skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can't we do smarter than revenue?

Like tax world wide profit at a rate proportional to revenue in each country?

ie. if 10% of your revenue happens in country A, then 10% of your world-wide profit must be taxed in country A at whatever corporate tax rate country A offers.

This could also be structure as: If 10% of your revenue happens in country A, then 10% of your wold-wide profit must be taken out in country A.

Or something similar... perhaps just make it easier to prosecute profit exports for tax evasion purposes.

IMO, I would rather see resource based taxing, as companies will find a to optimize taxes no matter what.
I don't use FB for a long time, and personally, think that it is a bad choice for your kind of product. I think Telegram would be a better fit. But this is my opinion only.

Yeah, I saw the newsletter after. Maybe separating the box of donating would be better to skim.
Yeah, but we're part of a very small subset of places that genuinely need this level of security. I used to do counter-threat infosec here before I moved to data science, so I know how much work goes into our security.

Regular Github is free and clear, so we're good there.
If you learn accounting in Germany, there's external accounting and internal accounting.

External accounting is what you show your investors and tax authorities. It has to conform to all relevant laws, and you play your usual tax avoidance games. Both of those make it fairly unusable for decision making.

Internal accounting is what you base your decisions on, and you can do whatever you like (since you aren't showing it around). It just has to provide insight. For example you can have departments do virtual payments to each other for production steps and services to help you quantify how well departments are doing.

In English/US accounting traditionally you would only do fiscal accounting, but doing internal accounting as well is getting popular.
Except that agencies do not pass those "much better terms" to the clients.
The playing field is not equal, therefore you cannot speak of outcomes as being a function of choices. If people start a foot race, some 10m from the finish, some on the other end of the stadium, first you have to make everyone start with the same opportunities, then you can talk about merit.
Of course they are, neither party is left of center on the political spectrum.

This is a prime example of the re-labeling of everything to the right of Bernie Sanders.
The disturbing trend is people thinking objective criticism is possible, let alone desirable. Objective measurements of art literally do not exist.
I live and breathe this stuff. Started working with Elixir more recently but have worked with Akka for years. IMO BEAMVM is a great piece of technology and is worth looking at.
It's even better than that: "At this point Anne got tired of the whole game. Speaking firmly so that I would know who was boss, she said, "I have been studying the various menus the computer has been generating. There are some good ideas there that I can use. I'll put you on MY diet." She did and I lost 22 pounds."
If the content is decentralized, then so can the problem be.

Sure, but the content is not the problem, and eliminating the content does not eliminate the problem. The content is merely evidence of a problem. It may even help you locate the actual parties responsible. Dealing with the root cause would be harder if the content were more difficult to find.

You wouldn't say smallpox shouldn't be completely eradicated because "it never hurt me, so it's none of my concern."

What I said was that "it's none of your concern" unless "someone was harmed in the making of the content". Smallpox actually hurts people. Protecting people from smallpox is a worthwhile concern. We do that mainly by making people resistant to smallpox so that it doesn't get a chance to infect people and spread. Censorship is not like vaccination, much less eradicating the smallpox virus; it's more like eliminating all knowledge of how smallpox works. It doesn't address the problem, makes actual solutions harder, and has far-ranging side effects.

Your solution is reactive.

Taking down content you've identified subjectively as "undesirable" is a reactive response. Worse, it's reacting to and addressing only the surface symptoms, which means it isn't a solution to the real problem, that someone was harmed to create the content. You aren't going to stop people from being harmed in the real world by redacting the evidence.

On the other hand, designing a system to be resistant to censorship from the outset is a proactive approach to dealing with the threat of censorship.

what is everybody so concerned about having censored? It's not exactly a problem [in North America or online].

You have cause and effect reversed. It is (mostly) not a problem in North America or online because everybody is so concerned about it. It is a problem in places where censorship is treated as a normal and routine practice—for example, China.
When was objective quality ever the most relevant metric in art? Why do you believe this is a trend?
We'll have IBM use Watson to provide the solutions -- call it "Big Iron Chef".
Same reason we don't extrapolate 2D->3D based on circumference. You need all the information of the (n)D thing, plus a new length, to get to the (n+1)D thing.
I prefer this solution as well, as I think it biases towards action, but I think it also creates a little bit of burden around communicating subtasking about projects back out at the medium level.
> a 154-pound male

That's so XX century it hurts.
Did most people live and work in castles in the medieval era?
The cabbage is subpar.
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I see your argument and it's a strong one, I merely haven't considered the issue deeply enough to have much confidence that there aren't other strong arguments the other way. I don't object to your making the claim, I merely wouldn't make it myself :)

That said, I think the fact that there's a hard question here stems from SQL's conflation of "I don't know this" with "this is known to be absent". If NULL always represented the latter, implicitly omitting them from aggregates would be clearly correct.
Thermo: Thermodynamics, phase equilibria, transport properties, etc. in python
I didn't realize that clang is mostly a drop in replacement for cl, and matches the C++ abi. That in of itself is awesome.
Considering that single-payer health care is among the most well-known proposals, and banning employer-sponsored health insurance isn't really even part of debate: perhaps "Tall poppy syndrome" is just a made-up smear to tar anyone who thinks it's blasphemous that the world's second-richest country has 20% of children living in poverty?
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All of the strongest proponents of "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" start hemming and hawing when you talk about eliminating inheritances and truly creating a level playing field. Bootstraps for you, inheritance for me.
> Infowars has more often than not been right on important matters

I agree with the spirit of your comment, except this bit steps over the line and ruins the whole thing.

The thing about Infowars is they are close a random noise generator. They can't help but be right on some things, as anything random is bound to do.

By contrast, the MSM is a structured but biased source. Their narratives will tend to align with reality quite well, only getting a few facts wrong here and there, due to internal processes that filter out the inconvenient facts.

So, it's true that already having to apply critical thinking, it's actually easier to sift through Infowars's crap, as most of it is blatant garbage that can be easily discarded - whereas the MSM you'll hear the same exact message from multiple sources, and have a much harder time picking out the little bit of actively harmful garbage. But this doesn't mean that you can point to randomness and say it has any sort of predictive power.

(Of course, my comment here is certainly not condoning the growing centralized censorship touched on in the original article. We've been destined for this slow motion trainwreck ever since the term AJAX was coined, and it's looking like we need to abandon centralized communication platforms ASAFP!)
It doesn't matter where the money is sent if the EU starts getting court orders to block your services in the EU if you don't pay taxes for targeting EU consumers.
They already do that. The EU has a decently sized budget for developing underdeveloped regions and infrastructure in general.
WPP != agencies

plenty of model innovations are out there, but P&G ain't that kind of brand.
That a manufacturing job used to provide a middle class lifestyle was an anomaly based on the US being in an extraordinary position post two World Wars that devastated the rest of the globe and enriched this country. Globalization has normalized labor rates to what they’re really worth. The twentieth century consumerist lifestyle is definitely not sustainable when given to every living human on earth.
> I don't think that's a fair way to measure "worst year yet".

Then what is? What were you referring to when you wrote "worst year yet"?

> If your agency's sales drop by 20%, it doesn't console you to know that the industry overall is much bigger than it was in 2000.

You didn't mention a particular agency. You mentioned digital ads in 2018. So that's what I responded to. Of course there are going to be winners and losers within any industry.
I wonder what movies of this last year would have won under the old voting regime? Personally, the Oscars agree with my taste more than ever.
Great point that these narratives are usually self-mythologizing and mostly untrue. Success is more than just a “eureka” moment where it all comes together. It is also more than the alternative that you present here, wherein the person succeeds purely by outworking the competition. A much more complete — and frankly, more interesting — picture of success would include the ideas, the hard work, and also explain how Walton’s early stores were financed by his father in law Leland Stanford Robson (who often paid his son-in-law’s bills, sometimes even without Walton’s knowledge), that he was active in Missouri’s fraternity communities, was a member of QEBH, the UoM secret society that also includes several past and current state governors as well as one of the founders of Kinder Morgan. If your aim is to demythologize success and present a more accurate view of the the path one must walk to become massively successful, isn’t it kind of misleading to omit Walton’s network of powerful family, friends, and benefactors?
I run a site about Health Savings Accounts[0]. Each year that you have contributions or distributions in your HSA, you have to file tax form 8889 to report these to the IRS. The form is overly complicated with pages of instructions so I wrote a blog post on how to complete it. A reader wrote me requesting help and, importantly, offered to pay me to fill it out for her. I thought it over and considered opening a tax service to fill these out for people. I didn't want to spend my days filing people's taxes one by one so declined, and instead programmed it and launched EasyForm8889[1]. It is an online service that asks simple questions and completes the tax form for you.

[0] http://www.hsaedge.com
[1] https://www.easyform8889.com
Find an old growth forest and dig a little.

Or the side of a mountain/valley where it's hard to farm, but plants grow just fine.
Yes, ninja is still used.
I am addressing the income inequality issue. It doesn't need to apply to 100% of the population to be effective.
Few things hurt the poor, in particular unskilled minorities, like minimum wage. Those people are effectively outlawed from the labor market because their marginal productivity doesn't make the cut. This is why there is often exceptions in minimum wage laws when it comes to hiring youth and the disabled. This is also why you've seen labor unions lobbying for a $15/hr minimum wage, with exemptions for those in the union.
Caffeine is the number one cause of headaches. It causes the arteries to constrict, lowering blood flow to the brain.

Other than that, there's lots of things that can be measured.

1. Sleep.

Fit bit will work, but more importantly is a pulse oximiter that measures oxygen intake through the night. If you're not sleeping well, apnea may be causing your headaches. You would see this by an oxygen drop below 88. This will cause your heart to race as well throughout the night as it has to work harder to push oxygen through your body.

Also, it's worth noting that it's not heavyweight people that experience apnea. It can happen with anyone and with any weight.

Some watches have oximeters built in I believe. This really needs to be done for one night, and if something is wrong, you should go see a sleep doctor anyway.

2. Caffiene / Sugar intake

This can be simple script that when you drink caffiene/sugar you just run a script that logs the time/date and amount to a google doc. Also you can use this to track your headaches. If you get headaches during a particular time of day, then it could be intake related.

3. Exercise

Your cellphone/smart watch can measure steps, as can a fit/bit, etc. 10,000 steps a day is the recommended amount of exercise for people that don't get a lot of exercise in.

4. Feelings / Stress

So seratonin regulates your feelings. Ideally, if you're feeling sad, angry, or stressed, or down, you should feel those for a while and then your feelings should return to normal over time. If you're feeling emotionally bad all the time, you can get your seratonin level checked through a blood test.

5. Eye strain

60 hertz flickering lights, bad eyesight, are all causes of eye strain.

Here's an article which talks about detecting flicker.

https://www.graybar.com/applications/lighting/blog/the-flick...

If you have a friend with a D850 camera, that camera can detect flicker and report it through the viewfinder.

6. Blood pressure.

A blood pressure cuff is a good thing here. $30 or so. Take your blood pressure once a day and record the readings. And take your blood pressure when the headaches arrive.

7. Salt intake.

So salt increases blood pressure, so one option is to watch how much salt you eat in your diet, and if you're salting food constantly, cut back. Or drink more water to help flush the salt out of your system.

There's a sodium tracker here in a pdf, but you could just as well make a google doc out of it:

http://www.heart.org/idc/groups/heart-public/@wcm/@fc/docume...

8. Energy Drinks.

These should probably be avoided at all costs. But if you're hooked and feel like you need them, just record when you drink one. The key is not to make you feel bad about drinking them if your hooked, but making you aware that when you're drinking them.
i personally use inodenotify (linux) and fswatch (osx)

works well while running on battery :)
The Next Generation of Distributed and Autonomous Files
I read the whole article, and don't use an ad blocker. I don't recall seeing any ads on that page. I find that pretty humorous.
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Collaborate with support and field resources to make sure that customers are successful with Dremio
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This is exactly what it is. This will allow EU to tax virtual goods.
That sucks - I was on a team that released a fully legal (in the USA) gambling app a few years back and while we had to have a few back and forths, it definitely didn't take a month to get approved.

At least you finally got it out!
Trying out GHC compact regions for improved latency
Savedroid – AI-Fueled Ecosystem of Crypto Saving and Investing
If it's just an experimental branch, what is the reason not to commit?
> Be Marcus Aurelius. Become a stoic.

Great advice. I was naturally stoic, but the daily rigors were chipping away my stoicness. A book I'd recommend reading "A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy" to reset your thinking and paying attention to what is really important in life.
> a levy on revenue isn't an awful idea if it's correctly applied, but there might be better solutions.

It is a terrible idea, because it tends to favor companies that have their cost base in the country. In other words, local companies.

This is a trade war move.
I created a diet optimized for maximum dietary fiber and protein with minimum calories (optimized separately). Highest fiber/calorie ratio is generally cruciferous vegetables; highest protein/calorie is fish and chicken (skinless boneless breast meat). Using these two food groups I can satisfy my macronutritional requirements on 600 calories/day. I add a multivitamin in case I missed anything.

Based on these parameters I can judge any food based on whether its fiber and protein can match (or beat) a linear combination of chicken and broccoli. Basically if (2F + P) * 20/3 <= C then it's on the diet. This includes non-fat yogurt, wheat bran, eggplant, and some types of beans.
GMO is basically equivalent with spraying of glyphosate. The whole point of most GMO is to make the plants resistant to glyphosate. If you don't want to eat glyphosate you avoid GMO foods.
This is how everything is. It takes years to build up enough experience with something new to learn what it's capable of, it takes more years to learn how to build interesting stuff with it, more years to learn how to adapt manufacturing processes at industrial scales, more years for real products to hit the market, and more years for those product designs to mature and actually reach enough of their potential to be a worthwhile upgrade to "the old way of doing things".

It took almost a century for electric cars to get good, it took almost half a century for reusable rockets to become practical and cost effective, it took decades for lasers to become ubiquitous, it took decades for the internet to mature into a part of daily life, etc, etc, etc.
John D. Cook has a couple of blog posts about non-intuitiveness of high-dimension geometry [1][2] and this article [3] expands on the very observation that you described.

Quote:
"In his article “An Adventure in the Nth Dimension,” Brian Hayes explores how in high dimensions, balls have surprisingly little volume. As the dimension n increases, the volume of a ball of radius 1 increases until n = 5. Then for larger n the volume steadily decreases."

[1] https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2017/07/13/concentration_of_m...

[2] https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2017/07/19/corners-stick-out-...

[3] https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2012/10/23/dimension-5-isnt-s...
> this of course somewhat defies the point of it being p2p

Beaker/Hashbase dev here. Not quite, imo. The key difference is that a service like Hashbase has no special authorship priveleges (unlike Google Docs or Dropbox), and is instead an agnostic peer. We think that's an important distinction.
But you are attracting foreign investment at the expense of everybody else.

This is like peeing your pants when it's cold outside, it's nice an warm at first :)

If you look at America you'll see what this race to the bottom does. Amazons new headquarter selection process is entirely about luring tax incentives out of various states.

These schemes are largely outlawed in the EU, for good reason. The play Ireland makes only works because most of the European governments have too much integrity to play this game, and refuse to be beholden by corporate interest.
I'm wasn't trying to make an allegation. I was curious to see if this graphic was accurate:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/67/Azov_Bat...

My English is not good, so I don't understand some of the sarcasm you are using. I was asking out of curiosity and to get another opinion. I meant no offense.
Weather creates a whole mess with tons of missed connections and cancelled flights that can take up a a couple days to sort out. This means that air travel in entire states grinds to a halt a couple of times each year.
Didn't graduate, make 250k a year at 26.
I'm going to disagree with the second part of your comment, because it implies that the employee being hired wouldn't be willing to do it for less themselves.

In any case, without a minimum wage, low-skill wages become a race to the bottom as people become more and more desperate for work. Someone might be willing to work for $1/hour because they're fine living in a cardboard box behind their workplace and eating scraps from the garbage.

But that only allows income inequality to worsen. The rich get even richer as they sit back and laugh as the employees essentially auction themselves to lower and lower wages. Upward mobility dies as the ability to seek extra education and training disappears because you gotta work 100 hours/week just to survive.

So yeah, I suppose minimum wage breaks supply and demand for wages, but I'd argue that's a damn good thing.
I read the article; it says nothing about income tax. It talks about corporate tax, which gets into the reasonably debatable issue of "if you serve from country X and users are in country Y..." If you have no legal nexus in a country, it's a lot more reasonable to pay no tax in that country.

If you have employees in a country, then you necessarily will pay income tax in that country.

(Also, https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html .)
Rendering in camera space(ish), to avoid floating point precision problems
Comrade Zhdanov would not put it better.
> Plus, he basically said "the butcher did it" and the guy immediately confessed, its not like it help up in court.

Because it's not like we have a problem in the US with people pleading guilty to crimes they didn't commit when faced against bullish prosecutors with specious forensic 'science' backing them up, and overworked public defenders who have to much of a workload to prove to every jury that CSI is fiction.