skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why don't we get rid of taxes altogether?
If a state the business doesn’t operate in imposes the requirement to collect sales tax on your business out of state, you do have a multitude of costs and issues as a small business. If the federal government wished to circumvent this with a VAT split amongst the states, that is one thing, both sane and constitutional in the face of this, but this invites a mess.

First, if you are required to possess a sales tax license with that state, and potentially municipalities or jurisdictions within the state that require the fees and paperwork yearly, there is one huge cost, both in time and fees. No software will absolve your liability of this if you mess it up or dont pay the fees, you as the business own it.

If you are required to file monthly or quarterly statements with the state along with any remittances, there is time and costs there. File late, file incorrectly, fees and interest on top of the tax obligation. Refuse or forget to pay the tax to a jurisdiction in backwater Alaska, time and money to wrestle with tax auditors from another state if they pursue action. How will the states negotiate auditors and tax authorities stepping all over eachother within their jurisdictions.

Need to purchase extra services to juggle the spiderweb of compliance, reporting, and remittance issues, there is also more cost, whether in your additional time ($), accountants ($), or third party services ($). Keep in mind, none of these things absolve you of liability if you mess this up.

He is absolutely right.
Truthfully, the people you reach out to will be honored you are asking them.
Isn't it a stereotype that poor people are the ones taking the bus/train?
My point was that high blood sugar damages the kidneys, so if TiO2 in kidneys is an effect rather than cause of diabetes, we would see it in both type I and type II.
I do not admit that "the cause" is laziness. Laziness is part of the causal chain, sure. Single-cause thinking is a poor way to do a failure retrospective.

We don't know whether or not they knew it didn't work with black people before they shipped it. Maybe they did and dismissed it with technical hogwash, as you are here. Maybe they did and decided it was an ok flaw. Maybe they didn't know because the company doesn't have any black employees and nobody though to test it on black people because the people in charge don't know any. Or maybe they do and just don't care. There are many possible paths to this decision, but any of them demonstrates systemic racism.

And this is on topic, because the broader topic is social implications of technology.

As an aside, your attempt to narrowly define the topic so racism can't even be spoken of is a pretty typical move from people experiencing white fragility: http://libjournal.uncg.edu/ijcp/article/view/249
I don't mean anything specific by "good for the economy", I just mean good for general prosperity, on average. (I realize that trade policies are often have winners and losers, and reasonable people will disagree on what's "good for the economy" depending on what part of the economy they care most about.)
Of course! It wasn't my first time playing it had just been years since my last playthrough.
>holds the state governments to a modicum of honesty.

Coffee almost came out my nose.

Governments in southern New England are only regarded as legitimate because people in MA and CT bury their heads in the sand and RI compares itself to NYC and Chicago (that's not to say that useful or good programs don't exist within these governments).

>This is the equivalent of telling New Hampshire stores that they're responsible for collecting Massachusetts sales tax for people coming over the border to shop.

I fully agree that state tax should follow the state of the merchant. If a state's cost of doing business (through taxes, cost of living or some other reasons) is so high that businesses that have to pay to ship their good can out compete them then it's that state's problem. If it wants a cut it's going to need to change things so that more business happens in its jurisdiction. Sales taxes are regressive anyway so they should be a race to the bottom.
Is this a joke? I really can't tell.
Literally everything we do can be boiled down to checklists. Atul Gawande is a national treasure and I highly recommend his book Being Mortal as well.
I live next to a train station in San Diego (one of those high-density near public transport setups, in a comfortable/safe apartment). Safety is what prevents me from taking it anywhere, I see fights at the station on a worryingly more regular basis, arrests every few weeks, and yelling almost daily (all witnessed from my apartment window). I've seen in the news that teenagers have been victims of an armed robbery on or near the train station just after mine (amaya) last summer. The San Diego trolley really needs a transport police officer on every station and in every train. I feel bad for the people whom this this the only transport option for. The system actually seems well designed as far as the trains, station location, and future growth plans go. But with no ticket based access-control on trains (seriously just walk on) and pretty limited police coverage, it just doesn't seem able to reach its potential.
It's a bit of a chicken-egg problem, at least from my perspective in the US, as well as a bit of a vicious cycle. I'm not optimistic. Here's why. (and also why I think the fix wouldn't work for many cities in the US at the current time.)

In Seattle, if I want to get from a suburb on the east side into the city, during ANY trafficked time, it's going to be at least 2 busses (usually crowded, late, or full, so add another ~1), a decent amount of walking, and a 1.5-2 hour total trip. This compounds with the fact that many of the fringe buses only come once every half/hour, and not at all on weekends.

Compare this to a city that had proper infrastructure to start, Philadelphia. I lived a comparative distance, and the population is MUCH higher and denser. But a 5 minute walk and a single 20-30 minute train ride put me anywhere I wanted in center city. While Seattle "has light rail" it's an honest joke next to the coverage in the north-east.

As such, there's _no option_ to tax balance, it would end up being highly regressive punishing those forced to live further out and with no option but to use a car. The vicious cycle comes into play as the increased car traffic makes public transit less emphasized, convenient, and more of a perceived negative, leading to increased car traffic, etc etc. (compounded by less people wanting to take the tax burden they don't see a personal benefit to; there are a few different "tragedy of the commons" type effects in this mess.)

If we had trains that could get me to work like the sister post says about Stockholm's, no need for additional motivation, I wouldn't own a car for an instant, and didn't until my mid/late 20s when I left the east coast, but that's not the reality of the cities we've built, and now we're in a bit of a hole that I'm not sure how to incentivise people out of.
We should differentiate between 1) standardizing the tax calculation algorithm, and 2) standardizing the taxation rates

As long as the two are conflated nothing will change. Irrespective of political/personal/ideological position on nr.2) I think most of us can agree on nr.1)... (except for the bigger chains, and the FUD navigation services.
It occurs to me that these rants of Linus’ would get him banned on this site. It also occurs to me that it only works because people give him a wide bearth, because otherwise it’s just people “screaming” at each other, the very thing that the rules of this site seek to avoid. The notion that emphasis, memorability, and clarity can only be achieved by acting like a child having a tantrum runs contrary to the platform on which this discussion is being had.

I don’t know if that matters, but it strikes me as odd that people who seem to appreciate how this site works think that Linus is some exception because of just how mission critical he is. I also think it likely reflects the lack of soft skills some here have that they can’t imagine a better way being as or more effective, despite the living example of HN itself.
Agreed. In my experience, the core challenge with most tasks is just that we don't spend enough time working on them. I can easily ignore a bot nagging me, and eventually just turn it off.

The best solution for me is real-time accountability that forces me to sit down and commit to a real person what I'm about to do RIGHT NOW.

I made an app for this called Focusmate (https://www.focusmate.com). It's a bit like a study buddy, except for anyone and any task, and much more effective IMO.

PS. My quiz results: "Oops. Sorry, we can't seem to find what the problem is." (https://imgur.com/a/A2qhoGQ)
For the NYC subway trains: get rid of the dance troupes, musicians, beggars, and crazy people.

I would pay extra for the NYC subway user experience to be like the LIRR user experience. Why can’t it be?

Why do I have to dread getting on the subway after 10pm?

Why do I have to put up with mariachi bands playing in my ear at 6am?

Why do I have to worry about my face getting kicked by a dancer during my commute?
Great share, thank you. Though in searching for it I was surprised to find it was already mentioned on here... eight years ago! Crazy: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1264713.

Still, thanks so much for posting it else I wouldn't have ever seen this. Cheers!
Fred Wilson: Words of Wisdom on Finding Your First Customers
If it's not affecting you in a negative way then it's not a disorder. If it is then it can be. If it doesn't have serious negative impacts then you're just non-neurotypical which is fine. People have the same opinions around ADHD but when you need accommodation or treatment it's worth classifying it as something that needs some level of accommodation or treatment.
This isn't much different from say Lawrence, Kansas, much less any decent-sized American city.
True, but there probably aren't many lawyers who can answer the question either.
Is it fair to say that corporate self-image concerns seems to drive a lot of the behavior of game companies above and beyond market considerations? I feel like I am often scratching my head at things like this on Sony's or Nintendo's or Microsoft's behalf. For instance, 'The Last of Us' -- supposed to be a great game, can't play it because it's PS3/PS4 only, not going to buy a console just for this one game, it's 5 years old, would seem like a good candidate for a PC port. And yet, no dice.

(Many if not most of the decisions Nintendo made in the 2000s, particularly around internet gameplay for the gamecube, were equally confusing.)
Manjaro i3 has a few good ideas but had I started using i3wm through that, I'd probably have been turned off it. It's just not my cup of tea.

Fedora Magazine has a pretty decent guide for setting up i3 to a functional state and I can recommend it: https://fedoramagazine.org/getting-started-i3-window-manager...
Electron's API stability isn't awesome, so in practice I think you'd tie html bundles to runtime versions, and just end up with an awful lot of globally installed Electron runtimes on your system.
Meantime transferwise.com from article is down for more than 6 hours already, be careful...
Yeah, the problem is that I don't cut $35/month off my comcast bill by eliminating TV. They really have a racket going lol.
My commute:
* driving: 10 minutes
* biking: 24 minutes
* bus: 12 minutes walk + 20 minutes on bus 1 + 11 minute wait for transfer + 29 minute bus 2
Stock Market Investment is not a skilled ability.

Example: Buffett made the bet in December 2007, arguing that a fund holding the same stocks as found in the Standard & Poor's 500 index could beat the combined performance of a group of hedge funds over the following 10 years. Buffet won easily - https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/markets/2018/03/07/warr...

Real Life Meaning - You need to diversify so much that you just bet on America's economy and not on intelligence of a manager.
This is the problem that real public transit will address, obviously if you have no density then it doesn't make sense.

But there are places in the US that do have density where people sit in traffic all day and think its normal. It doesn't have to be complicated -> 400,000 cars move up and down my local freeway during rush hour, so build a subway underneath and make stops every mile or so.

Go to the Ruhr/Cologne area of Germany, it is bunch of little and big cities all spread out across a large region and they have hundreds of transit options from high speed trains to trams to bus lines etc. Its very easy to get around and you don't have to sit in traffic on the autobahn.

We need better transit in the States, you can't bury your head in the sand and proclaim that AV cars will solve everything. You have massive urban centers and metro areas that will continue to grow and roads just don't scale that well (look at LA)
Which is your favourite shell? bash, oh-my-zsh, fish?
Looks like your playground is based off Ellie, which is a great choice. However, it seems that there is an issue with downloading the Elm compiler. I'm getting a network failure from ellie's CDN(NAME_NOT_RESOLVED).

Other than that, thank you for this, it is super interesting to me as I am a huge fan of both languages, and lack of type safety has always been my only misgiving with Elixir/Erlang. I'll have to take a spin this weekend.
The first few years the health insurance exchanges were open, getting insurance on your own was a breeze. I purchased insurance for my family for a few years that way, paying perfectly reasonable premiums for the benefits offered.

In my state, Kentucky, there is now only one insurer per county offering plans and they're HMO garbage accepted almost nowhere. Additionally, large insurers like Humana (that are based here!) aren't really offering private insurance plans.

Kentucky is just about W2 or bust for health coverage :(
Stock in Facebook is the same principle as stock in Ford. You are simply buying a share of the company. I don't see how indexing them is any less the beneficial now then it was twenty years ago
Annoying in your face ads on YouTube. Maybe it works for their target audience but boy are they really annoying.
That's true now that I think of it. Mom and pop's don't have that laundry service budget.
More and more families are deciding to stay in city centers, too. Not all of them of course, but the current trend is clear.
Agreed. These indices are extremely useful for trading.

For just under $275, just about anyone can buy a share of SPY and make/lose money based on trends across a diverse array of the largest companies in the world. Without indices, you'd have to spend tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars for this kind of diversification.

It's also useful for tracking trends within specific sectors. Think tech is undervalued? Invest in a NASDAQ ETF like QQQ or NDX. Maybe you read that OPEC is planning to increase oil production and you think that's going to devalue existing oil supplies, so you take a short position on XLE (an energy index ETF).

The relative simplicity of indices means there's a lot of volume and liquidity. It's not easy to find a buyer for shares in an obscure oil company, but lots of investors would be happy to buy your energy index ETF shares.

I love indices. I'd be hesitant to invest in sectors I don't know much about, like construction materials. They're heavily affected by the price of raw materials, and lately all this tariff talk has caused a lot of volatility in those prices. Which individual companies should I get involved with? It's hard to say without a fair bit of research because it's a specialized field. With an index ETF, I can quickly take a long or short position to get a little exposure to the sector without having to dig too deep.
> it constitutes the dominant light-scattering, that is, “white” component of indoor wall paints, drinks, foods, toothpastes, medications, cosmetics, paper, and plastics.

I understand why TiO2 is used in paint and even in cosmetics but why should it be in anything that is eaten or in medicines? None of that needs to be shining white.
So, uh, not only have the cryptocoin nuts abandoned critical thinking and skepticism but now they've firmly moved into the realm of numerology and number worship? This isn't an article, they've taken a number and created a mythos as to why this number has cosmological significance, this is the beginning of a religious document. Genesis block? Unified Field Theory? The significance of 21e8? The fuck is this? I bet I could find a mac addr that is using this number but it doesn't mean that its fucking significant to cosmological blockchain holistic nirvana.
I wish had the time to procrastinate more.

Ironically, my job, which is the reason for my lack of procrastination time, I got directly as a result of the many hours I procrastinated during the last year of university.

Sometimes procrastination pays of, you just don't know it whilst procrastinating, which makes it valid procrastination at the time.
Saying "The universe is" doesn't say what something Objectively is or what it means.

Tautologies are semantic and thus bound by the axiom of language itself. I.e. "universe" is an assumption, an axiom.

So no it doesn't really eliminate "everything is subjective" it fits perfectly into the postmodern critique of language itself.
Only drinks with zero sugar/carbs.

Started with Atkins diet, now I'm little looser. Just limited carbs.

Working out, mainly running.

Intermittent fasting. Each day, I eat something small in the morning, maybe slim fast, maybe nuts, and one meal in the afternoon.
Seems like Warren Buffet won his bet just investing in the index (S&P 500 not Dow) over a hedge fund.

"Buffett made the bet in December 2007, arguing that a fund holding the same stocks as found in the Standard & Poor's 500 index could beat the combined performance of a group of hedge funds over the following 10 years."

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/markets/2018/03/07/warr...
DynamoDB on Amazon, not even counting the generous free tier, costs $0.09 per 5.2 million reads (queries I assume).

https://aws.amazon.com/dynamodb/pricing/

The free tier is 200 million reads per month. That would cost $2M on your service.
I worked for a 100% remote company for years. Although I wasn't involved in the payroll details, my impression was that the problems were just bureaucracy, and not as painful as this article implies. The answer to make it work was, "Hire a payroll processor."
Mysterious ‘Jumping Gene’ That Appears 500k Times in Human DNA
Everybody understands the value of crossplay and portability of 'stuff'. It's just not particularly valuable when you're in a dominant position.

All of these companies have had pretty shitty, anti-customer attitudes. Microsoft popularized pay-for-online services with Xbox Gold and now it's standard to have to pay a monthly fee to play your console games online. Conservely, crossplay would be the standard now is Microsoft has jumped on board when Sony was supporting it last generation. Nintendo hasn't been able to maintain a reasonable level of presense-across-device, creating a massive headache when changing devises or getting a new console and having to repurchase things you shouldn't have to. I can't really see the justification for not buying a Sony product but continuing to support Xbox or Nintendo given all of their attitudes over the years.
As someone who gets cold sores this worries me. I know when I am super stressed because a cold sore will begin to appear on my lip. It's always there but stress allows it to replicate, all parts of my immune system are not able to cope during stressful events. I hope this doesn't mean I'm at risk for Alzheimer's disease.

At least it's now known when people sleep it clears out beta-amyloid proteins in their brains. Not a cure but at least it's good to know sleep helps flush out the bad stuff.

https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/brain-may-flus...
It's a balancing act I suppose. People still find that it's worth paying to take the car, but not to the same extent as without the tolls (it only costs between $1 and $4 depending on the time of the day). I'd guess there's still some headroom for increasing the tolls without decreasing the car traffic too much.

If it were too expensive there'd be less money to finance public transportation which, I guess, creates a strange dependency. It somehow works, but there's still of course far too much car traffic.
There's another potential cause for procrastination, that this website doesn't seem to diagnose or offer advice on -

I have a hypothetical task in front of me, which is interesting, impactful, within my skill range, well-defined, and I know the first couple steps to start on it. I estimate that I can complete the task with 2~3 hours of solid work. This sounds like the _ideal_ anti-procrastination scenario, right?

But, I know I have a meeting at some point in the next 20~40 minutes, and that meeting will end 15~5 minutes before lunch starts.

And then, hypothetically, the meeting gets canceled, or is shortened to ~5 minutes, and basically the whole morning's worth of time has been wasted.

Any advice for either

> how to overcome the hump of starting to spin up on a deep work task you're likely to be interrupted for

or

> how to commit to starting a deep work task in a known uninterrupted block of time later in the day, and find _meaningful_ shallow work to do now, in a way that won't delay spinning up on the important task when the time becomes available
Have you tried adding the setting that doesn't exist manually? There's a little + button you can click on about:config.

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That's a particularly unhelpful error, sorry about that. It usually means that Tridactyl can't access the native messenger. Did you install it with `:installnative`? What is the output of `:native`?
I work with a few manufacturers and meet with their sales reps on a quarterly basis.
You can't have one without the other! I.e. someone has to pay the garbage men.
This turned into an interesting thread, thanks for that bit of info!
That seams reasonable enough.

I have two thoughts: a) this risks become a personality test, which are notoriously poor as a medical diagnosis tool, and b) I don’t think we (society) should be in a hurry to slap a medical diagnosis on everything.
Anyone who finds the cultural variety within walking distance of any point in Manhattan is comparable to a mid-sized city probably shouldn’t be in New York. (You’re overpaying if the experiences are comparable.)
Comparing to other athletic sport. I doubt it is more popular than LOL or Dota2 or whatever current popular eSport tho. Or even werewolves (langrensha).
This seems to be a really balanced article on transgender. Too bad it didn't make it to the top of HN.