skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not just rates, it's product categories that matter. The rules separating one product category from another can get incredibly arcane. Here in Minnesota, a pizza ordered from Papa John's is taxed but from Papa Murphy's it isn't - because the Papa Murphy's isn't cooked. Clothing isn't taxed, but determining what is or isn't considered clothing isn't always easy out at the margins. If you live in a state you can get guidance on this stuff, but if you don't you might not even know to look.
Maybe, but the fact that they feel the market pressure to add them to stay competitive on modern hardware vs what .NET did a few years later, means it wasn't properly right as well.
I'm not sure I have as much faith in humanity as you do. We already have examples of long-running medical scams that take the dying for all they're worth, take the kind-hearted who donate to their causes for all they're worth, and often leave families in debt, all for a treatment that is little more than a tissue of lies.

I agree wholeheartedly that if there is a genuine treatment in development, and if someone is on the path to imminent death, and there's the possibility it might cure them, or significantly enhance the length and quality of the life they have left, then denying them access to it is unforgivably cruel.

But I'm not sure how you filter out the charlatans that have fraudulent products in perpetual 'trials', who want to take people for everything they have (and far more).
What if each state has a different set of product types?

IMO, the federal government's responsibility to regulate interstate commerce should include creating a standard of product categories. States can then tax those categories at whatever level they see fit.
VAT (Eu sales tax) is a tax on the seller it is not a tax that individual residents pay at all.
How Learning Works: https://www.amazon.com/How-Learning-Works-Research-Based-Pri...

I also enjoyed https://www.amazon.com/Start-Story-Teaching-Journals-Collect...

(Caveat: not a professor, but that's the target audience for both books.)
Reading this:

https://wpcommission.com/

And this:

https://medium.com/@sku_67047/how-kinja-earns-so-much-in-com...

I more and more think that affiliate linking is a very nice alignment of interests, as long as the content is good.
My sister is on the spectrum, and she agrees with the idea that autism is a mental disorder. What she disagrees with is calling anyone on the spectrum "disordered". So she'd agree with you that most autistic people shouldn't be labeled that way, but disagree that no autistic people should be.

Even at her low end of the spectrum, it can cause a lot of distress and pain. I guess it just depends on a person's particular case and the circumstances of their life.
This is Roseola, not Herpes Simplex.
Philosophy at its extremes often does become paradoxical or nonsensical. If you believe in materialism, you can't really believe in free will, yet you still have to go about your day "making decisions." But holding that philosophy still does have practical implications on those decisions, e.g. you probably won't be going to church or praying.

So, with postmodernism, you can go all the way down the rabbit hole as a philosophical exercise, and when you come back up and resume daily life, perhaps there are things you took for granted that you now begin to question. For example, a comment way up this chain asserted that "good art is better than bad art in ways that aren't purely relative." I used to believe that (Rembrandt must be better than a 3-year-old's scribble, right?), but now I don't believe that any art (music, film, etc) can be objectively argued to be better than any other, there is no good and bad art, only art that an individual likes or doesn't like.

Postmodernism to me actually leads toward a greater tolerance of other people and the state of the world. When you tear down the concepts of "right" and "wrong" - in the context of morals, ethics, human behavior - you realize they're as shaky and subjective as anything else. If you can't prove that your way is the right way, how can you tell someone else they're wrong?
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Basketball is more popular than football in China? Article says opposite.
What can depersonalisation disorder say about the self?
Burn baby burn – Apollo 11 ignition routine at Software Heritage
The business isn't paying the tax though? If the people paying the tax don't want it, they should replace their reps or move to a state that doesn't have that tax.

So we could think of it from the point of the business but that wouldn't be based in fact.
That's a response that lacks a response. They don't address Switch or XBox cross-play.
> The API is very close to Chrome, am I right ?

The API is a superset of Chrome's. You can do stuff with Firefox WebExtensions that you cannot do with Chrome.
Unless those other people are directly entangled with your finances and responsible for ensuring the wellbeing of you and others.
Most people will use Bitcoin as a stand in for any crypto currency.
Is this the HN position, AT&T: charge us for your content ?
And if the retailer really doesn't like it, they can just not sell to customers in the state. But we know that's not going to happen. Like you said, the customer is the one paying the taxes, and the customer is the one who votes to elect those who make the tax laws that affect him.
I've always assumed the laid back approach of employers here was a West Coast thing.
Could the lede be any more biased or willfully ignorant as to how long FDA processes take? A terminally ill patient doesn’t have much need for money if they are dead, so what business is it of anyone’s if they choose to spend all of their money of a last ditch hope.

People waste billions on quack medicine such as Traditional Chinese Medicine but now we are concerned about the finances of dying people? And yes, TCM is quackery; any form of “medicine” that prescribes black rhino horn as a cure for impotence is pure nonsense. Is statnews writing strongly worded opinions about that? Or are they just interested in picking on big pharma— that, despite its warts, actually does make drugs that have benefited society in countless ways.
This is also talking Alzheimers, not general mental decline. I'm just throwing out a wild thought stemming from this article.
Definitely agree, I love Prospect Park and Central Park is obviously a gem, but it's the small parks here and there that made a big difference for me. Here's hoping that as we stop giving public space for people to park their private car property on, we can have even more little parks here and there.
Launching #superthread
What was so different about NYC in 2008 and now?
Currently 25th in FIFA rankings (3rd in CONCACAF). Is there any other major men's sport where the US ranks outside the top 20 (maybe cricket)?

- 15th in rugby https://www.worldrugby.org/rankings/mru?lang=en

- 6th in tennis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITF_Rankings#Men

- 4th in hockey https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IIHF_World_Ranking

- 2nd in volleyball https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIVB_World_Rankings
Last discussed 3 days prior; at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17339636
Is that the psychiatric definition of disorder?

My understanding is that it has to be disagreeable to the person who has it or put others at risk (in extreme instances).

So for example, someone with synesthesia might be considered disordered only if it prevents them from being happy or taking care of themselves, while many people with synesthesia seem to enjoy it.
But that should be their choice to make.
Apps like Slack that expose a web version of the product are tested across different browsers anyway, so that wouldn't change unless your Electron app was desktop-only.
Previous discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13879475

Basically, FaunaDB is very expensive at $0.01 per 1000 queries.
Well put. Another stupid "Hate China" propaganda piece; no wonder people have lost faith in journalism.
nVidia does build their own cards, as well. But yes, the graphics card market is predicated on AMD and nVidia creating the designs, and then other companies license and manufacture them. Some will also alter the designs a bit, like adding more memory, overclocking the cards, etc.
Perhaps they were when on their discounted launch price, but they quickly jumped up in price (around £100 in a week, even more a few weeks later) and just weren't available for quite some time AFAICT.

> In addition, the Vega architecture is pretty efficient and your statement about being power hungry and very hot is false.

Excuse me, but I speak from personal experience here. It's really not very efficient, I bought a 64 on launch day. It was hot, noisy and power hungry compared to nVidia cards at similar performance levels, which is the main reason I didn't keep it for long.
The article is about "right-to-try profiteers", not just "right-to-try" period.

>We can totally discuss that.

That's what this article is trying to discuss.
I only have internet service from Comcast. I snagged this on amazon (although it was $35 at the time): https://www.amazon.com/D-Link-DCM-301-Compatible-Comcast-Cab...
> There is no real artistic or cultural activity in Manhattan anymore

I don't know if this is true. Hell, I'm pretty damn unhip and I even know a number of artists/musicians/writers living and working in Harlem.
Where is the cultural activity these days?
Interesting. One thing I've noticed is that certain on-line sellers exempt purchases to certain states. I wonder how long before they start exempting residents of states that force online sales tax collection.
I've been following Sony for twenty years or so. "Interop" is not a word in their vocabulary. There are many innovations such as Minidisc, SACD, and ATRAC that never truly took off because they wanted to run proprietary from end to end and own all the rights. They never took a lesson from why IBM's microchannel bus doomed the PS/2.

Proprietary standards hamper adoption and success. Many try to be Apple but only one can end up pulling it off.
You're talking about the source of the idea.

I can't speak for lambda, but I believe what they meant is that the researchers only interpreted Koko's ideas as unique, or as ideas at all. There has never been scientific validation that she actually meant what the researchers thought she meant.

I think there's something wonderful about Koko and her relationship with humans. But at the same time, it saddens me that the scientists involved seem to have mostly treated her as a friend, and lacked the scientific rigor to answer some of the most important questions about her actions.
> Hahn said the difference between the original accuracy rate and that of the new study can likely be attributed to several factors, the most important being that two of the metabolites were unavailable in the second dataset. Each of the two metabolites had been strong indicators in the previous study.

Another issue could be overfitting.
It is called web widget in most desktop OSes.
This is really good news.
Maybe he was forced to marry Melinda if he wanted to keep his position!

ps: i'm joking but who knows!
It may not be necessary for a system to be as complex as the human brain to reach the raw intelligence levels of the human brain.

You don't need to make a vehicle as complex as a cheetah for it to move as quickly as cheetah. You just strap a rocket to a box and you're there.

Granted a rough solution like that is not as good or as agile as a live cheetah in a lot of ways, but it depends on what you're optimizing for.
You could use more levels of convolution with larger receptive field. But this corresponds to larger patches, e.g. 512x512 pixels, and larger patches sometimes may not just be pure tumor cells or pure normal cells. And if you are just predicting 1 label for larger patches, it sometimes confuses the learning. What we propose with CRF, is larger receptive field with dense predictions, e.g. predicting more than one labels, and we use CRF to model the correlation between labels.
A punctured lithium cell is not a minor defect
Leaked: Lime's pitch deck
I see now. So basically for anything beyond replicating a web app or pointing to (à la Slack, HipChat, Stride, etc)—or anything else that doesn't require native access.

It's a very cool library outside of that—for any gawkers here.
Congress has had decades to step in. They declined to, largely due to an anti-tax sentiment among a large block of them. Absent a resolution from Congress, and no indication that they'd do anything, the courts had to work with what they were given.
It's pretty rare to use in user-code. It might be well used in libraries, but I guess the standard developer experience is using libraries not writing them.
One of the great things about Rocket League is the cross play. While, as a PS4 owner, I cannot play against those on XBox or Switch, I am able to play against PC players in addition to PS4. It is always nice increasing the player pool. That said, it is really frustrating that Sony is so stubborn on this issue.
That is the whole purpose of the Web.
I don't think it's out of line to say Sony understands the platform business better than anyone. And I'm not just talking about console makers, I'm talking about all platforms: iOS, Android, Steam, Facebook, Twitter, etc etc etc.

Sony's first goal every generation since the PSOne has been winning game developers to their side. Game devs like large user bases, but that's only one aspect of why a developer picks a console. Sony's primary focus every generation is to get everything else right: development tools, hardware storage and performance, consistent controller design, software medium, and so on. They've had some misfires here and there (the Cell processor comes to mind), but they typically outperform their competition in all of these categories.

I think it's because Sony knows their customer isn't the gamer, it's the game developer. The game developer's customer is the gamer. Again, user base numbers attract developers, but Sony recognizes that user bases are driven by developer support. It's definitely reciprocal, but Sony's dominance comes from understanding that catering to the developer is paramount. That's why they've consistently created an environment that breeds killer apps. I can't think of another platform maker in the last 20+ years who's been better.

So after 20 years of building up that kind of leverage with developers, it doesn't make much sense to just give part of it away until game developers make it clear they need it.
Add to that healthcare costs in the US are huge too, adding onto the negative pressure for startups.
Personally I think it's a terrible idea to work at Google, live at Google, have your Google-only relationships, have your Google kids to talk to only Google kids, and stay on the campus all the time. It's a little awkward to know I walk around the SV streets and there are people who think otherwise.
I would suggest reporting problems like these to https://webcompat.com

Volunteers will triage the issues and report them either to the site devs or Mozilla devs as deemed necessary.
No, they only give those to banks when they destroy the economy and steal a bunch of people’s houses.
For me, it's the rare errors/workarounds that need more love. It's not rocket science to learn Python, yet we somehow have literally 100's of guides on how to start learning Python. Once you dive into a particular niche method, though, there may be a couple of SO posts unanswered or with unsatisfactory/ungeneralizable results. If you don't have an experienced mentor and you're on your own, I find that situation pretty hard to deal with. It may be some basics that you're lacking as an intermediate, non-advanced practitioner, because you relied on this patchwork of beginners' tutorials limited to the main/easiest tasks in the language. When I was learning R, the tutorials I looked at didn't mention selecting columns with $, which was a very poor oversight and led to some "dumb questions" to my mentor.
Looks like it's targeted more towards the Elm crowd with npm install instructions than the Elixir crowd with no hex/mix install method.
His reply pointed out a specific abuse of power that negatively affects the company. You failed to do so in your reply.

And seriously, name one possible motivation other than extortion for starting a relationship with a married executive.

And for the married executive, name one possible motivation other than sexual interest for a relationship with a subordinate.
Why? If you were worth hundreds of millions, wouldn't it make sense to have some means of self defense?
> In places like Tennessee, the tax rate can change if your item is a grocery or isn't a grocery.

That's not even the half of it. Grocery vs. non-grocery changes the rate. Some services that are tax exempt in other states are not in Tennessee.

And in Tennessee, you have the state level of 7%, and the ability for it to rise up to 9.75% based on a whole lot of inter-dependent local tax overlays.

The 2.75% difference comes from county, state, school district, transportation district, and "special purpose district" levies. All of which are optional to levy and voted on at the local level, and which may or may not overlap with each other to "stack" up to that cap at 9.75%.

Avalara, which is the de-facto owner of the sales tax calculation software space, has a good write up[1].

[1] https://www.avalara.com/taxrates/en/state-rates/tennessee.ht...
"Omit needless words." -- William Strunk (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Elements_of_Style#Content)
ugh. explain Mexico then. Not a quality post here.
I'm I the only one who finds it appalling that the NY Times mentions #metoo and Harvey Weinstein as if to insinuate his consenting relationship was anything like what Weinstein did.

Honestly, I get why these policies exist, but sometimes it feels heavy handed to fire somebody for having a consenting relationship at work. After all, when you work long and hard hours often times coworkers are the people you get to know best and your inner circle.
Soon:

AWS launches new 'Guaranteed to be in Oregon' VPN endpoints! Free for use while shopping on Amazon.com.
There's a lot of similar problems with having sets of 52 plus federal employment laws.

Its not surprising that one US right wing think tank thought the UK with its "socialist" NHS and higher income tax was a freer place to business.
I think you need both. Same as I think you need i10n and a8y at both layers.
> It's hard not to be mean to someone who calls it soccer

> ... Champions Cup ...

People in glass houses, my friend :D
0.01 is the resulting speedup in CPU usage (overall performance). It factors in the call count.
There seems to be an overlapping conflict area between the freedom to be ripped off and the freedom to control my own medical care.

I'd rather have more control over my life than less, even if it means there's risk. At least it's my choice which risk, not someone else’s.
People rarely comply, unless they are tax lawyers that fear the IRS wants to put them up as a trophy:

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2013/04/16/177384487/most...
If this test becomes widespread, I'd love to take it. I bet many of us in the tech industry have some sort of autism markers. It is a spectrum, after all.
I don't think you should be so quick to call something moral or not. Let's take your statement and apply it to a few real life situations ...

So what you're saying is we should take anything with a brain, figure out what it's answer would be to "do you want to be alive ?" and then support that decision ?

Boy, you must hate abortion ...

(just saying that those things obviously have a brain, and every last kid on the planet will say they want to be alive, so those embryos being aborted can be easily assumed to either be conscious or at least said to be rapidly becoming conscious, and we can be likewise sure they want to be alive as well. Human embryos have functional brains 20 days after conception, which is just barely after a woman would become aware of a pregnancy, and we support abortion up to 6 months or even later, at which point a human embryo has a brain with more functional neurons than almost any animal on the planet, and more than every dog, cat, primate, dolphin)

(and just to defend this research, any research that gets us closer to being able to grow specific tissues - especially neural tissue - has the potential to alleviate the suffering of a great many people that have damaged nerves and/or brains)

But we all know how we judge morals in practice. Things that can complain get preference. Brains in jars won't complain. Nobody will ever make a picture of them showing big eyes behind bars. There will never be a scream or panic reaction available in full-color video of them. So they'll be abused, even tortured, even for very little gain. Because that's how humans judge morality ... in practice. If you believe otherwise, good luck explaining the morality of abortion.
Actually, current sales tax software provided by South Dakota and other states does absolve a merchant for liability if used to calculate sales tax due.
You want to hide but not from Facebook
Facebook asked for little in incentives to bring data center to Huntsville
Lincoln's Sense of Humor
Small firms have always gone out of business or grown, or been bought up, its their creation rate that has dropped off causing the ration of small/large to change.
MmMmmmMmmm more taxes. Nothing feels better than the government's firm grasp around the business's scrotum. Tasty. More taxation does not necessarily equal a solution.
Completely, completely disagree.

First, some people probably will find what you write to be somewhat useful. Second, it's the absolute best way to learn something.

In your example, the problem was Google, not the myriad of people learning and writing what they learned.
Microsoft does not and did not have any policy like this.

That said, if the other party gets pissed at the end of the relationship and complains, you are gone.
Complex tax does not mean greater tax.
Unified API for UI dialogs, file handling, file drag and drop, clipboard, keyboard shortcuts, http(s) requests, image loading, OS notifications, OS menus etc.. ?
Maybe one should use the webview repo in conjunction with another GUI cross platform library ?
+1 for Outline
Do you have any references? I'd be interested to read them.
Hackers was one of the two movies that got me into development. The other was Antitrust (2001) [1]. I ended up taking AP Computer Programming in high school that year (back when it was C++) and had dreams of going to UIUC and starting a startup in the garage with my good friend.

[1] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0218817/
He likes to throw gasoline on a fire, ill give him that.
Isn't the same true of TurboTax?
The retailer isn't being taxed. They may collect the tax, but it's a transaction between the customer and their state.
WHO gaming disorder listing a 'moral panic', say experts
Iceland's success is probably not reproducible in a larger nation. Due to their numerous indoor fields, which draw on the plentiful/cheap electricity from geothermal power to keep the lights heated and grass growing, and their plethora of coaches (I heard 500 per capita) for their 300k population, it's really not feasible in China.
How else are we going to tailor our adverts based on the music on your iPod Shuffle?
I think it’s worth starting to question the term ‘Rich Countries’ when what we mean is countries with a richer elite.
Sorry for the late reply!

https://www.sciencenews.org

http://www.sciencemag.org

https://www.nature.com

https://www.eurekalert.org

https://physicsworld.com
Yeah, same with the wonderful new bike lanes, public plazas, ferry system, new bridges, new subways, etc. This is a nostalgia piece that misses the days where bars in the UWS where cheap because it was a hole (aka when my parents lived in the UWS).

This still exists, in roughly the same form - it's called Baltimore.