skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem with this is: how do you know what the tax rate is for the product you're selling? For instance, if you're in New Jersey and you're selling a clothing item like a pair of socks, then there's no tax. But if you're selling a fur coat, then there's full sales tax. There's different tax rates for different products, and it varies wildly across almost 10,000 different jurisdictions in the US.
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> The description you gave is of a dysfunctional organization.

Totally. But there are many organizations like that.

> the risk of the backfiring will be borne by the rule breaker.

But the higher up is in a better position to defend him/her. If you ask for permission then both of them are at fault.
I mean, I get what you're saying but there have been plenty of people in relationships that would be criminally abusive who didn't have a problem with the relationship.

Just because someone thought the situation was fine doesn't mean that it was good for society, and unless we become a libertarian paradise those questions are going to be asked when the situation has the heuristics that point to there being a problem
For two year old top tier video cards which are only top-tier because the manufacturer is not releasing later models to try and get rid of the old stock? Probably not.

(I have no evidence that they are not releasing newer cards just to continue to sell the older stock at MSRP).
I also live in Colorado and only got one such letter last year after a lot of online shopping. It was from B&H and was wrong, though the dollar amount wasn't very high. I placed an order where one item was back ordered, so separate shipments came. They said tax was owed on the back ordered item twice.

But, as you said, Amazon already collects tax at time of sale which was the bulk of my purchases.
Outside of the Google projects people have mentioned, I hardly ever see this. Well, I do see "doesn't work on IE" or "please dear god stop visiting with IE 6" pretty often, but I can hardly blame sites for that...
You may have just changed my life with The Great Suspender...
That is the price of doing business with customers of the EU, similar to how you must comply to EU regulations if you want to sell physical goods. In return, you get access to the EU market and can deal with a single ruleset for the whole EU instead of each country individually.

Also, this is only for consumers, to business customers you can reverse-charge the VAT so they have to handle it.
Humans are wired to see meaning. For example the simple 1960’s program ELIZA was perceived by some to be intelligent, even though it was rather simple. In a very novel situation such as an encounter with Koko, a person would be primed to see meaning in almost every action, whether or not it was really warranted.
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While I can't speak for US law, most of the time it's the delivery address that matters - if the location you're at when purchasing matters, you could do all of your expensive on-line shopping when on holiday in some place with low taxes (or using a VPN...).
This is how MS operates... they're kinda like spoiled rich toddlers that want the same toys as their friends, but get bored quickly and throw them away after a few minutes.

They've spread themselves so thin in all areas they don't know what to concentrate on and don't have the discipline and long term commitment to their new ventures.

IMHO, VR/AR is the future of how humans will interface with their computers. Sure, it's still maybe 10 yrs away from really taking hold, but it will surely happen and MS will - as always - be a follower and not a leader.
Ben Franklin imitated John Bunyan from Pilgrim's Progress if I am not wrong.
This is potentially much broader though -- say you buy a domain on some registrar, do you pay taxes on that now? Every such place then needs your address, too.

And going down this road, p2p barter on the internet of any kind might be subject to a tax regime soon.
It’s called an use tax. It’s equivalent to a sales tax, reporting is required but voluntary. Not paying use taxes on internet purchases is tax evasion. Here’s what CA’s state tax collectors have to say:

https://www.ftb.ca.gov/individuals/use-tax.shtml

https://www.cdtfa.ca.gov/taxes-and-fees/use-tax.htm
Exactly; sales taxes generally just hurt the poor and middle class. A good case could be made for consumption taxes on luxury items, but taxing things like food and inexpensive consumer items (like non-luxury clothing) simply hurts poorer people while not significantly affecting wealthier ones.
Why is it that morals rule on message boards?
Also same here. And here I thought I was uniquely troubled
I'm curious about the 10% Which sites would you say provide decent backend C# resources?
Elon is just a bored rich kid and the reducing pollution and greenhouse gas is a facade to distract himself from his ghoulish nature. If you really care about these two things, are you a vegan? Is he a vegan? Or, the far more likelier situation, is Elon attempting to ultimately dissuade workers from unionizing, so that he can continue to exploit them?
This is one of those comments why I enjoy HN. Thanks
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The parser linked from the article does:
https://github.com/crdoconnor/strictyaml
define successful? to me gainfully employed is a pretty successful developer.
I can't imagine we're gonna see RBG agreeing with the Alito/Gorsuch/Thomas clan too often.

To some extent, sure, but that's also exaggerated. The one or two "ideological" decisions with stereotypical lineups get all the attention, because general readers can pick a team and root for it, just like sports and election politics, so it makes for lots of clicks and ad eyeballs. In reality, differing lineups happen frequently, because the justices have their own unique perspectives on most cases and areas of law, and over the past several years unanimous and 8-1 decisions are up compared to the past.
Microsoft claims to be developer friendly these days, but they are clearly not white-hat friendly.
I'm curious if you know any sign languages. I think you have to have some proficiency with the French sign language family (e.g. ASL) (beyond beginner because beginners are very brittle to changes in accent and style) to judge Koko's abilities for yourself
Advancement of that is also dependent on silicon lithography.

Again, what's the valuation of Intel if (in the future) we see them churning out the same 1GB NVMe cards at the same cost with the same performance? The valuation of Intel and every other tech company is based on future growth potential.
"Whatever you want" is not a number. If you had said $20 million, would he have paid that? Did he have that kind of money?

And true, the price to compromise your morals in that case might have been too great. That doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

But I think comfort plays a large part in this. You've turned down unethical and dangerous projects because you could. You had enough income to survive so there's no need to risk anything. You could be slightly better off, but you're probably still doing good.
So how do these suggestions work if what you're procrastinating on is your job? Asking for a friend.
Seen a few people claim from time to time that real world experience is the "special sauce" of general AI. I've never seen anything to substantiate this claim. We all live in a box, we all experience our world through simple electrical signals.

Other than being unsubstantiated, the real world only runs at 1x, simulated world can run at any rate your computing platform supports.
This wasn't invented by the internet. Interstate mail order sales delivered by railroad in the 19th century were always tax free. E-commerce inherited that system.
A good employee stock option plan should have a clause which triggers full vesting upon major equity events (such as aquisition, etc)
Mind explaining how that text input field creates an XSS opportunity?

> XSS enables attackers to inject client-side scripts into web pages viewed by other users.

Nobody other than you will see your alert("this is bad") so this doesn't seem like XSS.
Every time I read extensive tutorials, blog posts, what have you about something. I think to myself, damn, these guys have a lot of extra time on their hands. Generally I learn new things, by building something, and then building something that builds up upon that. I can't see stopping to write about it too! I dig it though, I do, without you I wouldn't have learned a lot of things. But it always amazes me the dedication to put all of that together, while working on other things.
I really liked that you skipped over what that ballot initiative was. He donated in support of Prop 8, an attempt to ban same-sex marriage in California. As a former Mozilla employee, I'm pretty glad that he was ousted for his homophobia. Good riddance.
I thought react native was a facebook technology, is it theirs to 'sunset'?
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You could say the same thing about ancestors who are murderers, as a reductio ad absurdum. Obviously just because our forebears did something doesn't mean that that is good.
/u/DanBC collected a few links a while back, I'll just link to his comment (HN search is broken for me right now): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16440683
it's not a definition of working when you need to cheat system in order to get it working.
Yeah, it can also be way for you to learn something of interest about them. This is particularly relevant in a business networking situation.
This is really nice research! Simple, effective, and brutal.

This reminds me of the research that went into finding issues in the media plugin models. Essentially, once the security community discovered that Java and Flash, etc, plugins didn't follow the same rules as the browser at all times - it became a free bug hunting exercise until the media plugin model just died.

I expect there are some "side channel" type ways to create high resolution timers in browsers which have removed built in support for them, for instance: WebAssembly? WebGL subroutines?

Anyway, congratulations.
Have you ever done any reading about "embodied cognition"?

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/a-brief-guid...

It seems there's nothing logical about human cognition, it just ends up resembling logic because movement through space either works or it doesn't, and humans have the ability to assign physical analogies to abstractions and to respond to those metaphors with the same heuristics and physical reflexes that it was born with; heuristics and reflexes designed over a few billion years to allow your ancestors to survive and reproduce.

The problem with training things on artificial datasets is that they are not rich (resolution is too low) or surprising (generated by simple algorithms.) An AI that worked as well as the human brain would just end up reading them back to you. The real world is, information-wise, incompressible. It has such fine distinctions that its impossible to examine them beyond a certain level without the act of observation changing them.

I always thought there was some potential in using robotic bodies with good sensors that fed into some processing theory of mind in order to grow an AI.
https://youtu.be/JqUm3M1cpi8?t=691
In addition this adds a new administrative burden to small sellers that isn't free
Be careful about making too much cancer attribution here, though. For one, naturally occurring background radiation levels can be (and often are) far higher than most people realize, and our bodies have long ago adapted to that as best they can. Two, in addition to other pollutants, burning coal also releases quite a bit of radiation, far more than you average nuclear plant or whatever. Third, for the longest time a dose of radiation received all at once vs. that same dose of radiation received over time were treated as if they were exactly the same biologically. But now that we have actual long-term results to go by, it turns out that radiation received over time is generally somewhere between 10x and 100x less dangerous biologically than if that same radiation were received all at once. Also, it matters a lot what the type of radiation received is and where you receive it. For example, radiation received by the skin (dead tissue) may be all but inconsequential, while that same radiation received in the lungs or gut or bloodstream (live tissue) may potentially be disastrous.
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Procrastination is the avoidance of activity due to a discomfort/fear/anxiety and subsequent inability to scale the discomfort wall that exists between you and the tasks' completion. Other comments mention a pointlessness or lack of purpose, which I consider secondary, since it's arguable if it's truly procrastination if the work is truly pointless. Procrastination as a term seems best applied to important/mandatory tasks. Though, I acknowledge many BS tasks of today's workplace are both pointless and mandatory.
> But if you instead see him as a CEO,

Still seems like a jerk to me.
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How does f'ing the third-party sellers help Amazon? You know they make money from them, too right? If anything Amazon and eBay have offloaded inventory and sometimes logistics risk onto third parties and they're happy to just extract rent. They're not interested in going back to be a first-party warehouse of everything.
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Thankfully, we have computers! Any online sales program worth paying for includes automatic sales tax collection by jurisdiction.

Note, this ruling doesn’t mean that all businesses will immediately be taxed. The law over which this suit was filed requires collection if your annual business in the state is $100,000 or >200 sales, which means you’re already doing a sizeable business.
But from my imperfect understanding if you own the technology/product, not if you just use it. So Facebook may sunset React Native? But I'm no native speaker.
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Honestly, I'm not entirely clear why people are saying this was him being forced out. Unless a CEO decides to fight the board, it's easy enough to just say "hey, you're done so pick a graceful reason to resign". There are plenty of "time with the family" resignations out there with no need to dig up dirt.
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No, you're right. Users can't sunset anything.
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Yeah, this is a very misleading use of sunsetting. They mean "sunsetting at AirBNB", but with the way the title is worded it sounds like AirBNB is shutting down the React Native project.
A metaphor for shit thinking that people interpret as profound. A deepity.
We have used TaxCloud which handles computing and paying the sales tax. You have to set what type of product each item you sell is so they know how to calculate tax for that type of item where you're selling it
That's how large retailers do it already. I worked at a company that created software for calculating sales and use tax for large retailers. It was an incredible headache and I doubt any retailer would do it themselves since they can also point to the vendor as the liable party when a mistake is made, and those mistakes will be made.

We even had areas where we could not find the correct tax because the government in charge refused to tell us
I believe you are correct, so they could sunset the version of their app built with React Native, but only fb could 'sunset react native'.
It's probably a good rule of thumb for a person in authority to assume anyone under him%her
One can see a rationale in not having a security group - every team should have security focus (eg by having expertise & champions within each group). You can't tack on security, you have to build it in.
Wisconsin does the same and I will be honest have simply lied and put an insignificant random number.
Won't they need report the failure of controls to the SEC?
> "The limits of my language means the limits of my world."

there are many languages and each languages has many medium. There is no limit to communication. In fact we probably don't even speak the same native language, yet here we are communicating with each other.
Just wanted to say - this is great, and I enjoyed it! thank you!
It also carries a more subtle connotation where a sunset is relatively peaceful, in contrast with a more violent and/or forceful verb like "terminating", and could also be seen as more inevitable.
The entire point is managing privileges.

Just because I type in yourdomain.com does not mean I want you to be able to start playing death metal from my speakers. What about typing yourdomain.com means I want you to break my back button? Show a popup rather than close the browser? Churn CPU cycles crypto mining or do just about anything beyond hand me a document? Display a flashing GIF?

The current model is basically handing complete control over my machine to a third party that may be compromised by anyone any time I click a random link.

The single greatest web innovation in the last 30 years was readability mode.
The media focuses on the most controversial cases. There's less headlines for court orders signed by all nine. Between even two of the most ideologically/philosophically different justices, they concur 67% of the time.
And this is why everyone should be supporting a federal VAT instead. If I'm not mistaken, Amazon had a similar argument a few years ago.
There are two against it on fairness grounds I can see but your mileage may vary on practically and definitions of fairness.

One is that they don't use the infrastructure in the state. Shippers are either already taxed for their use if private or self funding government in the case of UPS.

The second is a more slippery taxation without representation which also gets into all sorts of semantic issues with who is really being taxed the in state residents or the out of state residents.

Really the tax infrastructure is in drastic need of modernization and streamlining. It may step on a lot of toes but I could see forcing online sales tax into a federal fixed rate with redistributed fixed percentages as worth it. Say 5% rate nationally and of that 1/3rd each to the buyer's state and the seller's state and 1/6th to each municipality respectively with it defaulting to the state if it is unincorporated. It would even actually fit in interstate commerce domain nicely.
>> That said, one would presume there would be no shortage of jealous rival researchers ready to say any BS as a critique for any study.

Well, science is a debate- and not necessarily a nice one. There will always be rivals, waiting in the wings to skewer your arguments. The ideas that end up being adopted by the majority are the ones best supported by their originators, either with evidence or whatever else happens to be handy.
That's actually debatable. I certainly do rewarding things for myself when procrastinating.

And my job honestly is a negative value to society. I am a salesman at a rent seeking corporation.

I would literally do society more good if I wasn't driving a gas guzzler to work every day and sitting in a giant air conditioned office.
This was awhile back in the unverified TLS certificate era so I'm assuming they got more serious about it.
Interesting comparison between smoking and procrastination. If we examine the neurology of both, we see a dopamine-centric reward system behind task completion, and probably a very small dopamine hit after procrastination. Similarly, nicotine has been shown to affect the very dopaminergic pathways involved in reward/pleasure systems. So, in a very real neurological way, the comparison is apt. I wonder if people who succesfully go cold-turkey off nicotine have some tendency to procrastinate or not? Or generally, do those who smoke have a tendency to procrastinate or not?
Compliance is far more complex than a simple look up table. Rates vary by state, county, city, school district, mass transit zone, water district. And each of these political subdivisions and the sales tax they assess changes with every ballot issue!

There's a lot of faxing, forms to fill, etc.

So most of the value is the vendor doing the legwork in keeping up with details and fixing corner cases. And leveraging their pre-existing trust network and economy of scale.
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They're sunsetting their use of it, not the technology itself. (The title is very confusing.)
This “genius band of self-destructive nincompoops” is the Supreme Court, including Ruth Bader Ginsburg.” Your narrative doesn’t quite hold together.
So while the states and small businesses are busy patting themselves on their backs, Amazon will quietly build distribution points in every zip code and prepare for 1 hour shipping everywhere.
Oh man! I just read that, and absolutely loved it. A pretty brilliant piece of writing.

Reminds me of the Google Ultron IT guy story, from 2014 (I think? How do 4Chan/American dates work?)

https://imgur.com/a/iJD8f
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The glib rebuttal would be that the internet was once distributed, and it was unimaginable that the content would become as centralized as it has today.
If there were a big target on my back I would do that, but since I am running Linux, I am not a rich person or have an important job I assume that I will be attacked by regular malware and not skilled hackers.
'gradual removal in stages' -- it is common in the United States for lawyers, government administrators, human resources managers, and others who make changes to important legal policies describing use and restriction of goods, services and repetitive payments, to describe this way.. (the phrase also has a mind-dulling, sleepy effect on the victims as a desired side-effect..)
The reason for the discomfort wall's existence is important to figuring out the best way to get over it. Certainly being required to do something day-in and day-out that you find purposeless is one way that the wall might be created.

For me, a lot of times it's boredom. It's boring to have to do 2 hours of work sometime in the next week; it's far less boring to have to do 2 hours of work in the next 90 minutes.

(Note I'm not recommending this, as it's basically medicating your boredom with stress, and stress has a lot of well documented side-effects).
Then there was this thing called mail-order. Comic books seemed to rely on advertising mail-order novelty items as their revenue model.
Why would you think there is an AI Winter upon us?? From my subjective viewpoint, I don't feel like I've seen any evidence of that. If anything, AI (in a general sense) seems to be hotter than ever.

What evidence is there for an notion of a developing (or existent) AI Winter at the current moment?
I'm dealing with this now. We're working on a very complex map visualization with D3, and Firefox runs it choppy as hell. On the other hand, WebKit/Blink browsers (Chromium, GNU Web (Epiphany), others) run it buttery smooth.

Given that everyone else on my team uses Chrome, I think we'll likely be sporting a "works best in Chrome" banner soon, especially as most people would be confused by "works best in WebKit/Blink".
The problem with Amazon is that shipping can take months for non-prime users. In most cases you are better off buying from walmart if they carry the item.

Sent from someone outside of the US
The extra connotation here is that AirBnB was perhaps the most visible/vocal user/proponent of RN after Facebook. They built an entire engineering org on it, etc.
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