's the evidence of bias, rather than just tons of mistakes due to scale?
This is a really comprehensive tutorial, one of better uses of Jupyter Notebooks
> But here's the thing: he simply outsourced his need for modern communications to others -- he does not call restaurants to make reservations, his hosts do. He does not use GPS and maps -- drivers that his hosts use do. He does not need to use a banking app/deal with payments/scheduling/etc that are needed for him to appear at conferences -- those that invite him do.

Unfortunately we've ended up in this sort of world where this is necessary, because it's impractical for people to exist where non-free software is widely used by everyone. Another example of something similar would be Facebook: I don't have an account, but I indirectly benefit from it by knowing people who do and share that information with me. But this is only required because people expect Facebook to be a valid way to communicate with everyone, so there's really no way out of this until everyone leaves…
It's not hatred to ask people that are hoarding almost all the wealth in a country to spend more in taxes. That's just a progressive tax system. There isn't anything controversial about it even if not everyone thinks it's the right thing to do.

Also if you're going to talk about context, the US tax system at the time of its founding isn't relevant at all. I know you didn't bring it up, but you are still defending something largely irrelevant. It'd be like a candidate for President of the United States defending a tithe system because it's mentioned in the Bible.
Uber also just announced a 10-year lease on 450,000 square feet in Chicago - double their current space.

https://chicago.curbed.com/2019/8/19/20812323/uber-old-main-...
> Surely if they truly wanted to minimise their impact on the planet, they would rid their stores of sales and cut back on the amount of new styles/designs that they release.

Yes-- if Patagonia weren't a capitalist endeavor it would have a smaller impact on the planet. :)

I'd venture to guess that the largest minimization occurs because their customers can wear a large number of their garments for a decade or more before they begin to break down due to normal wear and tear. Moreover, one could send back any garment from any period in their history (barring underwear) and if it's salvageable they'll repair it. Their refurbishing program even supports at least one brick-and-mortar refurbished clothing store that I know of.

Can you imagine the environmental impact if Apple had anything resembling such a program? Or hell, if Apple simply ceased lobbying against the right-to-repair...
>The companies make money by monitoring their customers’ online activity and selling the data, largely to advertisers.

I can't buy reams of data from Google. There are data brokers out there, but big adtech companies won't sell me the source of their ad success. Most of the data market is composed of smaller companies which don't run ad networks and wouldn't even come close to the eye of an antitrust program.
Any social with a monthly fee is not going to hit the same network criticality that makes Facebook reign supreme. Attracting people to a new service is hard enough tell them it'll cost 50$ a year and it's hopeless.
Ok... but what about big _____ (anything else)?
> Slack is one of the most easily replaceable tech 'unicorns'. Your company could decide tomorrow to use one of the many competitors (or clones, since they all look just about the same) and the biggest downside for you would be having to resubscribe to channels.

As a tech community organiser, Slack's biggest appeal is that our members usually already have the desktop and mobile apps installed because of work, so it's relatively easy to onboard everyone by just asking them to add another workspace.
These seem like "indefinite" numbers, that don't have a value in the same way as rationals or reals. Is there any truth to that intuition? Can you do calculus with surreal numbers?
The core issue is that some people become completely flustered when confronted with guile. This happens in both business and personal, intimate situations.

Guile is not always malicious. It's a normal part of some activities like negotiation.

So in instead of "Would you like to" more like "I have a situation that you'd be perfect to handle if you can pull yourself away from what you're doing for a few hours".
> Java was originally developed by SUN together with its platform.

That's incorrect. Java programming language is part of the platform.

> Microsoft then mostly abandoned Java and is no longer relevant in the Java world.

Another incorrect statement. Microsoft didn't abandon Java, they were forced to abandon Java because of legal issues with Sun. That's why they created .NET. They are irrelevant because they decided to stop fighting Sun and created their own platform.

> Well, it's too easy to see, that you have no idea about actual data and it kind makes your arguments exposed to be on shaky grounds.

Lisp isn't even in the top 30. My exxageration were accurate.

> Kotlin is now their favorite language for Android development.

Google is only doing that because they were forced by Oracle. It is a forced choice.

> It's like saying flying is not something birds usually do, just because there are a few birds which don't fly.

That's not what I mean. All I am saying is that Gabrge collection isn't a feature of a programming language, it is a feature of the platform
Why is this better than just using some service like Rememberthemilk which I have been using?
Exactly. Audio is mastered for the (generally) cheap equipment it is played back on. The master tape might have awesome dynamic range but a cheap FM radio in the eighties definitely did not. So, producers optimized for that first using analog filters and later digital ones. Not much has changed with this practice despite lots of technical progress. People still listen to music on car radios, on cheap phones with lousy speakers or some cheap head set or a pair of 20$ bluetooth speakers, or worse, in hotel lobbies. Everything is optimized for equipment with poor dynamic range. Worse, many phones add their own filters to "improve" the sound.

It's sort of the the audio equivalent of increasing contrast, sharpness, and saturation in a photo. These are variations of compressing dynamic range. Instagram took this to the extreme. And phone cameras exploit this by simply pairing mediocre lenses and sensors with software that blurs out the noise and yanks up the contrast and saturation. It works. Consumers love it.

Audio filters do the same with sound. What goes on the master already lost most of the information during the editing process and this is on purpose.

The irony of course is that rock musicians like Neil Young used analog audio filters for creative purposes. An electric guitar is basically a guitar that passes sound through lots of electronics to distort the sound in all sorts of pleasing ways. The distortion is intentional. I'm a big fan of Neil Young early Crazy Horse recordings. If you need a nice example, "Down by the River" exists in many versions on Spotify. One of the better ones is a live recording from 1970; four years before I was born. Sort of escalates into some nice guitar work. There's nothing subtle about that and it sounds fine to me on Spotify. Which he grudgingly unbanned a few years ago after withdrawing all his music for a year or so.
Is there any difference between a heterodyne receiver and a superheterodyne receiver?
> "In 2017, Amazon paid close to $1 billion in income tax. In 2018, the amount jumped to $1.18 billion, accounting for local, state, and international taxes."

Your quote glaringly leaves out federal....
I can so see that personally -- I live in what would be an urban area in the US, but I can park nearby and I have parking at work, so I mostly drive. When I was a student 10km on a bike was not much. Now?

My parents live outside of town, but they get exercise because they have to walk their dog. Otherwise they probably wouldn't get any either.

It is pretty scary, and while I know I could exercise I don't.
One cool application of solar stills is when you can't find any liquid water, no matter how salty or dirty, but you can cut up parts of plants and seal them in plastic to collect the moisture from the plants. Obviously not scalable, but it can be a useful survival technique.
2 Condos Were Illegally Converted into 18 Micro Apartments in NYC
The national guard is not the US gov't. That's the state of Louisiana. Those troops report to the governor.
Ugh I guess there always has to be an exception. Maybe you could run everything in a ramdisk? It supports up to 2TB of ram after all
I suspect that in addition to modifying the timestamp, the attacker also had to ensure the filesizes were the same by possibly removing whitespaces or refactoring other code.
The salts should be different for each user, specifically to deter brute forcing of this nature.

The only time you would have access is when the user logs in, so for rarely logged in users you would have to proactively reset their password or cross your fingers.
by the time she would be elected some of the big tech will have bigger problems.
Ever get the bullseyes? Because that is the definitive indicator of infection.

Also, you've got to get multiple tests if you suspect it. One point of data does not certainty, make ..
https://web.archive.org/web/20190819150125/http://www.duanes...

@dang it'd be great if we had an archive link to load the index of versions from archive.org
Building a Democratic Culture in Your Company
What is wrong with "polarization" beyond it being different to the centre? All this talk of it seems nothing more than mere reactionary.

Surely, views from the extreme shouldn't just be dismissed, and we should understand why people hold those views instead of doubling down and trying to eliminate them.
You know how your bank is required to report any transaction to FinCEN in excess of $10,000 on what's called a CTR, or currency transaction report? Some enterprising criminals decided to break up their deposits into two $5000 transactions to avoid this. So naturally, they made that a crime called structuring [1]. I don't see why it wouldn't be illegal to break up your company into a thousand subsidiaries to evade taxes. My point is, this is solve-able, but we have to make the first move.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structuring
"People work on what they want to work" ideally yes, but ultimately they work on something that please them AND that give them a decent salary.
Funding should not go to fun (but useless in the real world) Nlp tasks.
"Things that seem important to you are not important to me, and the opposite." and here's go relativism or the abandon of thought...
It's indeed difficult to quantify cardinally the utility of an NLP task against an other, but we can agree on an ordinality (order of magnitude)
E.g do you understand that POS tagging or dependency/constictuency parsing are angular tasks needed by much of the others. Thus making them the most important NLP tasks as they enable other Nlp tasks and are the most used in practice?
You think that what exactly is more important?
Are you talking about text generation? Why is that important?
Something important enable to solve important problems in the real world.
How text generation solve any real world problem is beyond my knowledge.
But if you rationally think that it's more important that angular Nlp tasks, you can probably explain why and give an example or two?
Yes, an AGI will need to emit text just as humans do, indeed.
But before that she needs to understund the natural language before emitting it.
GPT-2 maybe capture an aesthetic of the initial input pretty well but it does not generate meaningful sentences or only by accident, so no GPT-2 does not advance the quest to create an intelligent agent mastering natural language.
You can have hyperparathyroidism at any age. Mine was found at 15 and at 30 calcium levels haven't been high enough to justify surgery yet (but other tumors stemming from the same root cause have).

How much did you pay for surgury? It sounds like going to the US and paying out of pocket would be very cost prohibitive.