skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The EU has plenty of tax heavens and satellite states. Some exist to serve the old rich (luxembourg, monaco) and others chose that path because, unless you are already a rich country, capital in EU is sparse, which further leads to brain drain. That's how countries like ireland and cyprus manage to recover faster than others.

I can't say if the latest regulations have really made an impact. They have surely made banking in EU a lot more bureaucratic and a lot more expensive for a small business.
I have incorporated many companies in Canada and have always marveled at the lack of vetting. You’d think they would want to see some identification on the incorporation docs. But no. You just fill in a web form and pay $20 or whatever.
What Tracking Down Missing TCP Keepalives Taught Me About Docker, and Golang
Needs link.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggO61EzqTHk (impressive unloading in some chinese plant)

[2] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kohlekraftwerk_Moorburg (there is no .en)
[3] https://powerplants.vattenfall.com/en/moorburg
[4] https://vtc.view3.com/de/vt/Vattenfall-Kraftwerk-Moorburg/d/... (virtual explorer)
[5] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kraftwerk_Datteln (there is no .en)
[6] https://www.uniper.energy/de/datteln-4 (there is no .en)

Vee häff ze munchies for some hard crunchies! So progressive, defies belief. Has to be seen, everything so green!
Not sure what word to leave out of the title so I opted to leave out our company name.
It was possible for many empires to tax effectively before modern bookkeeping. Property tax needs very little in the way of financial records to administer.
WeWork reportedly planning to cut thousands of jobs
Actor message passing "maps nicely" for use in procedure calls. For example Factor.[3] sends the message [3] to Factorial which sends back the return value 6. The procedural functions of Erlang are much more limited.
At least one misleading source from the article: when talking about the limitations of Uber's self-driving tech, the author links to a source mentioning Uber may be paying license fees to Waymo for their AV tech, insinuating that Uber is unable to move its AV program forward on their own. The article linked actually mentions Uber being court-ordered to pay for the tech (the Lewandowski case)
For the 'best of both worlds' scenario, use Slackware Linux in place of FreeBSD.

Slackware is one of the very oldest Linuxes, and traditionally used a BSD-flavored 'init' system, rather than a System-V syle init, or even the newer 'systemd'. It has traditionally concentrated on being extremely stable, and more slanted towards server work, though I used it for many years as my main desktop.
Beyond the books mentioned elsewhere in this thread, for Japanese, I think the Japan Times published books tend to be good, e.g. Seiichi Makino's grammar dictionaries.

It's more app- and website-oriented, but the Tofugu website has quasi-monthly roundups of new Japanese learning tools.

I feel like Chinese - for a variety of reasons - doesn't have the same high level of pedagogical curation. But the Fuller book is good for learning classical, and Pleco is a great platform for dictionaries, flashcards, etc -- some paid, some free.
Where was Eden? Probably in a sun-baked salt plain in Botswana
Nvidia chipsets came from AMD IP originally.
Why don't they just do a BTO without it and please both sides?
OK, maybe I am wrong. There is a company called Intercontinental Exchange, Inc.

Please provide any evidence that there is an exchange or meta exchange named Intercontinental Exchange.
If you have only one poll with an unknown margin of error and it shows Candidate A at 51 and Candidate B at 49, then assuming Candidate A is winning just because it's the best thing we have is worse than just admitting we don't know.

Wrong information is often worse than no information.

That's one of the problems with PISA results. Policy makers look at other countries with higher scores and try to emulate them without understanding why their scores are higher. In that case it's just cargo culting education.

This doesn't mean that standardized testing is completely useless, but you have to know the limitations, and comparing results between cultures is one of the limitations.
Right, and you can find out what FedEx pays in taxes in their stock report. The difference between the stock report and what NYT is doing here is framing with a particular end goal in mind. They want to not just induce a reaction from the reader, but action towards a particular political end goal. There's nothing wrong with someone writing in that style, we just don't call it journalism. If the NYT wants to actively promote a particular political agenda, that's wonderful. They should register as a PAC, subject themselves to the relevant regulations, give up their press passes, and push for that agenda. I think they have a lot to offer us in that arena.
Looking at the situation in Sweden, I would say the cause is the bank themselves. Banks here are currently trying to remove every aspect of the banking industry that is not a digital service. Offices are a cost center. Physical money are a cost center. Talking with customers is a cost center. By shedding all those cost centers the bank can focus on the parts that make most money and raise stock value.

Google, Apple are likely looking on and discovering that digital products is something which they too can do, and their size allow them to jump into the same market. All the parts of the banking industry that would prevent them is exactly the same parts which the banking industry is removing.
What Makes Some People Impossibly Talented?
Sorry for a pointless post, but this project gives me the CCC vibes. Y'all should attend one day, it's brilliant! In fact it's so rich in things and hacker exhibitions that you don't even have to go to the talks!
Wow that's impressive.

Is this library MIT license or something else? I would try using this to cutout people from images/gifs for my animation platform SuperAnimo:

https://www.superanimo.com
Yes, you are right. I should drink more water, but there is also another factor: Going to toilet at work saves water at home and is work time.

I learned that from a former colleague when I worked as a gardener
Everyone needs power though. There is some form of energy generation going on and they are qualified to work on it with a little training for the specifics
Restaurants and bars and public spaces (for example, the doctor’s office this morning) across the USA. California, PNW, Chicago, Detroit, New York, Philly.

No real sample data from MN or the deep south, as yet.
If such a scheme were the only thing allowing you to make a profit, would you appreciate this guy drawing attention to it? In fact, you could protect your operation by submitting numerous tips to tax agencies across the world, causing his business to fail due to the immense cost of litigating such complex cases, even though he would be cleared if he could afford the defense. Everyone gets the right message: the public hears that tax havens "don't work", whistleblowers learn to keep quiet, regulators notch up another win, and the truly powerful get to continue dodging taxes.
I don't think the question is so much asking "why", but rather "what" does "access to my own ... reserves at a moment's notice" even mean in a debt-based financial system?

Writing a check is instantaneous, but you obviously don't mean that.

If you're talking about wires and the like, then what you're really paying for is the sending institution taking on liability if there turns out to be a cascading problem.
The more I hear about other countries' supposedly "enlightened" criminal justice systems the more I prefer the US system. Like this guy who should have gotten the electric chair and got 2 years in a Swiss hotel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitaly_Kaloyev
I agree. Some people are hyping things, but this is expected.

All new technology is overestimated short term, but underestimated long term.

We might not have autonomous driving that takes our kids at school, but we have cars that can recognize lanes and other cars and complain if something is dangerous. We also have facial recognition, voice recognition and almost turing level chatbots to sell you stuff.

I suspect AI might be analogous to computer graphics. Purists in the beginning said the holy grail was ray tracing. However, people still worked on the problem, marching the state of the art forward with smaller building blocks, and now that ray tracing is appearing, a practiced eye is needed to see the difference.
What's Wrong with GNU Make?
Yes, the American banking system is just ridiculously bad. I remember studying abroad in New Zealand (in 2004!) and marveling at how EFTPOS was universal, everything was chip & pin, and funds transfers could easily be done online (and often clear the same day!). The cashiers would look at me strangely with my American credit card, and they would always check the signature. (Which, it may astound foreigners to learn, most American cashiers do not. How do we prevent credit card fraud? We don't, in general. Fraud losses over $50 are reimbursed by the credit card company, if you report them, which makes it up out of exorbitant interest rates that they charge people dumb enough to carry a balance.) The U.S. finally got some of the security measures the rest of the world has (chip & PIN, for example) around 2017, and in many regards is still behind.

America has the downsides of being the first-mover and of being dominant. A lot of our system was built before modern computerization and then retrofitted for the bank's convenience (not the customer's), and because the U.S. economy & military is so dominant, the rest of the world has to deal with the U.S. financial system as it exists now. That means that there's very little pressure on existing U.S. retail financial institutions to improve, and a lot of regulations and institutional inertia keeping out new entrants.

It's much the same situation with Internet access (where our consumer Internet speeds are often 2 orders of magnitude slower than in much of the rest of the world) and in health care (where we spend the most but have one of the worst life expectancies of developed nations).
I get what you are saying and agree with the sentiment but you did omit the 10 or so steps required before your point #1.
But back in the day people used to make all the parts by hand, right? And they still have to make parts when repairing old pocket watches, etc... how do they do it?
I agree that both are corruptible, but I'd rather see some heavily subsidized government friendly news sources that then receive competition from private corporations (similar to the british or canadian model with the bbc and cbc respectively) rather than rely wholly on corporate backed news sources... NPR and PBS are alright I guess, but their budgets have been slashed several times over and while there is good journalism (like the Newshour) there isn't the budget to cover stories in as in depth a manner.

I'd also like to highlight that as much as people fear government control of subsidized news sources - both PBS and NPR have been quite decently independent, with PBS in particular not having qualms about investigating the government when warranted.
Capitalism is turning us into addicts
Yes it was agreed upon that the US Dollar became the underpinning of international finance at the Bretton Woods conference near the end of WWII.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bretton_Woods_system

This has a link to the PMoney episode you're thinking of, as well as a more recent discussion of the economic fight other nations possibly trying to supplant or at least be adjacent to the dollar as a reserve currency.

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2019/07/30/746337868/75-y...
Visual Studio Code and and Elixir with Language Server Protocol are are good start but still have a long way to go reach the level of Android Studio with plugins.
Sure, take some pot shots - some are valid criticisms - but OpenAI's Rubic's cube solver being lame does not mean AI needs to be re-evaluated.

Sure, AI has its faults; the tantalizing cost savings of automation has created some negative feedback loops - might that be more deserving of the question "what in the hell are we trying to accomplish and how exactly did we get here in the first place?"

A Rubic's cube solver is the problem? Really?

OpenAI (of now infamous Rubic's cube failure :p) released a hide-and-seek demo a few months back that gave me literal goosebumps. Little AI agents facing off in a game of hide and seek start evolving with seriously clever strategies. According to the author's bio (dynamic, time-aware ML systems, etc.) that sort of thing should be right up their ally!

Instead we get some sort of selective self-promotion hit piece - highlighting anecdotal failures while claiming some better AI based robotics startup is coming soon(tm).
This is largely meaningless permabear evergreen ranting.
If bill gates venture into power pans out there won’t be nuclear waste at all it seems.
I've encountered several startups that have founded banks through American Indian Reservations, instantly creating an international money laundering vehicle, which they use as a tax haven for wealthy people while also being able to create money directly by loaning it to separate corporate shells. This may be "smart" but I steer away from anyone with this type of "strategic thinking" because they are playing with fire.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying the quick and dirty approach is better, I'm saying that the end product is very similar. The main difference is the surety that the code is going to work properly when you have checks in place.

Complex development processes are worth the hassle for big clients who can't have downtime, but they're not suitable for everything. I would (almost) never bother setting up such complex processes for an after hours side project site because the amount of extra work involved would ensure the project never gets completed.
Isn’t employment fraud a form of organised crime?
I have this quality too and I'm surprised it isn't more common. Maybe people don't like to talk about it because we're worried people will think that we have something to hide.

I don't even like to have conversations about more-than-superficial topics in crowded places. If a restaurant seats me across the table from my dining partner but elbow-to-elbow with random other diners at parallel tables, I will hate it and never return.
Not only that, but he admits to having underestimated the damage that international free trade would do to the American economy.

He has no credibility at all.
US Ambassador Suzi LeVine sworn in using Kindle e-reader (2014)
By "legally gained cash" I mean that taxes have already been paid for it.
> modern book-keeping

Can you clarify what precisely you mean by this statement? Most empires historically-speaking have had sophisticated book-keeping methods. Chinese empires used to tax anyone who exited a city on the profits they made during their visit. The Romans when they took over Egypt, taxed the hell out of it and for that purpose kept meticulous records on all of the transactions that happened. The notion of Tax itself goes back to Mesopotamia.

(I wrote that based from history books I've read over the years. But this link will do: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_accounting#Ancient_...)
Good engineers have good time management and teamwork skills.
Most people are reluctant to accept large personal checks for one-shot transactions. Most people selling cars on Craigslist won't just take a personal check, for instance. It depends a bit on how reputable you look. You can't write one as bail, or to get your car out of the impound lot.
I'm curious if you follow football (other than by osmosis through this experience)?
Well, I work for a Fortune 150 company in not cramped offices in a not dense, not expensive city that is definitely not in the middle of nowhere. Its a great working environment in a great location with great benefits and pay. Such things do exist, you just have to get out of the bubble and look for them.
No, not at all, banks do that too.

https://money.cnn.com/2014/05/07/pf/bank-account-closing/

I once had a bank account closed for "suspicious behavior." The suspicious behavior was making too many transfers to one of my other bank accounts.

If you open a new bank account and deposit a lot of money, say over $10,000, then they almost certainly will freeze your account and you'll have to call up to unfreeze it. Sometimes you even have to go to a branch to unfreeze it.

Chase, specifically, is really bad when you're trying to transfer to/from new accounts

https://www.doctorofcredit.com/psa-dont-use-ach-pull-for-cha...

I open (and close) a lot of bank accounts to collect those signup bonuses. If you read forums dedicated to this then you hear stories of people getting their bank accounts terminated suddenly for opaque reasons all the time.
Nvidia and Tech Leaders Team to Build GPU-Accelerated Arm Servers
It’s interesting!

https://youtu.be/MhuIOwdWuDk
It's mind blowing to me that people get angry about moving wealth to a lower tax country like Cayman, but are totally milquetoast about moving someplace within the same country that has the same effect of lowering one's effective taxation.

If you are worked up about this Cayman thing, then you should be apoplectic if your neighbor moves to Texas or Florida. What horrible, disgusting people who are leaving their former communities to rot! They raised taxes on the rich in order to transfer more wealth to the community, and then the rich up and leave! Such completely selfish actions are galling and it fills me with anger, as it should any self-respecting person. We need the government to track where people live each day, and then make them pay their taxes proportional to where they lived for the rest of their lives. It's only fair to the communities that protected and nurtured them.

We need to outlaw each and every tax dodge. Clipping coupons deprives the state of their sales tax, as the total price is on goods is lowered which reduces the total tax bill, which is why I'm against coupons. How long will we allow this madness to continue?
They both share their roots in Unix. Linux is an open port of Unix whereas OSX is a fork of BSD which is itself also derived from Unix

`ls`, `mv`, `cp` and other command line utility functions work relatively similarly across OSX and Linux. OSX has a package manager (brew) that works similarly to Package Managers found on Linux, etc...

If you learn to use Linux, switching to OSX is relatively painless compared to Windows (although WSL might have changed that)
Hm interesting, I knew it from Quake and implicitly assumed that it was Carmack's trick. But Wikipedia has some more history:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_inverse_square_root#Histo...
I would say it's more slanted towards desktop use than server use.

Generally you want to automate server management with some sort of config management. While possible with Slackware, it's easier with a Debian or Red Hat style system.

For a desktop Slackware is pretty nice. It's easy to understand and gets out of your way. I used it for over a decade until, one day, I realised I was tired of recompiling slackbuilds after each low level dependency upgrade.
As a fan of Elixir, I'd love to hear Jose Valim, Chris McCord or any of the other core devs to chime in on this subthread!
For many I can't tell the difference between off and broken, but some are clearly broken (missing blades, collapsed towers, etc). Supposedly a lot of the companies that were originally operating in the San Gorgonio pass went out of business, and their old windmills are being gradually replaced.
RubyConf Streaming and Matz's Opening
While Apache is certainly not zero configuration, it is pretty easy to forget about the Apache part of the LAMP stack. When I got started making websites, I downloaded "WAMP" (windows-apache-mysql-php). It took care of all the configuration and I could, as the author said, drop my code in a www folder and be off to the races.

Similarly, lots of hosting providers wouldn't expose the guts of Apache to developers. They would give you some sftp credentials, and let you upload whatever PHP files you wanted. No need to think about Apache configurations (except maybe a few htaccess files).
Would it be magic if it's simply that most immigrants contribute to society in Canada?

I'm not sure what you're implying, but I also don't see why it needs to be 'magic'. Immigration seems to be a net benefit for Canada - especially in the next decades as our worker:retiree ratio moves towards 2:1.
Time Machines and Species Failure
> how concepts in German/Spanish map to their English equivalents.

Yeah, if it has comparative grammar it's not that much surprising.

From the context of the paragraph I was assuming this would be a volume purely about English grammar. Since it's aimed at native speakers that already know the grammar of their own language, this would be an advanced text, for students looking to improve their knowledge of English architecture itself. And somehow improve this advanced knowledge in ways that are not generic, but specific to the fact that they are simultaneously learning X or Y language...
You can google “attention control intelligence”. For more info “attention control aging” for more studies on the ability to focus declines as we age due to cognitive decline.
I used "sexual assault" because that's the term he's likely be alleged of doing in the US, whereas in Sweden the official term is "rape" for all/most sexual assault cases. Or so I've heard. Sexual assault I think is an appropriate term here, though I think the allegations are pretty thin, contradictory, and suspicious. Swedish officials didn't seem to care much or at all about making progress on this, since they refused to question/interview Assange remotely despite him claiming asylum. They seemed to care more about getting him in custody - a fear that's since been justified by England trying to extradite him.
A TV is not calling you to chat every 15 minutes, or even talking anything important work-related to distract your focus. It's just noise, the same as working listening to music.
Terrible analogy.
Water is wet, low-hanging fruit
Valve Announces Half-Life: Alyx for VR
What's a good word for "obtaining digital content without paying for the right to possess said digital content"?
Isn't the solution to that problem simply to use stamp files

You declare foo-stamp as a dependency of both foo.c and foo.h.
foo-stamp itself is dependent on the file used to generate those foo.* files.
The recipe for foo-stamp invokes the code generator which updates the files, then you `touch foo-stamp`at the end of the recipe.
This is an industry where 'quick' means happens in in 6 months and 'medium term' is about 5 years. Just because there was a worse low in 2016 than 2019 doesn't mean much. The more relevant perspective is that production is down more than 20% from 2013/2014 and comparable to 2016.

The better baseline is about 5 years ago, because the strategic decisions made then are appearing today.
Make is useful and the concept is sound.

However, the implementation is dated.

Just off the top of my head, it could be object oriented (rules could be subclassed), the language could have more sophisticated statements, it could have debugging, etc
Thank you very much for pointing this! we'll fix it soon.
You have most certainly never incorporated a Canadian corporation online for $20. That's the fee for filing an annual return for a federally incorporated company; the vast majority of companies are registered provincially.
I don't get all the posts saying it's sad that it didn't take off commercially. No obstacle prevents grateful programmers from enriching the creators of a useful tool, and expanding the audience of likely users increases the probability of that happening. It's a great looking product (that I had not been aware of when it was commercial) and deserves wide adoption.
Apache (which is sufficiently permissive), like most open-source Google projects.