skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, what I was getting at is that Google did seem to have a tangible effect. Either they did or some other parties in the area, I'm not sure. But based on the jump in available speeds and prices remaining roughly the same, someone at the big incumbents was worried about disruption.
Ron is an old friend. He's a very sharp and funny guy too. Ron was on the David Letterman show and Dave was cracking up while interviewing Ron right before he ran his bug down the track at the old Altamont Dragstip https://youtu.be/XTzxptdvt3c

I always enjoyed visiting Ron's lab at Stanford and chatting him up. Between talking with him and Fritz Rinehart at the other engine lab down the hall in bldg 500 I always felt I learned something new about combustion.

Personally, I preferred his 572 hemi mid sixties Chrysler. Now that was a scary car!

edit: spelling.
I am European and I don’t understand it either, so no worries. It is a big mess with tons of rules and exceptions and don’t let me started on reverse charges and various kinds of reporting.
I met Ron at a track day once! Very cool guy.
Apple pays taxes in Luxembourg. It doesn't matter where the app developers live or where the people buying the apps live. The money goes to Luxembourg. Is that where the value is created?
In white collar work, sure.

But the low-skill, minimum wage jobs? No. Those wages are effectively set by the government. Every time an employer hires someone at minimum wage, they're really saying "I would pay you less if I legally could." And that's where the rich are making sure minimum wage stays low.
I agree. However, in spite of my collectivist tendencies, I have to admit myself that it is too easy to romanticise communities from the past. They could be vicious holes with no room for scape, as the rural book trilogy from García Lorca or movies like the White Ribbon illustrate...
Logan Bread https://sectionhiker.com/logan-bread-recipe/ (various recipes out there, but I've tried this one)

or Mealsquares: https://www.mealsquares.com/

The Logan bread was tastier, though the Mealsquares are really pretty good just a bit dry.
You have Baidu in China and Yandex in Russia. If google left EU, there will be another player to fill its needs.

Perhaps not as good, but good enough.
Most businesses prefer not to hire, even when employees would be cheaper than contractors/vendors.
Because Bill Gates or Jeff Bezos don't buy a jet per $1B in wealth accumulated. They buy one each and don't buy another until the first one fails.

Just because you have more money, that doesn't mean you consume more stuff.

For an economy based on money changing hands, what you propose would be devastating. We need to encourage spending.
There is a very specific claim here that doesn't really need to be shown with quantitative analysis if he's truly a knot expert.

In the Michigan example, he noted that the knot used was one that only a butcher would use and that the other guy was a mechanic. Presumably he knows a lot about knots, and he would know what kinds of knots were common across different occupations because knots have specific uses, and he probably knows the few knots that a mechanic uses and a few that a butcher uses and pointed it out.

There's no need to conclusively prove that a certain person can be shown to have tied a knot to buy his claims. Only that in cases where one accused is in an occupation that has a distinguishably common/uncommon knot ratio compared to another occupation with a different distinguishably common/uncommon knot ratio, that the information about which knot was used used can, well, distinguish between the occupations.

Plus, he basically said "the butcher did it" and the guy immediately confessed, its not like it help up in court.
Because VAT is regressive. Also, if it were set high enough to collect an entire state's revenue then it would be evaded on a spectacular scale: it's a tax on movable goods, many of which can be bought elsewhere in the EU and imported, let alone the possibilities of simply cheating on your return.

The rates of excise taxes on cigarettes and alcohol in the UK are essentially maximised due to evasion already, for example.

If you do want One Tax To Rule Them All, the most likely options are either some kind of land tax (because land doesn't move and can be confiscated in lieu of payment) or various kinds of Pigouvian taxes on fixed industrial polluters.
Depending on your implementation a VAT may not be progressive and may just be proportional, which is usually what you don't want in a tax system (because while its not nearly as bad as regressive taxation like the US corporate tax rates now, a neutral tax rate doesn't do anything to curtail the natural accumulation of wealth among the top echelon of earners). I've not looked into the individual EU VATs but my understanding is that most are just flat fractional taxes on profits paid by the consumer.

Such a system is rife for the same complexities as current tax codes as you start adding exceptions and refunds to try to offset the fact that the VAT on a commodity car would be the same percentage wise as on a Ferrari despite the later obviously being capable of paying more in tax if making such a lavish purchase. So you start adding tax credits to cheap car purchases or make a deductible and start adding and tweaking those across the board until you are right back where you started with an overtly complicated tax policy that has just shifted the complexity from tax collection to tax refunds.
Artificial Common Sense Reasoning
> Objective quality is not the most relevant metric in art.

And this is a disturbing trend.
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Virtue signalling seems to a popular term among the alt-right. I would assume that this is a thinly-veiled reference to Black Panther.
>Certain industries have a much slimmer margin than others.

I don't see how this has any impact. Either the companies that exist will find a way to make the market work, or they will leave and a new company will.
Perhaps if it's a project that only you and maybe a few other people will work on. But I think there's value in using tooling that other contributors from that ecosystem will be comfortable using.

I say this as someone who doesn't really like the JS ecosystem and its churn. I suppose you could argue the JS community itself has valued novelty over using tooling others will be familiar with. But if you have two tools that do roughly the same thing, one known to a majority of contributors and one known to a minority, I would go with the more popular.
Congrats on the launch. It seems you put a lot of work on this and it is refreshing how much of impact it could have. Except for Facebook Messenger, I would love to try. I am sure you are thinking about other messengers. I suggest putting some kind of newsletter on your website.

Edit: ops, now I saw the newsletter box at the end of the website.
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in some cases agencies really add value and have competencies which are not that easy to insource back.

some examples:

for smallish advertisers (this is not P&G, I understand) agencies can negotiate much better terms, because agencies are buying in bulk.

and if you are interested in performance marketing with clearly measurable results, building a good internal team could be a challenge as well.

so, it's not a slam dunk.
That will never fly though. The citizens have massive mistrust of ending up paying for the spending of other countries.
Scores on Rotten Tomatoes are almost always referring to the "Top Critics" score, which aggregates reviews of actual film critics. It's not just Yelp for movies.
> One is that those extra zeroes may have come from exploiting you, and reducing your potential wealth. This is way too common, so that many people assume it by default. It is getting less common, in a slow process lasting for centuries, but is still way too common to ignore. Those extra zeroes also lead to more opportunities to exploit you, in a vicious cycle.

I understand this, but high level claims like this are unfalsifiable. They can be made at any level of income inequality, and cannot be disproven.

That's not to say it's wrong, but readers should be wary when reading something like this. It's possible it's correct at face value. It's also possible it's wildly overstated. And it's also possible that trying to fix it through government policy will be worse than dealing with it as is.

> The other one is that some goods are limited, and you will be in direct competition with those people on many markets.

So will everyone else, though. That's the nature of markets. Yes, wealthy people will have easier access to limited resources, but that is always the case even at lower levels of inequality, and (in this case) does not necessarily result in overall worse societal outcomes (particularly relative to alternatives).

That's not to say your claims aren't valid--they absolutely are. I just urge caution to readers to acknowledge that these were true back in 1860, 1920, 1980, and today. I see these more as reasons why capitalism is less than ideal, but in no way indicative that it is not good.
Here's Ron's company: http://ecm-co.com/ He makes state of the art ECM systems used primarily by the big auto makers.
> Manufacturing jobs are non-skilled and don't deserve anything over minimum wage!

Why is that a lie? If literally anyone can do the job and the potential supply for that job includes nearly everyone in the labor market, why would we expect that role to pay more than the bare minimum? At the end of the day people get paid as much as it would cost to replace them.
True, if you're writing a typical app, it will probably be easiest for you if you write it in the same manner as most other people.

But if you are doing something very new or unusual, a sample project like this can be invaluable, since it shows the exact set of system calls needed for an app and roughly the minimal code. This is useful if, for example, you're trying to make a new language framework run on iOS (like Swift, Kotlin, or Rust), or if you're trying to answer questions like, "How much of an app's size is unavoidable?"
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Art, by definition should not be objectively evaluated. Art is inherently subjective - objectively great art would not be art, as it loses personal meaning.
Is it even legal?

It's surely also most impossible prosecute, but speculation wrt. taxes is generally not legal.
Well it's not like we have universal income, but increasing taxes on Fortune 500 companies always makes me happy.

I really hope the taxes won't go into another corrupted Berlin airport scheme.
If the only way we can succeed is at the expense of others, maybe you should consider failure.
Did you read the article? The whole point is that the companies do not pay the income tax by routing revenue through other countries offering tax cuts
Vert.x is still going? Nice!

Used it back in the days for a game backend, because of the promised better-than-nodejs-performance and multithreading.
And something I recently learned is that a slow cooker should never go on the stove...it melts
It's basically a sales tax, but with a reclaim of the sales taxes paid on 'input' goods. So If you make cars you charge a VAT of, say, 20% on the sales price, but get back the 20% tax you paid on the steel, and the tyres, and everything else. The net effect is that it's a sales tax on the value that each business adds to the product, rather than being compounded as goods are resold.

It's still regressive, though.
Writing tax laws effectively is hard, just like writing effective and secure code that will be publicly accessible is.

You have to think about edge cases, not introduce race conditions, handle buffer overflows. And the people trying to find bugs are extremely motivated!

An EU commissioner or some junior bureaucrat in Brussels has no incentives for quality drafting. They won't get a bonus if tax revenues go up by 10%, and they don't get much help to review drafts. They want to do a good job, sure, but they also want to go skiing, or have a cold, or want to catch up on Black Mirror.

Apple, Google, and Facebook each have very strong incentives to examine the law and identify ways to optimize their position. They can and do pay their employees, law firms, accounting firms, and other consultancies VERY large fees. Tax work to identify overspend (a shipment had the wrong tax category applied and was charged a higher rate, for example) typically earns 33% commission, as just one example.

You can just rule by decree, but then you drop all pretence of being a government of laws. You have to explain, in detail, what an internet company is, how you will categorize revenue, how you will attribute it to a certain country, etc etc.

For the EU, sure they don't have many big Internet firms. But they sell lots of cars, shoes, clothes, wine, robots, trains, etc to the US. They are putting all of that at risk to satisfy the pique of Bertelsmann and Holtzbrinck.

Trump's off the cuff tariffs are stupid and counter productive. So are the EU's attempts to hobble Google and Ireland.
Could you please not use uppercase for emphasis in HN comments? It's basically yelling, and the site guidelines ask you not to: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
Yes, this is called “managerial accounting” in business school.
Then we are running into this taxation without central government problem. Not all countries in EU are for further integration, this might a lot of eyebrows.
Okay, that is good to hear – Excited to see where this will end up going! Do you have a newsletter I can subscribe to?
Here's a story of a guy who used the same method to come up with the optimal diet for himself: https://www.gwern.net/docs/statistics/decision/1990-dantzig....

The first try he ended up with a diet that required 500 gallons of vinegar a day. There was a mistake in the data that give vinegar 0 weight.

The second try ended up with 200 bouillon cubes per day. He didn't put a limit on salt content.

Then it gave him 2 pounds of bran per day. And when he put a limit on that, it changed to two pounds of black molasses. His wife put a stop to it after that.

Optimization is very dangerous when applied in large quantities. The vast majority of good solutions of any high dimensional problem will end up in weird edge cases.
Not all metrics are equivalent though. When art is judged more for some political statement it is trying to make than its intrinsic beauty or quality we can disregard that metric as illegitimate if our goal is to appraise the value of art in itself.
The market has gone up 30% in just the last year, and that has nothing to do with high-growth startups.

Amazon has doubled in just the last two years. So did Netflix, Apple, etc., all long past their IPOs.

This was all available to John Q Public. Yet all I hear are complaints.
There is a distinction to be made between VAT and sales tax, though. Not necessarily in the regressive nature, but its still important to make because the US really should adopt VAT taxes.

It is perfectly feasible to impose VATs on the sales of stocks, bonds, or the accumulation of dividends, etc. Those are still goods, they are just treated differently and artificially to give tax breaks to investors. There is no real reason why you cannot VAT a corporate share as much as you VAT a car, just most countries do not do so because TPTB want to maximize their profits off traditional investments.
> Why would you serialize a pending network request?

I wouldn't. That's why I wouldn't put anything related to it in my Redux state!

But, like, I'm willing to be convinced. This is just where I'm at right now. Maybe your method would make more sense than redux-thunk does to me; have you written anything in more detail about this? (I'm not scared of middlewares, I've used Redux and middlewares even in non-web contexts, so intuitively this at least sounds more promising.)
He basically said "the butcher did it" and the guy immediately confessed. Certainly it didn't have to hold up in court in this case. :-)
Payroll taxes, income taxes on the employees, property taxes, and VAT on the employee's spending. Just saying generally that it's fine to have a business with employees in a jurisdiction even if the company is doing business elsewhere. Outside of this context, it's also a net win for the state if the business operates, employs people, and pays above said taxes, but doesn't manage to turn a profit provided it is a continuing operation.

Now, all that said, I don't think subsidiaries should be able to use licensing agreements and other loopholes to move revenue to eliminate profit and reduce corporate tax. To me the solution is just to disallow any movement money related to intangibles (payments or license fees) unless the exchange is a bona fide transaction between unrelated parties. These subsidiaries in different jurisdictions are all entities owned by the same holding co's. It's like selling your brother a house for $1 (or more like the use of your last name for $1 Billion).
Thanks! Curious, what's the specific concern with Facebook Messenger? The two I've gotten most is either "I'm not on FB" or "I don't trust FB".

Definitely looking into WhatsApp, Telegram, and especially our own mobile app where we can do a lot more.

We have an email signup at the bottom of the site, where you can signup for our newsletter - perhaps I should make that more visible.
This is likely to become a more heavily debated subject as AI starts to strip-out professions that need people today (truck drivers).

Small inefficient local businesses that provide some local families an income and pay a bit of corp tax - start to become more important to a country than global megacorps providing a few government subsidised minimum wage jobs whilst offshoring all the gains from capturing massive market share.
> While they’ve all claimed that everything is legal

It very well may be, but here's the thing: the law can be changed. Not retroactively of course, but we can decide about the future.
Tall poppy syndrome may well be a real and common element of human psychology; that doesn’t mean we should design policy around it. Preventing others from having things because you can’t have them is (outside a political context) rightfully considered petty and childish.

Single payer health insurance would be based on a philosophy of lifting up the deprived. The tally poppy syndrome approach is to ban employer-sponsored health insurance with no replacement.
It’s not at all like Saudi Arabia. Having those technical and finance jobs in Ireland builds up a reservoirs of skilled labour in those areas that attracts companies. I saw this first hand at at a previous employer. We would preferentially move technology roles to Ireland - speak excellent English, in the EU, cheap office space and plenty of technically capable workers. Without the latter, nurtured by businesses chasing tax advantages, it would have been significantly less attractive. To be honest I think that would be happening to an extent anyway, but certainly many of the tax break business is contributing to establishing economic depth in Ireland in a way extractive industries don’t.
Is this still active?

I also did not know about the autonomous competition, but the last blog post is three years old, and the 'register today' button takes you to a form for 2015.

I only see 'autonomous' once and no further details.

If anybody has additional info, I would greatly appreciate it.
You’re correct that minimum wage breaks supply and demand but not in the way you think. When an employer pays someone minimum wage what is being said is “someone would do this job for less but the government won’t let me hire them”.
Thank you for sharing your thoughts, although I didn't intend, specifically, for them to seem political. I think your statements lie at the core of American society. My asking was more a sociological inquiry than a political one, largely because I agree with you, the problem is one that stems from all U.S. institutions with any large amount of power. Unfortunately I think inciting any large scale change is impossible.

So that brings me to my next inquiry, aside from possibly planting seeds in the minds of others to think about the world from a vastly different perspective, what is there left? Many live comfortably never paying any attention to the spectacle that is our life, our society, our value - unfortunately, as you pointed out, many people will not look for more substance unless their life derails from 'how it is supposed to go' (the very norm of which is pitched from said institutions with influencing power). What is it that brings you happiness or awe? Satisfying your curiosity for knowledge? Writing out your thoughts on the world? I am of the increasing position that happiness can only be rooted in things of great depth, substance, and near-cosmic importance. I'm just curious to your thoughts.
Anyone interested in practical consequences of these counterintuitive properties should look up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curse_of_dimensionality for how it impacts things like machine learning where we naturally are working with many dimensions.
>>If you tax revenue instead of profit, you push low-margin industries (the ones that are operating the most efficiently/ competitively) out of your country. It is a very silly thing to do.

They will raise prices, what's the problem? Importer will still pay the tax on revenue so there won't be at any advantage for being located elsewhere.
Taxing on profit on the other hand... licensing fees, expensive company cars, "consulting" fees. There is now way to police what is and what isn't a justified expense. We need a way to tax in more fair way to encourage efficiency. Taxing on revenue is one such idea.
> Sure. Let's make a change to normalize wealth and measure the outcome. We'll tweak as necessary.

Historical attempts at this have not worked well.

> There's plenty in the political arena that can be bought, such as votes, minds, and territory. That's the entire point of political advertising.

There is plenty that cannot be bought regardless of money. That's why political advertising isn't all it takes to win elections.

> Those 1000x assets can be used for loan collateral. Assets aren't really assets if they don't do anything. You are relatively impoverished.

I'll take being "relatively impoverished" (according to you) in the US than a top earner in Venezuela any day.
It's a matter of one's individual intuition, but said ratio is a non-linear function, and non-linear functions most often are non-monotonous.
> Juggling which banks are open and closed has been traditionally a CPU's memory controller job. But communicating this information over a many-cm long PCB trace incurs latency. So it makes more sense to put this logic as close to the RAM as possible (speed of light, capacitance, inductance, etc. etc. slow down the signal).

The problem with this is that putting 'complex control logic' on the DIMM inevitably brings up the cost of a component which has a shorter lifespan than the CPU. In many applications, the RAM DIMMs are almost a 'consumable resource', in the sense that they are expected to be regularly replaced as heavy read/write cycles lead to their deterioration and eventual demise.
I'm not convinced that memes are the primary force driving the inverse relationship between wealth/income and birthrate.
Since you brought it up, you may find it easier to take the author seriously if you look up who he is.
Of course they are, neither party is left of center on the political spectrum.
Right, but you don't think this will just lead to new methods for hiding revenue instead of hiding profit?
Note that that's $1000/person-year for 1300 calories per day, vs. 3000 calories on the Stigler Diet!
> a moderately active man weighing 154 pounds

> 3,000 Calories

It's really striking how much heavier and how much less active Americans have become.