skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On the other hand, the contents also show that breathless reporting of past foreign deals and money were pure rumor.
I honestly don't understand why “tax avoidance” is meant to sound so naughty. Almost everyone avoids taxes, almost every time they might be subject to a tax; some people are just better at it.

When you fail to collect taxes from somebody who is following the law, that is a matter for your tax code, not a moral failing of the filer.
How to Deal with Stress
Generally they have a lot of media at a low cost.

But if you want to support the production of this media, Apple currently take 50% of your monthly subscription as the cost of providing the service. That's even more than the app tax!
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> It feels like that part of the story is the bigger deal.

and I imagine people saying just that is why they avoid all mention: they don’t want that to become the story, because that’s how strategists deflect the attention from the actual headlines.
Great thread here that covers his loans https://twitter.com/DanAlexander21/status/131034616181606400...

EDIT: I accidentally a 'that'
Yep. So again we post articles that are already covered by most TV and online news such that it doesn't need to be covered here since that would be breaking the HN guidelines so unsurprised about the outcome.

But there are a small selection of articles that are around politics but are not covered by most online news sites (slatestarcodex), software freedom, etc. But this however 'does' break the HN guidelines.
Awesome! One request: can you give the option to toggle the life phases on the left? I.e. not everybody goes to uni. In Australia we also go straight from high-school to uni rather than college but there is no option to remove college. Great little visualiser though!
Counter-reminder: tax fraud /= tax avoidance. The IRS, and Congress through the Tax committee, will judge that.
Hackers Have Infiltrated Many of Washington State’s Agencies
He's been losing money in office and has been donating his paycheck every quarter. He's not being president for the money.
I've subscribed to The Economist for 25 years. Has been interesting to see it's transformations. Not only the transition to digital but also the topics they choose to cover - or not. I currently consume on my iPhone. Mostly I listen to it but do occasionally read. Before that I used Android. Certainly some usability issues that are annoying but most apps are worse.
Warren Buffett is in a similar boat and has complained vocally about it. The US tax system is absurd when it comes to the upper echelon.

[Edit: I mean, he's complained that it's unjust and that billionaires like him should be paying their fair share.]
The problem here is that American culture has made you entitled. You think that, just because you can get into grad school and bump shoulders with the elite, you should be able to deduct $70,000 of haircuts, too.

(This is a joke, to be clear.)
Sure, but what's being implied in the article, and the years-long IRS investigation/battle, is that the constant declared losses were indeed tax fraud.
> TS is hands down better

Don't want to sound harsh, but it doesn't take much to be better than JS
I fundamentally disagree with your position. It's totally reasonable to be unsatisfied with the status quo, while still believing that talking about your politics and/or dissatisfaction at work is ineffective or counterproductive.
I didn't know that. I'm just completely speculating right now, but I wonder if that has something to do with Jared Kushner's denied security clearance. [1]

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/28/us/politics/jared-kushner...
What exactly are the news publishers even providing these days? They aren't a trust authority and they aren't a distribution platform. The internet undermined the first and replaced the latter.

The future could be readers having a direct relationship with authors, and necessary infrastructure "unbundled" as it were. Author pays a non-partisan fact check service to accredit what they say. With proper accreditation they can appear on the distribution platforms with functioning micropayment models (think app stores).

The only reason this problem is unsolved is because the outdated publishers want to stay relevant and are using their existing momentum to die slow. They're the single point of failure in the three-party equation.

Articles will always need writers and they will always need readers. Everything else is up in the air.
Actually, it means you aren't paying your share for the services provided by the public.

The only people who think that tax avoidance is a good thing are the unethical rich and the American embarrassed millionaires who've been convinced to vote against their own best interests.
That's the thing about being good at your job in our field though...you essentially do get a say, because we're hard to replace. If you are genuinely good, you can get a new job with a 6 figure income in a matter of days, weeks at most. It will take the company months to replace you, probably 6 at least until the new hire is working even close to your capacity. It wasn't until I started to have to do the hiring that I realized just how hard it was..... finding good tech workers is a long, expensive, time consuming process, and in the end it's still 30% luck whether the hire is going to be both good at the job and a cultural fit.
>It feels like that part of the story is the bigger deal.

You think that is the bigger deal? I suppose it is a variant of doxing, but it doesn't look like the NYT is going to post the actual returns, just their interpretation.
It's a pretty tenuous idea that seems to be based on the assumption that the brain is like a single core CPU, and wasting a few ms extra on visual decoding will leave less processing power available to reason about code. Also seems to assume that every time you "scan" a scene that your brain has to start from a blank slate, whereas my own (probably stupid and not based in any presentable scientific fact) assumption would be that it's more of a delta process.
Trump has literally spent his adult life shouting "I make a lot of money" on TV.
How? The rumors are of shady money deals. These would not necessarily be shown in tax statements.
> HN is moderated, if it's that bad it'll get nuked.

Political arguments attract users who are primarily interested in having political arguments (and who vastly outnumber us). That way lies Eternal September.

> When you have [politics] who cares about the latest UI framework

They have many explicitly political venues where this would be on topic. Why should it be impossible to maintain one venue in which it isn’t?
Very cool! I've been going down the mech keyboard rabbit hole for the last week ... think you could add a split layout option?
Does that apply to the President? (At this point it seems clear that nothing applies to the president; let’s hope to god that someone makes a new amendment for that.)
People want their 5 minutes in the spotlight. This guy got it.
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Thermostatic valves are common in institutional water heating installations.

There are also quite a few people who use thermal storage with wood fired boilers. The boilers burn the most efficient and cleanest when they are near full output, then hot water is stored in an insulated tank to intermittently supply the house with heat.

Description of one such system:
https://www.newhorizoncorp.com/PDF/ekomanual.pdf
Better show tax loss and not pay taxes on it.
Azure Data Studio (which I like for Microsoft databases) has an extension to connect to Postgres. Maybe worth trying.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/azure-data-studio/what-...

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/azure-data-studio/exten...
"""Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, The Universe, and Everything from the supercomputer Deep Thought, specially built for this purpose. It takes Deep Thought 7 1⁄2 million years to compute and check the answer, which turns out to be 42.""" . Any co-incidence 42 is still unsolved?
I agree that everything is political, but a wise person chooses their battle carefully. You can't fight everything wrong in the world at the same time, people have different priorities, and there's nothing wrong about separating your day job and your political discussion.

In the end, few of us can be Nelson Mandela. We rage against social injustice, but in the end we still expect to be paid and sleep under a roof we own. So, in a sense, all of us are "okay" with the status quo, up to a certain degree. There's no shame in knowing your own limit.
I tried to do something “interesting” with my own little lisp based on the “Maxwell’s Equations of Software” paper. I don’t know if I succeeded exactly (and like most such projects I left it in a somewhat unfinished state), but I did achieve the same “now we’ve defined comments!” kind of mystical experience as the author of the linked article.

Have fun! https://github.com/breckinloggins/vau

(Check out the prelude for satisfying doses of meta)
> There's no way you can go into that much debt without significant foreign or less-legitimate lenders in the mix.

We’ve known about Deutsche Bank for quite a while now.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/18/business/trump-deutsche-b...
Lol. He's been manipulating the stock market for gain since he took power.

Buy puts. Threaten a trade war on Twitter. Profit.

Buy calls. Cancel the trade war on Twitter. Profit.
Whatever you hoped to achieve, that was really counterproductive. You made someone who volunteers to maintain open source enjoy that just a little less, and accomplished nothing. Even the way you describe the interaction here makes you come across as deeply entitled and unpleasant.
Official government advice to pregnant women and new parents in the UK is not a great example of effective communication. As someone in the UK and of an age where my close circle includes several young children and a few more current pregnancies, I wouldn't be surprised if many parents had never even heard of that scheme or who qualifies for it, nor the accompanying advice on vitamins for young children for that matter. As I understand it, right now you don't even get a lot of the usual face-to-face check-ups during pregnancy or early life where such things might be discussed. So as you mentioned in another comment, the first problem here is getting useful information to those who would benefit from it to begin with.
Etiquette is a signal to others that you are a good person and follow the rules of society. This is extremely important in a world with an increasing population, in which you only have a few seconds of contact with most people. In these few seconds, people judge your character based on the only information they have available:

1. How you dress

2. How physically fit you are

3. How you conform to societal standards

I would argue that most people should not judge a person's character by 1 and 2 (although they are good measures of affluence). What is left is number 3.

If you are someone that breaks some small societal standards, how do I know you won't break larger ones? If we don't share the same assumptions on how we should behave, how can I possibly feel safe around you?
No, the reason is to aid human.

$ touch 'a b' c d
$ ls
'a b' c d

Without quotes you would get something like

$ ls
a b c d

and that would be confusing.

It wouldn't help shell scripts that assumed no whitespaces in file names anyway. You would get something like "'a", "b'", "c", "d" tokens which make no sense anyway.

The only sane way to iterate over files that I'm aware of is to use something like

find . -type f -print0 | while read -d '' fname; do echo "fname: '$fname'"; done

But that's bashism...
My 2 cents: I used to use dark themes for a couple of years only to realize that I had to increase the font in my IDE to almost twice as big as I have it now, after I switched back to light theme. Reading dark text on light background is so much easier to me. However, I also adjust white balance of my display to very warm end of spectrum using “night shift” on Mac even during the day.
I modeled the json for building the boards around qmk (https://beta.docs.qmk.fm/) for example a board layout: https://api.qmk.fm/v1/keyboards/dz60
Anyone have experience with 50% keyboard with numpad on left side and spit space/backspace? It seems very functional, especially for frequent number entry in CAD.
Since you seem to have some respect for Orwell's ideas, you might be interested to know that "everything is political" is a view Orwell personally endorsed in his writing[1]:

> In our age there is no such thing as "keeping out of politics." All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.

Every time we decide to act or not act in the public sphere, it has political implications. That doesn't mean it's specifically partisan or identity politics, but it is nonetheless political. Choosing not to speak up about something is just as much a political decision as choosing to speak up.

[1] https://www.orwell.ru/library/essays/politics/english/e_poli...
I'm pretty sure that after the unaccountable trillion dollar business backstop and the federal government acting as a supplier of PPE to private corporations this is no longer something we have to worry about.
And that's why we don't spend our travel money in such crappy countries
Maybe you should add (2019) to the title
Didn't they also post their interpretation of American history recently?
Interesting! Could you share more on why would you use this app for large JSON/YAML files but not other specific tools like jq/yq?

I'm interesting to know because I built this app with the thought that it would eliminate the time you paste the strings to online websites (to validate/format/convert it), and usually people don't paste gigabyte strings file... So maybe this is something from your workflow that I don't know?

Thanks!
Should it - yes.

Will it - possibly not, on the one hand if you are supporting trump now what could possibly convince you although money is money: He's a terrible businessman, and he pays no tax. That's a huge amount of his appeal to some.
I would argue that our ability to predict the future is pretty good but our ability to react to/prevent an event from happening is next to nil. Pick any: large solar flare, mega volcanic eruption, climate change, asteroid collision...
Can you elaborate please? I'm curious.
Small 4x4 cars tend to cost way to much for what they provide (that transmission and two differentials take place!) and again, clearance under the car is very important to not get stuck (which can happen one-two weeks)
Nuclear is only so relatively expensive because it’s the only fuel source that’s forced to pay up for all the externalities up front (and I’m not saying that is a bad thing to require). A nuclear plant can’t be built if the money to make it safe (as per some specification), insure against all health complications while it’s in operation, decommission it, clean up the site, securely dump all spent fuel, and return the site back to “normal” decades later isn’t put up in escrow from the start: that’s all captured in the price.

If we did that for fossil (and other) fuels, you’d bet they would cost more too.
With all due respect, you’ve edited your comment, deleting the section I responded to. Thankfully @indy quoted your original text.

>What's he trying to say? That even if you're right, you shouldn't write a bad review because the justice system is corrupt and you're going to end up in jail anyways?

I mean, what’s the purpose? It’s just a forum and you had an opinion. Either defend it or say “whoops, sorry, had a bad day and jumped to a conclusion”. We’ve all been there; At least I have.
Sure but we're talking about tax avoidance here.
Just like (multiple) bogus draft deferments despite being a football player, where someone else has to go in your place (and possible chance they got killed) when you pay no taxes, someone else is carrying your burden.

$140 Billion in annual loses means you got to spend a lot of that and enjoy those benefits in the meanwhile.
What is "Native zero padding to model open systems"? And how come it is "up to 2x faster than simply padding input array with zeros"?
All his properties are in corporations or limited liabilities, like almost every other business in the country. Those corporations do pay taxes. His securities, investments, etc. are in a trust, required by law, I believe, which would also pay taxes separately.

He donates to charity 100% of his US government salary. I'm wondering how he even owed $750 on federal taxes.
> As the other poster wrote, how else would you expand your readership?

By creating a valuable product, finding potential costumers, and offering the product for sale. Why would it be different than any other business?

It would be ridiculous to expect every SaaS business to offer their services for "a few bucks", and yet, for some reason, people think it is egregious that publishers don't do this. Bizarre. Though, I do have the say the newspaper industry caused this; for years, when the internet was still new, most newspapers gave away their best content. That was a huge mistake; it lead people to significantly devalue news.
15ms if this is correct : https://enacademic.com/dic.nsf/enwiki/407580/Pulfrich_effect
This is the more important part IMO:

"Mr. Trump’s businesses appear to have benefited from his position, and his far-flung holdings have created potential conflicts between his own financial interests and the nation’s diplomatic interests"
Yeah, which IMO is a shitty thing to do at this scale
Scandinavian countries tend to have moderate climates due to marine currents warming the air. Siberia is poor AF.
The HN angle on this article is the NYT accounts system wasn't prepared for the deluge of subscriptions, fell over, served 500s for hours, and now they made the article free-to-all (as far as I can tell) in response.

Get these journos some capacity planners and SREs.
The president (and other elected positions) are carved out of those kinds of requirements: requiring an elected official to "pass" a background test created by unelected public servants amounts to an unintended check on representative democracy.

To be clear: we absolutely should require that elected officials disclose their finances. But we shouldn't require them to be vetted through a mostly unaccountable process after they've been elected.
I hope you recover soon. Wishing for the best!
Why do people feel they have to shove their opinions down peoples throats like this?

Is the fact that some people like dark colour schemes really that threatening?
42 has been solved. See the update at the bottom of the page.
Why not both though? Before we find treatments and cures, masks save lives and this is a fact. And it’s the only thing we know works for sure so far.

Otherwise this is like a gunshot victim with diabetes coming into the ER and the doctors focus on the diabetes.
Education Dept Investigating Princeton After President Claims Racism ‘Embedded’
They are too busy taking down channels of conservatives.
> Why should it be impossible to maintain one venue in which it isn’t?

I'm not saying it's an invalid viewpoint it just strikes me of the way that the producers/creative leads of the Call of Duty games call them "apolitical".

If the flagging was more consistent I probably wouldn't have a problem with it but it seems that you're less likely to get downvoted/flagged with something contrarian.
> the idea of a guitar tab being copyrighted is strange to me.

The copyright lies in the musical composition itself. A graphical representation of that musical composition, whether in the form of classical sheet music or guitar tablature, may infringe that copyright if it is not licensed or made by the composer.

Note: This may be more complicated when the tablature is made from a recording by a musician other than the original composer because the musician may have added embelishments, accents, or stylistic elements that are not part of the original composition but are separately copyrightable. In that case then a tablature may infringe on two persons' copyrights, those of the original composer and those of the recording musician.

> So how would you be able to tell whether it was infringing or not?

You tell the same way that you can tell whether any item is infringing: If it was not made by or under license from the copyright owner, then it may be infringing.
> you might realize that what you hope for is laughably out of touch with about half of the US.

Oddly enough, that's a really good summary of our two-party political system in my opinion. 60m voters on the left, 60m voters on the right. Pretty evenly split down the middle, very little common middleground.
This is the default behavior in the GNU coreutils since version 8.25 so it will eventually be every major Linux distro.

https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/quotes.html

I think the maintainers made a good decision with this change but this page exists because they received a lot of negative feedback. I’m kinda surprised to see people wanting ambiguous output.
I saw that part too which was concerning to me. I hope it comes to light and that it is in a legal manner. I am concerned about precedent setting.
Coinbase is on a mission to bend over backwards for the tax man, and willing provide all customer KYC user data and blockchain transactions/details to them.

If you want to crypto, if you want privacy don't use Coinbase.

You can always use LocalEthereum to buy ETH anonymously and then transfer to a private wallet

https://decrypt.co/40685/electronic-frontier-foundation-call...
"This is perhaps one of the biggest overstatements I have ever seen on Hacker News" - Ouch! - now that is a strong statement!

Curious about your view on a qualified take.

By "some of the smartest individuals..." - I mean that there is a rare bar for work and aptitude here in the last ~3 decades if you look at a set of technocrats or thinkers historically.

Right now population * access to quality nutrition * access to early childhood and later education * interested in law school in the US produces a funnel of thinkers (90k graduates/y with ~19 years education) that is larger than almost any that has existed previously.

As some points of reference - some estimates put Rome at its peak at ~70mm citizens, the Tang Dynasty at ~80mm - both with access to fewer of the above conditions for the bulk of citizens. The Qing dynasty can hang on population in this thought experiment at 450mm, but the ratio of nutrition and education access was considerably lower.

If you compare SCOTUS clerks to actual luminaries like Gauss, they compare very unfavorably, but as a group I do feel that they are "some of the smartest individuals at what they do" that we've seen.

Is it possible that your high accomplishment in the field has given you an overly pessimistic view of the skillset required by your peers?

Your insight on the topic is super interesting - my background is as someone who was admitted to an elite law school and chose to follow their programming hobby instead - this part "However, even the absolutely best situated candidates don't have a more than average shot at success at their SCOTUS clerkship application." - makes me think that while there is a lot of networking involved here, the attainment bar is also - incredibly, unreasonably high - to be within striking distance, even if the last mile is networking, grind, and luck.
I agree with this so much. What an unaware individual to just suddenly realize that calling someone's decisions stupid isn't a great way to get a change happen.