skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you look at some of the GDPR fearmongering (Particularly stuff like "Oh no my designated DPO left and it took us a week to find a replacement." or "Oh no, my 1 person company with no automated process got a GDPR request while I was on holiday in the bahamas and I took too long" leading to 4% of revenue fines, one of the points made is that the EU tends to not apply the maximum penalty immediately based on the severity of the offence and whether it's a repeat offender. So this is (a) Google's first offence and (b) it seems the finding is about a technicality that could be a genuine mistake (1 day after GDPR Google's TOS didn't mention Google Ireland yet), so it's understandable that they didn't pull out the 4% of global revenue fine. Even though ultimately the Google behavior is the target of the legislation, not giving Google the same "first time's a warning" type behavior of local SMEs sounds like a good way to start a trade war.

The next GDPR violation Google is accused of, they will now be a repeat offender and more likely to get a higher fine, until they either become compliant or end up at the 4% of revenue fine.
Really cool stuff, but aside from the obvious nightmare fuel stuff downthread, there's often still some interesting artifacts. I doubt I'd have noticed them before reading a medium piece on the subject, but they are there: https://medium.com/@kcimc/how-to-recognize-fake-ai-generated....
Paying employees to produce benefits many people. Possibly at a much more effective rate than giving it to the government (as they actually produce something in return).

Investing in capital goods and means of production. Again, this has a return that giving to the government does not.

Simple example of what is going on here. Someone buys a plot of land and materials in 2000 for $100000. They build a house and sell it in 2001 for $120000. What should they be taxed on? The "losses" from 2000 get carried over to 2001, and they are taxed on $20k.

In virtually every one of these articles "OMG ABC Corp paid $0 in taxes this year!", the explanation is that losses (investments typically) are being carried forward. This is absolutely normal, expected, and necessary for long term planning and growth.
I built Lambda's $12,500 4-GPU deep learning rig for $6200. Now you can, too
profit, by definition, is money left over after expenses and capital (re-)investment, so it's already been accounted for. profit goes in the shareholder's pockets (if they so choose rather than shield it from taxes by leaving it in the corporation).
In so many ways, without the services provided by the government, Amazon would cease to function.

Just think for one moment longer about the logistical complexities involved in getting you a package. You need a unique address identifier, streets that are paved, a global trade network that won't be pilfered by pirates, currency with value and neighbors with stable enough incomes that they don't see the postman and take your package for themselves.

Libertarianism is a pipe dream. Your desire for our transition to a failed state would be the undoing of the institutions that make your cushy life possible.
> Lobbying is not the problem, the problem is the system that allows itself to be lobbied.

The problem is both. It is a problem that people lobby for selfish policies that ignore the needs of others, and it is a problem that the system sometimes listens to them.
Related: the technology behind this has a harder time with cats than it does people, and the results are hilarious:

http://aiweirdness.com/post/182633984547/gancats
I was aware you can deactivate your facebook account but keep using messenger. I wasn't aware that deleting your account was ever possible.
Except we did, and decided to do away with it for a variety of reasons.

https://doeren.com/tax-reform-individual-amt-corporate-amt/
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A kinder, gentler Microsoft? I don't believe it. Their business model doesn't allow for it. As soon as they stop trying to lock in their customers by fair means or foul, I might consider cutting them some slack.
OK, put me on your list, I generally vote in favor of lower taxes for corporations and individuals.
RadeonSI: Primitive culling with async compute
Heh, maybe one day they can show a bunch of pictures of sand, where each subsequent pic has a grain removed, with the instructions "click on all the heaps".

Spambots will solve the Sorites paradox!
A bot absolutely can, you just need to use a more sophisticated bot. This article [1] is from August 2017, so the arms race has escalated and techniques improve, but the gist is the same: You just do a better job of simulating the "human" characteristics they monitor. Gen 4 bots (bots that run on an infected user's machine) can circumvent these measures as well.

[1] https://intoli.com/blog/making-chrome-headless-undetectable/
Economists prefer models and policies based on models, based on data.

Of course economic data is usually statistical in nature, so interpretation leaves a pretty wide margin for personal biases to influence model/policy selection, but that doesn't mean economics is not evidence based.

Proving things is only possible withing a model. That's easy. Arguing for and finding the right model is hard.
How would they do that though? You can't take money out of a corporation without it being taxed as income? At some point it's going to be taxed. I agree capital gains rates could use a second look but I don't see this big "wealth loophole".
Actually it's you who moved the goal posts. I said it's unsubstantiated, provided a link with examples and now you want to debate what level of unfounded rumor a report must contain before we can say it's unsubstantiated (>30% is enough imo).
An excellent, wise, and cogent question! In fact I do have data. You can find it here: https://blog.cloudflare.com/the-trouble-with-tor/

> On the other hand, anonymity is also something that provides value to online attackers. Based on data across the CloudFlare network, 94% of requests that we see across the Tor network are per se malicious. That doesn’t mean they are visiting controversial content, but instead that they are automated requests designed to harm our customers. A large percentage of the comment spam, vulnerability scanning, ad click fraud, content scraping, and login scanning comes via the Tor network.

The obvious caveats apply, of course. It's completely possible what Cloudflare saw at the time is no longer true and TOR is no longer mostly spam. It's equally fully possible that the traffic Cloudflare sees is wildly unrepresentative of what TOR traffic actually looks like, and it's mostly people worried about their privacy. This is just the data we have at the moment.
Well then what are the companies they're buying stocks in doing with the money?
it does in the sense that if corporations pay 0% income taxes then there is no money that can be offset from e.g. pollution tax breaks. think about how the mortgage deduction influences homebuying behavior for private individuals.
Which specific sections of the tax code do you think should be repealed or amended?
Doesn't it make sense for costs to go up as the population increases?
Change Permission for Specific AWS S3 Folder Content in Rails
It's not always greed, sometimes it's desperation and I don't say that with any sympathy. When you're surrounded by wealthy people with wealthy spending habits you, sometimes, tend to mirror their spending habits to your own detriment. Unfortunately, "keeping up with the Joneses" is a real thing.
Are all the things being called "consciousness" in this article really even the same?

Whatever problems of Julian Jaynes' theory, we know that there are schizophrenics who often hear voices and be commanded by voices. Are they "not self-conscious" by the various other measures involved - ie, the mirror test and such.

A lot of this article revolves around how much self-awareness is required by moral impulses to keep someone from eating an animal. The thing is, if basic self-awareness exists in nearly all creatures, then it means predators have eating these animals anyway and human evolved omnivore, I don't see the problem hear. Tell me this one is so special I shouldn't eat it and I might agree, tell all animals and I'll say you're calling for humans to outside the order that all other animals are in.
This has been done:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsF7enQY8uI
A big part of it is people who don't understand accounting and taxation are chiming in on stuff that is way beyond their understanding.

Everyone's free to remain a layman, but just remember nobody cares what the layman thinks. Taxes are complicated.
Note that when using different fuel or oxidizer, specific impulse isn’t the only thing that matters. Density matters too due to its effect on non-payload mass ratio.
It goes like this: "so you want to be anonymous and won't let us track every single thing you do? ok, then you'll help us train our AI so we can improve our self-driving cars and improve how Google Maps extracts information from Street View images"
Ah yes, but I was speaking more about apps that uses Electron to view their web page like Spotify or Discord
didn't know that info actually, as it's different here in Europe. I also see they had 91% in 2014 which is also interesting. Anyways wasn't really attacking them at all and also think the reason behind the 0$ is quite relevant in the discussion, yet I do strongly oppose the idea the original commenter made that amazon had been doing its fair share and square. They are doing whats best for them under what the law permits, including lobbying btw which uncertainly bends the laws to their favour. And the real debate in my opinion is, should it be possible this way ?
> wealthier individuals can employ corporations more effectively

I think onlyrealcuzzo suggested that problem would be fixed by "properly tax money as it LEAVES companies"
If you have a choice between A and B, and can't "prove" (what?) B is better, that doesn't mean you should choose A.
Other than "np", as in "np.reddit.com", which is used for "no-participation mode", I think the other two-letter sub-domains are used for language codes. I think at one point in reddit's history doing things like de.reddit.com could give a german site, and so on. I'm not sure what "ud" would refer to, but I assume it's similar.
This is actually a good point. If you're sufficiently rich, you can create your own corporation that exists to buy really nice boats and then sail you around as a business plan. The corporation will be able to avoid paying any taxes by virtue of being completely unable to exist without you pumping it full of money.

I don't think we should give corporations a pass, but at the same time we can't also expect them to "play fair" when there is no way for anyone to actually determine what that means.
The company is also in the process of raising $500 million [0].

[0] https://www.wsj.com/articles/delivery-startup-doordash-reach...
Related Reddit thread about the report where Reddit CEO Steve Huffman is answering questions: https://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/aq9h0k/reddi...

Most questions are about the Tencent investment. Huffman's response:

> Our governance didn't change during this round, which means we didn't add anyone to the board, and our policies won't be changing either.
I help construct the fulfilment centers. Believe me, this is for real.
Yes of course. I am not choosing sides. We are both equally correct. Institutional propaganda slanders enemies and praises the self.
This guy wants to sell me a SaaS

https://imgur.com/a/pTOZto4
I assumed the infuriating ambiguity is intentional, in order to train some algorithm they need to know what the prevailing human correct judgement is in dicey situations
This stood out to me as well. Most major brokerage firms will not only blackout employee trading of public stock as you've mentioned but will also report transactions to the company's compliance department so the data can be reviewed for potential insider trading activity.
so seriously anyone, where is the button i click to DL them all?

so far i found this :

https://emerging.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2014/03/downloading-ite...

leads me to here:

https://github.com/robincamille/kicks-and-giggles/blob/e3112...
Hey, if you can:

-collapse the global economy so that incredibly skilled engineers and tradespeople are desperate to work for little more than what it takes to feed their families and live in on-site housing

-reduce safety regulations enough that it's acceptable to have people regularly dying during construction

-build the train out in the middle of the desert on government-owned land instead of running it through major cities

Then yeah, you could make these trains pretty cheap.
You're absolutely right! It could even be integrated meaningfully into browsers to make it easier to work with. Something Cloudflare's Privacy Pass (https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/11500199265...) could work.
More importantly, supply more power to the pumps thus allowing higher pressure in the chamber, and so higher Isp.
This technique is called a 5-Why in lean manufacturing. Useful tool in digging into a root cause, and helps people think deeply about the causes of issues that are not inherently obvious.

Also, 5 is just the "suggested" number. More or less may be needed. If you reach 'Because I don't want to die alone' in 3 whys, probably no need to try for 5...
Lobbying is not some magical salve you rub on every problem to make the laws say whatever you want.

The reality is it's more convenient to pretend you have no power because then it excuses your inaction.

Firstly, prove Amazon, specifically, lobbied for the tax law they're benefiting from here. Let's start with that.
"They only need to write a new feature once. Crazy, right?"

Yeah!, why you old farts want me to learn about the stack, the heap and all of that OS architecture crap?, I don't need or want that #$@&*, I barely can keep up with all the JavaScript frameworks/libraries/toolkits that came out last week!
The text of Article 13 and the EU Copyright Directive has been finalised
What's more, a huge chunk of the federal government's budget is dedicated to murdering people in foreign countries.
Check out the first interior view of Honda’s Urban EV prototype
> This article really just emphasises the need to hold congress accountable for their actions.

You've a bit more work to do to get that done than merely pinging or voting out your Representative:

https://www.ted.com/talks/lawrence_lessig_we_the_people_and_...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United_v._FEC

On a more positive note, there seems to be some people in the US who want to (try to) make a difference. For instance:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rq3QXIVR0bs

Only time will tell if they will. But I'm not holding my breath, TBH.
Location: San Jose, CA

Remote: Yes

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Technologies: Java, Python, Javascript, Spring/ Spring boot, MySQL, MongoDB, AWS

Résumé/CV: https://www.dropbox.com/s/fibits116ft6qv1/AmbikaResume.pdf?d...

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Email: mb.bohra15@gmail.com
Personally, I don't mind corporations not paying taxes. Companies aren't people, and eliminating taxes should be done in conjunction with restricting political support.

Corporations should either give dividend and/or diversify/expand. If paying dividends, shareholders can then pay income taxes. Amazon has a growth model. What I'm against is corporations holding on to unutilized or underutilized assets in a longer term.

It's the spending and changing hands of money that promotes a healthy economy, having cash or capital sitting unused doesn't really help anyone all that much imho.

That's just my take on it... I'm not in favor of corporate protectionist policies and would rather see a lot of it be torn down to an effect of both reducing corporate power as well as the influence of tax incentives.
The ground transmission antenna is sending a high gain signal towards the satellite. But that doesn't mean that all of the energy is directed there. Some gets scattered isotropically and a signal detection plane could triangulate off that.
Ah thanks, and I see the state change crawl up the border of the canvas that I missed before - I was looking for another 'wave' across the whole field.
> “We look forward to defending him with respect to these allegations,” is lawyer speak for "I have a mountain of evidence that is going to make these people look like fools."

To me (a former lawyer), that vague statement is definitely not an indication that he has a strong case. He may have one, but that statement comes across as weak to me. It's what you say when you can't offer any specifics about why the allegations are untrue. (As the old lawyer saying goes: "When the facts are on your side, pound the facts. When the law is on your side, pound the law. And when neither is on your side, pound the table.")
Come on.

Who guarantees amazon isn't immediately overwhelmed with ten thousand copycat sites with similar URLs?

Who built the roads upon which employees drive to get to HQ? Upon which delivery drivers drive to get packages to customers?

Who ensures Amazon doesn't need someone riding shotgun, with a shotgun, with every delivery driver?

I'm not even scraping the surface here. Libertarianism, I presume? The free market would have done a better job at building a sovereign system in which Amazon could thrive?
Would you agree that Amazon has bettered your life in some way? If so, then your argument loses most of its weight. Personally, I trust a corporation with money more than the federal government, for the simple reason of accountability. A business has a chance at failure if they're dumb about money. A government will always have more. It's simple, but a compelling argument.
> I generally vote in favor of lower taxes for corporations and individuals.

So like to have your cake and eat it too?
You could make a language that had all those benefits + almost all the things nostrademons mentioned. For example, Apache Spark on top of Scala does this pretty well (but it's significantly more complex than SQL is.) Pandas in Python and SAS also have many of these features (but also have a higher learning curve.)
The implicit argument #5 is that a lot of people would be upset if corporations weren't taxed, because it wouldn't be "fair".

I might be wrong, but I think the system is currently structured such that corporate taxes are mostly a sham anyway; when they pay out dividends, those are taxed at a lower rate to make up for the corporate tax. This is probably anti-progressive because poor people aren't incentivized to invest in businesses, as they'd be effectively taxed closer to rich people rates.

Really, a surprising amount of screwy and circuitous things in our civilization are a direct result of income taxes.
> The author assumes the reader knows the value of randomizing your integer keys. I'm not sure what that value is in cases where you know you don't have collisions anyway.

If you're going to be doing writes of your data in order of an integer sequence number, and you're writing to a multi-node storage system that partitions/shards by primary-key range, then you're going to get worst-case performance if you use your integer sequence numbers directly as the primary keys, since you're queuing all your writes onto one shard.

Instead, you want to permute your integer sequence numbers so that successive integers become evenly spread across the range partitions. This (along with some write duplication and verify-on-read) is the foundation of Dynamo-based "scale-free" storage systems (DynamoDB+S3, Riak+CS, etc.)
From my understanding the government pays for things by printing money. It's literally created on demand. Taxation and bonds/interest rates are partially used to take excess money supply out of the economy and control inflation (which is a highly simplified view of things).
Pay the capital investment of a huge data center that they depreciate and reduce tax liability over the term specified by the IRS. That seems pretty reasonable to me.

I’m not a tax expert, but I think most capital investments work this way.
>Amazon's voice, money, power far exceeds mine. It isn't a level playing field.

A great many people work at and invest in Amazon, why would it be more fair for your single voice to exceed the tens or hundreds of thousands on the other side?
Yeah, because Amazon was around in early 20th century...
Ears always give it away. In every single picture I got so far the ears are malformed.
On the other hand, if anyone's going to confidently think they can successfully go a bit over the line, it's gonna be a lawyer specializing in insider trading too.
They are .net Core API's and work under Linux and Windows: https://github.com/dotnet/iot/
In my opinion, the philosophy of "specifics of how" has already been co-opted by tax dodgers. There is no way to have both enumerative, mathematical thinking and a sense of justice when it comes to taxes, because rich entities can always think of a tax dodge you didn't enumerate!

The reality is, no regular person is ever going to be on the wrong side of corporate taxes. You'll never be a huge corporation, you'll never be a huge corporate board, and since indexing, you'll never be a particularly aggrieved proxy shareholder.

Nobody really cares how "giant corporation pays the maximum tax it can bear" is arrived to, but that's what people want. It's different if it were small business owners or landlords. People also sometimes hate SBOs and landlords, but sometimes normal people are landlords and small business owners, so they can imagine being on the wrong side of justice there.

So like so many things technocratic thinking gets into, it's possible to be right and wrong at the same time. Right in the general case, in this imaginary case, where you just enumerate all the things, then you think hard about the things, and then you get the right answer. Wrong in the case that people in the real world actually inhabit, because you're both a likable person and you're not a giant corporation, so your philosophy is great to co-opt for what is basically a public-theft agenda.
> Still it is possible to write J2EE on any language

Right. The difference is that for some reason, writing Java in the J2EE style seems to be the default, and rather than stopping the practice, people choose to hate the language instead, as if they think the J2EE style is required by the language.
https://munchies.vice.com/en_us/article/vvq7k4/how-chefs-pre...

Frozen lobster is also not cooked. Sometimes it's death by freezing, if they're not killed another way first (for instance, frozen lobster tails are obviously killed before being cut). I'm quite certain boiling alive is one of the least common ways it's done, especially with the popularity of frozen lobster.
Well, there's a tendency when lambasting big infrastructure projects like this to compare one city's efforts to those done elsewhere, and if Japan can keep trains on tracks through an earthquake then you have to dig into the numbers for both and ask if they had the same problem. And if so, should hindsight from the earlier project have informed the plans for later one.

There's also a tendency in big projects to be intentionally obtuse, come up with a number that the customers (tax payers) won't riot over, and then rely on sunk cost and other fallacies to let the project expand to its real size later on.
How is it broken? Or are you suggesting taking away a carry loss forward deduction?
Probably people take it that want to go somewhere on the line. (Like Oulx for example, right at the entrance of the Fréjus tunnel in Italy.) Though good question, why then is there so many trains each day.
We are currently struggling with firebase cloud messaging as the instance id has been deemed personally identifying by our laywers which google clearly does not think is the case (they don't even offer a data processing contract for firebase). So, if you are currently using Firebase cloud messaging, there is a big chance you are in violation of gdpr.