skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A few people disagree with me it seems. Which is fair enough, we're all entitled to our own opinion. However the last two businesses I've worked for have all managed to innovate easily enough whilest still remaining inside the GDPR. Which is why I really don't see GDPR as a massive deal breaker.
The funny thing about reading is that we can do it for decades, picking up vocabulary and appreciating a polished sense of style.

And yet when we sit down to write, we have not consciously prepared ourselves with the tools to create and refine our own words.

So my advice would be to re-read parts of a favorite work or two that you consider to be eloquent. This time, as a student of technique, not content ... noting how the authors convey ideas clearly and convincingly, how your admiration is earned.
For the benefit of us with a poor intuition, do you mind walking us through how you arrived at your conclusion?
What I always thought the economic system would naturally come to is actually happening now. It's interesting why it's only happening now, likely because of the new growth dynamics of data companies.
Watch Amazon offer it as an AWS service...for a 0.2% fee.
Subtle reasons why P2P technologies are squashed likely include the difficulty of subversion by authorities and the threat that private communications represent to the copyright lobby.
> What no one is talking about here is how this would be handled, especially for a small online sellers.

Strange huh? Seems like the little guy is being attacked by the elites in every manner possible. Whether it is small online sellers, small time youtubers, independent freelance journalists, small time artists, writers, etc, seems like the rules are being changed to favor corporations and the heavy hitters. Heck, even search and social media results/algorithms are changing to cater to corporations.

Odd that this story hasn't gotten that much traction anywhere either. You'd think something this important would be all over hacker news and social media. I remember Bezos used to be very vocal whenever internet tax issues came up. He's been awfully quiet. Oh that's right, amzn is no longer a small time book and music seller.
Better for hygiene with a retractable, digital meat thermometer.

(that's what she said)
Several states have joined a consortium called the Streamlined Sales Tax Governing Board[1], which harmonized, standardized, and streamlined the sales tax policies between those states in order to support easier compliance across multiple states.

South Dakota's recent win at the Supreme Court[2] related to collecting sales tax from internet sales was due in large part to SD's very pragmatic and fair approach for out-of-state sellers (doesn't require you to know/care about local sales tax fluctuations and only want a base state-wide rate, exempts sellers with less than $100k of sales to the state, etc).

I'm with you in that I don't blame the state for wanting to collect taxes; stuff has to get paid for somehow, and states don't have the same infinite/unbounded pocketbook that the federal government has. But don't disregard what you said immediately after that - the difficulty with compliance is a huge hurdle. If the company could have made compliance a minor additional cost, they could bake that into their decision. Instead, it was an unbounded additional cost with unknown future repercussions and required heavy ongoing administrative work (it's another legal/accounting variable that adds potentially non-trivial overhead to all future legal and accounting work).

The streamlined sales tax stuff demonstrates the same type of collaboration that could be done to simplify remote employee administration, without having the full compliance baggage that comes with the same level of administrative overhead as if you had a full fledged office in the state. Doing so would make it far easier and less onerous to hire remote employees (or allow an on site employee to keep working for you if they move out of state). So it's still worth raising the issue to political figures, as it's very similar (if far smaller in magnitude) to the revenue loss they had by not making it easy to comply with sales tax stuff.

[1] http://www.streamlinedsalestax.org/
[2] http://thehill.com/policy/finance/393441-supreme-court-rules...
Neither Chrome nor Firefox's JSON.parse accept JSON5. I'm not sure what browser API you mean.

For example,

JSON.parse(`{"foo":"bar",}`)

throws a syntax error.
PostgreSQL collation is a massive footgun
>Everyone was okay about sharing the same printer but not the same CD-ROM drive.

Why would I want to share my personal automatic cup holder?
It is also often useful to get rid of the "you've used up your 10 articles for the month" messages that obscure article text.
I am wondering if "citizens broadband" and 5G might finally offer a viable alternative that will relegate these cancerous companies like AT&T to the trash heap.

For those who aren't familiar with this spectrum and it's opportunities. See:

https://www.mouser.com/applications/cbrs_is_the_next_big_thi...

and

https://www.qualcomm.com/news/onq/2016/08/29/new-kind-spectr...
Interesting. My productivity ends after lunch! It's all downhill from there - lack of focus, easily distracted, silly mistakes, is-it-5pm-yet thoughts etc.

I think it is breaking for lunch that does it. When I didn't have any team mates in my office and I'd just eat at my desk I'd still get good work done after eating. Now I have team mates in the same office as me and we go for a "proper" lunch break - something about stopping and then having to go back to work I guess.
I don't understand your comment. It feels like a higher level language because you can use a different unit for measuring time?
I know you aren’t sure what my point is. That’s because you think your world is limited by language.

And now you’re suddenly focussed on ‘objective truth’. Moving the goalposts because it’s obvious that truth can be expressed through means other than language.

Why not just admit that language is limited but it’s not the limit of our world, or our expression? Why is that so hard?
I apply mainly to mid-level positions. Probably about 70% of the positions I apply to are mid-level or nondescript, about 10% senior-level, and about 20% junior-level.

> A single interview faux pas can remove you from consideration.

That's terrible. When you’re on the job, people can judge you all they want but it’s gonna take many minor bad judgements (or a few serious ones) to pile up to make them cut ties and fire you.

In an interview, way too many things have to go right. That's not a microcosm of a typical job at all. With regards to professional faux pas, I prefer to follow this: if one mistake is not worth firing someone from their job, it's also not worth rejecting someone for a job.

Perhaps I can look into jobs where interviewing skills are not strictly required? I count every real interview I go to as practice, and after practicing with dozens of phone interviews, and about 10 on-sites, it's no longer clicking for me.

So there's gotta be another way, I think.
Google and Apple can afford to pay the costs of a non-neutral web. A non-neutral web closes the market to competitors.
I’m glad you spelled it out like that - I can clearly feel the difference between the two in my own life. The first case, choosing fun, is much rarer and always conscious, e.g. “I can mow the grass tomorrow, but my good friend is only in town today”. I normally have to talk myself into it, because my default is to plow ahead with whatever is in front of me, as long as it is clear what I need to do.

I find the second type of procrastination to be 50x more common in my life, a daily occurrence of painfully trying to find /something/ else to do to avoid the wall of dreaded tasks that I don’t know how to resolve.
What does the British government know about Trump and Russia?
Another inhumane and illiberal policy from China. And these guys are supposed to be the future?
> Now, it's just a giant subsidy for Amazon.

It was always just a giant subsidy for Amazon.
now it makes sense why the raiders play within sight of where the warriors play.
You are correct. See my other comment in this thread for some supporting evidence.
I don't really know if there's wage theft going on. I suppose the client company got some free work out of him, but the company can argue he shouldn't have been in the building. His badge didn't work, etc. But maybe the will let him bill those hours retroactively.
How to efficiently simulate a quantum circuit? Badum ching

I'll be here every night, ladies and gents.
And if that happens then certainly competitors would enter the market. If avalara is overpriced people will switch over.
I've heard good things from multiple first-hand experiences (one buyer, two sellers) about FE International (https://feinternational.com/) though I've never used them personally.
Be careful about that kind of wording. Those of us with loved ones who have severe autism consider it a "mental disorder" and not simply a psychological difference. We'd really love for all of the "neurodivergent" people to have their own diagnosis.
We do precisely none of that sort of thing. Our department's workload revolves around the shifting needs of a demanding media agency, who just wants pretty looking content that's easy to manage. Everything even remotely hard they use their own media talent for. What we do is perfectly suited for Rails.
I follow this design methodology https://github.com/testdouble/contributing-tests/wiki/Discov...

It's focus is not on constant refactoring but constant rewriting. Turns out easily rewritable code means easily deletable code. I think the major drawback of this approach is it's hard to follow for systems where you don't yet have some kind of intuitive sense of how the low level implementation requirements since you end up leaving those for last.
Can you expand on why TaxJar seems lighter after collecting sales tax? We have a fully automated reporting and filing solution that works at scale for over 10k merchants.

Disclaimer: I work at TaxJar, just curious to hear your feedback. Thanks!
> And what would it look like if Mom & Pop were starting an ice-cream shop instead of an online storefront? Would they _not_ have to pay tax then?

They would only have to pay sales tax in one tax jurisdiction, the one in which they are physically based and in which they can vote to change those taxes.

> But it does not follow that requiring sellers to pay sales tax is unduly burdensome.

What follows is requiring sellers to track and remit sales tax in some 10,000 jurisdictions is burdensome.
Stanley Cavell, 1926–2018
* unless it does. That one time.
Nuke us, dominate us with your big white cock.
If only we had .. machines which can look up an item in a huge list of items and find some specific properties about it.. just think! We could sell maybe two or three of these machines a year.
Well, the ancestors of birds, i.e. theropods, could not fly. Yet birds can fly.

"Everything" that birds have they didn't get from their ancestors. Like humans, birds came up with a few tricks of their own down the line.
With a brick-and-mortar storefront, they have to figure out one jurisdiction's salestax (rate and what is taxable), their own. That is quite literally orders of magnitude simpler than this.
No. We’re talking about sales tax, not gift tax.
> the system loses money per passenger in perpetuity

To the parent's point, the U.S. system for cars does as well. Including highway + local road funding (and delayed funding that has led to roads and bridges collapsing), parking lot real estate costs, oil exploration subsidies, the national oil reserve, pipeline and ocean damages, national defense, and more.
Folks may also be interested to read this useful summary of issues around locally installed roots: https://github.com/njh/dymo-root-ca-security-risk/blob/maste...
Startups lasting longer would have nothing to do with this? 0-2 Years represents "New" startups, so the number of new startups is declining.
Having written enough of boilerplate to do millisecond timestamps, or including a quite big chrono library for a nicer interface for a few time operations, these additions are quite luxurious.
Yes indeed I have heard about it! The numbers that I've read vary, but (IIRC) the one that sticks in my mind is that there is currently estimated to be something like 15% more water vapor in the air now than in the past (not sure about the timeline here), or some such, and that this is growing, but I don't remember all of the details. So not quite in equilibrium after all, at least no more than CO2 itself is. (If you check my post history you may find more discussion on this matter, but I'm not going to rehash all of that here.) Perhaps you should ask yourself why you haven't heard about that. The reference you provided is from 2005, so maybe it's just well out of date by now or something.

As to that experiment, it was being held up as a simple enough experiment that anyone could do proving basic things related to the greenhouse effect. Only it didn't quite seem to pan out that way.

As to Newtonian physics and such, didn't someone named Einstein once come along and stir up the pot and show that Newton was kind of wrong about some things? And aren't folks today still doing experiments testing Einstein's claims, and still pointing out that some of the things currently believed about gravity might yet need correcting? (No need for me to go into further detail here because I'm sure you will recognize what I'm talking about.) So even in the well-established field of physics it's still OK to question things like long-held beliefs about gravity. But for some reason in the relatively new field of climate science you DARE not question any of the status-quo. No sir!
To the contrary, every human, regardless of gender or creed, has an ass. It is the one universal way that we all can be violated against our will. And anyway, Anal play is not restricted to homosexuals.
Yeah I mean, Chrome tried to do it with Chrome Apps. It's older than Chrome, too. Firefox did it back in the days using a technology called "Prism": https://wiki.mozilla.org/Prism

It just.. it's not taking. It's not a valid way, right now, of telling people "Here's your native electron-like app". Why? It's hard to tell where the limits are.
California and Eight Other States Push Plan to Boost Zero-Emission Vehicles
I don't think it's negative bias; it's just reality –– massive pollution issues, expansionism, imperialism, racism, shining lasers in pilots' eyes, issuing balloon loans to weak African countries.

All bad stuff, and presided over by a man who is now dictator for life.
If I may be pedantic for one moment for the sake of clarity:

> The more confident you are that your test environment matches your prod environment, the less you need this

I'd also add "workload" alongside "environment", which is often challenging to accurately simulate.
But that doesn't really matter to the average resident - I've never received a notification that the recyclables list has changed, let alone fire pricing reasons.

Different communities have slightly different rules (they've been 90%+ the same from my experience), but that's why I said to print on the lid. Same bins can be bought in bulk and the only logistics would be dealing with a smaller, easier to transport lids.

Or just use a big, super strong sticker. New rules? New sticker covering the old one.
A more readable editorial can be found here: https://www.quantamagazine.org/finally-a-problem-that-only-q...

> Computer scientists Ran Raz and Avishay Tal provide strong evidence that quantum computers possess a computing capacity beyond anything classical computers could ever achieve. . . . They prove, with a certain caveat, that quantum computers could handle [a specific kind of computational problem] efficiently while traditional computers would bog down forever trying to solve it.
I believe this only applies to federal student loans.
The number of Americans who invest "serious effort" into playing hockey, or basketball, or NFL football is quite small. Doesn't mean those aren't popular sports here in the US.

In fact, I'm CERTAIN that hip-hop, yoga, or jogging all have a bigger hobby base in the US than hockey, or basketball, or NFL football. If by "hobby" and "serious effort" you mean personally engages in activity twice a week or more. That doesn't make any of them necessarily more "popular" than hockey, or basketball, or NFL football.

Just because it isn't played daily, doesn't mean it isn't a pass time. Martial arts tournaments are enormously popular.

It's arguably even worse in China. Because football is being propped up by the government. Which means even where the government is, let's say, "subtly to strongly urging" people to interact with football, they are still choosing to interact with basketball, martial arts, ping pong, etc instead. Without the government backing, football would fade quickly. Not so for table tennis, or basketball, or boxing. (Which all maintain their popularity with no government intervention.)
>>Do you know where the 8-hour work day came from? Because it definitely wasn't an increase in productivity.

The mandated 8 hour work week came as a result of concerted political effort, but the reductions in work hours were happening anyway, due to independend economic forces.

Just to give one example, Henry Ford instituted a 5-day work week in 1922. He instituted an 8 hour work day in 1926:

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/ford-factory-wor...

Moves like this had competitive implications, which forced other employers to do the same.

Today employers are exploring 4 hour work days. None of this is driven by top-down mandates imposed through legislation.

>>Just because our productivity has risen doesn't mean industries wouldn't demand even more production from an increase in hours.

This comment belies a basic misunderstanding of the leverage held by employers.

First of all, their profitability declines if their employees are less productive per hour of labor as a result of longer work days. That's saying nothing of the health implications of longer work days, and the higher rates of worker turn-over.

Second, employers are competing with each other for a limited pool of workers. They have to offer attractive terms to recruit quality employees.

They are not in a position to demand anything they want.

We would be in a sorry state if the only force that improves labor conditions and compensation is top-down mandates that regiment the range of acceptable employment contracts.

Fortunately it is not the only force. In fact, such laws are worse than useless, in removing options from the market that would otherwise be in everyone's best interests to exist.

>>And people lived brutal lives for many more reasons besides low labor productivity.

It was almost solely down to low labor productivty, as a consequence of the economy having very little physical capital.

The United States economy in the mid 19th century had per capita GDP comparable to some of the poorest countries in the world today.

The story of development is one of private investment generating capital, which boosts output, which enables higher volumes of investment. It's a long-term process that can transform a society from a state of extreme primitivity, to one of great opulence over the course of a few generations.

>>I'm a TA in advertising who specializes in motion graphics, rigging, and 3d rendering. My work has shifted from permanent employees to contractors over the last few years, along with the loss of protections that implies. Predictably, working hours have expanded vastly. It's very stressful work and I have virtually no security.

That's a consequence of an increase in the supply of people with your skillset relative to demand. Restricting work hours and mandating long-term employment in your field would greatly reduce the demand for the services you provide, because it would cost employers more to procure said services.

The second order consequence of this would be less of these services being consumed by society, meaning the price paid by consumers increasing, and fewer people being able to make a living from providing these services.
> still involve driving to a bus station

This is often the equivalent of those cities commuter rail; and one interpretation is not enough readily available last mile options.

Bonus, not everybody drives to those bus station, some of us bike to the rail/bus station. (anecdotally)
In matemathics (and thus HPC/scientific computing/image processing/data science/scientific computing/etc) it is very common to multiply different matrices together which SIMD brings huge speedups for.
By now, iTunes is suggesting a lot of stuff to me that I really like. But if you’re starting from zero:

- Find something you like on iTunes, Spotify, whatever.

- Use the ‘start a radio station based on this song’ feature.

- When that plays something you also like, add it to your library. Keep playing it.

- If it’s a single track on an album, just add the album. The wonderful thing about modern streaming services is that you can speculatively add stuff and, if you don’t like it, just remove it. It doesn’t cost you anything! (That’s amazing, by the way.)

- iTunes learns. Keep doing this.

- By now, the Friday morning ‘for you’ playlist also has good stuff. Give that a chance. ‘Love’ the stuff you love. Add the albums with tracks you liked. iTunes keeps learning.

That’s all, really. Just listen to stuff and let the bots figure out what else you might like.

Edit: also find friends or co-workers with similar tastes. Share stuff with them. I get a lot of gold from my mate up in Cairns, just whenever we hear things we send each other the link.
> These may be highly intelligent people, but what they are highly skilled at is the art of obtaining and keeping political office.

Agreed. That's my point.

> That does not necessarily say anything about their knowledge of the industries they regulate, or their ability to write regulations that are free from disastrous side effects.

They had teams of people helping them understand. Do you think these experts who work for the politicians and/or the industry don't know what the side effects are? Just because the effects would be "disastrous" for you and me doesn't mean it will be disastrous for the politicians or the people who they work for.

> Maybe you could actually say something, instead of just hinting?

I thought it was obvious. And I was trying to get you to actually think.

Do you think these guys just decided one day to make changes to the rules of the internet for fun? Why do you think they are making these changes? If you can figure it out, then let me know.
ranger (or rangerfm) is also quite nice.

It provide a 3 columns view with either:

* parent directory | current directory | child directory

* parent directory | current file | preview of the file (if possible in text)

I found it quite nice to use because it gives you a good picture of where you are and what are your neighboring files, which can be helpful when navigating inside a code base.
I tend to agree (as an ex particle physicist who spent 8 years hunting for hypothetical supersymmetrical particles at the LHC), but to be honest what works is the scientific method and that requires both blind evidence and theory driven falsification to produce new knowledge.
In particle physics we switched paradigm after the invention of QCD and the electroweak theories, and now it’s difficult getting back to pure discovery driven research as the risk seems too high to both sponsors and researchers.
> But, don't worry your changing the world

By creating a new innovative way to deliver ads to consumers.