skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Revenue taxes on businesses that are effectively monopolies in their markets are... not smart. They will raise prices by exactly the amount of the tax and the only ones suffering are their customers who now pay 3% more for everything. I bet it would even be added as line item to every invoice “EU Revenue Tax, 3%”

I’m sure everyone will love it!
Twitter is not a non profit by any stretch of the imagination.

If a company sells a product (ad space in this instance) in a geography they are doing business there and should pay taxes there.
Not OP, but...

Awww, I was kinda hoping there'd be ununun-ions.
After octonions come sedenions.
What does ownership mean in this context? There’s nothing that the friend can do with those tokens. Transferring them to someone else doesn’t make any sense either.

So how is having a useless token balance recorded on Ethereum any different from having one recorded on a Google Sheet?
for a mobile app: absolutely not worth while

for a product like a “food supplement”: yes, totally

the model is: right something useful which will get very relevant traffic via google, and be able to convert this traffic immediately to money
The masses have assembled to be enligthend about my lifestyle, for im the chosen prophet of the church of me.
The law doesn’t work like that, if the taxman sees you as one company, you are one company
This strikes me as an over-broad picture of both jobs and ADHD. In practice there's great variation in both the amount of creativity that jobs need and in the ability of people with ADHD to present as normal when needed.

I'd be especially curious as to the data behind your sweeping statement that "they can't control whether to be inside the box, outside the box, or even in the same building as the (conceptual) box". That's not my experience, now how the people with ADHD I know behave, and it's not what the ADHD literature I'm familiar with says. I'm sure it's true about somebody, but I strongly doubt it's close to everybody.
I mean why does it matter which CPU component is mis-designed if it is a side-channel that allows you to extract data from other security domains?

If the last 10 years of VT-x implementations had a flaw that lets you extract data from other VMs that would be about as juicy as Meltdown.
Not only every paragraph, sometimes it changes in the middle of a word (search “And as I was”).
A lot is going to depend on the exact construction details of the wall.

If it's expanded metal lath with plaster over that, then you're going to have a very hard time punching through that with wireless signals -- it's almost a Faraday cage at that point.

Otherwise, a powerful directional antenna on the central router plus a powerful directional antenna in the workshop, plus maybe amplifiers, may be enough to punch through.

Alternatively, drilling a hole through the wall or otherwise finding a way to string Ethernet cable is likely to be your best bet.

The laws of physics haven't changed much in the last nine years. The solutions that would have worked then will probably also work now.
Original author here - thanks for your feedback, just updated the article. I kind of settled at ~1mb because I thought it was good enough. I got it down to ~90kb (which still isn't great, but is fine for these purposes) by just stripping out font awesome.

Thanks!
You are mischaracterizing the proposal. Let’s be clear: the EU has no intentions of enforcing taxation outside of their jurisdiction and of course they have every right to enforce taxes within it. It’s pretty normal stuff.
Speaking as a person who doesn't know much about programming how much time does it take to generate 1 min of audio (or say 50 words)? Is it possible to integrate this in my browser?

I heard a Google TTS demo (I think it was called deepmind?) that sounds extremely human-like and I was wondering if it can be used to turn webpages into speech (I have few extension in Chrome but those voices sound very robotic and it's hard to hear them after 2 mins).

Anyway congrats for making this. I'm nowhere near as smart to understand how it works just that it's getting better and more human like everyday!
Why the Brain-Body Connection Is More Important Than We Think
Cayley–Dickson construction can be carried to infinity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cayley%E2%80%93Dickson_constru...
Who says they're incapable? I know plenty of people who do it. I have done it.

Further, as I mention elsewhere, it's true that we're not a hunter-gatherer society anymore. But neither are we a farming society. As we automate more and more of the boring stuff, I think we are, cognitively, moving in a direction where hunter-gather cognition fits in much better: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16607911
> As an answer big techs will likely break these companies into 100 smaller ones to avoid the thresholds?

That sounds like a huge win to me. More competition is better for the market at a whole, and these 100 smaller companies will not be able to stop from competing with each other (or maybe we'll learn they just were better off as separate companies in the first place...)
It can really depend on the niche. For some niches, it's basically as simple as "write an article, and you'll be #1". For others, it's a case of "more money than you'll earn in your lifetime is spent each year fighting for this spot"

Obviously, though, the rewards in the former are far lower. But, it certainly means it's worth trying one article to see how big the rewards are. Basically just search like a user would, and see if the results are satisfying. If none are, then it should be straightforward to rank #1 or near the top.
Same! At least 10 times in my career it was an MTU issue when presented with weird latency or packet loss.
Pixar's Senior Scientist explains how math makes the movies and games we love
Google has already passed on Australia’s 10% “overseas digital goods and services tax” as a line item on G Suite. My bill is 10% higher.
It is absolutely legal, I have been doing it for years, talk to your accountant and lawyer on how to minimize your income taxes... do not sell your idea, it will be arbitraged away if too many people/ money are trading the same way...
Just because you're an early-stage startup (or virtually any entity really) you're entitled to not protect my data?
Nothing new about Campaign Data companies. In fact knew of a South San Francisco company called 'Campaign Data' in the '90s that ran a SAS on DECUnix. They collected voter registrar data from counties for targeted voting campaigns. Usually for passing more restrictive laws or raising taxes. Like raise property taxes for schools; send flyers to renters with kids and send nothing to homeowners with no kids. It was always in a way, unfair and evil.
>If the essentially entire world is the problem and there is a relatively small number of people that get your issues

In that case, I totally agree that you have a larger problem.

But my experience of adhd is not like that. My experience is that the only context in which other people give me a hard time about this sort of thing is if I talk about it in certain online communities. If you talk with a therapists or psychiatrist or if you read books by people educated in the field, you generally get useful help from a compassionate person. Heck, I've had good experiences talking with my bosses about this sort of thing. Mostly it's just the faceless internet trolls I've experienced espousing the views we are talking about, and I thing it's very easy (and very unhealthy) to get into a situation where it feels like faceless internet trolls represent how most people think.

My point is that talking about this sort of thing online is quite often super counterproductive.

(as to the larger issue... I can see what you mean about victim blaming... but I also point out that you could replace 'avoid' with 'ostracize' in my original post without really changing the denotation of my words, if you wanted more of a 'fight back' connotation.)
“I don't think she has a hope in court, especially since Uber definitely has high quality records of everything that occurred.”

How do you know?
Not prescient. It was exactly one of the primary reason for doing it: not being considered a "monopoly" or to make people not think so much that "Google" owns everything.
Well you can look at similar programs from Apple etc. and see how many takers they had. So while it's nice to imagine what "I" would do in such a situation it looks like people who actually can do this on average take the high $ payout route.
It has nothing to do with black hat btw. There are gov. agencies that will pay for this stuff.
It also doesn’t mention that the US started testing beef after that. Two contaminated samples were found. If I remember right, the government’s response was to decrease testing by about 90% both times.
> These steep fees also fund (a) vast extension of consumer credit, (b) massive card distribution programs, and (c) the downsides of a generally frictionless payment method (occasional fraud losses), all of which together yields higher spending for merchants.

This is a bit disingenuous. He makes it sound like these fees are the primary income for card companies, but that's not the case. Interchange and merchant fees represent a minority of revenue for card companies[1] - about 26%. The bulk of actual revenue comes from cash advances, fees charged to the customer (both annual and penalty fees), interest on balances, and ancillary products like insurance.

Here's the rub: if the US regulated credit card fees like they do debit cards (via the Durbin amendment) Visa would still be profitable - they happily operate and makes money in countries where credit card fees are capped by law, like Australia. They wouldn't be as profitable, sure. Neither would Stripe.

[1]: https://www.fool.com/credit-cards/2017/04/13/this-is-how-cre...
Yes, both! Just make sure you don't enjoy writing it, or you might actually achieve something worthwhile.
I like your fire. I think we would have fun debating things for days.

You've boxed the parent into three positions. They're kind of orthogonal so it's hard to approach directly, but consider a hypothetical 4th position.

What if the parent hypothetically thinks that twitter is acceptable collateral damage if it means fixing some other abuse, does that make him greedy? What if he gains nothing from it?

I think I've just provided a way out of your boxes, if you disagree please let me know!
> If a company doesn't have offices in your country, it's not yours.

Google has offices in almost every EU country.

https://careers.google.com/locations/

Aarhus, Amsterdam, Athens, Berlin, Bratislava, Brussels, Budapest, Copenhagen, Dublin (EU HQ), Eemshaven, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Hamina, Helsinki, Lisbon, London, Lubeck, Madrid, Milan, Moscow, Munich, Oslo, Paris. Prague, Rome,
Saint-Ghislain, Stockholm, Vienna, Warsaw, Wroclaw, Zagreb
Zurich

Twitter: https://careers.twitter.com/en/locations.html

Berlin, Brussels, Dublin, Hamburg, London, Madrid, Paris
As someone who has gotten some decent traffic out of articles: you may find that a "blog" isn't necessarily worthwhile, but that producing 10-20 high quality articles is. Especially since articles can often double as a high quality FAQ, lowering your customer support requirements.

Good blogs basically serve the same role, they generate a lot of posts which could be effective standalone articles.
> an atheist

I'd imagine this only applies where atheists are in the minority
Thanks for the reply. I agree that 1.66mb is insane for what my site does, and I'm working on minifying it as much as possible. I got it down to ~90kb, which is still not amazing, but is significantly better than 1.6mb. Fonts were taking up more than 90% of that, which I just stripped.

I do disagree with the idea of including code from others being a bad practice/smell. The detriment and added load time of using a library like jQuery is well worth the functionality it provides, IMO.

Thanks for the comment and for pointing out a problem with the article, though - I've revised it!
What Elon Musk could have shared at SXSW on AI but didn't
Wouldn’t cheese be concentrating the vitamins in milk, sort of fortifying it in as much as it’s making it easier to consume the amounts of milk you need for vitamin d?
Sure, if you have a successful blog there's no better way to get traffic than free traffic! But, look at how many people are successful with it. What like less than 1%? I don't know what the figures are but I know it's really really low. The vast majority will fail to attract any meaningful amount of traffic. Someone correct me if i'm wrong, I wish i was.
- arbitrary user, session and request IDs

- this can be done and then discard the address

- how so? What does knowing the address months later help? Something like fail2ban and other automated systems, sure, but long term logging?
At least one of you needs to put their contact information in their profile.
Rome popped up in the GDPR discussion some 30min after your wrote your text :-) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16606629#16609355
Nothing is really changing in terms of taxation. Technically, the difference is relatively small - being taxed a small percentage of revenue instead of a larger percentage of profit (yes I know it's debatable which would be ideal).

The really big difference is they can actually enforce revenue-based taxation, because revenue in a country is directly tied to the number of users/customers in that country. Meanwhile, profit could be much more easily switched around in Google's accounting books, to the point it hardly had to pay any tax in the EU.

One other thing, while many are accusing EU of doing this because of "envy", they're ignoring the fact that China is doing way worse against American companies. Not only are foreign companies taxed locally in China, and I don't think they get away with their accounting shenanigans over there, but China also basically demands that 50% of their assets over there are owned by a local company. Can you imagine if the EU said it needs to own 50% of Google or Amazon's assets on EU territory?

And then throw in the much larger tariffs for foreign imports that China has. Why isn't the media focusing on that more?
> but overall being exposed to people from other disciplines is a feature of college

Strongly agree. I studied at a collegiate university, and most of my enduring friendships are people outside of my course. Further, it contributed to having a broader understanding of the world, and being a CS student but having a meaningful discussion about, say, calcium channels with the medical students or microeconomics with the economists gives a valuable skill of being able to quickly build a working model of something outside of your experience/field.

> People have wildly varying learning styles and you should not impose a specific format on them. I have issues processing auditory information, and I can learn 2-4x faster just reading the textbook than I can from a verbal discussion or lecture.

I think it depends a lot about their exact nature. Personally I found lectures to be of limited value, and general discussions would be all but useless, but focused supervisions with 1-3 students and an academic to be invaluable. Preparing the work ahead of time allows you to learn how you like, but a verbal interrogation regarding it means you must be confident and know it well enough to think on your feet (it's also good viva voce practice). A good supervisor will also dig deeper than any one text typically would (if necessary), and give tailored explanations if something is tripping you up. They'll also push you forward and not let you coast if you covered the minimum mandatory material, and come up with new ways of applying the knowledge or fuse it with material from other classes/years. I think it'd be difficult to replicate that with any form of self-study.
To add, the difference between directive and regulation is in Article 288 of the TFEU:

To exercise the Union's competences, the institutions shall adopt regulations, directives, decisions, recommendations and opinions.

A regulation shall have general application. It shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.

A directive shall be binding, as to the result to be achieved, upon each Member State to which it is addressed, but shall leave to the national authorities the choice of form and methods.
Well these things work extremely well in conjunction for ansep. Iirc their freshman graduation rate for engineers is 80%
Manifesto for Agile Software Development
For sure. And I think it's important to note that in a disorder characterized by a mismatch between a person and their environment, changing the environment can apparently make the disorder disappear.

For example, imagine a musician with ADHD. They might struggle a good deal in school, which requires doing a lot of to-them-boring stuff. But once they're out of school, they might be perfectly good at earning a living, because the environment they create is suited to their approach to the world.

I was talking just recently with a software developer with ADHD. They preferred a pair programming environment because that was much more engaging to them than solo coding.
Or a Christian...
If you are gonna have a form of corporate tax, a tax on revenue is the best way to do it.

This will raise prices of goods the least and directly target the largest companies.
Sometimes you don't even need to do a pull request if you have your fork on the same platform.

A while back I needed py3k support in pybindgen so hacked it in and it magically got merged into the main branch. Surprisingly, as is -- I guess I can hack on the python good enough ;)
Instead of downvotes, please explain why I'm wrong. Not only do I want to know, but it's helpful to other.

These have been my experiences with nfs. It's great for certain things, especially read heavy ones. It's very not great at write heavy or ones that require locks.
Or it’s now 10% cheaper to start an Australian gsuite competitor ;-)
But how does that work with a company like say Google? What prices are there to raise? It's more like they happened upon an incredible natural resource (the users' eyeballs connected to an unregulated digital network newly built by government funds) and are charging whatever price the market will bear. The tax is just a forced extraction of some of that margin, and I'm not sure how they can compensate for that. If anything, if they really are a monopoly and increasing prices could have got them more revenue presumably they would have done it already.
It's possible that the traits that in some combination lead to ADHD are adaptive on their own, or in some people, or in lower doses (like having 1 copy of a gene instead of 2). If that's the case, your non-ADHD relatives might be more fit, and the burden of some family members having ADHD isn't enough to outweigh the benefits to the rest of the family. Kind of like having one copy of the sickle cell anemia gene gives you resistance to malaria, but two makes you likely to die from sickle-cell disease.
This is akin to a franchaise tax.

I'm pretty sure the thinking of the legislators is taxing net income is too easily manipulated. Therefore by taxing a 'small' (up for debate) amount of revenues there's less gamesmanship that can take place when determining tax liability.

For reference, Texas charges a 1% tax on taxable margin over $1M with three options for determining taxable margin. This gives companies less wiggle room when determining tax liability
I've spent a lot of years blogging about alternative health approaches, women's issues, etc.

I'm sure you mean well and I hope it benefits the person you are addressing. But my experience is that this is not a good way to help someone.

I was sexually abused as a child. That was hard to recover from. Advice like "Just talk to nice men" was not actionable. If all you have known is abuse, you don't know how to identify nice people. You also don't know how to talk to them in a way that helps.

The above person is complaining about their situation and your response most likely makes them feel blamed for the situation and most likely doesn't help them find a path forward. And this is likely partly because of how they framed it and you are responding to how they framed it. Other people will respond that way as well and it usually just compounds the problem.

This second comment by you contains much better information that may be more helpful to them, such as listing the types of persons that you have found helpful to talk to. That still doesn't straight up solve it, but it is much more potentially useful.

I'm not trying to fight with you or whatever. There are ways to make the points you have made that are helpful and supportive. I don't think your first comment is that sort of thing.

Best.
even if they were taxing outside their borders, they determine access to something the tech companies want: European users.
I had checked out CommonMark a bit and blogged about it here, including an example of using it, and a bit about their goals:

CommonMark, a pure Python Markdown parser and renderer:

https://jugad2.blogspot.in/2014/09/commonmark-pure-python-ma...

One interesting point from them was this:

[ Reddit user bracewel, who seems to be a CommonMark team member, said on the Py Reddit thread:

eventually we'd like to add a few more renderers, PDF/RTF being the first.... ]
thank you, I updated my profile
But is it worse than a standard earnings tax?
I want evidence for this- meaning, parts where costs are reduced - and the lifetime reduction they create- i want to see the correlating curves without spikes before i swallow that myth. Once we had handwoven goods- and they where expensive, and im sure the very first luddites had lots of tails, how machinery would reduce the quality of non-guild woven material.
Writing static site generators is my favourite way of learning a language. Usually covers all the basics, libraries, FS, error checking and so on
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I'm not sure what you mean by "real disorder" here. If you read the literature on "medicalization of deviance" it's pretty clear that "real disorder" is a very fuzzy and socially determined bucket.

If you personally need medication, great, you should use it. But I don't think that justifies dumping on the people who don't. Or the people who do, but also see benefits in their different cognitive style. My ADHD has been a pain in the ass for me, but I'd never trade it away, as I like the benefits.
On Facebook, Cabbage Juice Is the New Snake Oil
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Fukushima nuclear disaster: did the evacuation raise the death toll?
Imagine a marketplace where manufacturers had a duty to fairly disclose their longevity specs to the end user.
If you go to the original you can hear what it sounds like when it is trained over a lot more data.
I got tired of writing cover letters so I built a cover letter generator!
Was just thinking this week that I'd really love to have a mentor. I've been teaching myself React and Node full-time in order to build my first project and frequently feel like an hour a week with a mentor would make a big difference.

Right now my mentors are on YouTube and it's a one-way conversation. It's slightly discouraging to waste a ton of time (sometimes days) figuring out relatively simple stuff and I imagine a mentor could help direct and/or course-correct these studies.

I've explored looking for a paid tutor in my city, but I've only found listings for help to "ace" some interview or get into a bootcamp or something equally unappealing. What would help me is talking once in a while with someone who knows the subject matter well. I could even see paying for it although tutors that I've seen advertise at at least 5x what I'd like to pay (~$250/hr).
That calculator explicitly assumes a car-oriented existence in both places. Taking their 157% factor at face value, $10.8k for a car in St Louis is $17k in Seattle. So $80k without a car is equivalent to $97k with a car. Or $60k with a car is equivalent to $49.2k without a car in Saint Louis. Either way, the income level in Seattle is slightly better.