skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We have that in Australia & NZ, called Franking. When a corporation pays tax, it receives credits which can be distributed with the dividends it pays out.

While strictly better than the alternative for business owners, I always felt the incentives were a bit weird; if you left profits in the company to expand, you'd pay tax on that up front which would slow growth. So it would bias you towards withdrawing profits (at least compared to the tax policies of other countries).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franking_credit

In my opinion, corporate taxation should be tied to liability; essentially being the compensation to society for the risk that your company will go though bankruptcy. If you are willing to be personally liable for your business, you should be able to operate it as a simple pass-through vehicle. And this should apply even to something the size of Apple - investors willing.

It's commonly argued that capital gains combined with corporate tax is double taxation, but limited liability has a huge amount of value; making the link between them explicit and optional would (I think) be the best of both worlds.
Have you had actual experiences with fake food? Some reviews for bottles of Evian or Fiji water sounded alarming when I wanted to order from Amazon (labels attached incorrectly, bottle cap unusual tint, things like that), so we just stuck with local supermarket delivery.
While I agree with you, I am not sure what the alternative you are searching for is. Either you don't buy it, or put in enough diligence to find out more about the product you are purchasing. I would assume a normal person would put in the amount of effort that somewhat equates to the value of what they are buying. I would never spend days researching the best brand of umbrella to buy (not knocking umbrellas) but I would if it was a mouse or maybe keyboard. The mouse has a higher perceived value to me and makes it worth it. Also, word of mouth is still relevant and probably always will be. If my friends/family enjoy a product, I am inclined to believe I will too.
They are trying and failing - my wife is a seller and easily 20-30% of completely valid positive reviews from repeat customers disappear without a trace.. at the same time a racist tyrade of a review from a buyer who has swastika as user avatar is impossible to get rid of ( 5 or 6 tries so far)
i think that’s pretty incorrect tbh; xmpp/otr, and matrix handle federation and private chat/encryption just fine

id much prefer to see chat that’s just thinly wrapped in a pgp implementation that gets its keys from keybase (maybe just initial secrets transferred with pgp for handshake or something)
I was in the market for headphones. I bought a pair and was looking for another because I was dissatisfied. I saw my exact model under another listing...but oddly it had ~150 5 stars. I thought no way in hell THESE were loved by everyone. Every single review was made in the same day, with broken English reviews.

These were electronics, and knockoff airpods to boot. But if I 100% need the real thing, I buy else where. For example I just purchased several bottles of Vitamin D for my infant. I'm not trusting Amazon even though Amazon would have shipped faster.
> Bugs by default get routed to the person who wrote the code...

That was the root of some very toxic teams I've seen. Because it built a lack of shared ownership as a team, it inspired competition instead of cooperation, and people would just ignore problems because "it wasn't my code".

Admittedly, that is a problem with the leadership that took the team to that place, but I'd be interested in hearing counter-examples of how to avoid such pitfalls.
So you are saying tax the shit out of the extremely high earning individuals?
This is true for any form of taxation, such as income/payroll taxes when paying for daycare versus watching your kids yourself.
It is correct. People own corporations. So if you're taxing a corporation, you're actually just taxing the people that own it. (And/or its customers or employees.) The only point in taxing corporations vs. people directly is if you're trying to target a set that's difficult to tax otherwise, such as rich people who own big corps but don't realize a lot of income on their own balance sheet.

Which IMO is a fair group to target. But that's the point. Corporations are just things that are owned by people. People, ultimately, pay the taxes. So the question ought to be, which people do we want to pay more taxes, and what's the best mechanism to get them to pay those taxes?
Perhaps there's some proxy out there that would do it. The closest you'll come to it at the moment is either privoxy (proxy with it's own rules) or alternatively, AdGuard Home, which is like pi-hole, but it also understands AdBlock Filters (though to be clear, it still only does host blocking).
You're right that there is an arms race between fake reviewers and Amazon, but the conclusion - that because it's a race Amazon shouldn't try, is spurious. Amazon should pursue the race aggressively, and because they can allocate more money and software developers to the contest than any one group of fake reviewers, they should also ultimately win.
uhhh. only one side is trying to give money and services and power to poor people (albeit very often stupidly and not enough). the other side actively seeks to disenfranchise, and consolidate power and money.
I used to think the same way about Fry's back in the day, until it came put that they were reshrinkwrapping broken returns amd putting them back on the shelves. After seeing the recent article about fake Chinese iPhones being returned to Apple stores for exchanges, I wonder what wave of fraud is next on the horizon. All of the stores you named have open box discount items too.
Presumably they want the stock to go up so they would want to report a profit. And Wall Street gets pretty upset with any company trying to cheat on their GAAP reporting
No funding and no supporting organization? I'm not able to work for free, and I don't think this is something that can be done by 100s of hackers in their spare time with loose coordination.
Mux is growing and hiring engineers to work on video at scale
I'd be interested to know which studies?

While I agree that Amazon should pay their fair share, I find it hard to believe that there is a general loss of efficiency when privatized.

Companies have strong incentives to reduce costs, whereas government projects often have negative incentives to reduce costs. (Cost-plus contracting and use-it-or-lose-it budgets).

NASA is a great example, that organization made some amazing breakthroughs early on, but has arguably stagnated. It is now being surpassed by private companies due to ballooning bureaucracy and cost-prohibitive mission proposals. Something that many thought impossible.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/space-exploration...
I never thought it would get that way but I feel more comfortable now buying from ebay from a seller with good feedback. Amazon is such a cesspool of weird sellers. For example I looked for flashes of Godox brand. Listings had "Godox" in the title but when I looked at the listings they were all from different sellers and not from Godox. I think is intentionally misleading by Amazon. As a tech person I sort of understand what's going on but a lot of people trust Amazon and don't understand that Amazon isn't really the seller and does nothing against sleazy listings.
how to 1) replicate a human mind via as of yet nonexistent direct brain-interface technology

I’d say this is an engineering problem, rather than #2, which is philosophical. For #1, all you really need is to measure all brain cells accurately enough, then recreate the whole thing in a simulation. Could probably be achieved with nanobots or very advanced scanners within couple of centuries. Might be acceptable to destroy the original in the process, if it makes it more feasible.
> programs that I think are important for me

Which is the whole reason why individuals should not be making such choices. Small, marginalised causes or departments should still get funding.

If we followed your method of fund allocation, some aspects of Govt would not get any funding at all. You may also end up funding departments which don't need as much funding. This misallocation is worse than today's imo.
Am I wrong, but don't all the crypto "whales" know each other, and can't they synchronize buying and selling? Essentially their bots all start buying together, wait for retail and other bots to join the uptick and then again all sell at the same time. Profit. Repeat.
the problem you'll run into is making sure those "real IDs" are actually real IDs
I love this kind of market based solutions. I entered the product from the other comment and it gave it an F. https://www.fakespot.com/product/kuppet-macbook-pro-charger-...
I was agreeing with you on that. Microsoft was following Apple far too much in the early game, and yes, they were ignoring too much of the existential threat of Android, especially from a hardware standpoint.

For instance, I'd argue the point where Windows phone/mobile lost the "bottom" segment of the market (esp. in India and "emerging markets"), when the OS became too hard to run on cheap handsets of the lowest specs, to cheaper Android knockoffs was a key inflection point where the platform lost so much of its momentum.

Whether or not you feel that Microsoft buying Nokia was a cause of that or a symptom of that. It was somewhere between "both" in my mind, in that it was a symptom of software upgrades at first but snowballed because of the Nokia purchase. Certainly there were factors that the OS was maybe too quickly pushing bottom level specs. (As much maligned as the app lifecycles of Windows 8 apps were from a developer standpoint, they did help the platform hit some very low specs. Windows 10 over-correcting from developer complaints did not help mobile.) In addition to not solving the telecom carrier software update problem satisfactorily to OEM needs (as I mentioned), there's also the Android price match question of whether or not Microsoft dropped the OEM price to "free" for Windows on the mobile form factor too late to win new OEMs. (They probably were too late, but there still seemed opportunity at the time they dropped the price. Again, purchasing Nokia confuses the timing of all that and which effects were snowballing.)
The only reviews worth reading on any site are 1 and 2-star reviews. I honestly don’t care if someone is happy with a product, I want to know what the problems might happen or what situations it doesn’t work for.

I recently paid for a Consumer Reports digital subscription to get reviews for appliances and it’s been worth every penny of the very reasonable $35 annual subscription.
True. they seem pretty solid. Do they do price matching?
Ripgrep is awesome. Thank you for making it!

In addition to being really fast, it "just works". By that I mean it automatically excludes the files I want to be excluded, like `.gitignore`d files and binary files. I know I can configure ack-grep (ag) and other tools to do that, but not needing to configure it is nice.

BTW, if anyone hasn't read https://blog.burntsushi.net/ripgrep/, highly recommended. It's about how ripgrep is so fast. (Edit: Just saw another comment mentioned this, too. Goes to show that making a single high-quality blog post has a big impact.)
My theory is that amazon’s new business model is increasingly going to be based on advertising.

Reliable reviews are incompatible with advertising revenue (why else would you have to advertise heavily if your products are really the best).

The same observation may explain the doscountinuation of Amazon Button. Button would reorder the same product/brand over and over again - not compatible with advertising by competitors.
>Philosophy is not just saying random stuff and "trust us".

Ok, enlighten me. I've read philosophical works where that certainly seemed to be the case. There's also this weird thing where only a specific lineage of schools of thought and certain ancient Western philosophers are "real philosophy" and others (e.g. anyone with a non-Anglo last name) are "not real philosophers". No True Scotsman at its finest.

>And inversely, science is not just measuring -- that's the naive positivist (and later Popperian) view of what scientists do.

In graduate school, I worked at a lab in Stanford (I didn't attend there, but was fortunate to have spent some time there). Your statement would certainly be news to the PI I worked for, who was a heavy Popperian. You can't falsify the existence of sub-Planck lengths or times, that's for sure. Science was absolutely nothing more than that to him. And while you can certainly claim an Appeal to Authority fallacy, Stanford, at least, considered my PI competent enough to award him a PhD in a scientific discipline, so I'm not sure how much I can agree with your post.
I think that food supplements/vitamins are the worst. My one and only email to jeff@amazon.com was on that. It probably didn't do any good, but I felt better.

Luckily, they don't appear to be of any value anyway.
Why would a product change even be allowed they're different products.

Manufacturers don't get to claim this year's junk is so much better than last year's junk that I just have to buy it all the while claiming it's the same product. What a joke.
Manual assembly of a 64×64 core plane for SAGE (1953) took 40 hours. On occasion, an assembler would burst into tears if a core plane failed final testing and the work was wasted. IBM rapidly introduced automation and brought the assembly time down to minutes.

In 1965, as demand for core memory increased, IBM moved some production to Japan and Taiwan, where labor costs were so low that manual stringing of cores was cheaper than automated assembly. Unfortunately for IBM, competitors also moved production to Asia, negating the advantage IBM had from automation.
Is it possible there's a gulf between Amazon.com and Amazon.ca when it comes to these issues?

Maybe it's just in what I shop for but I haven't received a single counterfeit item, or come across fraudulent listings.

I've seen my fair share of imitation (and probably trademark-infringing) products and cheap crap, but I try and avoid that stuff.

So my experience has largely been positive—but there's no shortage of horror stories. That seems the norm around this board.

So I wonder is it just worse on the American side? (for reasons of volume or targeted marketing or whatever)
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Application vs system level. I think the parent is saying that since the application is in a unique position to know what information is privileged it would be better to make available a library of constant-time functions that are resistant to timing attacks then constantly pay the performance cost of blunter system-level boundary enforcement.

However, I'm not sure how much merit this argument has since very few applications even bother with this level of protection but need it.
Ah, so they need to act as a relay. Now I get it. Thanks for the explanation.
What flip one bit must involve a hidden varable? Is that related it’s being continious to discrete and vice visa?
Humans are the weakest link
Uber IPO vs. Lyft IPO – Blue Ocean Strategy
Fair point, I was wrong to say 100% of the property value, though I imagine the upper bound of the damage is fairly comparable in both cyber attacks and physical attacks.
Brazil’s Supreme Court Censors Damaging Report on Chief Justice
I would argue differently.

Government has shown time and again that it’s one size fits all approach towards schooling isn’t working. Combine their poor execution, purposeful lack of civics training, with special interests and rent seeking, for example, school textbooks.

We are leaving way too many kids behind as it is. It’s turned into government day care.

I would argue school is where citizens need to have the greatest choice, the most impact, and get the most involved with their own dollars.

If our future is in education, it needs to be done differently than it is now.
If you can't afford $20 for a yubikey, but have time to post snarky self-defeating comments on HN, you might consider why you don't have the $20.
Sorry, you're writing this complaint about other people's irrational nationalism from the United States?
"The difficulty with taxation is not calculating tax rates, that's simple, the difficulty is determining what is taxable income/profit."

Exactly! Flat tax is just another trick to reduce top tax rates while not solving any problems.
You're right. Is Amazon not applying any machine learning to their reviews? Google solved spam email and that seems similar.
When they aren't at their best, sitting through his films can feel like watching some captivating person shoot arrows at the moon.
batteries, chargers, flash drives/SD cards, any sort of food

Also printer toner. The asking price is close to the price quoted on the manufacturer's website, but you never know if you'll get an original, a half-empty or a remanufactured cartridge, and the reviews reflect that. The cherry on top is that if you try to sell a spare cartridge yourself Amazon won't let you sell toner, you need to apply for permission!
Well try to use C++ without the C part, see how that goes. C is a part of Objective-C and you can write Swift code that will compile byte for byte into code as performant as C. It's ugly, it's unsafe but it's part of the language and if you need it it's there.

You sound like those people that complain that Objective-C is so slow compared to C because NSArray is much slower than it's C counterpart. Objective-C is always exactly as fast as C since you can always write C in Objective-C.

And if all Java based UI's suck despite the fact that it's the most popular programming language and despite the fact that it powers the most popular operating system you might start suspecting there's something wrong with it, but nope, you've read a paper and saw a video. About a kernel driver. OK.
At the very least get some no clean flux under there.
Amazon needs to disallow unverified reviews. Their current acceptance is a holdover from a time where people were much more likely to have bought a product somewhere other than Amazon. Amazon needed these outside reviews to curate its own offerings and give customers confidence in their shopping choices. That hasn't been the case for a decade now. Amazon should delete all non-verified reviews entirely.
In the US, anti-tax movement came out of the Goldwater era where Western libertarian and resource extraction people joined up with segregationists to form the modern conservative movement.

The idea is that rugged individuals should have absolute property rights, and that business will take care of things.
In an ideal world I would prefer to reduce zoning so I could live near my work rather than pay a ton for roads that don't support me as a cyclist and transit user. For paying for healthcare, many illnesses are preventable and I do not think those should be paid for by others. As well, the military does some super questionable things that I do not support. Working in security, with my partner previously in healthcare IT, we have seen our share of wasteful or inefficient government contracts.

I don't have a solution for a better system, but I can absolutely see why people do not like taxes. They aren't building the world I want to see.
To add insult to injury, the online magazine has just been ordered to pay the 100k BRL fine even though the news were taken down from their site.
One issue I see here is that time protection would need to extend to anything shared, not just CPU micro-architecture. For instance, if a hard drive has a DRAM-based cache, that could be used as a timing channel, and the complexity of flash file systems opens up all kinds of potential leaks. In the case of two processes sharing network access, one process could conceivably estimate another's network access patterns implicitly by measuring latency through shared switches or drops due to buffers being filled. Mitigating this would require some kind of coloring support that goes as far as your ISP's switches, which seems impractical.
I think there would be if we chose to invest in it, but it's a chicken and egg problem. The optics preclude investment which precludes development of ways of dealing with the waste. Nuclear power is sort of on hiatus. For instance, Thorium cycle reactors require no enrichment, product two to three orders of magnitude less nuclear waste (whose products have much shorter half-lives) and are much safer than Uranium cycle reactors -- though research only really resumed in 2008 after a 30 year break.

One ton of thorium can produce as much energy as 200 tons of Uranium, or 3,500,000 tons of coal.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorium-based_nuclear_power
And things where the negative effects of lower funding won't be seen for maybe decades down the track might not get enough funding either because their necessity wouldn't be obvious to the average person. Although we have that problem currently too so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.
The US is not done with VW. The SEC has just filed a lawsuit against VW for lying to investors.
I would not buy anything that is meant to be consumed on Amazon.
The Financialization of Housing
https://www.alternativeradio.org/products/farl001/
I never buy anything on Amazon that I put in my body. They really need to get this issue under control. It's a huge trust problem for me.
The 12 hour person might actually be a 3 hour person. It's just fooling yourself that you "work" 12 hours a day.

Maybe I'll put my bed in the office, that way I can "work" the full 8 hours ;).
Better Call Louis (Rossman)
Thanks for the reminder. I had seen it before, but I now see that it is active, with the last commit 8 days ago. I compiled it on my Linux box quickly and will be testing it out...
If I was to setup such a service I would have a simple text bot scanning popular sites for occurrences of my brand name and when a hit occurs it would make an Amazon Mechanical Turk ticket so that workers in Nepal could log a system that cycles accounts to that service so that they can leave a good review to counter the bad one. 10 cents a "counter" review. Why spend a bunch of money for in-organic robo-reviews when you can have real people writing reviews for dirt cheap.

A second service would be to have Americans pressure a site to have detrimental user content removed. For example, if someone starts a thread about how the name of my product was stolen from an indigenous community's recipe, our service would nip that in the bud.

Your brand management department would love us. These services already exist.
The problem I have is being able to report different profits to different groups - you should be required to have a single pretax profit number, and that is what you report.

If you really don’t make money then you should be required to report that to your shareholders, and conversely if you tell your shareholders you’re making money, then you should be required to report that value to the irs.

I don’t care which one you use (I mean I do, but in this case it’s not the specific point), what I’m saying is you don’t get to make money by having overvalued shares (by giving one profit number or the market), while not paying tax (by reporting a different number to irs)
The amateur videos are arguably even more fascinating than the official coverage:

From a Cessna: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuTAu5VmtFw

From a Nikon with an awesome view of the separation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLCXn445-eQ

Great Audio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lMvLyMjzfM
The title is click-bait. The article doesn't say the whole EV industry is going to collapse, only that there is going to be a big shakeup that will eliminate most of the hundreds of small EV manufacturers.
As an alternative to this approach, I wonder if it's possible to push all sensitive computations into a few small components, and rewrite those components carefully to obscure any information that could be obtained from timing?