skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Tax and Customs Board does not look too kindly on that, because those would be considered costs not related to your business and you would have to pay all the ordinary employee taxes (fringe benefit taxes) on that. If your company's office is located in the same apartment you live in, then you could argue that at least partially your costs are entrepreneurial costs - it is how sole proprietors (FIE - füüsilisest isikust ettevõtja) operate. Do not know of a way to get around food costs though, it is not as if you could mark down every lunch as marketing/sales/client meeting with the limit to representation expenses - 32 EUR per month + 2% from gross salary per month.

As an example, the latest hooplah around enterprise taxation is related to using company cars during private time. If an employer does not allow to use company cars for private purposes, then they will be marked as such in a public registry. If you have a feeling that your neighbor is using his company car outside of work, you can check it and report it to the TCB: http://www.err.ee/643218/erasoiduks-tooauto-kasutaja-saab-na... But if the company car is not registered as such, then you will have to pay fringe benefits tax 1,96 EUR per engine kW per month for newer cars and 1,47 EUR per engine kW per month for cars older than 5 years.

As an exercise to the reader, think about how flat taxation per kW affects companies with electric cars.
Is this the same debate as "rock and roll is the devil's music" or "TV is rotting our kids' brains" that we have every generation, except now it's social media?

Not saying I disagree with the overall position, but I feel like there's always something to point to that is "ripping apart society"...
If you were to ask any group of people whether toys are intended for children, the majority would say yes. Do we at least agree on that? If would be more useful for all of us, if we, in discussions, used terms in ways that align with what the majority thinks those terms represent. Because if we don’t, we create confusion. This is unnecessary and just wastes our time.
I heard that piece, but I read is less as "unwilling to grapple" and more "resigned to the fact that it is inevitable the technology will be built, so might as well enjoy myself building it".

It would feel a little grating to me as the interviewee to have the interviewer keep pressing me on these questions that, while totally relevant, are obviously designed to make me have to "answer for what I'm doing" in some Frankenstein-esque sense. Yeah, I get it, it's scary, but this train left the station a long, long time ago and probably I'm not (even as someone working on the tech) gonna have a lot to say about the downsides that haven't already been said.
C’mon, Apple, I know you want to make sure to get the HomePod right, but Google’s stealing your holiday shopping thunder here.

I only say this because $APPLE_FANBOI over here is willing to wait, but if I weren’t I’d snap up a couple of these. (Reality is not fanboism, but enough apathy to the product segment that three months won’t kill me.)
I think you're heavily projecting your own value system onto the content.

The reality is that for people who enjoy that content, it is exciting, and they really do enjoy watching other people play the game and talk about it.
Thanks for making these publicly accessible; that's great work. A couple of thoughts:

1. Change the name. Assassination Files is sensationalistic, which always feels manipulative to me and raises my doubts about the author's intentions. These days, with so much trolling and propaganda, I assume that anyone who adopts sensationalistic practices doesn't understand and/or respect the issues of integrity on the Internet and is not to be taken too seriously.

2. I'm not sure many others feel this way, but I need a reason to believe the website contains a correct, complete, and fully searchable record of the released documents. I don't know if the author has an axe to grind, and perhaps omits or fails to properly OCR or index certain documents, or if there are errors due to the unknown error rate - and not knowing the site's producer, I have no idea if that error rate is high or low. If someone with expertise, such as a professor in that field, could vouch for it, that would help - but perhaps that's outside the scope.

Thank you!
At the current energy growth rate we will have consumed our galaxy in 2500 years
Kipple, climate change, humans irreversibly changing the planet - it all sounds bad, until you realize that the earth has undergone numerous major shifts in the history of life, each of which created new conditions that ultimately led to humanity.

The Great Oxygenation Event is the story of bacteria that mindlessly converted resources into waste until they were drowning in it, killing off the vast majority of life -
except the tiny portion that was adapted to thrive on that waste. And from then on the oxygen-breathers flourished.

This and other events make me pretty confident that some life form will find a way to make use of whatever garbage-laden hellscape we produce. In fact I'm pretty sure even humans will be able to adapt, and who knows, maybe the new conditions will usher in new wonders!
One rationale would be that a person believes they cannot time the market correctly.
SEC Halts Multimillion-Dollar 'Munchee' ICO for Securities Violations
Apple does not seem to like to do big purchases. Even though they probably could. Spotify is not (yet) profitable so they would probably have to hike up the prices. At this point they are probably better off doing their deals on their own and slowly catch up.
Not exactly a new concept but it’s likely extremely cheap now and would even get cheaper and better.

With VR porn, the new sex toys for men and women and now this I’m somewhat happy that this wasn’t around when I was a teenager as I’m really not confident I would have left the room if that was available.
Do you though? What do you do when you get a take out cup that is too bitter or over/under sweetened? Do you wear it, or take it back?

What happens when you get caught up talking to someone or distracted, and your $4 cup of coffee becomes cold and undrinkable? Or if someone nudges you and you spill some? Does the $ value ever factor into it, or is it just a 'throwaway' cost?

In fact, does anyone ever stand at a urinal and think to themselves - "That is a $10 pee, given the coffees I bought this morning"?
An Interview with an Anonymous Data Scientist (2016)
This Thanksgiving I played Jackbox Party Pack on the Switch with 7 of my other brother/cousins. There was a lot of fun with family had that day, and it included the Switch.
Hilariously enough, NAND is the only acronym. The others are initialisms.
WoW isn't single-player, is it? I think GP was commenting on the fact that spending some time alone (with video games or otherwise) won't necessarily tear society apart, as long as it's done in moderation.
> “The current technically-incorrect order discards decades of careful work by FCC chairs from both parties, who understood the threats that Internet access providers could pose to open markets on the Internet.”

Paid prioritization is that threat.

Again, streaming video content for all ages is not more important than online courses.
Fair enough. I'd say the titles are probably more indicative of the podcast wanting to have a diverse set of interviews. The Product Management role is much more focused than that, promise.
Men will start paying for a service that will create custom porn by swapping in the object of their fantasies. The only difficulty with choosing your hot neighbor instead of someone popular will be that the service will have to fetch their face from their facebook profile.
So I was a Sonos owner and I loved them, when I sold them to buy Google Home's I was greatly saddened by decrease in audio quality. It looks like this is the Sonos replacement? Seems weird that they wouldn't just re-brand this as Google Home+ or something similar.

I am getting a very similar vibe similar to Apple iPad's where you can buy an iPad at pretty much every dimension you want. Same now with Google Home, you can get a small, medium and large Google Home... but with confusing branding.
Also easier to do with a mirror.
People don't exist in such clean categories, there is a spectrum on which everyone lies w.r.t. their abilities of self awareness and self control and their knowledge of their present and future situations, and therefore their ability to act within their own best interests. Communities which seek to maximize future outcomes for their members necessarily seek to aid them by limiting harmful actions.

Where the lines are drawn, how the limits are enacted, and whether or not something is harmful is of course a matter of opinion.
The answer to your question is “no”.

(I would normally add that this could discerned by the most minimal of web searches, but I don’t want to disturb your narrative.)
It's actually PJAX.
> I've observed similar behavior in some others.

You'll observe that in more than just porn and games, you'll observe it in life in general. In fact for a lot of people that's the definition of a mid-life crisis: Suddenly waking up, realizing that you've been wasting your life slaving at a job you don't like, to make money that pays for things you don't own which you only have to offset how shitty your job makes you feel.

If your doctor told you right now, "you have exactly two weeks to live", would your life be unchanged for the next two weeks, or would you suddenly wake up and think "Holy hell, what have I been doing for the past age(self) years?"
I think the GP was asking about letting kids watch ad-sponsored youtube channels.

Lots of parents end up having that time to use screen time as a crutch.

I just avoid the most egregious sources, like youtube.

Netflix, Amazon, HBO, and my personal collection of Disney & Pixar films, all have enough kids content that if I need that extra help, I can go towards.
more like 1981 Looker
Wow, congrats on your success. Very impressive. The Blaze site looks great BTW. Would you be willing to share some of the secret sauce of running a successful software shop for nearly 30 years?
I'm finishing up at WGU in Software Dev but sure wouldn't mind switching to CS proper - I keep hearing this and "soon," but can't pinpoint the source of the rumors whatsoever - do you know where you heard / got the impression that CS was coming to WGU?
Bumblebees solve the travelling salesman problem on the fly
Yeah I had parents that thought way. Eventually I had enough of it and gave it right back to them. Think about that before you start a family.
The notion of a "mechanical turk" however, and of operations putting a facade on humans doing the work -- to which the parent alluded to ("a big mechanical turk sort of operation") and not specifically Amazon's variety , has been known and used for centuries.
I think it's going to be up to companies who produce such devices to invest in longevity. As long as they produce software updates which require new hardware, people are going to eventually need to update the hardware.

Unfortunately, right now, it doesn't seem like it's in the best interest of companies to make a device that lasts for 10 years which they continue to support through software updates.

Sometimes I do a mental juggle: In my life, provided my phones last for ~3 years, I'll probably end up buying between 10-20 phones. Multiply that out by (in theory) the population of earth, * the exponential growth factor, and you suddenly realise how impossible that would be. So, somethings got to change - people have to optimise for what they've got, not what can be sold to them.
This could potentially be argued about Nintendo before their most recent Zelda and Mario. But Breath of the Wild and Odyssey redefine their respective genres and put just about all other third party games in those genres to shame. They took more risks with these games than pretty much all other major companies put together in the past 5-10 years.
>> If you were to ask any group of people whether toys are intended for children, the majority would say yes. Do we at least agree on that?

No. This is, in fact, the point of contention here. I've heard ads and people calling boats, cars, tools, new games, and so on toys. A few dictionaries I checked agree. Several people in this very thread have the same opinion.
Here is a good review from the NIH: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5039517/

Abstract:

Traditional factors that once explained men’s sexual difficulties appear insufficient to account for the sharp rise in erectile dysfunction, delayed ejaculation, decreased sexual satisfaction, and diminished libido during partnered sex in men under 40. This review (1) considers data from multiple domains, e.g., clinical, biological (addiction/urology), psychological (sexual conditioning), sociological; and (2) presents a series of clinical reports, all with the aim of proposing a possible direction for future research of this phenomenon. Alterations to the brain's motivational system are explored as a possible etiology underlying pornography-related sexual dysfunctions. This review also considers evidence that Internet pornography’s unique properties (limitless novelty, potential for easy escalation to more extreme material, video format, etc.) may be potent enough to condition sexual arousal to aspects of Internet pornography use that do not readily transition to real-life partners, such that sex with desired partners may not register as meeting expectations and arousal declines. Clinical reports suggest that terminating Internet pornography use is sometimes sufficient to reverse negative effects, underscoring the need for extensive investigation using methodologies that have subjects remove the variable of Internet pornography use. In the interim, a simple diagnostic protocol for assessing patients with porn-induced sexual dysfunction is put forth.

Essentially, yes, Porn on the internet seems to be a 'serious' problem in that it affects relationships and personal health in a measurably negative way.
I don’t think that works without rights scalation / admin privileges. I believed it stopped working in Windows Vista, at which time MS locked this and UAC and such things further than in Windows 7.

This answer explains and also has a link to ms with more detail on how it’s blocked:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3169675/how-to-use-setwi...

Malicious keyloggers are used all the time of course, but I believe they all require some sort of exploit or way to effectively gain admin privileges.
Ask HN: Do ISPs have a legal obligation to not sell minors' web history anymore?
I have a bad feeling about exposing a young child to internet fame.
Doing the same beginner exercises in new language environments seems excellent practice to me. Yeah, you know (say) tokenizing or regexps backwards and forwards: what better topic to tinker with, to focus on learning how new-language works?

Not to say that exercises emphasizing the intentions or strengths of a language are bad; but precisely those boring repetitive exercises will be the common.. say "conversational mastery" of the language.
Ask HN: How do you make sense of the economy
I'm often struck by the sheer number and variety of companies and jobs that exist in the economy. I can often go through the list of businesses in an office park and find something I had no idea was a business, ex., fabricator of plastic grocery store displays. Obviously someone has to make them but I would never think of that as a business. I contrast this with the seeming lack of business opportunities I come up with. I know that this lack of opportunities is just an illusion caused by my narrow experience, so how can I overcome this? I try to take advantage of interactions with random people to find out what they do but I'm wondering if there is something more systematic I could do?
If you know Go, which many don't/won't/can't.

I've never seen a language so obnoxiously namedropped as Go, it's really annoying. We have such a hard-on for our tools, and it really only results in countless, needless lines drawn in the sand.
I don't think it's a "there exists" argument, it's more that a significant fraction is now devoted to it.
Perhaps Google predicts your kids' future desires. Watching super-consumerist videos is an indication of addictive personality?

/s
> Also, it’s not obvious from looking at the equation that there should be a problem at t = 1.

I found this curious, it seemed obvious from the equation there is going to be a problem. If you think about it, u'=u^2+1 has the solution tan (up to some constants), which is singular. So a function that satisfies y'=y^2+t^2 will satisfy y'>u' for t>1, and so should also have a singularity, you just don't quite know where it's going to be.
Unless it released billions of MEMS which have started appropriating resources.

Small odds though :)
Yes, and I call my cat baby. That‘s fine but in discussions, we should stick to the words’ actual meanings. When you say, video game consoles are toys, you‘re (inadvertently) making a statement that video games are for children. That‘s what you sound like, whether you like it or not. It‘s because most people associate toys with children. So let‘s acknowledge that, and use terms that highlight that video games are for all ages, instead of the opposite.
> Millions of new businesses are started every year in the US on a shoestring and without hiring professionals.

I don't think that's meaningful. There are 320 million people in the U.S., and only a tiny proportion of people anywhere would consider opening their business in another country.

That doesn't mean there isn't a high barrier to accessing the U.S. legal system. For example, as we know, well-funded parties often defeat poorer parties by simply threatening legal action, because the poorer party cannot afford to use the legal system.
This is only semi-related, but is it possible to order a sample of Soylent?

They ship in bulk on Amazon and I just want to try it (maybe 1 bottle per flavor) before buying an entire set.
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How much ?
>Then why has the CIA fought so hard to redact these documents, including in 2017 almost telling the president he can't release these docs despite wanting to.

Because that's what those kind of agencies do.

What did you expect, to have them censor/falsify documents AND say they are OK to release because they're censored/falsified?

I don't know whether they did anything, but if they did censor those in advance, then of course they were going to pretend they didn't and fight fiercely against them being released...
In that light, his performance has been stellar. Not even personal threats to him or his family sway this guy, he'll be the perfect scapegoat when this is over.

This was all Ajit's fault, but he's been sacked from public office, rejoice!
>My guess is it's a quick way to compare while factoring differences in the cost of living

It’s a pretty bad way of doing that. Despite having a much greater GDP per capita, the US has a much lower cost of living than the major European countries.

My guess is that it’s an attempt to define inequality as poverty, which smells suspiciously like a predetermined conclusion against the United States.
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The Case for Letting Fevers Run Their Course
Nintendo is also a 128 year old entertainment company.

These are some of its recent toys, and to their credit it seems to me they deeply understand (like Disney) how to serve as a home for beloved characters and re-release new twists on their adventures across decades.

Other characters, now homeless with their platforms and companies shut down, now make appearances in the Nintendo-world.
Like what? What viewer distinction is there?
I've posted this on HN before, but in the world of optimization, I really like the book Convex Functional Analysis by Kurdilla and Zabarankin. It's the only book that I know of that gives a comprehensive treatment of when a solution to an optimization problem exists and can be attained. Essentially, the entire book builds up to what they call the Generalized Weierstrass Theorem, which gives the appropriate conditions in a few different ways.

Anyway, I work on optimization solvers and this is a big deal since there's always a question in whether or not the problem we pose can really be solved. Numerically, the solver can churn forever and maybe it's just hard, or maybe there's no solution. Outside of LPs, it's really hard to tell. Even convexity isn't enough for a solution. For example, min exp(-x) doesn't exist even though exp(-x) is strictly convex. There's an infimum, however.

Mostly, this is a way to say that I agree that the theory matters. I like the book above for establishing these conditions in optimization.

Edit 1: Does anyone know a good, nonnonsense book for establishing similar conditions for either ODEs or PDEs? In case it matters, I prefer looking at things from a general functional analysis/operator point for a view.
Well it's been going strong for 10 years, so I don't think the general trend is going away. Same for thumbnails.
> IMHO, better alternatives are having the FTC require 100% transparency on all information disclosures (how they use your traffic data), 100% transparency on network management practices, and 100% disclosure of agreements with content producers.

What does that solve? An ISP that is forthright about how it screws over its customers is still screwing over its customers.

(And please, no vapid "but other ISPs can offer better service and win" arguments. No, they can't. There is no healthy market competition in ISP-land, and there isn't going to be.)
Email them and hope they build it. Solves your problem and saves you the effort.
Do you restrict usage per time? Like, no more than 1 hour a day?

Do you find that she wants to use the phone ALL the time? Does she take it to school? (one more question: are you the guy who sends his kiddo to montessori school?)
I knew it had to be Ryan. We live in China and I put youtube kids along with a vpn on my ipad. I don't feel so bad letting my kids watch it more than I would if we were living in USA, due to the English exposure. Anyhow, within a few weeks and my five-year old hit on his channel. Now she asks to watch him by name and pretty much want's to start out there every time.
Lots and lots of computing power. It's the basis of Bitcoin.

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Proof_of_work

I'm not well-versed on any of this, so I might be wrong.
And don't forget volume, a Google home mini is going be to quite underwhelming in anything but the smallest room.
Perhaps someone deliberately messing with their version string, e.g. testing the software to make sure it handles "unknown" or "future" release cases properly?
Zephyr Project defends use of vendor HALs in open source projects
A lot of the good stuff is off the shelf. L-Theanine for focus. Creatine monohydrate for more RAM (thinking faster, less brain fog).
>The firm operates a website that enables members who live in close proximity to communicate with each other, offer goods for sale and organize virtual neighborhood watches.

Hmmm I wonder if forcing people to be social is a good thing.

Why can't Facebook coordinate something like this?

Theoretically, couldn't they look at each person's ip address and determine that they are in the same neighborhood and force those people to interact?
She was just too tired to be logical.
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And InstaEdu, within the education section, was that site where students would pay people to do their homework. It was just a place where students could cheat.
They make a variety pack, but it's only available with the caffeinated flavors.