skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can you imagine the prices and support you'd get if customer purchases were net-10?

Buy something with your credit card and if it's garbage, you just tell your credit card to hold payment.
Check out https://zulipchat.com - it's a cool mix between instant messaging and a forum.
I downed this because you posted 4 words with no thought or reasoning behind it. The lack of thought and self awareness that this is a discussion forum, not Reddit, is why this is downvoted.
All taxes are a tax to the consumer. Sales taxes are just less avoidable.
There's something to be said for that. My kids do require a lot of attention and work and I sometimes I feel very tired out and short on time to get things done before crawling into bed for enough sleep to be productive at the office the next day. However, even though I really enjoy creative technology work at my job, on average my relationships with my kids give me greater satisfaction than any projects I work on. Maybe not everyone would feel the same way after having kids, but for a lot of us parents I think it's a natural thing that occurs within us that's very helpful for motivating one to give love and care towards a child amidst myriad other demands. I've heard many other parents confirm that they feel something they had never felt before, and that definitely pushes us through the tough times when parenting and provides a lot of enjoyment that might have been difficult to imagine beforehand.
There is lots of cool science to be done with radio, being done by amateurs. Starting with the Society for Radio Astronomy mentioned already, but also see:

http://www.radio-astronomy.org/

SARA members have a lot of projects going on, from beginner stuff to full blown SDRs
http://www.radio-astronomy.org/projects

Radio Astronomy Software Defined Radio (RASDR):
http://www.radio-astronomy.org/rasdr

SuperSID: Sudden Ionospheric Disturbance monitor:
http://www.radio-astronomy.org/node/210

Radio Jove: Radio emissions from Jupiter:
https://radiojove.gsfc.nasa.gov/

Personal Space Weather Station:
http://www.hamsci.org/basic-project/personal-space-weather-s...

Reverse Beacon Network:
http://www.reversebeacon.net/

Weak Signal Propagation Reporter Network:
http://wsprnet.org/drupal/

PSK Automatic Propagation Reporter:
https://pskreporter.info/
I don't think that was the non-verbal communication he was referring to.
They _have_ to tell you, there's no alternative option. If they don't publish the certs in multiple logs, then they aren't considered valid by browsers.
Fast factoring of RSA-2048
Getting the factors any other large number now can be directly done in one operation, including RSA-2048, RSA-4096, or longest numbers
Step away to take some rest, like a vacation. Take control back by doing some small projects for yourself and by your yourself.
How does this compare with Shotcut[0]? I just recently found out, through use, that Shotcut does not have multiselect/multimove abilities, making it utterly worthless for anything more complicated than one or two tracks of video.

[0]:https://shotcut.org/
It depends whether you are rationally trying to maximize your own profits at any cost, or acting in a way that is also good for others. It's possible to seek evil ends in a rational way.
I assume this has something to do with the massive amount of debt that fuels Netflix original programming. That being said, our entire tax system is regressive, for both businesses and individuals, when it comes to dealing with it's complexity.

A small or medium size business does not have the legal or accounting capability to navigate the tax code as successfully as a company like Netflix can. Similarly, even a high income individual can't stretch the tax code like billionaires can. On net it seems like the lower and middle income players subsidize the high income players both in business and personal taxes.
Facebook's origins and the misogyny inherent in its development
I wonder if there is an enterprise app that does this for you?

I can think of plenty of examples at my work where spidering a website and displaying it in a graph would be really cool.

Our wiki would be one for sure.
Smart people also have equally as much capacity to accomplish things which most people consider bad.

Capability and goodness are generally orthogonal.
Well, it's impossibly nutritious, far more calorie-rich than pure fat. So it doesn't really make much sense to even try to describe it.
This is a topic close to my heart, since I went to university for history (I'm now doing a second Bachelor's in Comp Sci).

A theme I've noticed in the comments, and in the public at large, is confusing learning history with learning to be an historian (or historical thinking).

During my degree, I obviously learned a great deal of history. However, a large portion of my time was spent on context-building, and attempting to understand sources on their own terms and to contextualize them into the broader world around them. For example, to study the famous historic period foo, you must first learn something of the period before it, bar. It's also important to understand its society and culture, as well as those of a place's neighbours (you can't learn English History without learning some French history).

It felt less like a degree in "history", and closer to a degree in context-building. This, in my mind, was the greatest value of it, as it wormed its way into my brain informs how I view new topics and ideas. It's something I've noticed is absent for many smart people when they talk about history specifically (although they may be excellent at it in other fields).

A high school history course's purpose is to teach a base set of facts, as well as to teach children the state's narrative of its own history (for better and for worse). These cirriculums are usually written by hsitorians to fulfill the state's needs. Youtube videos and podcasts contain many facts, but their interpretation of the sources lead to poor understanding of the topic, and factually incorrect statements (since they're lacking broader context to understand them). Both of these have flaws, and lead to individuals "learning" something that may be incorrect, or that they have misunderstood to the point that they have learned very little.

I suppose that the point I'm trying to make is that learning about history != historical thinking, and a lack of historical thinking can inhibit the learning of history.

As a side note, the Revolutions Podcast (and by extension I suppose the History of Rome, although I haven't personally listened to it) is the only popular history media that has actually impressed me with its methodology. /r/AskHistorians has a tendency to be excellent as well, albeit with some caveats.
All tax gets paid by the consumer in the end.
Sure. ERATO Muse 5[1] for the gym, and Pioneer SE-MJ561BT[2] for the streets. Can't find the receipt for the third set.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01N496ZYK/

[2] https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00R7B96SC/
I have worked for MSPs for virtually my entire career. The vast majority of people are not doing anything at their job.
Rather than being outraged at the headline, what are the actual details? Why were they able to pay no taxes? Was it due to carried losses or something like that?

Anyone mad at a company for not pay taxes is misdirecting their anger. Companies follow the law. If you don't like the law elect different politicians. Don't get mad at companies that follow the law.
Looks like meat is back on the menu.
To put some perspective on the romanticism of all this, shorten title to 'live on the road'. I grew up going on camping 'holidays' in the UK as my father was a great romantic, the reality in the US today is a lot more regimented anywhere near surburbia.
There are trailer parks in the USA for a reason - a lot of people associate free spirited travellers as littering gypsies and in many areas you are going to be harassed by the police.
I have a friend who has a great looking vintage truck with a vintage camper shell on it with sink, cooker etc. He has long hair and he and his wife are constantly harassed when on the road. The police can be extremely unpleasant. He owns 3 houses but is used to the police calling him a down and out.
Adding to @josefresco's comments before you spend a fortune kitting out a van rent one for a month and live in it in the mild weather spring or fall to get an idea of what it's like and what you need.
Also be aware a van can get stolen with all your possessions in it. I had a 26 foot vintage airstream I was going to restore stolen, apparently any sort of mobile living space is a great target for people who live in the woods to steal and hide off road. Be realistic about what you are getting into and install excellent security.
Start sleeping 10+ hours a day.
Why is the fee only on yellow and black car rides, rather than on all cars? Shouldn't we prefer non-private vehicles on the street instead of ones that will do parking?
These are creating shoddy code not fixing it.
Now here's a problem whose fixing would truly make the world a better place!

Why is there no YC/SV initiative to help make tech companies freaking pay their goddamn taxes?

Sounds easier than basic income experiments, robocars and going to Mars.
> Don’t they fall out?

I don't understand why people thought they'd fall out. They're exactly the same shape as the wired earbuds, but they don't have the wires pulling on them. Do normal earbuds just spontaneously fall out? So why would AirPods?
Really? Sounds like you found a common sense solution. People can be so dramatic.
There's no race. The tools and methods used to avoid taxes are apart of the well understood rules that were written for these companies. It's not a secret, there's no cleverness to what they're doing (except to the lay person). Everyone who needs to be, was and is well aware about how the tax code is written and how it works and why it's setup that way.

The effects of the current tax laws were well known before they could even be observed.

The government can easily put a stop to this. It's just about electing the right people, in the right party that aren't going to invoke visions of political and economic astrology. I think it goes without saying which party to NOT choose.
Google now pays more money in EU fines than it pays in taxes
Surely you'd agree that there is a spectrum of shoddiness (and hence required maintenance) of code?

The specific example of shoddy code given in the book is that of a programmer gradually replacing a completely ineffectual algorithm written by an incompetent academic who also happened to be his boss. The algorithm was designed to "mimic speech" (this part is not very clear in the book) and the programmer replaces it with Eliza-like heuristics.

You should read the book before judging it so harshly.
Or as Lewis Caroll puts it, through Tweedledee: "if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic."
The problem isn't really Netflix, it's our tax code.

Is it different when Netflix takes advantage of the tax code to not pay taxes different than when I do it? For example, I'm married and file jointly because it lowers my tax bill compared to if my wife and I filed separately.
i am always glad to see this kinda thing.

i'm currently talking to a game dev team that don't seem to understand that their TOS doesn't overshadow my countries law.
Having a schedule and routine is massively important and can outweigh the benefits/detriments of other choices like whether or not you eat breakfast.

If you are going to eat breakfast, be wary of the stuff that's marketed as breakfast foods and cook with real ingredients.
Compare prices before you book
So is it going to be illegal to have the full blockchain data? That could prevent a lot of miners from operating
No, they won't.

They'll buy the newest Apple phone because it's 10 nanometers thinner and it's a status symbol.

Apple Cloud was hacked and celebrity pictures were stolen and noone batted an eye.
Have you considered the possibility that not all children have the same BM frequency? I have two children. They both pooped quite a bit more than once a day for several months after they were born.
Not every episode is like that.

Take [0], where John Allison of BB&T discusses his business philosophy, and as an aside mentions that his bank doesn’t issue negative amortization mortgages (a cause of the recession) in 2007.

Or [1], where Michael Lewis discusses Moneyball and The Blind Side.

Or [2], where Christopher Hitchens discusses George Orwell.

Or [3], where Paul Graham talks about Hackers and Painters.

EconTalk has something for everyone.

[0] http://www.econtalk.org/allison-on-strategy-profits-and-self...

[1] http://www.econtalk.org/michael-lewis-on-the-hidden-economic...

[2] http://www.econtalk.org/hitchens-on-orwell/

[3] http://www.econtalk.org/graham-on-start-ups-innovation-and-c...
Please point me to the people who are mad at the company. I'll wait.
Another way to look at it is that Patreon is quickly becoming the platform of "fuck you, got mine" and "I didn't hear nobody getting silenced", joining the ranks of Twitter, Facebook, Google et al. 99 guilty people do not excuse one innocent person being just shrugged off unless you're prepared to get silenced in their place -- and serious artists with serious things to say about serious stuff don't do it. Mass appeal and money are one thing, in my heart of hearts I only care about the judgement of artists I respect. People want to knock themselves off my "artistic roll call" like that, they're absolutely welcome.
So, possession of the Bitcoin blockchain is now illegal, according to the laws of most developed countries.
I wish the post went into detail about how it is Netflix paid no taxes in 2018. It's not like a company that size just decides to not pay any tax--they are following a specific strategy to accomplish that, and not discussing that strategy in favor of the "big bad corporation" trope makes for an insubstantial blog post.
Is there any difference?

They would have to lower their prices in order to keep the same price to the end user (to keep the same number of users) and therefore get less profit.

Is it because in the states you show the same price and local (state) sales taxes are added on top that makes it a tax to the consumer?
Companies also lobby heavily for these tax laws. The laws may be directly responsible, but big companies share some blame as well.
The consumer just cares about the final price. They won't distinguish a price increase caused by taxes from one caused by corpo decisions. So assuming Netflix set their current prices optimally, they will be have to keep them and take the hit.
A BS job is one where the tasks being performed make 0 difference to the overall situation and not doing them is hardly visible. The tasks a receptionist does are actually needed and you'd know when they are not performed.

But I find other BS examples that the author used, like "airline desk staff who calm passengers whose bags don't arrive". There's no dedicated staff for this. They are simply staff who have to take the time to also do this. He sometimes mixes up "jobs" with "job tasks". Some tasks may be BS but the jobs definitely involve more than what he cherry picked as an example. Is "staff that asks you if you enjoyed the food at the restaurant" also on the list?

Would he rather have airline employees just not give a shit when he has a problem? Or does he actually think airlines pay for employees that are there just to provide consolation?

A "job" is the entire collection of tasks you get paid for or are expected of you by your employer. One BS portion does not make the job BS. In the same vein, is writing a list of BS jobs a BS job? He's definitely exaggerating with many examples for the purpose of making it a bit more controversial.
Why link to a blog post instead of the Modin [1] project directly, which is the reason for the speed improvement?

Also the title "Pandas got 3X faster" seems to contradict the conclusion in the article, which reports the result was < 2x faster.

[1] https://github.com/modin-project/modin
Don't be fooled by the narrative on the amendment.

The truth is that such interception is normal, in Australia, in other countries.

AA is two things. 1st, the government there legalizing an already existing practise to cover their own liability in the event that the grey practise is eventually exposed. Especially amid the current public awareness of privacy.

Next, more importantly, AA is to get around recent security patches that rendered previous vectors now impossible to use, since these collections were often done covertly. It's law compensating for where a much relied on covert method no longer works. Thus, the 11th hour urgency.

The cover story that it is this huge privacy catastophe is just more noise, to distract from the big story; how interceptions like this have been going on for more than a decade.
Interesting, and really disappointing— I loved Graeber's book, Debt: The First 5,000 Years. This makes me wonder if he also avoided criticism when writing it.
Venezuela has complex cause. You aren't doing anyone any favors by simplistically reducing it to your favorite contributing factor, nor are you arguing honestly when you conflate progressive income taxation with socialism, or in this specific instance, Chavismo--which is rooted in socialism, with a lot of extra features, including populism.

Committing to give people someone else's money is every government expenditure that is paid for by taxation. It's the welfare state. It's the military-industrial complex. It's infrastructure projects. It's corruption. It's operating funds for regulatory agencies. It's foreign adventurism. Everything. Most governments have budgets that are funded entirely by "somebody else's money". You have made several unspoken assumptions in this discussion, and I think it may be best for you to make them explicit before continuing.

People aren't leaving Venezuela because taxes are high. And Venezuela's problems aren't a result of rich folks fleeing to Miami and Madrid. They are all leaving--the non-government rich, the middle-class, and the poor--because price-fixing creates shortages, and there is no such thing as a free lunch. If one pays for the party with oil money, one also has to turn off the music when the international commodity price for Venezuelan crude oil goes down. But they didn't turn it off; they turned it up.

Can you provide any details on Venezuela's progressive income tax? All I could find was a flat 34% tax on income for nonresidents, and that the lowest rate for residents might be 6%. Which Venezuelans left specifically because they didn't want to pay 34%?
That's just your personal taste... They're all popular and I have nothing bad to say to those.
They do pay their taxes. This is a problem with the tax code, not the company.
https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:ws23jj...

site seems slow or down here's cache
Basic econ theory shows that tax burdens are shared by consumer and producer, regardless of who legally pays.
It's called historical net operating loss, they can avoid taxes until all their past losses are accounted for.
Even when cleaning up preventable messes in code, those messes were often caused or made worse by trying to "do it right the first time" and tacking on a bunch of extra complexity in the process instead of just doing the simple thing that works for now.

Start small. Iterate. Do it wrong. Embrace the fact that we're imperfect, not oracles of the future. I'll gladly prefer fixing up some shoddy code over needing to tear down and re-architecture from scratch a larger, even well designed system, that solves the wrong problem.

Not all preventable problems are worth preventing. Preventing them causes other problems, if only the problem of wasting a lot of time fixing many non-problems that you mistakenly thought were potential problems in an attempt to do so.
I live in Europe and do like the idea of having a 2 year warranty by default for many things, but I dread the idea of actually using it. Customer service in Europe has a long way to go before it matches the US. There are many things that are better in the US, and many that are better in Europe.
It's sending requests to probably dozens of domains, each of which sends back new "anti-cookies" for your browser to store.
Possession of this type of image is a federal crime in the US.[1] When I took a digital forensics course about five years ago, we were told that if we ever discovered any on a system we were investigating, it needed to be reported to the FBI immediately or we could also be charged.

If someone does this in a way that goes unnoticed, and it's discovered after long enough that rolling back is impractical, does that effectively kill the blockchain where the data is embedded, at least as far as the US and countries with similar laws are concerned?

[1] https://www.justice.gov/criminal-ceos/citizens-guide-us-fede...
It's not that simple. Companies lobby to keep, even coerce, laws that benefit them and allow these sorts of things to happen. What is the common person, or collection of persons, supposed to do when they are against that kind of force? I believe one way is to actually be involved in politics and get into the seats that govern and make the laws. But it's easier said than done.
If still a hype since 1950, it might deserve some attention from students
To be clear, this doesn't speed-up pandas, per se. It uses a different library (Modin) as a drop-in replacement:

https://github.com/modin-project/modin

Modin uses Ray, a distributed computation library. There was a similar article on HN a year ago that hyped "making pandas faster" by replacing it with Ray:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16510610
> Anyone mad at a company for not pay taxes is misdirecting their anger. Companies follow the law. If you don't like the law elect different politicians. Don't get mad at companies that follow the law.

Agreed. Are they supposed to purposely waste their shareholders money to take a moral stance against tax avoidance? When it's something that any corporation can do, then they have no choice but to do it to stay competitive. Regulators are the only ones in a position to stop it.
Definitely. They tend to do the “small” things around the office, they do it in a manner people only notice when someone is not doing it.

So I don’t agree designating itt a bullshit job.
If I spend a few million to get some lawyers to work out a legal loophole that means I can murder someone and get away with it that wouldn't make it OK to actually do it.

The same applies to tax avoidance. It might be legal but it's still wrong.
What's the short answer?
It's part of the under the hood image which gave a brief explanation
Can someone shed light on what the trade-offs are by using this?
> Sounds easier than basic income experiments, robocars and going to Mars.

I genuinely wonder which is harder. One is a problem of politics and capitalism, the others are largely technical hurdles and one where you're giving away money instead of trying to take it from giant corporations with armies of lawyers.
I can't speak to Europe but I've been living in my bus for over 20 months and have never been harassed by law enforcement.
It's worth noting that Fama has since then walked back on the strong statement of the Efficient Market Hypothesis. I don't know that he ever intended to say beating the market is impossible; rather that beating the market must be impossible, under the rigorously definition of an idealized, "efficient" market.

Unfortunately a lot of proponents of the EMH (especially non-academics) have taken this concept and run with it in ways Fama didn't intend. His position would be more accurately stated as the claim that modern markets are eventually informationally efficient, for any given instance of information asymmetry.

It's a useful model that approximates markets, not an empirical claim about the world.
Netflix has, in fact, paid $100 million in income taxes in 4 of the last 5 years and $80 million in the 5th. They just paid most of last year’s outside the US, to the tune of $130 million. For more details, see annual report.