skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not an expert on the details, but I'm guessing that is a "legacy" finance issue. No reason why a contract couldn't be designed that treated the first week and the rest of the finance term differently, where the buyer agreed to both, and the return was greatly streamlined.

I think the biggest issue with a typical car loan is that the market value of the car decreases after it's driven off the lot, so Tesla must have some plan for dealing with that aspect of the first week returns. My guess is that they are declaring a vehicle "new" if it has under 500 miles on it, and they include the distance the car may be driven for delivery in that 500 mile "new" buffer. Thus if you take the car on a weekend getaway and return it with under 500 miles on it, it is still new (by definition) or at least as new as the Tesla that was driven 450 miles from a distribution center to a customer's door.

Normal dealers sell vehicles all the time that have been "demos" for sales people and may have a few hundred miles on them. They typically sell them for a bit below invoice, but a mint condition vehicle with < 500 miles is new as far as most people are concerned.

It's possible that Telsa is doing something more clever than the above, but if not that's a fairly low cleverness way of accomplishing it. There is probably a mileage limit that one must stay under in the first week to be eligible for a return.
How does this compare to the text-to-speech feature in an app like Pocket?
I can see how this comes across as naive or elitist, but it wasn't meant that way.

My past experience is from working in farming, then manual labor, then skilled labor, then engineering, then hospitality, then technology. In none of the fields other than technology did I feel that myself or my colleagues were viewed as anything other than a source of costs by management. Even when our contributions were praised by customers as the reason why they continued their business with the company, we were barely rewarded with more than a pat on the back. Perfection was assumed as the standard, however it was not rewarded as such.

It was not until I taught myself to program, with the help of a great number of people, and jumped over to working in the tech industry that my managers looked at me as a source of value in the company, as the reason why the company made money, and as less than disposable.

That is not to say that my experience is everyone's experience, and I didn't mean to imply such an extreme position as "only in technology can you be valued as a worker". If you work in healthcare, or law, or the sciences, or manufacturing, or construction, or education and your organization values you then I applaud you and efforts.

With that said I still feel that it's a tough road ahead to get the compensation you deserve. Even when the economy is strong, it is hard to get a raise, and people have been waiting on those raises for a long time. I sure hope they can get them.
They send all your texts to their servers for analysis. I don't find that acceptable from privacy standpoint, even if I'm just writing publicly visible comments.
Not really, at that scale it eventually will be a lot cheaper running your own thing - Lyft might still be too small, but if they go internationally and grow ×10 then AWS seems like a choice to reconsider.
Hey, to celebrate this, everybody share your favorite "Periodic Table of X" where X is something that is absolutely not periodic at all!
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Mobile phones? Radically transformed the word in <10 years.
There's a (relatively new) book, Radical Markets[0] by Eric Posner and Glen Weyl that looks at how mechanisms for this might actually work in practice.

Core to their argument is that most things we care about in society have increasing returns to scale so that under our current system we systematically under-allocate and mis-allocate to public goods.

While I disagree with a lot of it in practice, I highly recommend reading it if you're thinking the way the parent comment of this comment does.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Radical-Markets-Uprooting-Capitalism-...
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>These states' policymakers are hostile to business in the form of taxes and regulations.

All states collect taxes and have laws and regulations, so I guess they're all "hostile to business."

>Cuomo himself said 'America was never great'.

I don't see what relevance that should have to Amazon's tax strategy, but if you think Amazon should only do business in pro-Trump areas, you should probably look into Jeff Bezos' politics first.
Why? Tax rebates are incredibly common. $2.5B of that $3B was going to come from existing programs, like NY State's Excelsior program.
What does 'better' even mean? For what? Which of the dozen of Scheme macro systems?

Macros are a tool and over the past decades literally zillions of procedural macros have been written in Common Lisp. Somehow people managed to do that. Without 'hygienic' macros. Without rule-based macros.

Scheme has seen a lot of research in that area and that's great. Common Lisp is more concerned with core language stability.

Having a single macro system, which might have an older but careful design, still has some advantage: basically all code in Common Lisp uses the same macro system and all tools need to support only one macro system. Most of the time it gets the job done.

It's like asking whether a carbon bicycle frame is better than a steel one. Depends. If one is travelling, the steel one is possibly more robust and easier to repair. It might not include the latest research in lightweight materials, though.
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chat(slack etc) is real-time basically, forum is not.

the best will be chat+forum, and support mailing list style digest, also support post-by-email
OpenBGPD is missing from the list. It's a great piece of software.
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Yea, that's a good point. It was... well, had a lot of features. Some of them worked. Some of the time. And plenty of sensors to let you know when they weren't. Except when the sensors were the thing that was bad.
Back in early 2016 I told myself that if BTC dropped below $200 I would buy one. The lowest I saw was $203. When it went meteor a few years later, I felt Fold remorse. Perhaps it is sour grapes, but every time I walk by the BTC machine at my corner store, I relish in seeing how low it has gone, though still well higher than $200. :/

More on topic, the only action the corner store BTC machine gets, apart from drug addicts, is scams. That I can attest to, twice some tech ignorant soul has walked in, dumped their savings, then asked the cashier for a receipt.

Unless crypto currency can be inoculated from speculation (impossible IMO) it will be some time, if ever, before it becomes a viable mechanism for general economic exchange.
> the excessive profits are a major source of frustration

Excessive profits and 'the win' is what drives a great deal of how business operates. You have to take the good and (what you think) is 'the bad'. What makes an athlete or an entertainer able to demand top dollar? (Look at sports salaries adjusted for inflation 50 years ago..)

> would not be scooping off 40% of the publishing costs

Once again I have a hard time feeling bad for the example that is given (and the point of my comment) in particular the super wealthy Harvard University and other well off academic institutions that quite frankly piss away money on all sorts of non-sense.

Look there are to many examples to mention of how government money helps private industry in some way. Take defense spending or even money that goes to a company like Boeing. They build facilities and buy things and people using government money and then make money in other ways as a result of that investment 'which we all have paid for'.
Iiuc the requirement holds only for the merchant and is similar to requirements of many credit card payment processors about holding a bank account with their chosen bank. The reason is probably the same (transaction costs).
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I'm not sure where this interpretation has come from but it doesn't ring true.

Apart from anything else, Churchill's war ministry did feature a Minister without Portfolio.
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Do you have a better metric in which we all can compare ourselves by? Because I know that the first thing everyone asks each other when they first meet is "what do you do?" If work doesn't matter, why does everyone ask each other that question?
Thanks for the No True Scotsman logical fallacy. Let me say in return that if you're this irrational, your adherence to the left (and your gatekeeping the left) is far more of a disservice to the left than a service.

I defend anyone's personal human rights from inappropriate threats, because I actually understand why we have those rights and why they're important. You are trying to dehumanize the billionaires so you can deny their fundamental rights and you're calling that "the left." I'm defending everyone's human rights, and I'm calling that "the left." I pray that I'm right and the left is more filled with thoughtful intellectuals who want to improve things rather than violently irrational people who want to seize other peoples' property and dehumanize their fellow citizens.
> It wasn't. No giveaways to Amazon.
The mental gymnastics of this are exhausting. Just because it's a big company, doesn't mean this is a bad deal. We give tax rebates for new businesses all the time.

And as my math just showed, you pay this off in very little time.
Cool! I hope it is going to became available in more languages! It would be nice, however, if you could customize its manner and its level of skepticism (i.e. I'd prefer it not to claim anything false unless it's scientifically proven false and it can link to the proof, e.g. in my opinion "the doctor's qualification is questionable" is not a sufficient reason to dismiss an idea).
No-coiner who has never used Bitcoin spotted.

You don't need an "account" to use Bitcoin. It's kind of the whole point. If I want to send you Bitcoin, you can download an app, we tap phones, and that's it. It's way easier to use than any other payment method.

Bitcoin's price doesn't matter. Its value will become apparent when your bank cards stop working. Money without banks. In fact, money that is better in every conceivable way than bank money. Isn't that the dream?
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As a test about 6-7 months ago I set up a Zulip server on a VPS to test it out. Because it was a test I can't speak to scale, upgrading, or maintenance, but I would hope most any VPS would easily support ~30 users. The install process was unmemorable. I just had another look at the docs because I couldn't remember the process was. This is probably the best endorsement that can be given because the worst-case would be hunting down dependencies and having to compile stuff and tweak config files and it taking up most of a day or two. Instead, it was probably less than an hour from going to my vps' website to provision a new server to logging into Zulip from the client on my phone. I don't see any reason not to try yourself.

I'm not sure of your proficiency, but if this is a public-facing server you may want to either go with their paid service or hire someone to do the initial setup and walk you through maintenance since there's more to securing a server than just installing and getting it working.
AWS is not an indie maker trying to see what sticks. They literally build what their customers ask for and a $30 billion ARR shows that most bets payoff.

If they don't build their own Translate service then they can't compete in that area with other cloud vendors. If you think AWS services are not worth using, then you don't understand the value proposition of managed services built on top of fully integrated elastic/highly-available insfrastructure.

That's not a bad thing. You don't necessarily need to understand that value proposition. But you're definitely not the target audience for this.
I’ve noticed the same. I rarely ever see Lyft as the cheaper option now.
I have used Discourse quite a bit, and it was a top consider when we were looking for a new platform.

Public web archives are a goal, and either we'll deploy a bot to publish them, or I've heard rumors this feature may be added to Zulip itself.

In the meantime, it's kind of nice not having everything immediately publicized. We've had (knock on wood) exactly zero problems with spam users, even though it's open to everybody with a Github account. I'm also (if temporarily) enjoying the freedom to talk a bit more intimately, for example I'm discussing a major project I'm considering taking on.
Yes, the drive to kill something before it kills you is a very strong driver of innovation. All of these breakthroughs cater to precisely the opposite target: promoting human health either directly, or by improving our environment. This makes sense since this is the primary focus of the Gates Foundation, in 2019. That's a small scope if you ask me. You'd better believe that humans returning to space would be on this list if Gates had a horse in that race. I personally admire Gates' commitment to humans rather than stuff 'n things.

Also, I don't think its fair to call blockchain or social networking trivial. But thats neither here nor there given this listicle.
> Life is short, why spend it mad that other people like things you don't, and why spend it upset that there are people spending time on products that you don't want or think are important?

Without a strong intention of calling out the grandparent post, probably because the people, modulated their low attention spans, the internet, and outrage culture, reinforce it.
It's so repetitive. I'm genuinely a bit impressed people have the energy.
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Shall we debunk the stick figure holding a square over a fire while 3 clouds are above the fire?
> There is also a stable polar orbit where the orbiter stays lined up between the Earth and the Moon. Since the surface is tidally locked you again get the lander back easily.

Wait, what keeps the polar orbit lined up with the Earth? If the orbit just stayed constant, it would deviate from being lined up from the Earth, right?
That's right, I would say that it is a bit misleading. Anyway 15 cases are already surprising, and if we count the plural form then we have 30 forms for a noun. I tried to learn Finnish when I was living there, I think it is a really enjoyable and logical language. Certainly one of the most special languages that we have in Europe.
It depends whether your fear is about money or about censorship/visibility.
I think the best argument against 70% on 10+mil income is the basic fact that it'll increase the tax take by only 0.3%, best case scenario (no tax dodging, no damage to the economy). This idea is almost not worth discussing.

> One estimate puts extra annual revenue from Ms Ocasio-Cortez’s idea, which applies only to incomes above $10m, at perhaps $12bn, or 0.3% of the tax take.

https://www.economist.com/leaders/2019/02/02/how-to-tax-the-...
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How many sales were purchased through gold bars? Probably only like 1 or 2 per year.
Proof that I will be able to connect to HN is a lot different and less important than payments. It's also far from the only problem LN has.

If the network grows much, people creating and closing channels (two on-chain transactions) will start to gum up the system. If they don't close channels then they need to keep a node online or face various forms of attack. If they delegate that task to someone else, we've got yet another party to trust in a system that's already a failure when it comes to trustlessness. Even before all this, to make it work properly, vast quantities of BTC will need to be committed to the effort. The LN seems to me to be a joke.

And beyond that, well, what's this story about? Nobody really transacting in bitcoin anyway.
Ask HN: Relation b/w Economic Performance and Size of Countries
HNers, if you have any research you can point to that correlates economic performance with the size of countries, I'd love for you to share it here.

It's a convoluted subject for sure, but the thought experiment here is - can fast information channels and troves of digital data lead to convergence in our physical world in terms of law strucure, economic policies, etc on a macro level in concert with existence of smaller countries with hyper-focused growth strategies and well-hydrated human/material supply chains connecting them?

We do not need to go down the rabbit hole by asking what the definition of a country is, and can assume that it's a geographically locked piece of land with uniform laws and a well-defined governance model.
Very much like ITER's fusion reactor, not worth it, right?
A handful of people have requested that I add Bitcoin as a payment option to my store. But when I offered these people to purchase my app with Bitcoin, none of them actually bought a license.

As much as I like the idea of Bitcoin, it just doesn't seem like people really use it for buying legal things.
> I can just as easily flip this question on its head: how are we supposed to help the impoverished if we allow companies to play hostage-taker with jobs and ultimately drive their tax rate to 0?

Because even if their corporate tax rates are reduced, their employees still pay income and sales taxes. Other posters estimated that Amazon's NYC workers would be paying close to half a million in income taxes alone each year.

Not to mention you're being intellectually dishonest as framing this as "dropping their tax rate to 0". Amazon's tax break is a temporary incentive. When the tax incentives expire, Amazon will be paying taxes like any other company.

The New York government estimated that the deal would bring in 27 billion over 15 years, yielding an 800% ROI.
Be wary of shorting such a high profiles stock!