skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On the other hand, local businesses are paying other types of taxes anyway (such as property taxes) and they're actually employing local people--so there's almost an argument that local businesses should be paying less sales tax rather than more. And then you're almost in why have a sales tax at all territory given that they're mostly regressive.

There's certainly a good argument for a flat national sales tax but that doesn't really fit with federalism and, anyway, good luck getting New Hampshire and New York to agree on a number.
Yes! I would be really surprised if an organisation didn't expect that to happen!

When solving pretty much any problem that I don't have an existing cookie-cutter solution for, I do some prototyping as part of the process of figuring out how it works. Sometimes I do this for arbitrary things that are irritating me, or that I think might be worth looking at.

Nobody is sitting over my shoulder looking at everything I do and I'd be right out the door if that was ever the case. I'd expect professional software engineers to spend at least a bit of their time working on this sort of stuff!
They are incredibly cheap, partly because they use so little metal and such a small chip, and instead have the reader by much powerful.

That's why they can put RFID tags on small individual cheap items and not be at a loss.
> Most of the meat on your plate will come from a factory farm

Maybe in some countries, but this assumption is most probably false in my case.

> For every 100 calories of grain fed to cattle in industrial (meat) factory farms, the result's equivalent to ~30 calories.

Plus manure, leather and other subproducts that you can't obtain from grain. We need to take the whole equation, not only the good parts.
One thing with the current proposal that I haven't quite figured out is that it seems to me that the decision of whether a certain type is an "object" or a "value" is pushed to the use site rather than definition site, so the same type can be used as both object and value at different sites — in a way that doesn't quite match the intuition for boxed types in, say, C++.
Altai Territory, Russia:
https://www.jonasbendiksen.com/Books/Satellites/64

Kazakhstan:
https://www.jonasbendiksen.com/Books/Satellites/63
https://www.jonasbendiksen.com/Books/Satellites/62
https://www.jonasbendiksen.com/Books/Satellites/61
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Jurisdictional boundaries are very complex. The city field in an address really identifies the post office that serves the address, not the city that the address is in. Many people live outside of city boundaries, and "simple" processing may charge them city sales tax surcharges.

From experience, the city of San Jose barely knows what its border is, so I wouldn't expect others to either.
Reddit AMA with release manager of CMake
In many cases, criminals hack the internal system of these companies and demand cryptocurrency as a ransom. It could not provide company names because some of the incidents were not public. In the U.S. companies don't have to report a ransomware incident because it does not involve a loss of personal data. View more details on https://cryptonewstrends.com/
Hackers often demand payment in cryptocurrency yet bitcoin does not seem to be the top choice. It accounted for only about 10 percent of the targeted cryptocurrencies, while ethereum made up 11 percent.
Criminals appear to prefer monero. The lesser-known cryptocurrency was used in 44 percent of all attacks because of its privacy and its difficulty to trace compared with bitcoin, Carbon Black said. It also has relatively low transaction fees.
Supreme Court allows states to collect sales taxes on more online transactions
Musk's email of the allegations didn't go into specifics:

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/18/elon-musk-email-employee-con...

> I was dismayed to learn this weekend about a Tesla employee who had conducted quite extensive and damaging sabotage to our operations. This included making direct code changes to the Tesla Manufacturing Operating System under false usernames and exporting large amounts of highly sensitive Tesla data to unknown third parties.

For all we know, these code changes to the Tesla system could have been the code needed to exfiltrate the data and info that he allegedly leaked to media as a whistleblower.
California legislators stealthily ‘eviscerate’ state’s net neutrality bill
Double Pasta, now that’s embarrassing.
Note: the states where Amazon doesn't collect sales tax are those states that don't have a sales tax.
Don’t forget type of product, if it’s a sales tax holiday, phase of the moon...
And that changes the game a great deal. The innards of the browser matter.

For instance, on Windows, I usually use Firefox, but I use Edge to view Netflix, as (for whatever reason) Netflix supports Edge's EME pipeline better than the other Windows browsers. That's specific to the browser's innards, not to its skin.

Incidentally, the DefectiveByDesign guys aren't happy about the situation - https://www.defectivebydesign.org/edge-netflix-eme
It was an opinion on marriage, a millenia-old quasi-political-religious traditional institution. The world is full of such opinions. Polygamy is illegal in 50 of 50 United states, even California.

Don't slip on that edge of political wrongthink.

Communism is certainly the most damaging political movement of the 20th century. Should we oust Communist sympathizers from their positions of power?
What's to stop the powers that be from lowering those threshold requirements, though, now that this has happened?

Also, "jurisdiction" is terribly complicated when it comes to sales taxes. A jurisdiction can be defined by the type of goods sold, date of sale, location, and sometimes (often?) there are overlapping jurisdictions. Full compliance is incredibly hard to achieve without a relatively pricey sales tax software solution that is actively maintained and updated every time a city, township, county, state, etc. decides to adjust something. If applied strictly this would essentially work to lock-in established, wealthy concerns and stifle entrepreneurship.
An important tip for people migrating from iptables: rules are not applied on a first match basis, but rather last match! I've made several mistakes due to that before..
So, Tesla brought on a white collar defense specialist (some say the best in the country) to file charges against a whistleblower - excuse me - a disgruntled employee?

I am beginning to think Feds are onto it. Tesla isn't fighting this blue collar worker, they expect a fight with the Feds and SEC.
Wouldn't the harmful stuff eventually dissipate? How long would one have to wait to safely scavenge a booster sitting in the open?
> Grab the bull by the balls.

Horns.
Storage will be much less free than it used to be (2014)
According to this, it has to be disclosed: https://www.worldrd.com/big-dairy-really-putting-microscopic...

Also it's only added to skim milk, ratacat post about industrial milk and whatever isn't true.
The president is not the boss of citizens the way a CEO is employees at her firm. If that's your view of american civics, time to update your civics lessons.
Discovering where function or class definitions are found for the first time ever is a necessarily rare part of software engineering. It happens when debugging some third-party tool, when joining a new team or project, etc., but the vast majority of the time you aren't doing that stuff and you are working on a codebase whose internals you're expected to have a mental model about.

When just exploring a codebase for the first time, frankly just grep would be more useful than jumping, because if you're looking for the firs time, there is no purpose to following a thread. You'd need a task or some other understanding of what you need to do. However, I do concede that "jump to definition" is a perfectly fine tool for this sort of search if it's what somebody wants.

But the situation is totally different in the vast majority of the time, when you're working in a codebase you're expected to understand already, but which you need to navigate around the architecture.

That case, which is most of the time (by definition), is not benefited by "jump to definition" except in the pathological cases when the organization of the software is exceptionally bad. Basically, if you find yourself in a situation where a "jump to definition" feature is constantly helping you, even after you have worked in that codebase a while, then it is a clear symptom of really big, pervasive problems about that codebase. It's not an endorsement of "jump to definition" features as being generically helpful.
Scaleway BareMetal Snapshot Improvement, Fast Provisioning and Hot Snapshots GA
>> I didn't personally notice a big performance improvement in terms of user experience

I've seen no difference in performance in recent years, at least on my home machines. My browser performance is basically limited by my internet connection, making all the browser v browser speed tests moot. (At work I have to use windows+IE+bing+outlook because work are idiots.) I switched to chrome last year because a couple quality of life plugins were not longer compatible with the latest versions of firefox.

What I want is firefox from a couple years ago, back when all the plugins I wanted worked nicely together (mostly privacy and dev tool stuff). Firefox needs to simplify itself, to get rid of things that can be handled much better by plugins.
Slippery slope is not in regards to ad length. It's about the desire to regulate "sustained gameplay" mechanics in games.

You act as if the only media you can consume is via cable. There's virtually unlimited options in our age for media. The majority of it is free, not counting cost of internet.

X(media) is not provided by solely corporate entities. If someone wants to have a half hour ad(or infomercial) in their content, people will watch something else. It's shortsighted if there's a monopoly on X so your choices are limited. But that's the furthest thing from the truth in today's age in regards to media.
F-35 vs. Su-57; Which Is the Better Fighter for Turkey? (Infographic Comparison)
Administration tightens rules for federal scientists talking to reporters
NYT consumer tech reporter explains why he switched from Chrome to Firefox
I now use Brave browser exclusively, with JavaScript and other things turned off by default.

Turning it on for trusted websites is one click away, once per domain, and it could save me in the future.
Milk is white, only skim milk is blue, so they sometimes add titanium dioxide as color, but it has to be listed on the ingredients.
Are you suggesting that driver code has an opportunity to run before core code can implement checks?

If so, then again, this has the fundamental problem that you're expecting the compiler to implement some optimizations - like pushing the dereference out of the buggy driver via LTO - and not others. If the compiler had all optimizations off, it would just generate code to read from x->buffer in the obvious place, which would page-fault at runtime before the check from core code even happened.

If the core code implements the check first, then this optimization won't cause you problems, because this optimization is strictly about checking for a NULL pointer after using it.

For the specific case of computing the address of x->buffer without actually dereferencing it, I do agree that the compiler should not consider that to be an implicit non-null promise. That seems much more likely to be a change you can make without breaking the language spec. See the subthread with 'dbaupp.

(Alternatively, you could work on building tools for driver writers to write in a less error-prone language than C, because drivers being of poor quality is a much broader problem with much broader impacts than just triggering ill-advised optimizations under LTO, and simply optimizing drivers less efficiently isn't going to solve the problem that the driver shouldn't be dereferencing x->buffer without its own NULL check in the first place. If you check my recent GitHub activity you might notice a project to do exactly this in Linux....)
hn bet big money on firefox/mozilla? all news for other web browser is bad except firefox. HN now is mozilla's Microphone
Right? It's so weird that the dudes that rail against postmodernism fundamentally fail to understand that it's not a single assertive ideology, it's just a simple observation of the way things are in the world around us. It's not like anybody has ever set out to "make postmodernism happen", it's just a condition that has arisen via historical consequence. So when people attack "postmodernists", it's like--you realize that these philosophers did not "create" postmodernism, right? They just describe what they're seeing in the world.
I mean, it probably still gets packaged in something, it's just not pre-packaged with needless amounts of plastics. (Although I guess I could probably hand them a box I brought in at the supermarket and they'd use it if I asked nicely. Never seen anyone do that though)
Oh true, I studied ADHD a bit, it's a neuro-developmental disorder of the dopaminergic system. Specifically, the motor cortex will develop more quickly/strongly than the executive function system, leading to a hyperactivity of motor activity and a hypo*activity of the "secretary" of the mind which filters/prioritizes/plans behaviors. Now there is a subset of primarily inattentive ADHD, which has less to do with movement and more to do with "spacing out" and lack of focus/attention, which can be combined with hyperactivity in the combined type (CT), versus the primarily inattentive subtype (PI). Also, yes, those with ADHD are much more likely to abuse stimulants, marijuana, and alcohol, anything with which to alter the brain chemistry away from a normal modality which might be stressful to be in. I have heard anecdotal tales about ADHD medications as revelations bordering on spirituality, people crying after taking their first dose at age 30 and realizing how much more "normal" it might make them. Really good to know that people can react so positively, though we also know that many non-ADHD individuals abuse the drugs as well.
In what way? I choose to live in Oregon. Oregon doesn't have a sales tax. So the Supreme court ruling has no bearing on me. There is nothing stopping anyone from moving to one of the states that don't have a sales tax.
'category' / 'fits in' (no possession or abbreviation involved so no apostrophe)
I think it is just numbers.

There are many more poor quality tutorials written than high quality tutorials because high quality tutorials are much harder to write.

The writer has to know the domain, be up-to-date in the domain, have the communication skills and the time to write and edit.
What's so special about being a designer?
It's a simple question for which I am trying to get a clear answer to: can everyone be a designer?

It's a fact that everyone has opinions when it comes to design - clients, partners, mothers, grandmothers, uncles, cousins, etc. However, I don't think that design is based on opinions.

So, apart from some technical knowledge, why is the designer the authority on design? What makes a designer different from the common mortal?
No P2P storage networks have succeeded? What about torrents? It is a huge market.
What to Do When the Trisector Comes (1983)
I don't disagree with the wider point but

> I could replace my 6-year old Intel i7-3770 desktop with 32GB of RAM, but what's out there that's significantly better at a reasonable cost?

AMD Ryzen 7 1700 for $200. ~10% faster single core and you get 8C/16T. DDR4 RAM is quite expensive, though.

(closest available benchmarks, 1700 is about 3% slower than 2700)
[0]: https://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/2111
[1]: https://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/551
We had a married couple working at the company, both engineers and neither reporting to the other. The husband was promoted to a managerial position where his wife would now become a report, not direct, but still in his chain-of-command. That is against company policy so they were given some options to resolve this. The wife ended up with a lateral transfer into another division.
Bulls here don't have horns, we had to adapt.
The most important skill nobody taught you
Because it's not just impropriety, it's the appearance of impropriety. It erodes trust in the organization to treat employees fairly by their competence/skillset/behavior/etc.
"Sorry, we can't seem to find what the problem is."
This is one of those "it depends on the state" questions. In general, a seller is going to calculate and remit tax based on the delivery address, but the laws are actually a bit more complicated than that. chasil, who lives in Illinois but is close to Iowa, might start having packages delivered to a P.O. Box in Iowa, for example. However, legally speaking, s/he must still pay Illinois use tax on that item provided it is "for use or consumption in Illinois" and less than the current Illinois use tax rate of 6.25% was collected originally. See http://www.revenue.state.il.us/Individuals/FAQs-Use-Tax.htm

Practically speaking, of course, few people keep detailed enough records to even calculate the correct use tax owed at the end of the year, and any tax that might have been owed goes uncollected and unnoticed. Which is the problem that led to this Supreme Court case in the first place.
Can the West’s democracy survive China’s rise to dominance?
You have no idea what you are talking about. Won’t be much burden on business? If you have physical shipping addresses, it is a bit easier, but what if you sell virtual goods/services? Billing address? But that doesn’t actually have anything to do where the person is actually buying the product. If I go to a masseuse in California but my credit card has a Texas billing address, I am still charged California taxes. So the precedent of using billing address for tax calculation is a bit ridiculous and innaccurate. What if I have a foreign billing address? So do we use IP address? My IP address routinely has me in the wrong city and sometimes wrong region. When I lived near Avignon, France, my IP would always show me as being in Corsica. Then there is VPN that could make us all in Oregon and avoid taxes completely. Oregon-as-a-Service.

Engineers are clever. Sure that might be true, but now that cleverness is going to be wasted building tax compliance solutions which aren’t even close to being “not much of a burden.”
What frigging computer controlled transmission? Electric vehicles like Tesla Model S have a single-speed fixed transmission, it's pretty much two gears stuck together with no control needed or even possible.
Google Account revamped: increased transparency, new security/privacy options
FAB: An Intuitive Consensus Protocol Using Raft and Paxos
Interesting, didn't know such problem exists in SVGs. Nice read, thanks
HN now is mozilla's Microphone
The Impact of Virtualization on Your Database
Discussed in this thread 2 days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17348215
Yea nothing profound about the eightfold path... /s
You can kinda make that sound bad, and it might have been bad, but reworking pieces is standard practice in many industries. "Fixed with adhesive" sounds like a hack but there are many wonderful adhesives.
The man who was fired by a machine
That's just one state. There's nothing to keep the 49 other states from passing laws that apply it to any dollar amount.

ADDED: Though the decision has some language that would seem to imply there has to be some lower bound.
Would really love to know why this got downvoted instead of replying "InnoDB Cluster is not good because..."?

It's actually the most recommended way to do replication from MySQL now, they are heavily deprecating everything around traditional replication, they even removed MySQL Fabric (the proxy for the client to work well with failover) in favor of MySQL Router, which works with just InnoDB cluster.

HN, go figure...
What kind of bulls do you have? :)
It's just a euphemism to make something sound nicer. Also see "pivot", "readjust" or "awesome journey".

The original meaning is more like "slow phase out" or similar but now nothing gets "cancelled anymore". Everything gets "sunsetted" so the original meaning is lost.
It's super risky. There is so much power play around, some execs are sex-starved, used by their subordinates or peers that want a promotion or using their subordinates ("or else") etc. Just way too many problems - they should prescribe mandatory self-restraint training or take them twice a year to some party island to steam off. Or form alliances with neighboring companies and encourage dating between them or whatever. Some HR can figure it out surely, so there is at least some benefit for having them instead of just containing damage all the time.
I too have a i7-3770 and it runs fantastic. I've only just realised that it is actually 6 years old, theres just not the incentive to upgrade that there once was.
Show HN: Awesome GitHub starred
Man gets 20 years in jail for attempting to hijack domain at gunpoint
Why does the show need to have either of these things?
I'm curious why 'active' (and 'lists' itself) is not in the default tab of options across the top of the page.
Guide to implementing K-Nearest Neighbors in your machine learning model
I, too, discovered a browser bug. Specifically with mutation observers in Safari (but not Chrome, or other WebKit-likes) in a particular DOM event scenario. Fully replicable. Not a word from any team at Apple, no acknowledgement of the bug, no acknowledgment of the issue.

The situation is a common one wrt SPAs, routing, and changing a tree based on history state. I'm sure other frameworks have run into it. My brief experience documenting the issue solidified the position that I will never do it again.
ProPublica's work on algorithmic bias has all seemed well below their usual standards. I haven't followed this rebuttal, but their work showing racism in car insurance pricing was heavily criticized, and while the authors defended the work it looked to me like they picked only the weakest criticisms to respond to.

(In the insurance case, ProPublica attempted to compare areas with comparable crash frequencies and show that rates were higher in poor and minority areas. But the data they had was moving accidents, especially with injuries, and the data they didn't have was stuff like "rate of car break-ins" and "odds of being hit by an uninsured driver". Which you would obviously expect to vary by region even when serious-injury accidents don't.)
Lots of things, it's just Apple (or Tesla) do not happen to be among them, I want something that actually has real advantages/benefits.
If we lived in a world where cable was the primary form of media consumption, I wouldn't think ad regulation was silly.

Like you said, we live in a new era. I think the idea of that regulation feels antiquated with the near unlimited choices now.

Regardless, this is off topic. My extreme tl;dr - keep lawmakers grubby paws off my video games!