skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
NO

The article described how the SCOTUS in 1927 resolved this question.

>>Manly Sullivan was convicted in 1922 of evading federal taxes on the income he earned through “running illegal whiskey” in violation of the Volstead Act, according to The Mob Museum.

>> A U.S. circuit court of appeals, however, reversed Sullivan’s conviction. It ruled that, while income from illegally trafficking liquor was subject to taxation, the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution — which protects against self-incrimination — protected Sullivan from declaring that income on his tax returns.

>> But the U.S Supreme Court in 1927 reversed the court’s decision.

>> “We see no reason to doubt the interpretation of the Act, or any reason why the fact that a business is unlawful should exempt it from paying the taxes that, if lawful, it would have to pay,” Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. wrote in the majority opinion, according to Justia. "

This is what got Al Capone convicted, not his widespread criminal and murderous enterprises, but his tax evasion.

So, yes, you are required to report all illegal income to the IRS. However, you don't need to go into any detail - just say "Self Employment Income = $XX,000,000" for your drug smuggling empire and pay the tax.

There are also, afaik, strict rules for the IRS to firewall this info from criminal (as opposed to tax) prosecutions. The motivation for these rules is to not discourage people from paying tax on all their enterprises.

[[[ obviously not legal advice, only general info, consult your attorney for actual advise, and maybe avoid crimes ]]]
Getting a car when you have kids is, happily, a lifestyle choice in Amsterdam, one where you choose personal convenience over the health and happiness of others. We have two kids and a cargo bike and don't need or miss having a car in Amsterdam, and we're hardly unique in that...

We may hope that one day we'll look back at this practice of having personal cars sitting around in cities as a backward phenomenon, something like open sewers.
I'm not sure if it ends up too in-the-weeds but we had a fun debate with one of our Beeminder-but-on-the-blockchain competitors recently: https://forum.beeminder.com/t/decentralization-debate-beemin...

Very short version: We don't think smart contracts add much. Your users trust you.
I don't do testing on personal projects, which are probably the fastest-pace projects I work on.

At work, I don't do frontend testing since frontend failures aren't serious and the testing I've seen is completely un-ergonomic and valueless. Mind that I consider myself to be full-stack, but with a tilt towards the backend.

At work, I do unit testing on the backend of basically every component. Unit testing leads to digestible and sensible code and tests.

I've worked with some integration testing, but it doesn't seem worth the cost. I could be convinced otherwise if I worked with a "cleaner" integration test suite. The ones I've touched have been messy hacks.
And this is how they show up here: https://prnt.sc/259t3qy

I don't override the font, either HN or FireFox or Windows is picking a serif font. I assume you didn't explicitly choose a font where different things look the same, but if it rendered 'a' and 'Z' the same glyph, you wouldn't say that was a problem with the English alphabet or with case sensitivity, or anything other than bad font design, right?
From my personal experience in Poland:

You can have LTE+ or even 5G in cities, but traveling by train means that in some areas only a select few extra-lightweight pages like Hacker News are able to load before a timeout or connection loss occurs.

So yes, in some situations even that amount of payload could have a meaningful impact.

“Modern” connections are irrelevant if we are talking about regions, which are not viable for a high-speed infrastructure. And such places are almost everywhere. Mountainous parts of Japan, many American regions, or sparsely populated Polish regions.

Of course, how much it is important varies greatly.
USSR already tried this in 1928 and as you are aware it didn’t workout that well for them..

Christopher Hitchens, one of the most outspoken people against religion also tried to accomplish this (to a much smaller degree of course) so that people may live in some sort of utopia where the churches are empty on Sundays and science is the absolute rule of the law.

Unfortunately all that accomplished as well was getting people excited about the next “Hitch slap” instead of pursuing intellectual curiosity.

I used to think like you but after reading all the religious texts from abrahamic religions and actually meeting many religious people I no longer completely brushing off the idea of worshiping a God. One can distinguish between extreme religious dogma and having sacred beliefs.

Further, even if you somehow get rid of this entirely (and by extension removing Easter, Christmas and so on from calendar) people will pick something else to believe in as you can always observe the rise of tautology and religiosity in humans. Just look at the woke culture, crypto followers and the holy activism in tech today as some examples.
As a native New Yorker, when I see "NY" I don't think "New Year" :)

I thought I missed an important announcement about a new set of statewide mandated goals for 2022.
I would absolutely buy this this coffee table book though.
Every corkscrew I own is unwanted. I don't even drink. It has been years since I ever needed to use one in my own home. (The cooking wine I use is screw-top.) That said, I own at least six of things. Why? They are attached to other objects that I actually use. Two are on swiss army knives I've owned for decades. Two came packaged with other products (sets of kitchen tools). The others are attached to my can openers, which I do use.

Question: Has anyone here ever used the can opener on a swiss army knife? It is there. It is slow but does work. For all my corkscrews, many times I've found myself without a can-opener and had to resort to the swiss army knife.
Imagine putting this on your resume.
It's very much sophisticated, it has several layers. What you call primitive are only the first layers.
US Centric answer:

If you're looking to accept card payments, then no. Both credit and debit cards have interchange fees[0] that are unavoidable. Strong negotiation with a payment provider can land you on an "interchange plus"[1] type fee schedule, which means that they pass through their costs to process the transaction and add some small fixed amount. Note that card interchange fees can range from essentially 0% (debit cards) to >2% fees baked into them. Rewards cards can reach 2.5%+ -- merchants pay for rewards on these cards and eventually pass the cost onto everyone else in the form of higher prices.

Now you could look at using something like ACH to automate bank debits. On paper, this could be as cheap as $0.10/txn. However, there's a litany of new issues to worry about. ACH payments take days to clear. The information needed to debit someone is printed on checks and given out, so now you've got a new authorization problem. People usually solve this with microdeposits or something like Plaid -- you're looking at more time and friction or more cost. People are not trained as well as with cards to punch their bank details into every other website.

Crypto adds a bunch of friction for unsavvy users, has no dispute flow (though I guess that's to your benefit as a merchant), and can have pretty variable costs.

Edit: at the end of the day, checkout completion rate is often more impactful than the fees. Other advice:
1) Try to negotiate with providers. You may not have sufficient leverage until you reach some scale, but it doesn't hurt to ask respectfully.
2) If you plan to grow your business for a long time: create local payments abstractions that make it easier to switch providers or support multiple providers later. Everybody has outages and this increases your negotiating leverage.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interchange_fee
[1] Depending on the card distribution of your users, "interchange plus" can be more costly than a fixed plan.
It's a barrier for consumers though, you have to be home when the package comes in or go to a delivery point.
I made such move, for me it is mostly about more interesting and well paying jobs, and better weather in the Bay area. Visiting NL every summer and hope to return eventually.
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We are very careful to make sure that we don't allow the tuning algorithms to make changes that could be detrimental to the correctness or availability of the database. This blog article describes some of the safeguards that we employ:

https://ottertune.com/blog/prevent-machine-learning-from-wre...

We also advise our customers to not point OtterTune at a production database right away.
> The user colors cencored regions green in an image editing program like GIMP or Photoshop. A neural network fills in the censored regions.

This will have limited use as it would require highly motivated individuals with enough time to go through their collections.

Speculation, also probably won't work with alien/creature hentai of the green skin variety.
That does remind me: why that even is a thing? Ordering days of a week from zero can make sense since there is Monday/Sunday as a week start divide, and this can be seen as a bypass (0/7 as Sunday and 1 as a Monday), but with months?
> If it was "propaganda" as opposed to credible, unproven allegations you'd be pointing us to paragraphs about how meetings between Trump campaign officers and Russian officials probably or definitely did not happen as alleged,

I have not seen these paragraphs that provide evidence that Trump colluded with Russia to hack the election in the Mueller report. Maybe you could point them out?

> not clutching at the straws of "did not find evidence to prove beyond reasonable doubt [specific offence]" in an investigation which substantiated that there was contact between the Trump campaign and Russian operatives and resulted in criminal prosecutions of some of the participants for lying about them anyway.

"clutching at straws" = refuting the central claims of the Trump/Russia conspiracy theory.

> When the OP suggest that claims of a South Korean built wall stretching the full length of the border are baseless propaganda, he's not doing so from the starting point that yes, there's obviously a wall going the full length of the border but we can't be confident of convicting its builders of criminal intent

Claims about the existence of evidence of Trump colluding with Putin are exactly the same as claims about the existence of the wall.
Your welcome

I hope You resolve the issue.

Here is another link that You may find useful:

https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/7474347?hl=en
You can't avoid fees if you're accepting card payments. One way or another you will be relying on multiple specialist services to access the card networks and they are each going to take a cut.

Cards are a broken and expensive payment method that needs to go away, and in some parts of the world that is already starting to happen, but it really depends on where your sales are. If you are aiming for customers in the US you're probably stuck with cards for now because it's what people and businesses expect to use.

However if you're selling to somewhere like Europe you might get a much better deal with alternative payment methods like SEPA and the national schemes. There will still be fees and risks but they can be much lower than you'll ever get with card payments.

Whichever payment method(s) you decide to accept you will still have to deal with the admin around taxes that has been mentioned elsewhere in this discussion. An alternative strategy of outsourcing everything to a specialist that handles both payment processing and tax admin is becoming increasingly attractive. As always if you're running a small business you might want to concentrate on whatever products or service you offer and outsource as much of the rest as you can. In this case the question isn't about how to avoid fees, because obviously you can't, but whether the amount you save is worth the fees you spend, which it easily could be.
Wow, thank you for this very thorough response. I also had to look up SRS [0] as a key concept. Really impressive the way that all the different piece and placement combinations have been broken down in a comprehensive way.

I can see now how this becomes a much more organized and deterministic game with these changes, allowing players to plan their moves and inputs precisely so that they are barely need any visual feedback to confirm the state of the board, allowing them to queue up multiple moves in rapid succession.

Of course I’m sure it takes a lot of training and practice as well!

0: https://tetris.fandom.com/wiki/SRS
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Excited to get to use this. One area of concern is i18n. The article touches on this briefly at the end, but I hope a zoned value can be used with Intl as well; having to use only Plain values would be frustrating.
I can't remember the last time I had a mouse where middle-click wasn't really awkward to use. Probably in the time before scroll-wheels, when there was an actual middle button that was just a button.

Trying to click the mouse scroll-wheel is on par with the "push the joystick straight down" click mode that some modern game controllers have in awfulness.
For me: almost complete lack of nature (sorry guys, farmlands don't count as "green"), lack of mountains (I love outdoor sports), the depressing weather, the 20% house price increase in one year, the aggressive people who always know everything better (I refer to the large amount of covidiots who only care about themselves). There's plenty to dislike too.
So there's a "Read Across America" day, and you consider the very act of not reading Dr. Seuss on that day Orwellian? What is they read Dr. Seuss every other year—is that worth 0.5 Orwells? Are there any other authors that must be read on that day to keep our Orwell-o-Meter down? I agree we should never go full Orwell, but as long as we keep it below 0.66666 Orwells (repeating, obviously), I think we should be safe.
I get hagelslag (de Ruijter, melk, 8 dollar) and appel stroop from Amazon and from summer trips abroad. I do miss pita broodje shoarma, chinese indonesian food, frikandel speciaal, kroketje.
I was not being sarcastic. Larry is a good man.
Is 74Kb really a cause for concern on modern internet connections?

That depends on how you define what a modern Internet connection is. If you mean a fast, low latency, unmetered connection then 74kb is obviously fine.

If you mean a 4G connection on a train, or a metered rural satellite connection, or a typically-low-income-user pay-for-data connection, or even a fast cheap Internet connection but with a low-end device that will waste a lot of battery power parsing and running all that JS code, then it's a lot less obvious.

Most of the time you don't know who the user is, so it's best to assume the worst case. If your site works well when things aren't ideal then it'll be awesome when they are good too. Only thinking about the happy path of users with M1 Macbooks with unlimited gigabit ethernet will mean everyone else has a sucky time on your site.

Also, if someone posts your site on HN, most of the comments will be about how bad the code is and you'll miss out on feedback that's actually useful. If you're deploying a 74kb date library, think of your karma.
> "First of all, malware provides a level of access that makes hacking LastPass accounts unnecessary. If it can intercept or extract the LastPass master password, it can do the same for all other passwords as well."

That logic doesn't really make sense. Malware might make hacking LastPass accounts unnecessary, but it would still be highly desirable (one target gives you everything else).

Frankly, it feels like OP decided on the conclusion before any analysis was done.
I think it might be relevant to consider that that 45m ride each way also supports exercise, being outside, probably passing dozens(hundreds?) of stores, and maybe even socializing. It's a totally different beast from being in a car for that duration.
Nothing like an accidental death when kid rushes on a road. Much safer than with those dangerous bikes.
If you want to be even more overwhelmed, see my encyclopedia of database systems:

https://dbdb.io/
They're aware. Merkel didn't want to close the nuclear power plants but was forced to shift policy after Fukushima due to public pressure.
Germany's policies basically made solar and wind a viable option for everyone from a cost perspective, it wasn't when they started and took the leap. All in all, they knew.
My older one spends around 1h per school day cycling and I don't find a problem with that. When weather is really bad, public transit is an option, but it takes about 10 minutes longer (one way). Add: I don't have neither car no driving license, so it is what it is.
What about the older children makes them car-dependent? Don’t you worry they’ll miss out on the cultural richness of the city? I grew up in the car-dependent village lifestyle (albeit in the US, which is surely less livable than the European interpretation) and I wouldn’t wish it on anyone’s children.
There are several apps that will access remote file systems and share them via iOS Files

For your use case I would look at SFTP and use the ShellFish app

https://secureshellfish.app

There are similar apps that add WebDAV servers to FIles. There are a number of media players and text editors that provide built-in WebDAV support

I have also used other apps to share between Linux and iOS: DropBox, Resilio Sync

SyncThing is now supported via the app Möbius Sync. (But I have yet to try it)

https://www.mobiussync.com
Glad you live outside nowadays. City needs less people like you.
You may have a good reason for using that tone, but I'd never figure out that reason from the content of your post.
I completely sympathise with your tram complains. Trams are cheaper than a metro system but they also have almost all of the drawbacks with few of the benefits.

However, I just don't understand your complaints about bicycles. Yes, bicycles can be heavy and when a lot of people use them there are many of them. But what, exactly, do you think is the alternative? Cars are heavier and even more awful en masse. Walking by foot just takes a long time and doesn't get you very far. Should people run everywhere?
We had such an account before Stripe and Braintree were in existence. The rates weren't significantly better than what Stripe or Braintree offered, which is why we switched. I assume that's still the case...?
Ask HN: A browser extension that intercepts fetch/XHR calls, would you use it?
Greetings HN community.

I got an idea to built something and wanted to check if you (Front end devs, Software Architects) would use / include into your dev stack?

1. A browser extension, which intercepts any API calls, that you configure into extension, in any tab in same browser Window, instead of original server response, revert back with whatever response you configure for that API call into the extension.

2. You can create logical clusters / modules of API calls page wise or functionality wise, to maintain and better usability.

3. You can store it on cloud, grant access to your teams, share it across so that anyone else can directly download the module / folder and start running client side code without server side code, or with custom API response to just selected APIs.

USE CASES:

1. You could start client side work without server side code ready. (I know there are tons of other solutions already good at this, but this one also intercepts your existing API calls to quickly test / develop / POC.)

2. You can quickly check what your web app looks like with different server response for few APIs.

3. Run client side stack without server side code setup, if you're just interested in spinning up client side code in your local machine.

4. It could serve as a client side <> server side API contract

5. You could have version control (V1 of Billing module, V1.1 of Billing module or Billing module for X enterprise client etc.)

6. You can record all API calls since a page is loaded, to capture all the API end points being called to render the page.

I've always consumed HN feed, this is the first time I am seeking help here. Please school me on anything I can to be one amongst HN community.

Happy holidays and be safe.

-mohit
Yeah, this reminds me of when I was young and spent hours at the public library, because that's where I could get on the internet at that time.
Then you immediately pass the culture fit test
When I see that I immediately think it is an octal notation number.
>Bikes are - to the Dutch - a way of life.

Is there a way to find other areas that are similarly bike friendly. In all honesty I have an aversion to moving to a country below sea level given the consequences of climate change we will soon face.
I have read the article. Assuming it's true, from what I understand it's not NK government that do the trafficking but criminal gangs in China.

I fail to see any NK propaganda here.

Now if you wanted to say that I shouldn't take the situation there lightly, I get it, it's only funny on the surface.
Thanks. Very well said. I agree with you. I am actually passionate about non price data like cash flows, balance sheet, income statement, PE, EV/EBIDTA, etc.
But I have seen a lot of long term fundamental based investors talking about using technical analysis (price data) to get a better entry point. In that context, I wanted to try technical analysis. To be honest, I dont like technical analysis. Find it very boring.
Even for primary school age kids cycling is pretty normal. Mine have been doing it since they were about 6, and before then the bakfiets. When the weather is really evil we'll break out the carkey, but that only happens a couple of times per year, and since it isn't possible to reach all the way to the school that still isn't a real solution. But it saves them from being soaked and that's worth it.

But 97% of the days it's bikes.
The transformation is amazing. It’s also deeply discouraging that this kind of change takes 40 years. I long to live in a city built for people instead of cars, but for that to exist in the US so I don’t have to cut off my extended family the way that moving abroad would do. But realistically I won’t live long enough, even if some US city decided tomorrow to copy the Netherlands model verbatim.
> Though I don't get why some things get a yes/no, and for others it tells you to look it up in the security settings yourself, if you want to enable it

I think the former is the system dialog that comes up when the app officially requests the capability, while the latter is an app dialog—which they pop up instead of officially requesting the capability because if you say "no", that setting is saved, and the app can't officially ask again.

This way, they get to bug you every single time until you say "yes".
You are right. As far as I understand Q is K plus the additional sql-like syntax.

And yes, it is nigh-unreadable. I have yet to learn it, but I think there is value in succinctness at least for throwaway scripts.
This is towards the long end, but certainly not unusual here.
If hands-on-keyboard-and-mouse (HOKAM?) is important, I would suggest looking at the digital content creation apps like Blender and Maya context menus and pie menus for inspiration.

I know with my use of Emacs, I'd probably use or configure it like a fancy which-key: use the mouse to navigate / filter the available choices but then use the keyboard for final selection.
Intelligent Design is a Christian offshoot theory, and Christians 100% believe in free will.
Explaining the Metaverse to a Boomer [video]
It's not my thing, but I personally find censorship much more vulgar.
Labor Reallocation and Remote Work During Covid: Real-Time Evidence from GitHub