skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the Salesforce ones[1] and the CarperAI[2] one.

BigCode from HuggingFace will be coming soon too.

[1] https://huggingface.co/Salesforce and expand "models" codegen-mono is Python, codegen-multi is multi language I think.

[2] https://carper.ai/diff-models-a-new-way-to-edit-code/
I still enjoy the one liner that's probably generations old at this point. "America: We have the best democracy money can buy". At 40, reading many comments feels like watching a younger generation notice the same things I did. I'm glad the current administration at least seems to have it's heart in the right place, but I'm pretty jaded and don't think that we'll see big changes any time soon. I'd be happy to be pleasantly surprised, though!
Are you talking about e-filing? For some reason, I don‘t seem to qualify – so it‘s off to the post office for me.
All of this is political. None of what you said even takes into consideration whether or not a law was broken...

You could have written this exact comment about the political environment if there were live footage of him shooting someone on Fifth Avenue.
Anecdotally, it was the reason why I went for Nokia N900 as my first smartphone, because I didn't want to give up my beloved Newgrounds. Flash turned out to not run super well on the device, but by then it was too late and I'd already deep-doved into the Linux and on-device programming rabbit hole.
Americans have insurrections all the time. For example, there was an insurrection in Tennessee today. It's an american tradition.

Literally no American is going to stand to have any politician indicted for having passionate voters. This is surprising to many non-americans, but America does not like stifling speech. It's simply a small minority of prominent Americans that are calling for Trump to face any charges for 'inciting an insurrection'.
I think it ensures he’ll be the nominee and also ensures he will lose the general if he doesn’t do a deal in the other indictments to drop out.

Your mistake is thinking a disastrous president that lost re-election somehow understands the modal voter. He doesn’t even understand the modal voter in swing states.
I love seeing politicians piss in their pants as much as the next guy. Hopefully the charges aren't politically motivated, but if they are that's where I think things get dicey. The law being applied more strongly and more rigorously if you are a political enemy is both difficult to prove and insidious, and it undermines the democratic process. I have no idea if this is the case with trump, or the prosecution is just a coincidence.

You see this applied elsewhere... for instance police may target black areas. Sure the black people they arrest may actually be committing crime and the arrests may be valid, while still achieving an insidious quality of policing.
Same here in The Netherlands.
I think we've had online tax-filing for perhaps 15-20 years here in Denmark.
We log in with our digital signatures, report what income has not already been reported by employer and bank, and claim the deductions that have not already been granted automatically.

I won't say it's that easy, and often the system can't be accessed on the day they open up for filing last year's taxes, but at least it's not pen and paper anymore.
I quoted the relevant section in another comment ( https://youtu.be/AAZLOygmR78 ). (late edit - it was https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35381723 - not the YouTube link)

The statue of limitations in New York doesn't accumulate when the defendant is outside of the state.

I would be sure to make note of who is suggesting that legal approach. The full opinions of the court in that case can be found https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/19pdf/19-635_o7jq.pdf
See also the iron law of bureaucracy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Pournelle#Pournelle's_ir...

... and Putt's Law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Putt%27s_Law_and_the_Successfu...
Cool company! Norte dame:) if my memory serves me correctly, I graduated in 2003 and I remember it was around that time when 2 grads were just starting it. These guys donates a portion of their profits to literacy programs around the world and i think they raised nearly $30M to date for libraries and literacy programs. They first started w like 5 book drop boxes on campuses and grew to having over 2,300 book drop boxes located in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom, where people can donate their used books…. :)
Nuclear power is too safe
You have to remember that this was pre-iPod — Apple did not have infinite money at that time; it had been not quite two years since it was nearly bankrupt. They really had to be careful with resources. Having third parties provide all of the interesting external peripherals might have been a simple necessity.
Trump's "base" doesn't particularly matter. They'll continue on in denial/spite regardless of what happens. The damage they themselves can do is limited, as long as we have functioning law enforcement.

The only way we're getting out of the larger situation is for Republicans and independents to realize that Trump is/was just another basic grifter capitalizing on frustration with the system. Just because someone is despised by the people at the country club doesn't mean they're your friend. While we're hungry for reform, this doesn't mean that every type of change is a step in the right direction. And despite the suffocating dynamic, there's actually a damn good reason we've come to expect that politicians should be a bit neutered. Ultimately true conservatism for the American status quo that we've come to take for granted, as much as it pains my past self to write that.
> describe or comment on the nature of the charges against Trump. To be fair to the commenters, most stories are vague.

That's because the charges haven't been announced yet. The facts that we know are that a grand jury has voted to indict Donald Trump and has delivered a True Bill to the prosecutors.

The indictment is at this moment sealed. It should be unsealed shortly (speculation was a timeline of tonight/tomorrow, but I could also see it being early next week).

So, it's not known publicly what the specific charges are. Which is why people haven't described them in this thread. They're not yet known.

> most stories are vague.

This is partly because there's not a lot of information, but it's also because the news media needs to pump out an endless amount of content around this story (since it's both historic, and they have a profit incentive to keep people reading/watching), but there's really only a few paragraphs* of information that's currently available or relevant.

> It sounds like they have to prove two separate crimes, and connect them with intention. Intent of course is always hard to prove in court.

The speculated charges (which, again, are speculation, not the known public charges) involve a crime which is, on its own, a misdemeanor. The crime becomes a felony if it was committed with intent to commit another crime.

So, if (and again, this is a big if, since it's not the actual charges, just speculation) the prosecutors are going down that road, they don't actually have to prove two crimes. They have to prove the first crime and intent to commit another crime. They don't actually have to prove the facts of the second crime.

> Intent of course is always hard to prove in court.

Intent is hard to prove, but it's also something that gets proved in court cases frequently. For example, murder is (in almost all states) an intent crime. Prosecutors are still able to charge and convict on murder. So, while an intent element makes a case harder to make, it doesn't by default make it impossible.

For a crime similar to the being speculated about, consider Breaking and Entering. In many states a B&E is only a crime if it's done with the intent to commit another crime (in Washington state, for example, this is "Residential burglary" RCW 9A.52.025†). But if someone is caught breaking into a property at night with a ski mask and a burlap sack, prosecutors won't find it a challenge to demonstrate the requisite intent.

> Overall this seems like a weak case to me.

I think it's really too early to say at this point. I'd at least wait until the indictment is unsealed and released publicly so we can know the actual charges. Once we know the charges, and a summary of the available evidence, we'd be in a much better position to make a claim about the quality of the case.

* There's really only a single sentence of _news_ to report, but there's probably a decent amount of explaining the process that can reasonably happen, since most people aren't familiar with the details of the process.

† https://app.leg.wa.gov/rcw/default.aspx?cite=9a.52&full=true...
Campaign finance violates are a dime a dozen. I don't think any serious candidate didn't have values similar or greater than what's discussed in this case. None of them got indicted criminally they all just paid fines.

`The commission documents said Perkins Coie — where a partner at the time, Marc Elias, was representing the Clinton campaign — paid Fusion GPS slightly more than $1 million in 2016, and the law firm was in turn paid $175,000 by the campaign and about $850,000 by the party during six weeks in July and August 2016. Campaign spending disclosure reports described most of those payments to Perkins Coie as having been for “legal services” and “legal and compliance consulting.”`

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/30/us/politics/hillary-clint...
The democratic nominee for President has won the popular vote in something like 7 of the last 8 presidential elections. A majority of Americans do have progressive principles, but America is a minority rule country at the moment.
That's why the plan includes sending a check / refund to every person, to offset the "tax free income amount", IIRC.

Also - rich people don't really pay income and capital taxes because they have ways to avoid them altogether. (All these "charity funds" they make are just tax avoidance schemes).

Sales tax instead of income tax would be a huge time saver, and effectively work exactly like an income tax, without all the waste.

"Taxing the rich" could be achieved via other means if desired. Some wealth tax (let's say over 100M of net worth, .5%/year or something like that).
>”they can get to audit people with money and skip the rest of the riff raff.”

The IRS has no qualms with auditing people of average wealth. Each year they invest a substantial amount of time and effort going after waiters and other staff that work for tips. The rich usually have the money to defend themselves rigorously, whereas middle class folks tend to end up just paying the fines and the amount the IRS claims they actually owe.
Equal outcomes is a fine goal, and this is a terrible example of a good way to achieve it. It may be the quickest/easiest way (maybe even the only way given the levers they have control over), but that doesn't make it good.
Is this what you say any time someone is being prosecuted for breaking the law? Like is your thought about all the fraud Sam Bankman Fried committed that "we're too eager to punish fellow Americans, and uninterested in understanding them"?

If there isn't compelling evidence that laws were broken here, then fine. But if there is, then it seems like the way to deal with evidence of lawbreaking is to prosecute it...
Bigotry against tax collectors is a new one. Are tax enforcers an oppressed or marginalized community?
Oddly enough your comment made me think of electron apps vs native apps, because they are usually impenetrable to accessibility APIs so they appear as completely opaque apps with no a11y affordances.
This just means there’s a high standard to empaneling a grand jury.

They got Michael Cohen for this, and Trump was mentioned in his proceedings as “individual one”.
I feel for you.

I stopped after discrete math and analysis-lite class but I wish I took more algorithm and higher level math classes to be better at my craft. It's also hard to take classes when you have competing priorities when you're 30+. I don't know your current situation but I feel like you can totally do it since you have renewed determination for learning.
Be specific about the charges in this case?

How confident are you that they couldn't find something on every single President?
>It sounds like they have to prove two separate crimes, and connect them with intention. Intent of course is always hard to prove in court.

Michael Cohen pled guilty and was sentenced to three years for the campaign finance law, and he's been very vocal about Trump's knowledge and involvement. So proving intent doesn't seem impossible. And, by definition, falsifying business records comes with a record of false information.
I honestly think it's the better way to deal with this problem - nothing the model generates should be copyrightable. You can use model outputs for anything unless the model replicates training data verbatim. This leaves a path open for AI skills to trickle down to open source models. It's a pity we can't copyright model outputs or the models themselves (also a result of a mechanistic process), but better in the long run.

We should not protect ideas from replication, only the expression should be copyrightable. Using data from another model extracts the ideas without the expression of the original training set, exactly following the idea/expression rule.
I'm not sure if you mean it this way, but your comment reads as if you presume that taxes on income are the only way the provide for "the functioning of a country".

I prefer wholesale deprecation of the state - also to advance functioning of the country - but even during the time period where the state continues to exist, I think that income tax is specifically unjust (compared to taxes on gains and consumption, for example).
> It’s not a win win because you’re spreading the drug use.

Am I, though? As the fundamental claim behind your dismissal of all the other benefits, including the massive death tolls, it behooves you to back this one up.

> there are many countries with harsh punishments for drug dealing and the culture around drug usage just does not exist like it does in the US

Oh, they're harsh here, too. Can you show that the harshness of the penalties has led to a reduction in drug use?

> Some places will even shun addicts and not help them with their addiction

Cruelty and brutality can certainly influence peoples' behavior. So can compassion and understanding. I suppose we'll have to agree to disagree about how morally righteous it would be to just crush and brutalize anyone involved in the illegal drug trade. Whatever "illegal" is defined as, based on our government's criteria (and disregarding groups like the AMA).

https://www.ama-assn.org/press-center/press-releases/ama-exp...
I'll also throw in a recommendation for thriftbooks.
This is item is a dupe and Twitter blogspam of an article which had been submitted earlier today:

SFUSD's delay of algebra 1 has created a nightmare of workarounds (sfexaminer.com)

<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35379809>

<https://www.sfexaminer.com/forum/put-algebra-1-back-in-eight...>

The SF Examiner piece (guest opinion) is actually substantive and detailed. Somewhat atypical for the publication itself.
The remedy to his insurrection on January 6th was impeachment. He was impeached, and his jury found him not guilty. The jury in this case being the United States Senate.
That Fifth Avenue comment was so shocking back in the day, and it's more shocking today in how true it was.
He committed crimes, drew a bunch of attention to himself, and here we are. I don’t think it’s any more complicated than that.
I prefer my presidents not pay hush money to porn stars
No, because that does not violate campaign finance laws.
who at YC did you talk to and get help from before applying?
what the hell? did you reply to the wrong person?
Did it make you roll for persuasion or anything like that?
Thanks for the feedback. There is currently no import of wireframes from other design tools, but it's an interesting idea and we'll look into it!
If it makes you feel better, he's also going to be indicted for that in the near future.
> please quiz yourself what worldview would brag about being hated by UN. If you cant understand, you literally can't understand anything about ~48% of the country

For a non-American, could someone kindly explain what worldview would brag about being hated by UN?
Perhaps in your part of the world. The author is based in South Africa. Your statements seem entirely US based (or Western).

In South Africa teachers don't need post-grad, many don't even have grad. South Africa also don't have 3 month school summer holidays, but holidays spread throughout the year.
So it's all been a purely stochastic random coincidence of cosmic entropy and Apple has been some prescient fortuneteller?

The removal of physical keyboards from phones, lack of a serviceable battery, notch, death of the floppy, removal of ports from laptops, 3.5mm jack, these all would have completely happened, exactly like they did, exactly in the way they did, without Apple?

Instead I believe we live in a dysfunctional era of "designer as absolute dictator" and it turns out copying Apple is a safer choice then wandering through the wilderness and claiming your own path.

Investors, the board, senior management, very few have that courage and the path of Apple knockoff feels less risky.

I hate the monoculture through risk aversion, especially spearheaded by a company that seems hell-bent on turning everything into a locked down consumer-grade appliance but I get why it's that.

Why low contrast hairline grey fonts on grey backgrounds was the design trend until Apple stopped and why flat design where you can't tell if something was interactive or not was extremely popular until Apple decided it wasn't.
It's not. It's much more simple, than anything else I know. XPath, and its higher-up XQuery make it a breeze! XSD, while not perfect, can be easily displayed as a graphical diagram. What you, however, need, and there is no way around it, is a specialized XML IDE or an IDE, that has "understood" XML.
> So it’s not as simple as “winner takes all.”

Yes it is. You just misunderstood what I meant.

from https://www.archives.gov/electoral-college/allocation

> All States, except for Maine and Nebraska have a winner-take-all policy where the State looks only at the overall winner of the state-wide popular vote. Maine and Nebraska, however, appoint individual electors based on the winner of the popular vote for each Congressional district and then 2 electors based on the winner of the overall state-wide popular vote.
If you owned the software you'd be guilty of buying stolen property. At least this way you haven't committed a crime.
For those reading the comments first - this page is now deleted.

Kind of confirms everything in the comments thread here.
Previous political campaign hush-money crimes convicted
This is a lawyer's fairly detailed history of how previous cases like Trump's went.

This election fraud case (hiding money spent to prevent facts becoming known while campaigning for office) is a Federal elections crime convicted many times.
This is the kind of thing that triggers my imposter syndrome big time.

I've been coding professionally for almost 30 years, and I see stuff like this and wonder if I'll ever be a real programmer.
You don’t need a plan from the start to keep something consistent. So long as the story is consistent so far and you don’t add any inconsistencies, that’s all there is to it. Simple induction principle.

That doesn’t mean the story will be good though.

The problem is chatGPT has no guarantees of enforcing consistency, regardless of how good a story it is telling.
Weird, I thought everyone qualified, although I've certainly never looked into it. Sorry! It's definitely a stupid system, no matter how you slice it.
If that's your jam why wait, book your flight to Somalia today and start living the dream.
HP Wolf Connect can locate, lock and erase offline and powered down PCs
This short article gives a better explanation than I could ever give at this hour of the morning: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/jul/14/what-does-qu...

What is sovereign immunity?

Sovereign immunity is a centuries-old doctrine dictating that the monarch cannot be prosecuted or subject to civil legal action under the law. Its origin lies in doctrine and convention, rather than statute, and there is no law setting out the rules underpinning the concept.

It stems partly from the medieval concept that the monarch is the source of justice, and can therefore do no wrong. It also relies on an argument that because the courts belong to the Queen she cannot be compelled to appear in them, since she would, in effect, be prosecuting herself.

Since at least 1800, the monarch has also had a legally distinct private persona, created to allow them to have independent wealth and property that could be inherited by their children. However, the lines between the two are somewhat blurred, and sovereign immunity has typically been interpreted to apply to both the public and private identities of the monarch.
Bad example to use there because Trump will very possibly be indicted for doing the same, but much worse, in terms of his own classified information!
FWIW UN peacekeepers have a pretty horrible reputation for worldwide rape and sexual abuse. Not to say they do it more than others, but I wouldn't want to be associated with them.

https://www.hrw.org/news/2020/01/11/un-peacekeeping-has-sexu...

https://apnews.com/article/united-nations-pakistan-africa-se...
> your comment reads as if you presume that taxes on income are the only way the provide for "the functioning of a country".

Did I say income?
Yes, this is called a "disagreement". Some people think the future problems are more important.

It's like you think "everyone knows that the ASI thing is bullshit, they're just saying it to distract from algorithmic bias and corporate/military AI worries." I assure you that people who think ASI/UFAI is a real danger do exist. (Hi.)
And income taxes hit high income people the hardest. It's not fair that I have to pay 6 figures of taxes when other people get away with paying multitudes less than me.
From what I read, the indictment is sealed. Does that mean we don't really know precisely what the charges are yet? I'm willing to wait and see.

Also, from everything I've read, well defended people are remarkably hard to convict. This is as it should be, as it may let some people go scot free, but protects the rest of us.

Convicting Trump will be hard. It might fail. Does this mean that charges should not be brought in the first place? That's a question I don't know how to answer, for any "white collar" or prominent defendant.
You'd have to give a very free hand, and it'd likely end up with many students being kicked out of class. So they'd have fewer students, and close to all of the ones that stayed would be achieving at grade level. Not sure if that's better or worse in the end ...
The most criminal president in history is Trump by virtue of two impeachments, with one getting huge crossover support.
The tricky questions are all around things officials did in their official capacity. But crimes allegedly committed during the campaign prior to becoming a government official are not in this gray area.
> Are tax enforcers an oppressed or marginalized community?

Well, historically, yes. But in my dictionary, bigoted means "obstinately or unreasonably attached to a belief, opinion, or faction, in particular prejudiced against or antagonistic toward a person or people on the basis of their membership of a particular group". So you can certainly be bigoted against the IRS and its employees. No need for the "oppressed or marginalized" part.
I think you mean "influence elections" - "picking who[m] you get to vote for" is quite a stretch.
Paper: Can AI predict how you'll vote in the next election?